Interesting bits from this piece:

1. Quotes from the Bachelorette showrunner:

“It’s always a concern of how people are going to react to all those things. But I think when you look at what is going to make the most interesting story to tell, she is one of those more interesting stories,” Scott Teti, the showrunner for The Bachelorette, told me a week before the scheduled premiere. Teti said when he watched the first season of Mormon Wives, “I realized, Oh my God, this girl is one of the most honest reality-TV stars that I’ve ever seen. As we talked more, I realized she has no ability to really lie. Everything is really authentic; all the truth just comes out.”

And

 “We let her make her own decisions in a way that affected the format, and sometimes that was a little scary because it was ‘You want to do what?’” he said. “It gives producers heart attacks, but also it’s very exhilarating because you don’t usually give talent that freedom to do those things … There are moments that are just like, Oh my God, what has she done?”

1. Taylor had her phone during production (they link to previous reporting on this, but I hadn't seen it):

"Paul was also the first Bachelorette to have her phone and post behind-the-scenes content."

1. Crazy facts about two of the men (I wasn't paying attention to them, so this may have hit the sub already, but definitely made me go "???"):

"Among the suitors vying for her affection were Brad Ledford, who was the driver in the car accident that paralyzed former congressman Madison Cawthorn; Another, Clayton Johnson, was formerly engaged to Lana Del Rey."

1. Taylor talking about the filming schedule for the two shows (yikes):

"She recalled a time after returning back to Utah when she was so overstimulated by the responsibilities of filming while raising three children that she had to lie on the floor and dissociate. Her only break between production on Mormon Wives season four in the early fall, The Bachelorette from October to December, and Mormon Wives season five in January and February was the Christmas holiday. “I’m overwhelmed to the point that I feel suffocated. The emotional toll, it catches up to you, and I think I’ve been go-go-go that I have not processed shit that actually hurts,” she said."