The season 22 lead of The Bachelorette was revealed during the Sept. 10 episode of Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast. Find out which reality TV star is joining Bachelor Nation for the first time.
Taylor Frankie Paul is ready to hand out some roses.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives alum was officially revealed as the leading lady of season 22 of The Bachelorette during a Sept. 10 appearance on Alex Cooper‘s Call Her Daddy podcast.
The decision to have Taylor—who has never appeared on any Bachelor Nation show—step in as the star of the dating competition show marks a notable change for the franchise, which usually casts suitors from previous seasons of The Bachelor in the position. However, parent company Disney did pick from within their reality TV family, as the 31-year-old has starred on Hulu’s Secret Lives of Mormon Wives since 2024.
Alex first teased Taylor’s casting as the new Bachelorette star on Sept. 8, when she shared a video of her cutting into a cake that had “Season 30” written on it in blue icing, revealing its center was filled with pink frosting.
Captioning the Instagram post, the podcast host added a red rose emoji and wrote, “Change of plans.”
The following day, Alex confirmed she would be speaking with the newest lead for The Bachelorette—which followed Jenn Tran‘s quest for love in its previous installment—and hinted that the person might not be who fans expected.
“How did you get her to say yes? But she’s never even been a part of the Bachelor?” Alex said while talking on the phone in a Sept. 9 Instagram Reel. “But what about the other show she’s on?”
As for Taylor, she remained totally tight-lipped leading up to the big reveal. However, several of her Secret Lives of Mormon Wives castmates shared their reaction to Alex’s teaser, with Jessi Ngatikaura commenting a side eye emoji and heart hands on the post.
Meanwhile, Demi Engemann wrote a heart-eyes emoji and added, “Oop!”
Taylor has certainly experienced some highs and lows this year when it comes to her love life. Back in May, she confirmed that she split with ex Dakota Mortensen after discovering he had been unfaithful to her shortly after the couple welcomed 13-month-old baby Ever.
“Dakota isn’t mine anymore,” she commented under a fan’s May 18 TikTok, “wish him the best.”
And while it looks like she’s ready to step back into the dating world now, Taylor—who also shares kids Indy and Ocean with ex Tate Paul—insisted she was prioritizing her family in the immediate aftermath of the breakup.
“We’re doing the best we can for our baby,” she recently told E! News, “and what happens in the future, I’m not sure. Right now, I’m focusing on only me.”
Read on to check in on the relationship statuses of more members of the Bachelor Nation franchise…
Spencer Conley & Jess Edwards
Status: Engaged
According to Spencer Conley (who intrigued Jenn Tran with his “golden retriever energy” on The Bachelorette), he fetched quite the catch on the 10th season of Bachelor in Paradise. Posting a snippet of himself and Jess Edwards (she took a swing at Bachelor Joey Graziadei‘s heart) revealing that they were falling for one another—Bachelor code for I’m not quite ready to say, “I love you”—he wrote on his Instagram Stories in August 2025 that he’d “already won.”
Hard same from Jess, who wrote on her main feed, “just feeling a lil giddy about this man & whatnot.”
And they were certainly smiling when, after choosing their relationship over the $250,000 prize, they got engaged and walked away with a surprise check worth $190,000.
“Everything that we’ve been through,” Jess said, “has led us to this exact moment.”
Soon, their love will be leading her to Dallas, with the show announcing her plans to move there to be with Spencer.
Jeremy Simon & Bailey Taylor Brown
Status: Dating
“This was my best first date,” Bailey Taylor Brown wrote on Instagram in August 2025 after she took Jeremy Simon out on Paradise‘s 10th season. And perhaps her last? The social media manger, who initially competed for Grant Ellis‘ heart, and the real estate investor who nearly charmed Bachelorette Jenn managed to survive their most dramatic squabble ever when she learned he had second thoughts about sending Susie Evans home.
Still, their connection continued to heat up in Costa Rica. And while they were sent home during the Bachelor in Paradise finale, they continued to pursue a relationship off-camera. In fact, the show revealed that they’ve met each other families and that they’re planning to move to the same city.
Andrew Spencer & Alexe Godin
Status: Dating
Seems the connection between Paradise season 10 pair Andrew Spencer (one of Katie Thurston‘s suitors) and Alexe Godin (from Grant’s season) has remained trés strong post-show. Six days after the Chicago-based football player dubbed the pedatric speech therapist “mon amour” in an August 2025 Instagram post, she labeled him “mon chéri” in her own missive.
And while they chose love over the $250,000 prize during the BiP finale, they still got to head home with $125,000 in their pockets.
“This is frickin unreal,” Alexe said. “I am leaving with money, but not just money—love, the most important thing.”
And they’re bringing their love to the Windy City, with the show revealing Alexe’s plans to move to Chicago with Andrew.
Dale Moss & Kat Izzo
Status: Dating
Kat and Dale went through a thorny moment during the Bachelor in Paradise finale when former contestant Sean McLaughlin alleged she “stashed a laptop” and had been sending an ex love letters. However, the nurse practitioner denied contacting him on the show.
“Did me and my ex still have a relationship prior to this?” she said. “Yes, because I didn’t think I was gonna meet anybody here.”
While Kat and Dale were sent home before the final test of Paradise, their romance continued to bloom. The show revealed the alum from Zach Shallcross‘ season and the former contestant from Clare Crawley‘s went on to travel across the U.S. together and made plans to build a future together, including moving closer.
“It was tough at times,” Dale commented under Kat’s August 2025 Instagram post, “but we navigated it together…and I wouldn’t change a thing.”
Gary Levingston & Leslie Fhima
Status: Just friends—for now
Golden Bachelorette alum Gary Levingston and Leslie Fhima (a runner up for Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner‘s heart) appeared to have quite the glittery future when they were voted off Bachelor in Paradise‘s 10th season, even writing about “making new memories” in a post-elimination social media video. But the onetime Prince muse isn’t quite sure if she wants to be his lover.
“We talk all the time,” she revealed during an August 2025 appearance on Bachelor Happy Hour. “Gary is, I can honestly say right now, one of my best friends. I’ll call him if I have a problem. He kind of talks me off the ledge a little bit, and we are always there for each other. We have each other’s back.”
While she acknowledged that the nearly 2,000 miles between them (she’s based in Minnesota; he’s in California) complicates the situation, she hasn’t given up hope. “All I know is that for me, a big thing with any relationship, a romantic one for sure, is I want to be friends first,” she continued. “Because I want to be with my best friend growing older.”
Kim Buike & Faith Martin
Status: Dating
Golden Bachelorette‘s head mansion man Kim Buike found someone to make sweet music with in Gerry Turner’s first impression rose recipient Faith Martin. Though they were eliminated on the 10th season of Paradise, they sailed off into the sunset, with Faith posting a video to Instagram in August 2025 of the retired navy captain enjoying a hometown date with her in Washington.
“The quality of a person that he is,” Faith gushed following their Paradise elimination, “is absolutely amazing.” As for whether they can see forever in each other’s eyes, Kim noted they both agreed that they’ve “already established a very strong connection, and we’ll work on it outside of here.”
Grant Ellis & Juliana Pasquarosa
Status: Split
Grant may have met 25 potential love interests on his first night in the Bachelor mansion, but in the end, it was Juliana Pasquarosa who scored his final rose. However, the couple decided to call it quits less than three months after their propsal aired.
“This is one of the harder things I’ve had to write, but I want to share it honestly. Juliana and I have decided to end our relationship,” Grant wrote on his Instagram Story June 13. “We both gave this our best and poured a lot of love into each other, but after a lot of deep conversations, we’ve come to the understanding that we’re simply not the right fit long term.”
Joan Vassos & Chock Chapple
Status: Engaged
After appearing on the first-ever season of The Golden Bachelor and leaving Gerry Turner‘s season early, Joan Vassos handed out the roses on the debut season of The Golden Bachelorette. It was there that she met and got engaged to contestant Chock Chapple.
“We are living proof that no matter what life throws at you that there is still hope, even at our age,” Joan said on The Golden Bachelorette‘s November 2024 finale before Chock proposed in Bora Bora. “I waited ’til this moment in this amazing location to tell you that I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I want to wake up next to you in the morning, and I want to kiss you when I go to bed at night.”
Jenn Tran & Devin Strader
Status: Split
During the season 21 finale of The Bachelorette, it looked like The Bachelor alum Jenn Tran was finally getting her happy ending with her final pick Devin Strader. But Jenn revealed on After the Final Rose back in September 2024 that Devin gave her the cold shoulder as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.
“He was making bold proclamations of love and then suddenly the next day he was like, nothing and he denied ever being in love,” Jenn told host Jesse Palmer during the Sept. 3 episode. “All the promises he had made to me, all of the love that he had wanted to give to me wasn’t there anymore.”
Drama continued to play out when Devin shared a 13-minute video recounting his side of the story to Instagram, where in addition to taking “accountability” he shared insight into why he ended the relationship in a 15-minute phone call.
While Jenn alleged he dumped her during the call in August, he claimed that Jenn demanded to know what was wrong as he tried to find a way to break the news in person.
“I didn’t really know what else to do,” he explained, noting he had been waiting to tell her in person. “She kind of forced my hand.”
After that, Jenn waltzed over to Dancing With the Stars and into the heart of her partner Sasha Farber. The duo continued to dance together even after their October 2024 elimination, but split in 2025.
Victoria Fuller & Greg Grippo
Status: Split
In November 2022, Greg Grippo (one of Katie Thurston‘s suitors on The Bachelorette a year prior) joined Victoria Fuller on the season eight finale of Bachelor in Paradise. There, the two announced that they were in a relationship. In April 2024, he revealed the two had called it quits.
Status: Split
Before Victoria Fuller and Greg Grippo went public with their romance on the finale of Bachelor in Paradise‘s eighth season, she and her costar Johnny DePhillipo ended their engagement.
Theresa Nist & Gerry Turner
Status: Divorced
Gerry and Theresa Nist got engaged in November 2023 during the finale of the inaugural Golden Bachelor and tied the knot in a January 2024 televised ceremony.
However, three months after their nuptials, the couple announced that they were breaking up.
“Theresa and I have had a number of heart-to-heart conversations and we’ve looked closely at our situation, our living situation, so forth,” Gerry said during a joint appearance on Good Morning America with Theresa April 2024. “We’ve come to the conclusion mutually that it’s probably time for us to dissolve our marriage.”
They reached a divorce settlement in June 2024, according to court records reviewed by E! News.
In April 2025, Gerry revealed on the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast that he was dating someone new and “it’s going well.”
Joey Graziadei & Kelsey Anderson
Status: Engaged
After courting 32 potential brides, tennis pro Joey found his perfect match in project manager Kelsey Anderson. “I can’t wait another minute to tell you that I love you,” Joey told his final rose recipient, before getting down on one knee during his season’s March 2024 finale. “There is something about you. You have this infectious energy that makes me smile. It’s a feeling I’ve never had before.”
Imagining his forever with the Louisiana native, he continued, “I have known for a while that I’ve wanted to have a beautiful life, but I truly didn’t know how beautiful that life could be until I met you.”
Kat Izzo & John Henry Spurlock
Status: Split
Though underwater welder John Henry Spurlock (one of Charity Lawson‘s suitors) and nurse Kat (she competed for Zach Shallcross‘ heart) didn’t connect until midway through season nine of Bachelor in Paradise, they were willing to dive into the deep end. “I’m going to try something a little different,” he said while offering up an Ascher cut Neil Lane diamond. “I’m following my heart today. My heart’s telling me that you are amazing, you are everything that I’m looking for.”
But days after the finale aired, the duo revealed they no longer saw forever in each other’s eyes. “While our paths are taking different directions due to our career goals not aligning,” they wrote in a joint Instagram post, “we are grateful for the love and support we’ve received from our family, friends, and Bachelor Nation.”
Eliza Isichei & Aaron Bryant
Status: Split
Despite her nerves about a Paradise engagement, an all-dressed-in-white Eliza Isichei (one of Clayton Echard‘s exes) happily accepted Aaron Bryant‘s oceanfront proposal. Touched by the software salesman’s decision to reach out to her mom for her blessing, she gushed, “I knew I was not in control of what was going to come out of my mouth.”
The finale’s coda acknowledged Charity’s ex and marketing manager Eliza had hit some bumps after returning from Mexico, and days later they announced they had officially ended their engagement.
“Tricky emotions watching it all unfold,” he wrote on Instagram December 2023. “We’re leading our amicable split with nothing but positivity and mutual respect for one another.”
Aven Jones & Kylee Russell
Status: Split
Though postpartum nurse Kylee Russell lamented boyfriend Aven Jones‘ unwillingness to get down on bended knee—a move he was purportedly prepared to make while romancing Bachelorette Rachel Recchia—she ultimately accepted Aven’s Paradise proposal to “get out of here and make it work.”
Though that meant her planned engagement gown remained packed, “I just had to do what I felt was right,” she said. “Love is all about taking risk.”
Charity Lawson & Dotun Olubeko
Status: Engaged
“I am happy with how this season turns out!” Charity Lawson teased to E! News, a statement that way undersold her August 2023 finale. Dropping to one knee, integrative medicine specialist Dotun Olubeko proclaimed their love to be “perfect,” asking the child and family therapist, “Would you do me the honor of turning this fairytale into a reality?”
While their happily ever after awaits—the pair said they’re considering a 2025 or 2026 wedding—the Georgia native will first take a spin through the Dancing With the Stars ballroom. “All right, baby,” Dotun told Charity on The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose. “So I know you like to cut up, you like to dance and you like to get down. You know that we’ve talked about this—about how amazing this opportunity would be. And I am so happy to be the one to tell you that you’re gonna be on Dancing With the Stars! Baby, let’s go!”
Zach Shallcross & Kaity Biggar
Status: Married
Zach shall get his happy ending. Despite more than a few Fantasy Suite-related stumbles, Zach Shallcross ended season 27 in March 2023 down on one knee. “I am so in love with you,” he told travel nurse Kaity Biggar. “You are my world. The love I feel for you is something I could have never imagined.”
In July 2023, the Texas-based duo made an even bigger step in their journey, with Kaity sharing on Instagram, “Officially roommates.”
They wed on May 23, 2025, in what Kaity labeled “a cute little chapel celebration.” Though they’d initially planned a larger affair, “I just took a step back, and I was like, ‘I don’t know if we need this,’” she explained on a June 2025 episode of the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast. “The whole point of a wedding is just staying true to the love and the connection of both of us, and I felt like I was honing in too much on little details.”
But one key element left her charmed. The aunt who nominated her to compete for Zach’s heart found the Austin-area chapel they used for their ceremony. Said Kaity, “It was perfect.”
Status: Split
Ah, Mom and Dad. Though they left BIP season seven hand-in-Neil-Lane-diamond-free-hand, Danielle Maltby, who lost her fiancé to a drug overdose years before she competed on Nick Viall‘s season, and single dad Michael Allio (he shares 7-year-old son James with his late wife) seemed slated for Bachelor Nation couple goals status.
But a year after Maltby relocated from Nashville to be with Allio in Ohio, he confirmed they’d split. “We both threw a lot into this relationship and it’s really awful when it doesn’t work out,” Allio said on a September 2023 episode of Jason Tartick‘s Trading Secrets podcast. “When things don’t work out, when you realize that love is there, but you’re not necessarily compatible, you mourn the loss, not of just that person and that friend in your life, but also the future that you had envisioned.”
Status: Split
“I will love you until the end of time. I will love you until my last breath and I want to start forever with you,” Brandon Jones proclaimed while proposing to “best friend” Serene Russell on season seven of Paradise.
Alas, their journey was cut short. Five months after their engagement aired, Brandon (a runner-up on Michelle Young‘s season) and Serene (who romanced Clayton Echard) announced they had split in a joint May 2023 statement. “We have tried to work privately on our relationship which has been incredibly challenging in the public eye,” they wrote on Instagram. “This has been immensely hard to accept and painful, as there is a lot of love between the two of us. We are deeply hurting and can only ask that there be no hate.”
Status: Split
Pilot Rachel’s engagement to general contractor Tino Franco stalled when he kissed another woman while their 2022 season was still airing. “I do not stand by what I did at all,” he said on The Viall Files. “It was not cool. It wasn’t fair to Rachel, and it haunts me daily still. It’s something I’m ashamed of and certainly wish I could have done it differently like a million times over.”
Status: Split
Well, it was certainly a journey. Susie Evans initially rejected Bachelor Clayton Echard‘s overtures during the 2022 finale only to reunite with him off-camera…and then split once again six months later.
But the L.A.-based videographer insists their breakup was for the right reasons. “The people around me could see that my sparkle had dulled and I was far from thriving,” she wrote in a November 2022 She acknowledged they “had joyous moments often, but deep down I was struggling and felt misaligned with the best version of me.”
Susie went on to date Bachelor Nation member Justin Glaze, before the couple announced they had broken up in August 2024.
Status: Split
Minnesota elementary school teacher Michelle accepted a Neil Lane sparkler from Texas-based sales exec Nayte Olukoya—and a $200,000 check from producers to put toward their future home. But, ultimately, the pair just didn’t have the right foundation, announcing their breakup six months after their season’s finale aired in December 2021.
Though he said on The Viall Files, “There was lots of ups and downs, lots of arguments, lots of fights and just not really clicking, not really seeing eye-to-eye,” Nayte acknowledged that not having that final split conversation in person was “a dick move.”
Michelle started dating Jack Leius in 2023, and they announced their engagement the following year. Their Minnesota vows took place in June 2025.
Status: Split
Viewers fully got onboard with Maurissa Gunn and Riley Christian‘s vision of a future filled with sweet Sunday mornings. But ultimately the BIP season seven duo only got a couple dozen weekends together.
“We have decided to go our separate ways,” patient coordinator Maurissa (who romanced Peter Weber) and attorney Riley (one of Tayshia Adams‘ suitors) announced in a joint January 2022 statement. “Never did we imagine this, but we’ve come to a point where we both need to work on ourselves.”
Demi Burnett & Kristian Haggerty
Status: Split
Bachelor Nation’s first same-sex couple got engaged on season six of Bachelor in Paradise but announced their 2019 split on Halloween.
“What has always been at the forefront of our relationship is love and care for one another. Our priority is doing what is best for us. With a heavy heart full of love for one another we have decided it is best for us to take a step back from our relationship,” they said in a joint statement posted on Instagram. “We ultimately want what is best for us in the long run and for us right now, that means being apart and growing individually.”
Noah Erb & Abigail Heringer
Status: Engaged
Paradise lost? Not quite. Though Noah Erb and Abigail Heringer broke up in Mexico during the BIP‘s seventh season, they realized they could see forever in each other’s eyes. Initially settling in San Diego, the travel nurse (who competed for Tayshia’s heart) and the financial manager (who received Matt James‘ first impression rose) recently purchased a place in his hometown of Tulsa.
“About to enter our Chip and Joanna Gaines era because your girl bought her very first house!!!” Abigail wrote on Instagram in July 2023. “Excited to start our next chapter and for all the memories we’ll create here!!” Starting with a few wedding plans. Ahead of their move, Noah proposed at a beachfront San Diego home in August 2023.
Status: Married
Never hurts to have a little practice run. While planning their September 2023 vows, Serena Pitt (a finalist on Matt James’ season) and Joe Amabile (the Chicago grocery store owner who found fame after Becca Kufrin sent him home night one in 2018) decided to just do the damn thing at City Hall near their New York City digs, roughly one year after leaving Paradise engaged.
“JUST MARRIED !!” Serena, now hosting the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast with her husband, captioned the October 2022 video. “We are still having a wedding this September but who doesn’t want to get married twice!”
Kenny Braasch & Mari Pepin
Status: Married
“Mari, I am f–king so in love with you,” boy band manager Kenny Braasch said as he slipped that Neil Lane diamond onto Mari Pepin‘s finger on the 2021 Paradise finale. “And I literally, like, I can’t see my life without you.”
So the Maryland beauty queen, who initially charmed Bachelor Matt, moved to Kenny’s native Chicago and set about planning their forever. And before she and Kenny (eliminated by Tayshia Adams in week five) wed in a 65-guest oceanfront ceremony in Puerto Rico in November 2023, they made their love permanent, getting inked with matching tattoos during a May 2023 trip to the Bahamas.
Status: Married
Former Bachelorette Becca and Thomas Jacobs (one of Katie Thurston’s suitors) got together on Bachelor in Paradise season seven in 2021, broke up on the show, then reconciled after production wrapped.
In May 2022, they announced they were engaged, and that Becca proposed. “I hope that other people can now feel empowered and say it’s okay to bend the rules,” she told E! News. The real estate agent returned the favor that October. In September 2023, the two welcomed their first child, son Benson. Wrote Becca on Instagram, “No amount of words can begin to capture the amount of love and awe we have over this tiny man.”
Though she’s awfully fond of her 6-foot-6 guy as well. Weeks after bringing home Benson, the pair wed in a spontaneous Oct. 13 ceremony.
Status: Split
On The Bachelorette‘s season 17 finale in 2021, Katie got engaged to Blake Moynes. The pair first declared their love for one another during their overnight date, which involved a paintball excursion, a cowboy tub and a conversation under the stars.
Getting down on one knee, Blake told Katie, “You deserve the world, and I’m excited to support you and be there for you every day moving forward.”
Three months after the proposal aired, the couple announced their split. They explained in matching statements, “We are so grateful for the moments we shared together and the entire journey that has unfolded this year, but we ultimately have concluded that we are not compatible as life partners, and it is the most caring choice for both of us to move forward independently.”
She is now married to comedian Jeff Arcuri.
Source: www.eonline.com