This Hunky Idaho Native is Competing for Taylor Frankie Paul’s Final Rose

If you watched the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 3 with your jaw dropped and your brain screaming “HOLY PLOT TWIST,” you’re not alone. We’re trying to do this as spoiler-free as possible if you didn’t jump in and binge-watch the entire season in two days like we did. 

Update December 18: Well known reality TV guru, Reality Steve, recently published some spoilers about this contestant's time on the The Bachelorette. We're adding those to the bottom of the article. You've been warned.

If you’re part of Bachelor Nation, you know the phrase “here for the right reasons” gets thrown around a lot. Halfway through the most recent season of SLOMW, we were questioning if Taylor Frankie Paul accepted the role as The Bachelorette for the right reasons or if we were going to watch 10 weeks of the reality dating show just to watch her get back together with Dakota Mortensen.

Then there was a plot twist that made us believe she was single, before the final one jerked us into thinking “...or is she?” We need the tea about what happened after that cliffhanger. 

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Maybe we’ll get it when Taylor’s season premieres on ABC in March, because she is without a doubt filming the new season now. ABC’s posted a teaser of her having a conversation with Bachelorette host Jesse Palmer on the show’s Instagram account. Producers have been looking for fans to be part of group dates near Denver, Las Vegas and Miami in November. Now we know while Taylor and the men were in Vegas, she attended one of Ashton Jeanty’s Raiders games! 

However, Jeanty is NOT the Boise State alum competing for the MomTok founder’s final rose. While we’re sure our investigative skills aren’t as good as Macyi and Mikayla’s, the internet gave us enough bread crumbs to figure out which one is! Cosmopolitan recently posted a look at the Taylor’s men and there’s a contestant named Doug Mason on the show. They list his hometown as Hailey, Idaho! 

While the Instagram account they listed is private we learned A LOT about Doug by clicking through his Linktree. While it lists his interests as “Music, Modeling and More,” it seems like he’s also an aspiring actor. According to the IMDB biography he shared, Doug wasn’t born in Hailey but Idaho was one of the seven states he lived in while his mom was in the military. He and his sister, Michelle, both did competitive sports at Wood River High School. 

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After graduation, he went to Boise State and was part of the Film and Television Arts program. That nugget was enough for us to track down his old YouTube account that includes his reporter/anchor demo reel from his time in the program. Some of the stories he covered were the opening of “Fancy Albertsons” on Broadway and the Tide Pod Challenge.

He didn’t stick around to land a job at KTVB or another one of Boise’s local TV stations. Instead, he went to San Diego, became an EMT ocean lifeguard and started doing commercial acting, landing a one episode role in NBC’s Magnum P.I. in 2023. 

Today, he’s modeling and attempting to launch a music career under the name “Tonedbone.” His single Move Like That has more than 89,000 plays on Spotify. 

According to his modeling profile, Doug’s 6’3” and has blue eyes.

Will Taylor fall for another Idaho boy? (Remember, Dakota grew up in Middleton. His family actually owns the Haunted Mansions of Albion.) Is he there for the right reasons? We’ll have to wait and see! He might just be! 

BACHELORETTE SPOILERS BELOW! STOP READING IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW!

Reality Steve recently published a somewhat hard to follow transcript of his podcast where he claims to know who at least one of Taylor's two finalists are and that one of them is indeed, Doug. He also noted how much Doug looks like Dakota and started nicknaming him "Doug Coda" and "Dakota 2.0." 

Doug's apparently in St. Lucia where they're filming Taylor's finale. People who saw pictures of him from the side or behind thought it was Dakota. Dakota confirmed to several influencers that he's not in St. Lucia and the images are not of him.

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Which personally? I believe. His most recent carousel on Instagram captioned "LA tings" shows him at Boise State's bowl game on Saturday night. That same carousel includes an image of his face being covered by someone's long blonde hair and one of a women's hand holding chopstick.

Here's where it gets wilder. The internet believes that the mystery girl is a former NFL cheerleader...who graduated from Rigby High School...who's also the sister of a former on-air personality in our building that used to host Bachelorette watch parties at Western Proper. 

Said mystery girl lists Bucked Up in her Instagram bio. Bucked Up was the title sponsor of the LA Bowl hosted by Gronk. Dakota posted a video of him in a suite at that game.

The plot thickens. The new season of The Bachelorette premieres March 22, 2026.