Taylor Frankie Paul Is Single and Celibate After Cheating Drama

ICYMI, Taylor dropped the bombshell about her dating life during the very first episode of SLOMW season five. While in conversation with costars Jessi Draper, Mikayla Matthews and Mayci Neeley, Taylor revealed Doug got down on one knee during the Bachelorette finale—which was ultimately canceled after a 2023 domestic violence video between her and Dakota surfaced—and that she said yes.

However, once the cameras stopped rolling on the dating show, she reunited with Dakota.

“Obviously we’re texting,” Taylor said of communicating with Dakota. “‘When are you coming home? When are you going to be home?’ I don’t know how it led to it, but he came over.” 

And after her friends teased her about “not knowing how it happened,” Mayci filled in the blank of what occurred next: “You sleep with Dakota.”

To which Taylor—who at this time was still engaged to Doug—affirmed, “Yes.”

But when Mayci noted, “So you cheated,” Taylor responded, “I don’t like the word cheating.”

E! News previously reached out to a rep for Dakota for comment but did not hear back.

Though Taylor didn’t see any harm in the love triangle, she also didn’t see eye to eye with her costars when they expressed how eerily similar they found Doug and Dakota to be.

“Was there a part of you,” Jessi asked in a clip shared on Hulu’s Get Real podcast Sept. 3, “that was like, ‘He looks like Dakota?’”

For Taylor, the answer was no. As she put it, “I didn’t start thinking that until people said it around me. I actually did not see it the night I met him at all.”

But Jessi didn’t let her friend entirely off the hook, pointing out that Dakota and Doug not only have the same initials, but that it’s also “so weird” that they’re both from Idaho. 

Taylor responded, “See I didn’t learn all that until later.”

Keep reading for a closer look into more SLOMW love lives…