Former Bachelor Grant Ellis is weighing in on ABC's shocking decision to cancel the new season of The Bachelorette three days before it was set to premiere. On Thursday, March 19, ABC announced that the upcoming 22nd season of the dating show, starring The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' Taylor Frankie Paul, would not go ahead amid allegations of domestic violence against the lead star. "It's an unfortunate situation," Ellis told TMZ on Thursday. "I think ABC needed to take a stance and they did that.