Ben Waddell is saying g’day to Bravo’s Summer time Home.
A Sunday, December 7, teaser for the upcoming tenth season revealed that Australian native Ben, 38, can be one of many new housemates at Bravo forged’s Hampton’s home.
“We bought some new individuals within the combine,” present vet Kyle Cooke stated within the trailer footage, referring to 6 newbies, certainly one of whom was Ben.
“Ben Waddell enters the summer season home with swagger, six-pack vitality and Aussie humor,” a Bravo forged bio reads. “Initially from the Land Down Underneath, a brutal breakup and never a lot luck on The Australian Bachelor has left Ben looking for one thing else. This summer season he’s open to enjoyable, flings and even perhaps a particular customer, so long as they’ve bought confidence, spark and a killer smile.”
Costar West Wilson even proclaimed within the trailer that Ben seemed “so good-looking.”
Maintain scrolling to be taught extra about Ben forward of his Summer time Home debut:
Ben Waddell Has a Actuality TV Previous
After Ben met the women of Summer time Home within the trailer, Ciara Miller requested whether or not he “was on The Bachelor in Australia.”
Ben, the truth is, was one of many three Bachelors on the Australian actuality TV present in 2023, the place he gave his ultimate rose to Mckenna Lee. The pair’s romance, nonetheless, fizzled shortly after the present wrapped.
“Whereas distance and communication over the previous couple of months prevented us from exploring our romantic connection and Ben and I aren’t collectively, we’re nonetheless in touch as mates and I solely need the perfect for him,” Mckenna wrote through Instagram in December 2023. “This may occasionally not have been the end result I’d hoped for, however I’ve taken so many classes from this wonderful expertise. I stroll away with a renewed sense of self, a full coronary heart and delightful friendships.”
Ben Waddell Had a Job Pre-Actuality TV Fame
In keeping with Australia’s Who journal, Ben labored as an environmental sustainability entrepreneur earlier than he went on The Bachelor. He has additionally performed some modeling work.
Ben Waddell Has a Historical past With Zac Efron — Kind Of
Again in 2020, Ben claimed to be engaged on a sustainability docuseries known as All the way down to Earth earlier than Zac Efron was known as to host a present with the identical identify for Netflix.
“As a rookie filmmaker, I suppose you don’t actually know easy methods to cowl your tracks,” Ben claimed to Australia’s A Present Affair. “We seemed into it, copyrighted it, you realize, [and] we did every part that we thought was proper.”
In keeping with Ben, his present was rejected by a number of networks as a result of “sustainability didn’t pack sufficient punch.”
“They wished to get a celeb host, and I stated no as a result of I wished to be taught [and] I wished to be the host,” Ben stated on the time. “You simply form of watch it and also you go, this, is that this actual? You may’t really consider that.”
Zac’s authorized group subsequently shut down any comparability between the 2 ideas.
“Neither [Zac] nor his producing accomplice, nor their corporations, ever had any contact with Mr Waddell,” an announcement obtained by the Australian outlet learn. “They by no means heard of him or his present and so they had no information of his present thought. The present was by no means pitched to them.”
Ben Waddell Will get Flirty in ‘Summer time Home’ Season 10 Supertease
Within the teaser footage, Ben seemingly has eyes for Amanda Batula regardless of her rocky marriage to Kyle.
“Amanda can stroll right into a room and lightweight it up along with her smile,” he gushed earlier than the digicam reduce to footage of the swimsuit designer taking part in along with his hair.
In a separate scene, fellow beginner Bailey Taylor tells Amanda that “Ben positively desires to sleep with you.”
Ben Waddell Has a Girlfriend
Ben Waddell and his girlfriend, Sabrina. Courtesy of Ben Waddell / Instagram
Whereas Ben was seemingly single whereas filming Summer time Home season 10 in the summertime, he’s presently off the market.
“You may all the time inform when a person will get a girlfriend… his IG goes from 0 to curated actual fast,” Ben wrote through Instagram on September 23. Love you @sabrinajet_.”
Weeks later, Ben and Sabrina posted their first joint social media add.
“Primary woman 🌹,” their caption learn, accompanying a loved-up pic of the pair cuddling on a seashore at sundown.
Summer time Home premieres on Bravo February 3, 2026, at 8 p.m. ET.
