Why was Bella Hadid in last night’s episode of ‘Yellowstone’? Inside the cameo
“Yellowstone” fans tuned in to see a surprise guest on the Dec. 8 episode of the hit drama when Bella Hadid made a cameo.
Following a flurry of deaths on the show in recent weeks, the supermodel played the girlfriend of Travis Wheatley, a horse trainer portrayed by series creator Taylor Sheridan, who has appeared in nearly a dozen episodes during the show’s run. The pair’s interaction in the series’ penultimate episode before the finale definitely raised viewers’ eyebrows.
So, what exactly happened?
Taylor Sheridan and Bell Hadid appear together
Hadid first appeared on the episode when Beth Dutton, played by Kelly Reilly, pays Travis a visit. She was taken aback, though, by Hadid’s character, Sadie, who opens the door.
“You the masseuse?” Sadie asks, to which Beth fires back, “Do I look like a f—— masseuse?”
“A very expensive one,” Sadie replies.
Beth walks into the house and sees Travis engaged in a game of strip poker with a bunch of people, including one person played by Hadid’s real-life boyfriend, Adan Banuelos.
Beth yells at Travis to go to a horse auction he is hosting where buyers are waiting, which is what brought her to Texas.
Beth and Sadie interact again at the auction when Beth, who calls him “the most arrogant I’ve ever met in my life,” asks why Sadie is interested in Travis in the first place.
“You ever seen him ride before?” Sadie asks.
“OK, yeah, I get it,” Beth responds after watching him in the ring.
Hadid appears again in the episode when she’s seen riding a horse.
How are people responding to Hadid’s appearance?
Hadid’s role certainly had people talking on X, where the reactions ran the gamut.
“Taylor Sheridan making Bella Hadid his girlfriend in ‘Yellowstone’ is objectively hilarious” one person wrote.
“Taylor Sheridan writing in Bella Hadid as his girlfriend on Yellowstone is hilarious by the way (realest thing he’s ever done)” another person joked.
“Bella Hadid on Yellowstone is the greatest addition to the show,” someone else commented.
“I didn’t think Yellowstone could get any better … then I saw Bella Hadid,” another user raved.
Other fans commented on Sheridan’s appearance. Sheridan began his career as an actor, so stepping in front of the camera isn’t exactly new fare for him. In fact, he has made three appearances as Army Delta Force operator Cody Spears on “Lionness,” another Paramount+ series he created.
But “Yellowstone” viewers used his appearance to comment on the direction the show is going in under his leadership.
“I’ve got to believe that Taylor Sheridan is just as arrogant and obnoxious in real life as is his character on #Yellowstone. I’m not sure he’s acting,” someone chided.
“All the abandoned plot-lines and people are still praising Taylor Sheridan like this isn’t the worst last season ever possible for Yellowstone. The show is garbage now,” another person criticized.
“The Taylor Sheridan Midlife Crisis Episodes. I know it’s his show but this?? We’ve seen him numerous times on the show work with his horses and now we see his half naked juiced self? Very selfish of him to hog time from the real cast we care about,” a different viewer wrote.
In May 2023, Paramount announced “Yellowstone” would end after its fifth and final season, although Sheridan is helming other ongoing spinoffs like “1923.”
