In the book — which will be released on Tuesday, July 7 — LaPlaca, 41 touches on her alleged relationship with Weber, 34, that took place behind the scenes of his season, which premiered in 2020.
Nick Viall discussed the book on the Tuesday, June 30 episode of his Viall Files podcast, saying LaPlaca is a “delusional person” for “diluting” her relationship with Weber into a “romcom.”
A clip from the podcast was posted on the Instagram page, and Weber weighed in on the situation in the comments.
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“I’ve moved on from this period of my life and I’m ultimately responsible for my choices,” he wrote. “What I’ll say is this; I asked Julie on multiple occasions to please keep private, intimate details, private. This wasn’t about a tv show anymore.”
“Curious though if she mentions in the book about my last one on one with Hannah Ann, and how in the middle of our dinner conversation during one on one producer interviews, Julie tells me ‘you will look like the biggest idiot in the world to America if you give her your rose,'” Weber recalled. “I find it wrong to mess with a person’s headspace like that and then go on to write a book about them.”
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly published in April, LaPlaca said Weber is “not happy about” the book.
The Love Producer is about me, the girl who was always behind the scenes, never the lead, helping everyone else find love,” she said of the book. “And as a result, neglecting my own love and happiness. Then I was linked in the tabloids to a Bachelor and got a little entangled with that fantasy, which ultimately led me to a mid-30s meltdown, where I quit and embarked on my own journey for love.”