New The Bachelorette star Taylor Frankie Paul's mother Liann May has shared her thoughts on Taylor having sex in the Fantasy Suite during her season.
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"I think the best situation is that you know who you're going to pick going into Fantasy Suites, right?" Ashley Iaconetti told Liann during a recent episode of her "The Ben & Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast."
Ashley continued, "Those leads usually end up just sleeping with the one person they know they're going to pick. Because when you go into it and you sleep with everyone, it can get really messy!"
"Oh, I bet!" Liann said in reply.
"I will be so pissed if she goes in and does that. I will. I will be so mad!"
Liann went on to admit, "And I know [Taylor] doesn't care, really, what I think. She does, but she doesn't. It's just weird."
Taylor recently opened up on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast how she's not sure how she's going to handle Fantasy Suite Week on The Bachelorette's upcoming 22nd season.
Taylor admitted she'd "feel lots of guilt" and pretty "sh-tty" to sleep with multiple guys, but at the same time, she reasoned, "If you don't connect, that could be a huge issue down the road."
Liann noted of her daughter, "She always says, 'You wouldn't buy a car... unless you test drive it.'"
Liann confessed to Ashley that she absolutely hates that saying.
"It's like, I didn't have sex with my husband [Jeremy May] until I got married, and I already had [Taylor]. So I tried it that way first and then obviously I've been married for 29 years, so that is so not true," Liann explained.
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"Our relationship is, like, a great relationship and I don't know," Liann elaborated of her marriage. "I just think that [the test-drive theory] is not true about people."
But Ashley pointed out how dating in The Bachelor world is very different from the real world.
"If you have to test drive the car, right, make it the person you're going to pick... You can go through it and you can sleep with no one in the Fantasy Suites -- which is probably the best idea -- and your test drive is after the show," Ashley suggested, adding how an engagement isn't a marriage.
Liann said, "Yes, I agree!"
"And to be honest," Ashley noted, "a lot of people who leave the show engaged think, like, 'Okay, now we're starting to really date.'"
Liann complimented Ashley for going on The Bachelor franchise as a virgin.
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"The men too, and it's just like, I don't know, I wish more [people], especially women, would value themselves more and didn't give it up that quick."
Liann argued that there's "so much more to" sex than just physical pleasure.
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"Sex, it's a connection that you give to someone else, and [would you give that to] somebody you just don't know or isn't that great?" Liann questioned.
Taylor married Tate Paul in 2016 and the pair welcomed two children together: daughter Indy, 8, and son Ocean, 5.
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 has also documented Taylor's first post-divorce relationship with Dakota Mortensen.
Taylor and Dakota made their romance public in July 2022, and then they welcomed a son together, Ever True, in March 2024.
Taylor and Dakota appeared to break up in late 2024, although Taylor didn't publicly confirm their split until May of this year.
While The Bachelorette won't be returning until next year, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is set to release new episodes on November 13 on Hulu.
Two other stars from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Whitney Leavitt and Jen Affleck, are also currently competing on Dancing with the Stars' 34th season on ABC and Disney+.
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