{"id":62830,"date":"2026-09-11T11:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=62830"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:51:25","slug":"doug-mason-revealed-it-was-clear-taylor-frankie-paul-wasnt-over-dakota-on-the-bachelorette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/09\/11\/doug-mason-revealed-it-was-clear-taylor-frankie-paul-wasnt-over-dakota-on-the-bachelorette\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Mason revealed it ‘was clear’ Taylor Frankie Paul wasn’t over Dakota on The Bachelorette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor Frankie Paul revealed on the new season of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives that she actually ended up cheating on her Bachelorette fianc\u00e9, Doug Mason<\/a>, with Dakota as soon as she got back from filming the show.<\/p>\n

However, it turns out that Doug had a hunch that things weren’t over between Dakota and Taylor whilst she was on The Bachelorette, as he revealed during an interview on the The Bachelor Happy Hour Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then of course as we went on with the show I expressed clearly that there may or may not be some unfinished business”, he shared. One of the hosts then clarified if he told Taylor that he felt like things weren\u2019t finished with Dakota back at home.<\/p>\n

Doug confirmed: \u201cIt was just clear. Maybe it\u2019s because so I\u2019ve been in toxic relationships before and you start to get a little bit of information for me, but also guys, by the way, I never judged her when I went into it. I just took a lot of facts and I gave her the opportunity to kind of, you know, show me who she really is before. I just kind of like had these blanket statements.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut as we went on, I started to recognize that maybe I was a little bit more willing to open up, more willing to express how I felt, especially once we got further. And I kind of thought, you know, somebody that is really ready for something in this situation may resemble the attributes that I\u2019m expressing, right?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going over I\u2019m going over everything constantly, you know. It\u2019s just I\u2019m turning the thing over. I\u2019m flipping that stone over a thousand times. But neither here nor there. Her and I had a wonderful connection. But yeah, it doesn\u2019t bother me that people compare me to him. Eventually, you know, who\u2019s to say? Maybe we\u2019ll meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doug was also asked how it\u2019s been for him to see constant comments about how much he resembles Taylor Frankie Paul\u2019s ex, Dakota. He shared: \u201cIt\u2019s interesting because our initials are similar, right? Or the same. But you know, it\u2019s funny. It goes back to the same thing, I don\u2019t know the guy. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, so I only know what I\u2019ve heard about him, which I don\u2019t really love what I\u2019ve heard, so I hate to be compared about compared to somebody who has treated Taylor like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that ultimately because he doesn\u2019t know him he feels like isn\u2019t in a position to \u201cjudge him.\u201d Doug continued: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t really bother me. I\u2019ve gotten past that. On the show it got a little silly. The show in general would just would bring him up. I would be there thinking, I\u2019m right here, you know. \u201d<\/p>\n

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She then cheated on him with Dakota immediately after she got back from filming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734183,"featured_media":62837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1637,1883],"class_list":["post-62830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-the-bachelorette","tag-the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/09\/11\/doug-mason-revealed-it-was-clear-taylor-frankie-paul-wasnt-over-dakota-on-the-bachelorette\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Doug Mason revealed it ‘was clear’ Taylor Frankie Paul wasn’t over Dakota on The Bachelorette","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/09\/11\/doug-mason-revealed-it-was-clear-taylor-frankie-paul-wasnt-over-dakota-on-the-bachelorette\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/09\/11\/doug-mason-revealed-it-was-clear-taylor-frankie-paul-wasnt-over-dakota-on-the-bachelorette\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-09-11T114657.356-150x150.png","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-09-11T114657.356.png"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ellie Ring"}],"creator":["Ellie Ring"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["the bachelorette","the secret lives of mormon wives"],"dateCreated":"2026-09-11T10:51:25Z","datePublished":"2026-09-11T10:51:25Z","dateModified":"2026-09-11T10:51:25Z"},"rendered":"