Taylor Frankie Paul Axed After Shock Video, Kevin Hart Slams Wax Figure, Baywatch Star Arrested & More
Plus Niecy Nash’s cartel scare, talk show shakeups & a fan stunt that left Riley Green bloodied.
The headlines are messy – and the stories are even messier.
Taylor Frankie Paul gets axed from The Bachelorette after shocking footage resurfaces, Kevin Hart melts down over a cursed wax figure, and a Baywatch star gets busted saving lab dogs. Add in Niecy Nash caught in cartel chaos and celebrity shakeups everywhere – and it’s nonstop madness.
From reality TV blowups to Hollywood chaos and viral moments, nothing is off-limits. This is HOLLYWOOD 411 by KEEPING TABS – let’s dive in.
BAD BACHELORETTE GETS AXED
THE latest shameful antics of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives sexpot TAYLOR FRANKIE PAUL have led ABC execs to cancel her upcoming season of The Bachelorette. The March 19 axing came after TMZ revealed a shocking 2023 video of a fight where the furious hellcat appeared to grab the head of lover DAKOTA MORTENSEN, 33, and throw a chair that instead hit her daughter Indy, now 8. (Taylor shares Indy and son Ocean, 5, with ex-hubby TATE PAUL.)
Taylor, 31, was clobbered with charges including misdemeanor assault that were dropped. Then in 2025, sources say she again hooked up with ex Dakota the night before she left to film The Bachelorette, and later broke up with him. She is also under investigation by Utah’s Draper City police for a February “domestic assault” involving “contact” between her and Dakota, dad of her year-old son, Ever, “with allegations... in both directions,” says a source.
Now, filming of Mormon Wives has also been halted. Taylor moans, “I’ve been here before and got through it ... I’m hoping I can do that again,” while her rep blasted the release of the “selectively edited” video as a distraction tactic. In a statement, Dakota says, “I am focusing on our son and his safety, and hope that Taylor will do the same.”
KEVIN HART BROKEN OVER WAX FIGURE
Motormouth comic KEVIN HART was practically speechless when he spied a supposed tribute to him – a wax figure likeness for the Hollywood Wax Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. “WTTTTFFFFF ... What did I do to these people,” the 46-year-old funnyman inked on social media, also revealing the figure wearing a gold chain and a leather jacket.
“I know that ain’t Kevin Hart. This is an attack. Who in the f**k is this?????? At this point these museums are just trying to make me cry.” His Jumanji costar DWAYNE JOHNSON seemed to enjoy Kevin’s upset, chiming in: “It’s PERFECT. Don’t change a thing.” One fan posted: “You asked for Kevin Hart and got Kevin THE WEEKND.” Kevin added a final: “This s**t has to stop ... I demand a redo!”
BAYWATCH BABE IN COPS' DOGHOUSE
Leggy lifeguard ALEXANDRA PAUL saved swimmers in trouble on TV’s iconic Baywatch with DAVID HASSELHOFF and PAMELA ANDERSON – now she’s rescuing pooches tagged for experiments in research labs.
The tenderhearted beauty, 62, was busted for protesting at Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin’s Blue Mounds Village, where cuddly beagles are bred to be lab rats. Alexandra the Great was arrested with 19 others and hit with trespassing charges by deputies who say “50 to 60 protesters entered the property without permission” and began “removing numerous dogs.”
The Dane County Sheriff’s Office adds: “Two vehicles, along with burglary tools and other evidence, were seized at the scene. Some of the beagles taken were recovered and returned to Ridglan Farms, but several beagles remain unaccounted for.” Guess you’d call them lucky dogs!
NIECY NASH'S CARTEL HORROR
Reno 911 actress NIECY NASH’s 56th birthday celebration in February with family and friends in Puerto Vallarta turned into a battle for survival when 10,000 troops clashed with gangs following the killing of Mexican drug lord NEMESIO “EL MENCHO” CERVANTES. “What made me nervous was I was there with my family, all my children. My mom was there,” recalls Niecy.
Ordered to “shelter in place,” they began running low on rations, so they “snuck into” the backway of a nearby hotel where they met a couple at the bar and ordered grub sent to their room. Niecy repaid them in cash, adding: “You got to do what you got to do ... and they were so drunk they didn’t even know that we ordered all the stuff to their room.”
TALK SHOWS, MISBEHAVING FANS ... & MORE!
The race is on to fill the huge hole KELLY CLARKSON leaves when she quits her hit talk show, and sources insist the likely winners are former ice skating whizzes TARA LIPINSKI and JOHNNY WEIR. The pair have starred as NBC’s Olympic analysts and an insider says: “They check every box. Polished, experienced, and they understand spectacle. NBC isn’t experimenting - they’re positioning.” While no contracts are finalized, the insider adds, “Make no mistake. This is serious.”
Singing proved bloody for country star RILEY GREEN, who was wounded on the noggin when a stupid Aussie fan threw a cell phone at him during a Melbourne concert. Green stopped the show, had the lights turned on and the dumbbell was outed and ousted. The “Half of Me” singer needed five stitches to close the bloody cut on his ear.
The pressure of being the son of golf icon TIGER WOODS apparently got to his 17-year-old kid, CHARLIE, who ended up in last place (36th) after finishing 26 strokes over at the prestigious Junior Invitational in South Carolina. But he’s not giving up. Tiger’s son is committed to playing golf for Florida State University, saying: “Go Noles.”