Before his time on Bachelor in Paradise, Wells Adams made a name for himself on JoJo Fletcher's season of The Bachelorette, but he almost didn't make it on the show. "My brother was going to be on The Bachelorette about six years ago, but at the last minute, he bailed, because he got into a relationship," Adams explained to Refinery29 in 2016. "He was still friends with some of the casting directors and when I became single about a year ago, he was like, 'Hey, this is my brother, and he's a radio DJ in Nashville, and I think he'd be great for the show.'"

While on The Bachelorette, Adams and Fletcher dated but never experienced the romantic fireworks the show is known for. "It became pretty evident that she liked other guys a lot more than myself," he said on E! News' podcast Just the Sip. At one point during the show, he felt, as he told the podcast, he was merely her friend. But after he had a successful date with Fletcher, he said he believed his conversational skills gave him an edge. However, Adams soon received the boot, with Fletcher saying, as Adams recalled, "You know, we're just not as far along." Ouch.