Dakota Mortensen has revealed if he showed up on ex-girlfriend Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette.
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Dakota laughed and said, "Umm, I'll actually be honest."
He continued, "I don't. I do not."
When Dakota was told he would've made great TV, he replied, "I know, but to be honest with you, I think even given the opportunity, I don't know if I would have done it."
Taylor's ex insisted that if he had decided to film The Bachelorette, it "would've been for Taylor's sake" and not to cause drama or confuse her even further.
Taylor's mother Liann May claimed during an October appearance on "The Ben & Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast" that Taylor and Dakota still love each other and he'd sabotage her The Bachelorette season if given an opening.
Liann revealed at the time that she and a nanny were going to help Taylor on the road with her three kids.
Taylor welcomed her youngest son Ever True with Dakota in March 2024. She's also mom to daughter Indy, 8, and son Ocean, 5, with her ex-husband Tate Paul.
When Ashley Iaconetti asked Liann if Dakota was going to be around while Taylor filmed The Bachelorette, Liann replied, "I'm hoping not."
Liann went on to reveal, "I said that he will mess the whole thing up for her. He will sabotage her whole experience."
"And so, I'm just like, 'If you can just keep him away, for at least those weeks, there might be some hope of her focusing in on this whole process of dating,'" she added.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOWLiann, however, couldn't pinpoint how exactly Dakota would try to sabotage Taylor's The Bachelorette opportunity.
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"I don't know. Well, I guess if she can't have contact with him, he might not be able to [mess it up]. But he wanted to be there," Liann shared.
"He wanted to be there with the baby?!" Ashley asked for clarification.
"Yes! And so I'm just like, 'Noo, that will not be good,' just because she will not be able to enjoy her time there, and it just wouldn't be good," Liann explained.
Liann claimed it "would be a disadvantage" for her daughter to have Dakota on the set.
"[He'd be] very distracting," Liann noted.
Liann admitted there was still a lot of love between Taylor and Dakota, which wouldn't help the situation.
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But Liann said she had no idea if ABC was going to try to include Dakota in The Bachelorette to intentionally stir up emotions in Taylor.
"I don't know! If so, they haven't told me about it," Liann said in October.
"And they probably won't because they know how I feel about that whole relationship, and so they're probably not going to tell me. So, if so, I will be shocked too. But I see it!"
Liann recalled Dakota being "really shocked" when he discovered Taylor was going to star on The Bachelorette.
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"He's been like, 'Don't!' I think he doesn't want her to go on it. I know he's done videos saying otherwise, but I don't think he wants her to go on it," Liann said.
"Obviously he still loves her. I just don't feel like he loved her enough -- or at least, I mean he wouldn't have done the things that he did. So, I don't know."
Before getting romantically involved with Dakota, Taylor was married Tate Paul from 2016 to 2022.
Taylor previously admitted to violating the rules of the couple's soft-swinging arrangement by becoming more intimate with another man in their friend group, which led to their separation and eventual May 2022 divorce.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which premiered in 2023 on Hulu, featured Taylor's cheating scandal.
The show also documented Taylor's first post-divorce relationship with Dakota, which Taylor had publicly confirmed in July 2022.
Despite coming out of two failed relationships in the public eye, Taylor said -- before filming began -- that she was open to getting engaged on The Bachelorette.
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The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which premiered its new season in November, showed Dakota and Taylor contemplating a reconciliation, but allegations Dakota had sexted Taylor's family friend ruined any chance of that happening.
Taylor also accused a former friend of sleeping with Dakota in late October.
Dakota has since thrown shade at Taylor on social media.
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