Chris Harrison Picks Who Should’ve Been The Bachelor Host

“Wells was in a very difficult situation, because obviously he was still connected to the show and he doing stuff on Paradise, but he was one of the first to reach out to me and say, ‘Hey, look, I’m staying out of this. I love you, respect you,'” Harrison claimed. “I appreciated that, I appreciated him because if anybody had sights on the job, it easily was Wells.”

“I thought, to be completely candid, that Wells was going to get the job,” he continued. “I thought that was the easiest call since Ken Jennings got the Jeopardy! job. He’s in the family, everybody loves him, it just seemed like a lay-up, but that’s not how it went down.”