Taylor Frankie Paul can remember the precise moment The Bachelorette producers asked to steal her for a second.

As her increasingly rocky romance with now-ex Dakota Mortensen was documented on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives , social media users began pitching her to hand out the roses on ABC's love hunt, tagging the show in each post.

So, Paul detailed during her Sept. 10 appearance on Alex Cooper ’s Call Her Daddy podcast , she made a TikTok about it, never imagining it'd serve as the first step in her journey.

“It was a joke to me, like unattainable," the 31-year-old said. "I heard there was some talking and then we had a meeting. I still didn’t believe it until I got the invitation of will you be our Bachelorette?”

Even then, she wasn't sure she could accep

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