{"id":548128,"date":"2026-03-18T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548128\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:21:14","slug":"the-bachelor-2023-stars-all-have-thriving-hollywood-careers-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548128\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bachelor 2023 Stars All Have Thriving Hollywood Careers Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2023,\u00a0The Bachelor Australia\u00a0tried something bold<\/a>. Three Bachelors, one season, a lot of roses, but not a lot of ratings.\n<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t exactly the franchise\u2019s golden era<\/a>. The season struggled, the format felt chaotic, and it didn\u2019t quite capture the cultural chokehold earlier years had managed.<\/p>\n

But plot twist: the three men at the centre of\u00a0the season<\/a> \u2014 Luke Bateman, Ben Waddell and\u00a0Wesley Senna Cortes\u00a0\u2014 have somehow all gone on to make it in\u00a0America.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s break down the glow-up.<\/p>\n

\"TheAll three stars from The Bachelor Australia\u2019s 2023 season now have thriving careers in the spotlight. (Channel 10)<\/p>\n

From The Bachelor to Bravo<\/p>\n

Ben\u00a0has officially entered his\u00a0Bravo\u00a0era thanks to\u00a0Summer House, and recently popped up on\u00a0Watch What Happens Live\u00a0with Andy Cohen\u00a0looking very comfortable in the clubhouse. <\/p>\n

For an\u00a0Aussie\u00a0who started out handing out roses on\u00a0Channel 10, landing in the\u00a0Bravo\u00a0universe and thriving is no small feat. That pipeline is notoriously hard to crack. But for\u00a0Ben, the reality show that started it all still holds a lot of meaning.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back, being part of\u00a0The Bachelor\u00a0helped me grow a lot as a person,\u201d he told\u00a0PEDESTRIAN.TV. \u201cAt that point in my life, I was quite closed off regarding love and the experience really pushed me to open up and put myself out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says the timing of the show ended up shaping his life in ways he never expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cFunny enough, I was actually meant to meet my girlfriend\u00a0Sabrina\u00a0before the show while we were both in\u00a0London,\u00a0but it never happened. Looking back now, I\u2019m grateful for that timing. If we had met back then, there\u2019s a good chance she wouldn\u2019t have wasted her time with me because I still had a lot of walls up,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing on the show felt right in my gut at the time, and I\u2019m really glad I trusted that instinct. It helped me grow into someone who was ready for a real relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheBen Waddell recently joined the cast of the Bravo reality show Summer House. (Credit: Bravo \/ Instagram)<\/p>\n

Ben said he \u201ccouldn\u2019t be happier\u201d with Sabrina, and the pair are now planning a return home.<\/p>\n

\u201cSabrina\u00a0and I are planning to move back to\u00a0Australia\u00a0soon, and my friends and family absolutely adore her,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The model\u00a0also said that he\u2019s proud watching his former co-stars carve out their own paths after The Bachelor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m absolutely over the moon seeing\u00a0Luke\u00a0and\u00a0Wesley\u00a0doing so well in their own fields. I love seeing people chase what they really want in life; it takes courage to do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all shared a pretty unique experience together, and I\u2019ll always have a lot of respect for them. I\u2019m sure at some point we\u2019ll catch up again and it will be great to reflect on where life has taken us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

And those paths are pretty interesting.<\/p>\n

\"TheLuke Bateman\u2019s career has gone from strength to strength in the past 12 months. (Credit: Channel 10)<\/p>\n

Making their marks on Hollywood<\/p>\n

After finishing runner-up on this year\u2019s season of I\u2019m A Celebrity\u2026 Get Me Out Of Here!<\/a>, Luke Bateman\u00a0is reportedly packing up and heading to\u00a0LA\u00a0to discuss adaptations of his yet-to-be-released books<\/a>. Just a quick trip to\u00a0Hollywood\u00a0to try and turn his writing into a potential feature film or TV series, no biggie!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0Wesley Senna Cortes\u00a0told P.TV the reality show made him rethink his direction, both personally and professionally, and he\u2019s since been busy building an acting career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had the honour of working opposite\u00a0Mark Wahlberg\u00a0for a couple of days on\u00a0Prime Video\u2019s Play Dirty, which filmed in\u00a0Sydney\u00a0in 2024,\u201d he shared. \u201cHe was super generous, sharing some thoughts and wisdom in our downtime.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also made his stage debut last year as the lead in\u00a0Gravity, is currently preparing for his next project with a\u00a0Sundance-nominated director, and is working with the\u00a0Brazilian-Australian Film Society\u00a0to increase representation in the local industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dream is to keep telling stories that move people and inspire them to keep going despite the challenges,\u201d he said. And after years of building his life in Australia, there\u2019s one milestone\u00a0Wesley\u00a0is especially excited about.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an immigrant, what I\u2019m most looking forward to is receiving my permanent residency later this year,\u201d he said. \u201cI love this country and can\u2019t wait to call\u00a0Australia\u00a0home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wesley\u00a0said he\u2019s \u201creally proud\u201d to have represented Brazilian culture in Australia as the first Brazilian lead on the reality show, and he\u2019s \u201cgenuinely happy\u201d seeing his former co-stars succeed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were not the kind of guys who would have been in similar circles and probably never [would have] met if it wasn\u2019t for the show,\u201d he confessed.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuke\u00a0was always reading on set. I think he finished four or five books in five weeks, which was inspiring while we were filming crazy hours. Reading is in such decline these days, so it\u2019s great to see more voices encouraging it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheWesley Senna Cortes has ventured into the acting world since the reality show. (Credit: Instagram)<\/p>\n

The 2023 season of The Bachelor was labelled a ratings disappointment. It didn\u2019t produce a sweeping love story, it wasn\u2019t particularly celebrated, and at the time, it felt like the franchise was wobbling.<\/p>\n

But fast forward to 2026, and all three leading men have leveraged that platform into something much bigger in very different ways. Not locally. Internationally.<\/p>\n

They may not have found \u201cthe one\u201d on reality TV, but they\u2019ve achieved\u00a0US\u00a0industry interest \u2014 which, let\u2019s be honest, is arguably harder to secure.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something kind of poetic about a so-called flop season quietly producing three exports. Bravo celebrity, Hollywood meetings, Mark Wahlberg film set. Not bad for a season most people wrote off.<\/p>\n

The roses didn\u2019t last, but their careers apparently did.<\/p>\n

Obsessed with reality TV? Check out PEDESTRIAN.TV<\/a>\u2018s new podcast Villain Edit, where we unpack all the wild, chaotic and messy moments from your favourite shows. Listen now on Spotify<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, YouTube <\/a>and wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023,\u00a0The Bachelor Australia\u00a0tried something bold. Three Bachelors, one season, a lot of roses, but not a lot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,96375,134,82709,11252,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-548128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bachelor","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-luke-bateman","13":"tag-reality-tv","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}