Former ‘Bachelor’ Producer Set to Detail ‘Very Juicy’ Relationship With Peter Weber: ‘It Got Complicated’

The Bachelor has seen dozens of couples fall in love over the years, but offscreen there may have been another juicy romance.

Julie LaPlaca, a former producer on the reality series, is preparing to share the “very juicy” details of her relationship with former lead Peter Weber.

“I spent all my years getting people to be vulnerable and share their heart on the show,” LaPlaca told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Thursday, April 2. “And I realized I had shielded mine.”

According to LaPlaca — who was in charge of prepping the leads for dates, and “helping guide them on their entire journey” — she and Weber, 34, hit it off immediately.

“He felt like an immediate best friend. My job is digging into his heart, getting him to be vulnerable — and I was doing the same,” she told the outlet. “There were moments where I was like, ‘Wow, I’m more open with Peter than I was with my boyfriend of five years,’” she told the outlet.

“There’s this interesting bond that people don’t see, the intimacy that the lead producers have with the people they’re with. … It got complicated and lines became blurred,” she added.

“I never got to a point where I was like, ‘Oh, this doesn’t sit well with my conscience,’” she continued.  “But it’s a tricky balance, for sure. What is the line — obviously, there’s certain stuff you have to do and that may even be what ultimately was part of me leaving the show, especially with Peter. We became really close as friends too. And that was a really intense, sort of spiral of things with him. It can impact you on an emotional level.”

The airline pilot got engaged to Hannah Ann Sluss during his season, which filmed in 2019. However, their relationship was over before the finale even aired.

He ended up dating contestant Kelley Flanagan on and off. “Immediately after, I dealt with a lot of hurt. I don’t think Kelley wanted him to talk to me,” LaPlaca explained.

“That was my understanding, so we lost contact,” she added. “Then once they broke up, we reconnected and were friends and stayed in touch here and there and had a few moments. I’ll get into it all [in the book].”

“He’s not happy about it,” she added of Weber’s reaction to her book.

LaPlaca’s memoir, The Love Producer, is available for pre-order now.