Jon Stewart hopes you’ve had a bully weekend…
“because nan dizzying, chaotic carnival thrust that is Donald Trump‘s America continues to careen down shitshow hill. It’s fucking madness retired there: TSA lines longer than your existent trip; escalating threats successful nan Middle East; planes driving into trucks.”
In fact, “the only point giving maine joyousness is looking guardant to this play of The Bachelorette,” he ironically quipped. “I mean, they’ve sewage a beardown Mormon woman. She seems lovely. I dream that she finds love—hold connected a second, I’m getting a call. Nooo!”
Stewart’s joke comes aft ungraded has rocked some Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and ABC’s The Bachelorette, pursuing allegations that prima Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex Dakota Mortensen were embroiled successful a home battle incident. As fallout began mounting, filming was suspended connected nan 5th play of Mormon Wives.
Further turmoil followed erstwhile a horrific video from 2023, of an fierce incident betwixt nan mates wherever a kid is present, dropped connected TMZ. As such, Disney subsidiary ABC pulled nan plug connected Season 22 of nan reality making love series, days earlier its scheduled premiere. “In ray of nan recently released video conscionable surfaced today, we person made nan determination to not move guardant pinch nan caller play of The Bachelorette at this time, and our attraction is connected supporting nan family,” nan institution noted successful a statement.
Now, Disney is figuring out whether it will ever aerial nan Paul-fronted play of nan long-running making love show, whether nan region has immoderate longer-term implications for nan franchise, if and erstwhile it will restart accumulation connected Season 5 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Season 6 has besides already been greenlit) and really to thief Paul and Mortensen complete nan adjacent fewer weeks and months.