Julie LaPlaca | The Bachelor Producer Behind The Peter Weber Headlines!
Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe
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4.5 • 21.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
#952. For years, Bachelor fans speculated. Now, former producer Julie LaPlaca is opening up about the headlines, the rumors, and what was really happening behind the scenes.
From her widely discussed connection with Peter Weber to the reality of spending years producing some of the franchise's biggest love stories, Julie is sharing a side of The Bachelor viewers rarely get to hear.
Julie spent seven years behind the scenes of The Bachelor, working with leads like Hannah Brown, Peter Weber, Matt James, and Clare Crawley. She sits down with Kaitlyn to answer the questions fans have been asking for years: What are producers actually doing all day? How much of the show is real? Are storylines created before filming starts? What really happened during Peter's season? And what goes through a producer's mind when they're helping shape one of the most dramatic seasons in Bachelor history?
Plus, Julie shares behind-the-scenes stories from her time on the show, what surprised her most about the leads she worked with, and why she ultimately decided to walk away from the franchise.
Consider this your backstage pass to one of reality TV's most fascinating jobs.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Off the Vine is brought to you by Macy's. Shop in store or online, only at Macy's.com. Figs, right now, if you go to wearfigs.com and use their code of Figs R-X, you can get 15% off your first order. Merit Beauty. Right now, Merit Beauty is offering our listeners, their signature makeup bag with your first order at M-E-R-I-T-Beauty.com. |
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| 0:23.8 | These deals won't last. |
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| 0:29.0 | That's W-A-Y-F-A-I-R.com. |
| 0:32.2 | Progressive, visit Progressive.com and see if you can enjoy a little extra cash back. |
| 0:36.6 | And Apartments.com, the place to find a place. |
| 0:43.7 | You're listening to Off the Vine with Caitlin Bristow. |
| 0:48.8 | Okay, today's episode is one I've personally been so curious about because we're talking to someone |
| 0:53.9 | who did |
| 0:54.2 | just go through the bachelor world. She helped create it. A bachelor producer. Julie Laplaca |
| 0:59.6 | was a producer on the show for years, meaning she was behind some of the biggest love stories, |
| 1:04.3 | heartbreaks, moments we all became obsessed with. And at one point, she kind of became the story |
| 1:08.6 | herself. And I feel like there's a whole layer of |
| 1:10.9 | the bachelor world that people think they understand, but they really don't know what's actually |
| 1:14.6 | happening behind the scenes. I'm here to ask all those questions. And did she or did she not |
| 1:19.3 | fall in love with Pilot Pete? What happened there? Today, we're getting into all of it. |
| 1:24.5 | And how being surrounded by love stories for a living can actually mess with your own. |
| 1:29.8 | So for people watching and listening, we were just talking about where we go in our dreams. |
| 1:34.4 | And then the engineer, our sweet wolf, was like, say to that into the microphone, because you were talking about astro- and where we go and you had a very vivid |
| 1:45.6 | dream and you saw yourself literally where you ended up in Bali. Yeah. Before you went. Yeah. Yeah. That was |
| 1:52.0 | same with me on The Bachelor. I saw, I saw the cameras. I saw myself sitting in an ITM, which I didn't even |
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