The "Bachelor" spinoff that has been in limbo for several months has announced its return
"The Bachelorette" has announced its next lead – TikTok star-turned-reality-TV-star, Taylor Frankie Paul.
‘The Bachelorette’ franchise
The backstory:
"The Bachelorette" franchise was born as a spinoff of ABC’s popular decades-long reality dating show, "The Bachelor." The show often casts one of the still-single fan favorites from ‘The Bachelor’ as the next Bachelorette.
However:
The show has been on hiatus recently. ABC announced this spring that the show would not be airing in July, as it had for the last several seasons. The reason for the skipped season was never confirmed.
More context:
One of the franchise’s other spinoffs, "Bachelor in Paradise," just aired its summer finale over Labor D