Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Michael Kirchoff/DisneyMomTok, meet Bachelor Nation. On Wednesday, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul was announced as the lead for the upcoming season of The Bachelorette. Paul, 31, officially announced the news during an episode of Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast."To be honest, surreal. It has not hit me," Paul said of being cast. "Like right now, in this moment, I'm just thinking about it, and it's like not real. It's not real. And it's not going to be until I think the limo's pulling up, you know? Meeting the people.