The viral Mormon swinging scandal that exploded on TikTok two years ago is getting a Hulu docuseries called The secret lives of Mormon wives.
The six-part documentary, set to premiere on the streaming platform in September, will chronicle how the “scandalous world of a group of Mormon influencer mothers implodes when they become embroiled in a swinger sex scandal,” according to diversity“Now their sisterhood is shaken to its core. Trust, friendship and reputation are at stake. Will #MomTok survive and continue to fight against the rules, or will this group fall from grace?”
Taylor Frankie Paul – the Utah influencer at the center of the Mormon swinger drama – will appear in the documentary, as will fellow momfluencers Demi Engemann, Jennifer Affleck, Jessi Ngatikaura, Layla Wessel, Mayci Neeley, Mikayla Mathews and Whitney Leavitt.
For those who don’t know, the internet was fascinated by the inner workings of the Mormon #MomTok after Paul announced that she and husband Tate Paul were getting a divorce. During a livestream in 2022, the influencer, now 30, revealed that she had been engaging in “soft swinging” within her married circle of friends.
In her video, Paul explained that she and Tate – who have two children together – had an “agreement” regarding their relationship, but that she “stepped out of that agreement” by “going to extremes” with an unnamed man from their close-knit community.
“The whole group was intimate with each other,” she claimed. “It wasn’t like I was hanging out with my friend’s husband. It was like we were at a party, I got argumentative and we went and fooled around among ourselves instead of with the whole group,” she said.
However, Tate told her followers that she was being “ostracized” by her fellow Mormon momfluencers, even though other members of her circle of friends also participated in the swinger drama. Unsurprisingly, her comments prompted many people online to try to figure out which TikTok stars were involved in the sex scandal, even though a number of Mormon #MomTokers have denied their involvement.
Following the swinger drama, Paul debuted her new relationship with boyfriend Dakota Mortensen on social media in August 2022. In February last year, she was arrested on assault and domestic violence charges. Paul later pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, while the other four charges were dismissed. She agreed to a plea deal last September.
That same month, Paul announced that she and Mortensen were expecting their first baby together. The influencer, who has six-year-old daughter Indy and three-year-old son Ocean with her ex-husband, welcomed her son Ever in March of this year.
The The Secret Life of Mormon Wives is produced by Jeff Jenkins, known for the reality shows The Simple Life, Keeping Up With the KardashiansAnd Bling Empire. All six episodes of the unscripted series will premiere on Hulu in the U.S. on Friday, September 6.
