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A bold new structure has appeared in Cary Park in Cary, North Carolina: the latest sculptural pavilion by Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY. The work is titled “L’Ile Folie,” which nods to the architectural tradition of the folly, a landscape feature that was all the rage with wealthy estate owners in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Often nostalgic and resembling ruined miniature castles or bucolic village buildings, follies were generally non-functional and conceived as pure decoration. Fornes, however, reimagines this practice with an eye toward the future rather than the past. The pavilion “gives this tradition a contemporary meaning: memorable, playful, and slightly surreal,” says a statement.
Fornes is known for creating high-tech structures made from thousands of individual facets, blurring the distinction between architecture and sculpture. Situated along a boardwalk and perched over a pond, the gleaming white pavilion invites visitors to pause and appreciate their natural surroundings from a contemporary landmark.
“Constructed from ultra-thin folded aluminum panels, each piece is digitally fabricated and precisely riveted into place,” says a statement. “There is no hidden frame; the skin is the structure. Thousands of perforations filter sunlight into delicate patterns, turning the canopy into an ever-changing atmosphere of shadow and shimmer.”
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‘TMZ After Dark’ Bus Lit Enough to Go Up in Flames … Thanks to ‘Temptation Island’ Star Ashley G!!!
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Saturday night wasn’t just another “TMZ After Dark” tour … it turned into a full-blown reality show on wheels!
Ashley G from“Temptation Island“ took over the bus and immediately raised the stakes, turning the ride into her own version of Temptation Voyage … “Who out of you is getting the most lit tonight?!” she challenged couples and groups, setting the tone before the bus even left the curb.
Teamed up with West Hollywood favorite DJ Coach West, the duo had undeniable chemistry … riffing, hyping the crowd, and keeping the energy sky-high all night long.
First stop? Jameson’s Pub in Hollywood. In honor of St. Patrick’s Week, passengers kicked things off with ice-cold Jameson’s peanut butter shots — a thick, white-chocolatey hit that had everyone buzzing early.
Then things escalated.
At Beaches WeHo, what was supposed to be a standard stop turned into a full-on surprise drag show — and not the brunch version. This one was late-night, louder, and way spicier. Passengers were twerking hard, the crowd was wild, and yes … there’s video to prove it.
By the final stop at Saddle Ranch, the bus was officially on fire … figuratively. Between the famous chicken bites, iconic pink gummy shots, and free mechanical bull rides, guests were living out peak Hollywood chaos — all while Y2K classics blasted in the background.
By the end of the night, one thing was clear … Ashley G didn’t just host the TMZ tour — she OWNED it.
Don’t forget to grab tickets to hop on the next ‘After Dark’ Bus yourself!
This slow cooker sausage and peppers recipe is a set-it-and-forget-it dish that brings big Italian flavor with just minutes of prep. Just toss everything into the slow cooker and let it do the work.
Flavor: Italian sausage simmers in rich marinara with sweet peppers and onions, creating a bold, cozy, garlicky tomato flavor in every bite.
Why Make It: The first time I made this, it instantly became a busy weeknight standby. The prep is quick, and coming home to a finished meal can’t be beat!
Recommended Tools: A 6-quart slow cooker, plus a large skillet if you’d like to brown the sausages first.
Serving Suggestions: Serve it on hoagie rolls, over pasta, rice, cauliflower rice, or creamy polenta.
Pepper Picks and Swaps
Bell Peppers: Choose bell peppers of all colors for sweetness and slice them thick so they hold up in the slow cooker. Frozen works, but it will be softer.
Sausage: This recipe works well with hot or mild sausages, so choose what works best for you. Chicken or turkey sausages work well, too!
Seasoning: Add red pepper flakes for heat, make your own Italian seasoning, or replace it with oregano and basil.
Marinara: Use a high-quality store-bought marinara or make a homemade marinara.
Variations: Add mushrooms for extra savory flavor, stir in spinach at the end and cook until wilted, or top with provolone or mozzarella for a melty finish.
Easy Slow Cooker Sausage and Peppers
Slice the bell peppers and onion and add them to the slow cooker.
Add the Italian seasoning, garlic, and marinara sauce.
Top with sausages and cook (full recipe below).
Deeper Flavor: In a skillet, brown sausages 2 minutes per side before adding them to the slow cooker.
Tender Veggies: Slice peppers and onions thick, so they hold up well in the slow cooker.
Juicy Sausages: Place the sausage links on top of the veggies so they braise, not boil.
Sauce Balance: Taste the sauce at the end and add salt or Italian seasoning if needed.
Sandwich Night: Toast hoagie rolls so they don’t get soggy. Spoon on peppers and sauce just before serving.
Firmer Peppers: Add half of the peppers during the last hour of cooking.
Thicker Sauce: Crack the lid for the last 20 to 30 minutes and cook on HIGH to reduce the liquid.
Make Ahead and Freezer Wins
Keep leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days or up to 3 months in the freezer. Thaw in the fridge overnight. Reheat on the stovetop over medium-low heat or in the microwave in short bursts. If needed, add a spoonful of marinara to loosen it up.
Leftovers are great tossed with pasta, piled onto toasted rolls with provolone, or spooned over polenta.
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Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 2 hourshours
Total Time 2 hourshours5 minutesminutes
Slice the bell peppers and onions and add them to the bottom of a 6-quart slow cooker.
Add the oil, garlic, Italian seasoning, and salt. Toss well to combine.
Pour the marinara sauce overtop.
Optional: If desired, brown the sausages in a skillet over medium heat for 2 minutes on each side.
Place the sausages on top of the vegetables. Cover and cook on LOW for 3 to 4 hours or on HIGH for 2 to 3 hours, until the sausages are cooked through and the vegetables are tender.
These are perfect served in toasted hoagie rolls, or over pasta or polenta. Keep leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days and in the freezer for 3 months.
AI is reshaping how we process data, solve complex problems, and deliver digital experiences. But your AI environment is only as secure as the infrastructure it runs on—and attackers know exactly where to look for weaknesses.
As you scale AI workloads closer to end users, agents, and machines, a critical challenge emerges: you must maximize GPU and CPU utilization while also defending against sophisticated, fast-moving threats.
Traditional security models struggle in these environments. Centralized firewall appliances can become traffic choke points that don’t scale to AI-level throughput. Host-based software agents can also tax CPU resources you need for AI processing—and, in some cases, introduce operational risk in multi-tenant environments.
To address this, Cisco and NVIDIA are partnering to redefine AI security. By extending Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall to NVIDIA BlueField data processing units (DPUs), Cisco brings stateful segmentation directly into AI servers connected to Cisco Nexus One AI front-end fabrics. The result is a robust, hardware-accelerated, server-level security architecture that helps stop threats before they reach your data—maximizing protection with no performance tradeoff.
With Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall, you can define policy once and enforce it everywhere. This unified security model spans physical and virtual firewalls, cloud environments, and now the DPUs inside your AI servers.
Figure 1: Security close to every workload: NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and Hybrid Mesh Firewall
The front-end network: The real security domain
In AI infrastructure, the most important security boundary is the front-end network, where users submit inference and training requests, storage systems exchange datasets and checkpoints, and multi-tenant workloads often share the same servers. Because external traffic enters here, it’s the zone where inspection and isolation matter most.
Front-end traffic typically falls into two primary flows:
In AI environments, you can’t assume only “some” traffic needs inspection. Nearly all of it does, and multi-tenancy demands strict segmentation. That requires segmentation that can operate at full line rate across the front-end fabric.
Traditional centralized firewall appliances break this model. Hair-pinning traffic to an external firewall increases latency and creates bandwidth bottlenecks, effectively a choke point for the entire cluster.
Bringing security to the AI workload with DPUs
A better model is server-level enforcement using DPUs. By running the firewall on an NVIDIA BlueField DPU—not the host CPU—you reduce the risk of tenant tampering and preserve CPU/GPU cycles for AI workloads.
Cisco is redefining AI workload protection by enforcing unified security policy using Hybrid Mesh Firewall on AI servers with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs. This enables:
Air-gapped enforcement in multi-tenant and bare-metal environments
Hardware-accelerated 400G line-rate stateful segmentation in DPU
VPC-aware policy enforcement at the network edge
Fine-grained observability per flow in hardware at scale
Lateral movement containment, helping block east–west attacks at the server boundary
Figure 2: AI workload protection for front-end fabrics, NVIDIA BlueField DPUs with Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall
Cisco Nexus One simplifies how network policy is built, deployed, and kept aligned with workload identity and context.
On each AI server, it discovers Kubernetes workload metadata and shares that context with Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall, which translates it into application-aware, stateful segmentation rules:
Local discovery (Nexus One): A unified management plane runs on each AI server to collect Kubernetes inventory metadata—workload/application identity, labels and annotations, namespaces, etc.
Context-aware policy (Hybrid Mesh Firewall): Uses the above metadata to generate application-aware, stateful segmentation policies for each workload.
DPU enforcement: Policies are enforced inline on the NVIDIA BlueField DPU without external agents or software.
Kubernetes integrations: Optimized for the Isovalent Kubernetes suite (including Cilium CNI and Hubble) and compatible with standard Kubernetes environments.
“AI is transforming every industry, and the rapid rise of AI factories is driving a growing need for cybersecurity at scale across enterprise infrastructure. By embedding Cisco’s Hybrid Mesh Firewall policy into NVIDIA BlueField DPUs on AI servers, our joint customers achieve high-performance, multi-tenant, intent-driven enforcement and hardware-accelerated protection, seamlessly connected via Cisco Nexus One AI front-end fabrics.”
—Kevin Deierling, SVP of Networking, NVIDIA
Cisco Nexus One: Network policy orchestration and visibility for AI front-end fabrics
Cisco Nexus One takes these capabilities further by orchestrating complex network policies and maintaining end-to-end visibility with multisite implementations in AI front-end fabrics (as shown below). This simplifies operations, strengthens compliance enforcement, and provides a security framework that scales as AI environments grow.
Figure 3: Cisco Nexus One; Nexus Hyperfabric AI front-end fabrics
Building the secure AI factory of the future
AI factories succeed when security keeps pace with AI-scale throughput. By running Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, we provide distributed, in-server enforcement with 400G line-rate stateful inspection and fine-grained, flow-level observability—without consuming CPU and GPU resources.
Paired with Cisco Nexus One for centralized network policy and visibility, organizations can scale multi-tenant AI infrastructure with confidence, secure from the inside out.
Security is the first service delivered on the DPU. Next, we’ll expand by adding more AI-centric network services running on DPUs.
Roadmap highlights
Controlled Availability: Q3 CY26
General Availability: Q4 CY26
What’s new
Cisco Nexus One: Network policy and visibility
Hybrid Mesh Firewall: Stateful segmentation on BlueField DPUs
Splunk: Security observability integration
To try the solution during Controlled Availability in early Q3 CY26, please contact your Cisco account representative.
New paintings by Filipino-American artist Opal Mae Ong. Based in Brooklyn, Ong’s work contains a deep reverence for the otherworldly, combining the remnants of ancestral knowledge with speculative visions to form a kind of personal myth-making. The title of their latest series, “Always Were”, is intentionally fragmentary suggesting a temporal and grammatical ambiguity that points to the liminal nature of Ong’s figures and the time and place they inhabit.
The paintings also draw from Philippine folklore, including the pre-colonial babaylan—spiritual leader and healer—that exists beyond stable gender or form. For Ong, the Philippines marks both a presence and absence, with familial ties and influences remaining strong despite physical proximity. In particular, Ong’s grandmother, Amalia, who spent decades labouring abroad, is the matriarch of the family and yet someone Ong has not seen in person since early childhood. The death of Ong’s father nearly a decade ago similarly deepens the sense of distant longing and suspended belonging that echoes throughout their work. While these paintings do not illustrate grief directly, Ong is clearly exploring the conditions it creates—restlessness, transformation, and ongoing connection.
“Always Were” is currently on display at Plato gallery in New York until April 19.
Like anyone who grew up with the internet, I’ve used Gmail and Outlook for formal communications for many years. While I’ve noticed many differences among them, I’ve often wanted to stack them up and compare them to see which is the better email software on the market.
When I started this exercise, one thing became very clear. Both are mature, reliable tools backed by powerful ecosystems: Microsoft and Google Workspace. Both serve millions of users worldwide, ranging from individual professionals to global enterprises. And both consistently rank highest in market presence among all email software on G2, with Gmail at #1 and Outlook at #2.
In this blog, I’ll share how these two platforms measure up and where each of them stands apart.
For two months after their arrest, Yerson and Kelly Vargas and their 6-year-old daughter, Maria Paula, were held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, a family detention facility in Texas. One day, they said, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents confronted them with chains and handcuffs and threatened to drag them away by force if they didn’t agree to board a plane to Colombia, the country they had fled three years earlier.
After a nauseating, 18-hour bus ride and a transcontinental flight, the family arrived in Colombia in November with one bag between them and little more than the shirts on their backs. Immigration officials never gave them a chance to reclaim the belongings they left behind in their apartment in New York. They lost their car, clothes, a fish tank and Maria Paula’s toys. A kind neighbor stepped in to save their beloved cat, Milu.
Immigrant families, lawyers and advocates say the way President Donald Trump’s administration is carrying out deportations is unnecessarily traumatic for children and leaves parents struggling to make arrangements for housing, medical care or schooling after deportation. Under Trump, ICE has deported thousands of children under 18, according to data from the Deportation Data Project.
The Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas. Brenda Bazán
Families who have gone through the detention system said that ICE kept them in the dark about when they would be deported, and gave them little time to prepare. Multiple lawyers also told The Marshall Project that they were kept from their clients during the process.
ICE did not respond to a detailed list of questions about specific cases or in general about the deportation process for families.
Some experts say that although deportation will almost always be difficult for children, the government could take steps to make it less damaging, including not detaining them and their families. President Joe Biden largely ended the practice of family detention, allowing parents and children to live in the community while their immigration cases unfolded.
Families can still be deported without detention. In the past, case management programs ensured that they appeared in court and provided them advance notice to prepare for departure, said Michelle Brané, the executive director of Together and Free, an advocacy organization for families affected by immigration enforcement. She said living outside detention, and being given notifications, allowed families to plan for children’s schooling and housing in the country they were deported to.
“Giving families the time to make those arrangements is critical for their safety,” said Brané, who also served as the immigration detention ombudsman, an independent oversight role for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Biden.
Brané said giving notice allowed families time to make arrangements for their belongings, which could include selling expensive items like cars. There are also some possessions that are essential to arranging a life after deportation, like phones or notebooks with contact information for family and friends. When families were allowed to make those kinds of plans, their lives were more stable in the places they were deported to and were less likely to try to return to the U.S., Brané said.
Left, Maria Paula Vargas holds her cat, Milu, whom they later had to leave behind in New York when they were detained. Right, Maria Paula works on a drawing in Colombia. Left, Courtesy of the Vargas Family; right, Hannah Yoon for The Marshall Project
The Vargas family said they’ve been scrambling to rebuild their lives in Colombia. Every day, their former neighbor in New York sends them video clips of their cat so that Maria Paula can see. She still thinks that her family is only on vacation, and talks about being in “jail” in Texas all the time.
She has regressed academically and emotionally, according to her parents, who want to send her to a pediatric psychologist. Maria Paula also has problems with her vision after somebody working at Dilley accidentally hit her in the eye with a mop handle, an incident documented in medical records reviewed by The Marshall Project. In Colombia, her parents have not been able to get her to an eye specialist. She “entered Dilley in excellent condition and left in a very unfortunate state of health,” Kelly Vargas said.
Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez had been living in the U.S. since 2022 when ICE officials told her to come to an appointment in March with her family to have their photos updated. Instead, ICE arrested them, according to Nikolas De Bremaeker, managing attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza, a legal advocacy organization for immigrants. Just days after their arrest, she was deported to Colombia with her 6-year-old and 4-year-old sons. Her older son is Deaf and uses expensive, custom-fitted medical devices to assist with hearing, and did not have them with him when the family was arrested, which has made communicating especially challenging.
The lawyer said that for the two days between the family’s arrest and deportation, he had trouble getting accurate information about their location and as a result could not offer them legal counsel. “Honestly, it feels intentional,” De Bremaeker said. “This is a move that shocks the conscience.”
In another case, in the spring of 2025, a 4-year-old boy with Stage 4 kidney cancer was deported without medication, according to the ACLU of Louisiana. A U.S. citizen, he was deported with his mother, who came to the country as a teenager and had lived here for over a decade. In response to controversy about the case, Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, defended the deportation, according to the BBC. “Having a US citizen child does not make you immune from our laws,” he said.
The family was denied access to their lawyer, according to legal filings, despite active efforts to fight their case.
“It is not an anomaly. Lack of access to counsel is legion,” said Nora Ahmed, legal director at ACLU of Louisiana.
Lawyers for immigrant children say the inability of people to reach their attorneys is not the only issue that may lead to deportations. Some families stop fighting their cases, even when they have valid claims to stay in the U.S., because they are so desperate to leave detention centers like Dilley, where families have reported inedible food and poor medical care. So they give up and allow the government to deport them.
Others have petitioned judges to let them leave the country, a process known as voluntary departure, which allows people to escape the dire conditions of detention by returning to their home countries. About 180 children left the country in the first nine months of the Trump administration through voluntary departure.
“What is happening to kids in custody now seems particularly cruel and has made people uncomfortable enough and unhappy enough that they have accepted going back to a place where they don’t want to be,” said Becky Wolozin, an attorney at the National Center for Youth Law who represents children in a lawsuit that has led to key protections for families in immigration detention.
The deportation process can compound the trauma families have already experienced in detention. José asked to use only his middle name because of safety fears in his native Colombia. In August, he was arrested with his family after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and attempting to claim asylum. He was detained at Dilley with his wife, their 17-year old daughter and their 9-year-old son with autism. Their 19-year-old daughter, who had never lived away from them, was sent to a separate facility for adults.
About a month after he was detained, José was going to the gym at the Dilley detention center with his son. They’d done their best to establish routines at Dilley, because predictability is essential for his son’s well-being. He said a guard approached them and told him to start packing his things because they were leaving immediately. The guard wouldn’t say where they were being sent or why. José said he felt terrified, and his son wouldn’t stop crying. Once they were on a bus, along with his wife and younger daughter, he figured out they were being driven to an airport in Louisiana by looking at signs along the highway and listening to conversations between the driver and guards.
After an overnight bus ride and hours more sitting in the bus at the airport, the family finally boarded a plane to Colombia. When they landed, they quickly made arrangements to go to Trinidad, for their safety. Their 19-year-old daughter remained in detention in the United States; she had been assigned a different immigration judge and was allowed to stay to fight her case.
When José was eventually able to talk to her by phone, his daughter said she’d become so ill in detention that she wanted to give up on her case and be reunited with the rest of her family. They said the government took weeks to arrange her departure. The family reunited and now lives in Argentina, where the son has returned to school and José volunteers as a pastor while looking for work as an engineer.
The memory of their time in detention and subsequent deportation remains with them. José said they had trusted the U.S. government to handle their case fairly, but instead they ended up enduring a string of traumatic events. He said that through it all he’s tried to keep himself steady and unemotional for the family, but inside he was totally broken.
TheSecret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul has broken her silence following recent reports of an alleged domestic violence incident between Paul and her ex-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen.
“So, when the time is right, I will be. But right now, just trying to be in the present moment and focus on this, but the thing is, my kids do come first,” the mother of three said.
Taylor Frankie Paul responds to recent headlines about an alleged domestic violence incident with her ex-boyfriend, the future of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and what fans can expect from this season of “The Bachelorette.” pic.twitter.com/1J0BsJyOW1
Paul said she is just “trying to be here in the present moment, worrying about home and headlines.”
“It’s hard to see past this, I’m not going to lie. In this moment, it’s just so heavy and when your life is broadcasted out there in these headlines, it’s like the end of the world. That’s what it feels like,” she added.
Paul did not elaborate on any details of the alleged incident.
Who is Taylor Frankie Paul?
Paul became known as an influencer in the #MomTok community, a group of women from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sharing their lives on TikTok. She made news when she announced in 2022 that she had “stepped out” of an agreement with her now ex-husband in terms of relationships with other couples involving “soft-swinging” (a form of partner-swapping) and they were getting divorced.
Her popularity on TikTok exploded and she has amassed 6.1 million followers on the app and 2.4 million on Instagram.
Paul and Mortensen’s relationship has been a major storyline on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which follows a group of Mormon mom influencers while they navigate their relationships. The most recent season began airing last week and revealed that Paul and Mortensen spent the night together before she left to star in Season 22 of The Bachelorette, which debuts on March 22.
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Paul and Mortensen, who share their nearly two-year-old son Ever True, have had an on-and-off relationship following her split with ex-husband Tate Paul in 2022. She is also mom to eight-year-old Indy and five-year-old Ocean from her previous marriage with Tate.
(L-R:) Taylor Frankie Paul attends the 98th Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 15, 2026 in Hollywood, Calif., and Dakota Mortensen attends the Los Angeles Premiere and FYC Event of Hulu’s ‘The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives’ Season 2 at Paramount Studios on May 9, 2025 in Los Angeles.
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The domestic violence allegations
A spokesperson for the Draper City Police Department confirmed to People and local affiliate ABC4 Utah that there is an open “domestic assault investigation” regarding Paul and Mortensen, 33.
The spokesperson confirmed that “allegations have been made in both directions” and “contact was made with involved parties on [Feb.] 24th and 25th,” People reports.
In responses to other outlets, the police department has not revealed any details about the case, citing “privacy” and its “active investigation.”
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Global News has reached out to the Draper City Police Department for further information.
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After news of the investigation spread, Paul told People on Tuesday that her “heart hurts to see it, to go through it, especially at this time.”
“Just the timing is hard, and it’s a big deal. I feel like every premiere that I’ve experienced, I’ve never enjoyed fully, so this is another one…. It’s extremely hard, and it took everything to get me here today,” she said of the investigation and the upcoming premiere of The Bachelorette.
“It’s just heavy. It’s a heavy time, and it’s unfortunate,” the influencer continued. “I’m struggling for sure, but also at the same time I feel like if I don’t show up, then I’m just giving these opportunities away and not enjoying what we’ve worked on and something super exciting that’s coming.”
She also told the Hollywood Reporter that it’s been “really difficult and heavy given, you know, all the headlines and what’s going on.”
“But I would say I am handling it like any normal human would, like struggling, but trying to show up at the same time,” she added.
“His number one priority here is protecting Ever,” his rep said on Wednesday. “He knew there was a possibility it could come out, but he was not going to be the one to proactively do that because he has always wanted a decent relationship with Taylor.”
“It’s been really hard to achieve that, but he wants to co-parent well,” his rep added.
Mortensen’s rep also denied that he was the reason the situation became public and said he was hoping the drama would de-escalate.
“He was just hoping that if he says nothing, as he usually does, it would go away. He’s never done any kind of sit-down interview about his side,” the rep continued. “He kind of just lets it all happen to him, and I think he realizes with the severity of everything now that he just can’t do that.”
Paul was previously arrested in 2023 for domestic violence following an argument with Mortensen, which was featured in the first season of the reality series. She faced misdemeanour charges of assault, criminal mischief and commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child after she was accused of throwing a chair at Mortensen that reportedly hit her daughter, CBS News reports.
The 31-year-old reality star pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in August 2023, while the other charges were dismissed, according to ABC4 Utah.
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During an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Paul told host Alex Cooper that the charges stemming from her 2023 arrest “were all dropped.”
“I never had hurt my daughter. I never intentionally did anything with my children,” Paul added.
“After the arrest, I was under so much stress. I was filmed leaving the jail and then that was immediately on the internet,” she said. “It was a blessing in disguise. It helped me wake up.”
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives filming on ‘pause’
Production on Season 5 of TheSecret Lives of Mormon Wives has been halted following the investigation into the allegations involving Paul and Mortensen.
During her appearance on Good Morning America on Wednesday, Paul said she doesn’t “call the shots with production.”
Paul, an executive producer on the reality series, did say that she has “gotten word that there’s a pause” in filming but she doesn’t know for how long.
The #MomTok influencer spoke about where she stands with the cast of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on Tuesday after a source previously told People that the cast was “distancing themselves” from Paul amid the situation.
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Speaking with the Hollywood Reporter, Paul said, “From my end, I’ve always been good with all of them.”
“I mean, I think we’ve kind of seen how I am very graceful with all the girls, even at their darkest and hardest times. So for me, I feel like the same thing, just with all of them to this day. I have nothing against any of them. So if they have any hesitancy or have an issue with me, that is, you know, their prerogative, not mine,” Paul said.
A source close to the cast told People on Monday that the show is currently “not filming.”
“Taylor [Frankie Paul] has some pretty serious stuff happening regarding her past, and they will see what happens. Until that resolves, they are off,” the source added.
TMZ first reported the shooting stoppage and noted that it currently remains unclear how long production will remain paused or whether cameras will resume rolling soon.
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Will The Bachelorette still go ahead?
Paul’s season of The Bachelorette is still set to premiere Sunday, March 22.
U.S network ABC shared a promotional teaser on Tuesday following the reports, signalling that the network plans to proceed with the season.
Paul, who will date 22 men in the upcoming season, is the first Bachelorette to lead the franchise despite never appearing on The Bachelor.
She spoke about the opportunity to become The Bachelorette during her GMA interview on Wednesday, saying, “Dating for me as a mom of three is extremely difficult.”
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“I get to go out, get away from my toxic cycle here in Utah and date and also have my kids come out and visit me. That to me seemed like, why not?” she added.
Paul said the experience was exhausting but worth it because “you’re finding the love of your life and that’s what you’re striving for.”
After news of the investigation spread, Paul took to social media and posted a TikTok dancing alongside a mystery man, who never shows his face in the frame.
“I can’t hear you, I’m kinda busy,” she wrote in text over the video, set to Lady Gaga and Beyoncé’s hit song Telephone.
Paul was asked about the TikTok video during her interview and said the man in the video is “someone that’s in my life” but that she “can’t give away too much” because “that would ruin the surprise.”
