Career
In the 1980s Wells worked full-time at a high-street bank before leaving at age 27 to pursue his dream of becoming a professional actor in 1990. After several minor roles in low-budget television series and commercials throughout the 1990s, Wells first came to the attention of national audiences in his native United Kingdom when cast as Martius in the 1999 film Titus, and gained his first major television role in 2001 when he played the character Jake Booth in the revived version of the Independent Television soap opera Crossroads, before leaving the series to join the cast of Hollyoaks in April 2003. The proposed storyline involving the return of Johnno was scrapped as a result.
Wells, who has been married to actress Joanna MacLeod since 1997, has one daughter, Rachael, one son, Joseph, and is a keen supporter of West Ham United football club