Wells Adams has spent close to a decade as the most consistently visible non-lead figure in the entire Bachelor franchise, a reputation that made him a logical include for Season 3 of The Traitors, even though his actual run in the game barely lasted an episode.
Adams’s path into Bachelor Nation started as a contestant, not the job he’d eventually become known for.
From Contestant to Paradise’s Bartender
Adams first appeared as a contestant on Season 12 of The Bachelorette, eliminated in week six, and later competed on Season 3 of Bachelor in Paradise. He went on to become the franchise’s recurring hotel bartender starting with Bachelor in Paradise’s fourth season, replacing Jorge Moreno in the role, a job he has continued to hold in subsequent seasons and one that’s made him one of the most recognizable non-contestants in the entire Bachelor universe.
The First Boot of Season 3
Adams was the first contestant eliminated from Season 3 of The Traitors, banished during the premiere episode that aired January 14, 2025, and finished 22nd out of 23 players. That built-in familiarity and easy on-camera charm made him a logical include for a cast this size, even though his run barely got started.
Sarah Hyland’s Reaction
The most-covered part of his season wasn’t the game itself but the reaction from his longtime partner, actress Sarah Hyland, whom he’s been with since 2017 and lives with in Los Angeles. In post-elimination interviews, Adams said Hyland “wasn’t super proud” of how quickly he was voted out, joking that both of them had genuinely expected him to go far, if not win outright. That bit of self-deprecating honesty, a Bachelor Nation guy admitting his own partner was let down by his game, became its own small viral moment in coverage of the episode.
Life Now
Adams has continued in his familiar Bachelor Nation role since the season aired, and has spoken publicly, with characteristic humor, about being one of the season’s earliest exits in a cast that ultimately ran deep with competition-show veterans far more accustomed to strategic gameplay than he was.