"Ultimately, they asked me to end up hosting it; but before they asked me to end up hosting it, severe background check after background check after background check. Not only do they do that, they give me a whole booklet in order to host just this one episode, and debrief me on all of that."
"I say that to say, the franchise knew everything you needed to know about this woman, and they turned a blind eye. And that is what, to me, is disgusting."
"As soon as they found out this video existed, they were like, Uh-oh, we just got caught, and I'm tired of seeing because we saw it in the NFL, too."
Emmanuel Acho expressed his belief that producers of The Bachelorette were aware of Taylor Frankie Paul's violent past prior to a TMZ video release. The video depicted Paul physically assaulting her ex-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, in front of her daughter. Following the incident, ABC announced a pause in filming for both The Bachelorette and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Acho, drawing from his experience hosting The Bachelor, emphasized the extensive background checks conducted by the franchise, suggesting they knowingly overlooked Paul's history.
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