Bachelor producer Julie LaPlaca has been making headlines as fans wonder who Peter Weber ends
up with.
Is there a possible romance between Weber and LaPlaca?
Here's the truth about Weber's potential behind-the-scenes love interest.
While the results of many Bachelor and Bachelorette seasons are spoiled by Steve Carbone via his
popular Bachelor blog, Reality Steve, Peter Weber's season proved to be too puzzling to
solve.
Instead, Bachelor Nation fans were forced to try and sleuth out the much-anticipated
ending themselves.
And, in February 2020, one fan took to Reddit to reveal their personal theory about Weber's
Bachelor finale, writing,
"I feel 98% confident that Peter winds up with the producer, Julie LaPlaca."
After listing their reasons for thinking a romance could have blossomed between Weber
and LaPlaca, including Weber being spotted in the background of LaPlaca's New Year's
Eve picture, the Bachelor fan continued,
"[Weber] doesn't even seem a little bit in love with any of [the contestants] yet.
Not crazy since they don't get a ton of time together, but he gets tons of time with his
producer.
My guess is that [LaPlaca] leaves because she doesn't want to see him get engaged to
someone else, and he winds up going after HER."
Steve Carbone, however, was quick to shut down rumors of a Weber-LaPlaca romance.
Linking a Women's Health article about the rumors surrounding LaPlaca and Weber, Carbone
tweeted,
"Gonna make this as simple as possible for [everyone] since it's all I get asked now:
[This rumor is] garbage, there is absolutely nothing to this, it makes zero sense [and]
people are desperately grasping at straws [because] the ending isn't out yet.
Hope that clears things up."
Rob Mills, ABC's senior vice president of alternative series, specials, and late-night
programming, made the careful choice to play coy when asked about the relationship between
LaPlaca and Weber.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Mills addressed the rumor, saying,
"Well, I hate to get in the way of a good rumor, so I'm not going to confirm or deny
about whether he ends up with a producer!
I don't know how we'd ever top that though!"
Bachelor Nation host Chris Harrison loves Bachelor drama just as much as the fans.
So, instead of squashing these latest rumors, he added a little fuel to the fire with an
Instagram photo featuring himself alongside Weber and LaPlaca on February 17th, 2020.
He told Access,
"I'll just say this, it's an intimate relationship.
You spend that much time together, we all get close.”
“That's a resounding yes.”
“Sometimes those lines get blurred."
Photos from Julie LaPlaca's Instagram seemingly show she was in a long-term relationship with
producer Joe Grano for years.
On February 9, 2015, LaPlaca even took to Instagram to post a sweet birthday message
to Grano, writing,
"Happy birthday to my main squeeze, partner in crime, and best friend!"
Grano has been largely absent from her Instagram since July 2017, when LaPlaca posted a picture
of the two of them taken in Italy.
According to Steve Carbone, LaPlaca and Grano were actually engaged for a period of time
— but, contrary to the rumors, LaPlaca didn't break off her engagement to Grano for Weber.
Bachelor fans may not have heard of Julie LaPlaca before rumors about her and the Bachelor
started swirling, but the producer has been making a career for herself in the television
industry for quite some time.
According to LaPlaca's LinkedIn, she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with
a degree in advertising and marketing communications in 2007.
From there, LaPlaca worked jobs as a marketing associate, audience coordinator, and field
associate producer, before finally landing a major gig as a producer for the popular
CBS show The Doctors.
In 2014, LaPlaca joined NZK Productions as a producer for The Bachelor.
Once the rumors surrounding the relationship between LaPlaca and the Bachelor began picking
up steam, fans started searching social media for clues about the pair they might have missed.
On January 2nd, 2020, Peter Weber's father, posted a picture featuring the Webers, LaPlaca,
and her mother sharing a meal at Carmine's Italian Restaurant in New York City, captioning
it,
"New Years Eve lunch with the gang at Carmine's."
While the picture seems innocent enough, some fans took it to mean Weber and LaPlaca were
already at the "hang-out-with-the-parents" stage of their rumored relationship.
However, other Bachelor fans didn't understand the commotion.
One Reddit user asked,
"[Do you] really think if this theory were true they'd even be taking pictures together?
Give Julie some credit, she is a professional."
On February 20th, 2020, Page Six posted an exclusive video reportedly showing LaPlaca
and the Bachelor enjoying a glass of wine while laughing and dancing in their seats
at The Stonehaus winery in Westlake Village, California.
According to the publication, the winery isn't far from the house in which Weber — and
his parents — live.
While Weber and LaPlaca certainly seem to be having a great time together in the short
clip, the two weren't on some romantic one-on-one date.
A woman who appears to be Weber's mother, Barbara Weber, can be seen sitting across
from LaPlaca and the Bachelor, laughing along with the two with a glass of wine in hand.
Obviously, while his Bachelor season is still in the process of airing, Peter Weber is not
at liberty to say whether or not the rumors about himself and LaPlaca are true.
As any reality TV lover knows, rumors about a vicious love affair involving the show's
leading man and a producer are bound to draw people to their television screens on Monday
nights to see how Weber's season of The Bachelor all plays out.
However, Weber did briefly address the rumors in a February 2020 interview with Entertainment
Tonight before filming the "Women Tell All" special.
Discussing the various theories surrounding his highly-anticipated Bachelor season finale
and who he's engaged to now, if anyone at all, Weber told ET,
"A lot of people think it's Hannah Brown now coming in.
[It's] possibly Jules LaPlaca!
Who knows?
There's so many choices!"
Jules?
That's adorable.
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