• Clayton Echard revealed he made approximately $97,500 on Cameo in the past year alone
• The former Bachelor star completed 1,300 personalized videos at $75 each
• Echard credits his Bachelor fame for making the income stream possible
• He’s been open about using the money to fund his passion for dancing full-time
• Former Bachelorette Gabby Windey previously mocked his viral dance videos publicly

Clayton Echard has a message for everyone wondering what he actually does for a living: he’s chilling — and making nearly six figures doing it.

The 33-year-old former Bachelor star stopped by the She’s All Bach podcast this week and dropped a number that made even his host do a double-take. In the last year alone, Echard has made roughly $97,500 on Cameo — the platform where fans pay celebrities for personalized video shoutouts.

“I have a revenue stream that pays more than a full-time job. It’s Cameos,” he said on the show. “I did 1,300 Cameos in the last year. So you can do the math on that. Multiply that by $75 a pop, you can see how much money I made from it. It’s a lot of money.”

Host Stefanie Parker did the math in real time — and her reaction said everything.

“Holy sh-t!” she exclaimed. Echard’s response? “Yeah, it’s good money.”

“If You Guys Only Knew What I’m Bringing In”

Echard has become something of a polarizing figure in Bachelor Nation since his Season 26 run in 2022 — partly because of the dramatic finale with Susie Evans (they reconciled, then split for good), but more recently because of the dance videos he posts online that have taken on a life of their own. Critics have questioned what exactly he does with his time. Turns out, he’s been laughing all the way to the bank.

“People are like, ‘All he does is dance all day. What’s his real job?'” he said. “I’m like, ‘If you guys only knew what I’m bringing in.’ Like, I’m chilling.”

He’s also made peace with not fitting a conventional mold. “If I’m getting paid to dance, you think I give a s***? OK, I’m not a rocket scientist. Like, whatever.”

And he’s clear-eyed about where the opportunity came from. “Why do I have Cameos? Because I was the Bachelor,” he said. “It brings opportunities. So I appreciate what I’ve gotten from the show. And again, that allows me to chase my passions or dance more.”

Before landing the lead role, Echard first appeared as a contestant on Michelle Young’s season of The Bachelorette in 2021.

The Gabby Windey Chapter

The dance videos haven’t been universally beloved in the franchise. Last year, former Bachelorette Gabby Windey went in hard on Echard’s content during an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast, calling him a “toe-looking ass, skinny jean-wearing” guy and suggesting his videos were, let’s say, not exactly appointment viewing.

“Have you seen his dancing videos? Oh my God, they will make you run,” Windey, 35, said at the time. “I’m going to send you one, and you [will] wish you didn’t have eyes.”

Echard fired back on Instagram, accusing Windey of “bullying” him over his appearance and defending his dancing as “harmless” content that had “inspired other people to get the courage to step out of their comfort zones and try something new.” He said she was setting a “really bad example.”

Now, with nearly $100K in Cameo earnings to point to, Echard seems pretty unbothered. “If this is my life,” he said, “that’s a great life.”

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• Taylor Frankie Paul’s Bachelorette season is not part of ABC’s announced summer lineup.
• The season was pulled in March after a 2023 domestic violence video involving ex Dakota Mortensen resurfaced.
• Reality Steve had predicted ABC would announce a summer premiere at its upfronts — that didn’t happen.
• ABC exec Rob Mills has said the season is “wonderful” and he hopes audiences eventually get to see it.
• ABC renewed The Bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise, and Dancing with the Stars for 2026-27, but The Bachelorette was absent.

Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of The Bachelorette will not be hitting your TV this summer — at least not according to ABC’s official plans. The network rolled out its summer premiere slate and the season was nowhere on it, despite weeks of speculation that a warm-weather debut was in the cards.

The absence stings a little for Bachelor Nation, which has been holding its breath since March 19, when ABC pulled the plug on the season 22 premiere just days before it was set to air. The trigger was a video posted by TMZ showing Paul in a 2023 altercation with ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen, during which she threw a barstool that struck her then-7-year-old daughter, Indy. Paul had previously pleaded guilty to felony aggravated assault over the incident in exchange for other charges being dropped, but the footage itself had never been seen publicly — and once it was, two networks had to rethink their relationship with her almost overnight.

“In light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of The Bachelorette at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family,” Disney Entertainment Television said in a statement at the time.

Reality Steve’s Summer Prediction Didn’t Pan Out

Earlier this month, Bachelor Nation’s go-to spoiler source Reality Steve posted an Instagram Reel claiming ABC was planning to air the season this summer — and not on a streamer. “It’s gonna air on ABC this summer,” he said, predicting the network would make an official announcement at its upfronts. He even reasoned that ABC’s careful wording in its March cancellation — “at this time” — was intentional wiggle room. “You would have just said we’re done and this show is never airing,” he noted.

That upfronts announcement never came. And while the summer slate does include new unscripted programming — Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro debuts July 13 — there’s no Bachelorette slot to be found.

Still, the show’s absence from the schedule isn’t the same as a cancellation. Walt Disney Television’s EVP of unscripted and alternative entertainment Rob Mills has been notably careful not to slam the door shut. Speaking at Deadline’s Reality TV Summit in late April, he said the network was still open to finding ways to air the footage as long as Paul was doing well. Then, in an interview with TheWrap, he put it plainly: “We take everything a day at a time. We’re sort of really still processing everything and figuring out planning for the next cycles of The Bachelor franchise, and really just kind of looking at everything, and first and foremost, honestly, just making sure that Taylor, her family, everyone is being taken care of, just on a personal and human front.”

He’s also made clear he believes in the season itself. “I love the season, and if people who enjoy the show — Bachelor Nation — get to see it, I think they will love it as well,” Mills told Vulture. “Obviously, I would love for people to experience it.”

What Mills Saw When He Met Taylor Before Casting

In a candid Vulture profile, Mills recalled flying to Utah to meet with Paul before she was formally offered the lead role. What he found wasn’t a ratings-hungry influencer looking to stir up drama — it was a single mom being honest about her life.

“It was not, ‘Oh, this is somebody who’s going to be absolutely crazy,’ or, ‘This is going to be the wildest season of The Bachelorette ever,'” Mills said. “[She] very honestly spelled out, ‘I have three children by two different men, it’s hard and I need a partner.'”

Paul, 31, shares daughter Indy, 8, and son Ocean, 5, with ex-husband Tate Paul, and son Ever, 2, with Mortensen. She was named the season 22 lead in fall 2025, with her premiere originally set for March 22 — a departure from the show’s traditional summer window that was announced with considerable fanfare on Call Her Daddy.

“It does raise the stakes when we have a single parent,” Mills added. “They are thinking of children as well as themselves.”

Paul has said she was open with her contestants throughout filming. “I really told everyone as a whole if there’s anything you want to know, please let me know,” she told Us Weekly in March. “I wasn’t trying to shove everything down their throat… I wanted to tell them what they wanted to know. Please ask anything. I am [a] very open book.”

Where Things Stand for Taylor Now

The timeline of the past few months has been a lot. In February, a new domestic violence investigation involving Paul and Mortensen was opened by Utah’s Draper City Police Department. Production on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 5 paused. Then in mid-April, authorities confirmed Paul would not be charged, and filming on Mormon Wives resumed.

Through it all, people close to Paul say she’s been doing the quiet work. “She has been doing the work behind the scenes, taken accountability and is focused on moving forward in a more positive way,” an insider told Us Weekly. “The hope is that viewers would connect with that growth and see a different side of her, making this season feel like a true redemption moment rather than just a return to TV, but right now her priority is her family and her mental health.”

Taylor herself has said she’s hopeful the season eventually airs. And the financial stakes for ABC are real — Page Six previously reported the network is out tens of millions of dollars on a season that’s already been fully produced. An industry source told the outlet back in March that “ABC left a window in their statement to bring [the show] back. They haven’t canceled it — they simply paused it.”

For now, ABC has renewed The Bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise, and Dancing with the Stars for the 2026-27 season. The Bachelorette isn’t on that list either — but Mills’s words keep echoing. “If it gets seen,” he told Variety, “I’m sure people will absolutely enjoy it.”

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