Former Bachelor Producer Julie LaPlaca Addresses Claims, And What Her Book is REALLY About
The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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3.8 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The whole point of The Bachelor is to find romance, but what happens when a love connection happens behind the scenes?? Ben and Ashley are hanging out with former Bachelor producer Julie LaPlaca to get to the heart of her new book "The Love Producer".
We go deep into what happened while working on Peter Weber's season, Julie reacts to Nick Viall’s comments, and Julie reveals when she was almost The Bachelorette!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | This is the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast with IHartRadio. |
| 0:10.3 | Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | We are here today with someone who's been in the headlines a lot this week. |
| 0:17.9 | It is one of our former bachelor producers, Julie Laplaca. |
| 0:22.0 | My babysitter called out just an hour before Julie arrived. So if you hear Dawson blabbering |
| 0:27.7 | in the background of this podcast, now you know why. Hey, Julie. She's here in the kitchen with me. |
| 0:33.1 | Dawson is sitting here ready with tissues for her because it's been an emotional week, I'm sure. |
| 0:39.8 | I mean, you've never had headlines like this before. |
| 0:42.2 | And like your first bout with headlines, right? |
| 0:45.6 | Kind of controversial. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.8 | How's your week been? |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah, it's been a really interesting week. |
| 0:52.9 | How has it been? Honestly, I guess it's a little hurtful that, |
| 0:58.9 | you know, both of these men I offer to let read the book and both of them ghosted me and are |
| 1:04.5 | forming their own opinions now without like understanding my heart and what I put into it. So yeah, |
| 1:10.7 | it's been a little interesting. |
| 1:14.1 | It's really interesting to see the power of a man with a mic |
| 1:17.1 | and the assumptions people form just off of one person's words. |
| 1:22.4 | So yeah, it's been interesting. |
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