How Will the New Bachelor in Paradise Work? Wells Adams May Have Spoiled the Format
Jason Pham
Paradise is coming back, but there’s one big twist. New broke in July that Bachelor in Paradise, which took a break in 2024, would be returning for its 10th season, with production set to start in the summer of 2025.
Bachelor Nation host Jesse Palmer confirmed the news during The Bachelor Season 29 finale, while announcing a major change to the format: Bachelor in Paradise Season 10 will also include contestants from The Golden Bachelor and The Golden Bachelorette.
“So this is really happening. For the first time ever, Golden men and women will be hitting the beaches of Paradise alongside all of your Bachelor and Bachelorette favorites of seasons past,” Jesse said at the time. “So how is this whole thing going to work? You’re going to have to tune in to find out when an all-new Bachelor in Paradise premieres this summer.”
How will Bachelor in Paradise Season 10 work?
While Jesse didn’t confirm how Bachelor in Paradise will work for Season 10, Bachelor in Paradise‘s bartender, Wells Adams, hinted in an interview to Us Weekly before The Bachelor Season 29 finale that the regular and Golden contestants will be in the same dating pool. “I have pitched this. I think it’s an amazing idea. I don’t know understand. Why can’t we have everyone come and everyone can date everyone? If you’re not into a cougar, that’s OK. You don’t have to. Different strokes for different folks,” Wells said. “There is a world where some young girl meets a really wealthy distinguished gentleman. That happens all the time in the real world and if it’s supposed to be a microcosm of the real world, that could happen there.”
He continued, “And the other way. There’s a show called Milf Manor. Why couldn’t there be a cougar that takes down a hot, young Benson Boone-looking dude on the beach. I think that would be the most amazing thing.”
Wells did have one caveat, however. “The only thing is we need to do it in a place where it’s not too hot because if you are a bit older, you might melt there. So if we did it in Palm Springs or Del Boca Vista, a place where it’s already a retirement community, everyone can get around in golf carts. I think it has legs.”
While Wells is the bartender on Bachelor in Paradise, his inteview isn’t confirmation on the format. Another popular theory for how Bachelor in Paradise could work is that the young and Golden contestants will compete against each other instead of date each other. “I feel like they’re gonna make it a competition between the young’s and the olds for date cards,” a user wrote on Reddit.
The hosts of “Bach Makers” podcast also offered the same theory. “My idea is that what if you pair them up in a team so each Golden person gets a regular person… where you only stay on the island if you match make for your partner. Let’s say Leslie and Jonathan are paired up, and Leslie is trying to find a match for Jonathan and Jonathan is trying to find a match for Leslie, and Leslie doesn’t find a match, Jonathan is kicked off the island, and she gets a new partner.”
If the Golden and young contestants do date each other, however, Bachelor Nation fans are not on board. “so we’ll see old men chasing young women, and young women crying to the older women when they get their hearts broken by inconsiderate young men. yawn and eww,” a Reddit user wrote. Another user commented, “Yeah bad idea absolutely disgusting 🤮” One more wrote, “As a Gen Xer I have no interest in watching people my parents age picking up people my children’s age. That is disgusting and a horrific decision on BIP’s part. No one wants to see that.”
Bachelor in Paradise streams on Hulu.
