The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives stars are giving Dakota Mortensen credit where credit is due.

“Okay, I actually liked that he did that video. I was with him the next day, and I was like, ‘I love that you did that because you just made fun of yourself,’” Jessi Ngatikaura exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this month, referring to Dakota’s reaction to the news that his ex, Taylor Frankie Paul, was named the new Bachelorette for the upcoming season of the hit reality dating show.

“And he’s like, ‘I had to, I have to laugh at it, or else everyone’s gonna do it for me,’” she continued while attending the Page Six Virtual Reali-Tea “VRT Awards” 2025 at City Winery. “So I thought it was good.”

Before ABC announced the reality star would lead the next iteration of the hit reality dating show,

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