A major Bachelor in Paradise star has exposed producer manipulation after several huge stars exited season 10.
In an interview with Nick Viall on The Viall Files, Wells Adams confirmed that, as fans have long suspected, the producers manipulated the show in past seasons. When Nick told Wells that he was surprised that many of the bigger stars have left Bachelor in Paradise, Wells explained that the new Bachelor in Paradise producers are less involved than they’ve been in the past.
Wells stated, “This new production company’s theos about producing a show is very much less hands-on than it has been in the past. You don’t get to have both. Either you have something that’s happening in real time and these are real decisions that people are making, or you’re overproducing something and forcing something into something.”
Wells continued, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too. So the producer brain in me [is] thinking like, ‘You’re not wrong. We lost a lot of stars that one rose ceremony, and it was great TV.’ You know, I was sitting on the sideline, watching it being like, ‘Oh my God. What’s gonna happen? This is amazing television.’ And, in my mind, ‘We’re in episode 2.'”
Wells then admitted that he started to wonder if losing so many stars so soon was good for Bachelor in Paradise season 10. He said, “And then I started being like, ‘But at what cost? We are losing a lot of really, really big names.’ And so I was like, ‘This is great television,’ but also like, ‘What are we gonna do?'”
Wells added, “And like, ‘I can’t believe Susie is gone. I can’t believe Justin’s gone. I can’t believe that was the decision that was made. I can’t believe Susie didn’t accept it.’ All this stuff.”
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Wells then exposed the fact that, in previous Bachelor in Paradise seasons, the producers would’ve manipulated things to ensure that their biggest stars stayed on the show. He stated, “But it made for really, really compelling television. And, in the past, things would have been manipulated to keep people there. And make it so you had all your stars there. But that would be kind of less authentic, I think.”
Wells concluded by saying that he didn’t think that Bachelor in Paradise needed big stars in order to captivate its audience. He said, “So, I mean, I know what happens ’cause I was there. Like we’re gonna go down a road that is going to be super dramatic, and I don’t know if you needed to have big stars for those fireworks happen.”
