{"id":289357,"date":"2020-03-12T09:04:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1130435"},"modified":"2020-03-12T09:04:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T15:04:55","slug":"chris-harrison-officially-shuts-down-those-peter-weber-and-bachelor-producer-romance-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/chris-harrison-officially-shuts-down-those-peter-weber-and-bachelor-producer-romance-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Harrison Officially Shuts Down Those Peter Weber and Bachelor Producer Romance Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020121\/rs_600x600-200221080653-600-chris-harrison-ch-022120.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.979495268139\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"30.501577287066\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chris_harrison\">Chris Harrison<\/a><\/strong> is setting the record straight on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1125466\/reality-stars-who-ve-secretly-dated-their-producers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">those romance rumors<\/a> about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/peter_weber\">Peter Weber<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<em>Bachelor<\/em> producer&nbsp;<strong>Julie LaPlaca<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The host of the ABC franchise cleared the air on Wednesday&#8217;s episode of <em>Lights Out With David Spade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, we can categorically say that&#8217;s a big no,&#8221; Chris said when asked about the speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season, a theory spread that Peter had found love with Julie. Fans dug up photos of the duo on social media, and there were reports that the two had spent New Year&#8217;s Eve together and&nbsp;visited a winery at one point.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chris said there&#8217;s &#8220;nothing there&#8221; and that Julie was at the finale &#8220;working&#8221; and &#8220;trying to deal with [Peter&#8217;s mom] <strong>Barb<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Barb, the proud parent made headlines after she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1129955\/peter-weber-s-mom-picks-a-shocking-fight-with-madison-prewett-on-the-bachelor-finale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had a tense exchange with<\/a> contestant <strong>Madison Prewett<\/strong> during <em>After the Final Rose<\/em>. For those who missed it, here&#8217;s what happened: Madison left the show during the finale. Peter then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1129515\/peter-weber-proposes-to-hannah-ann-during-the-bachelor-finale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed<\/a> to fellow contestant <strong>Hannah Ann Sluss<\/strong>. However, the two broke up after Peter admitted he couldn&#8217;t give her his whole heart. Hannah Ann then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1129940\/the-bachelor-s-hannah-ann-is-the-real-mvp-after-peter-weber-breakup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confronted<\/a> Peter on <em>After<\/em> <em>the Final Rose<\/em>, claiming he had &#8220;downplayed&#8221; his feelings for Madison and totally &#8220;blindsided&#8221; her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to be with a woman, you need to become a real man,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/ap\/news\/1130134\/the-bachelor-s-hannah-ann-sluss-reveals-what-really-happened-with-peter-weber-and-hannah-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"68.975021533161\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.834625322997\">\n<p>Madison also appeared on <em>After the Final Rose<\/em>, and Peter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1129945\/where-peter-weber-and-madison-prewett-stand-after-the-bachelor-finale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declared his love for her<\/a>. However, it looked like Barb wasn&#8217;t&nbsp;happy about the reunion. Not only did&nbsp;Barb accuse Madison of making her and her family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1130206\/did-madison-really-keep-peter-weber-s-mom-waiting-for-3-hours-chris-harrison-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wait three hours<\/a> to see her during the finale, but she also claimed Madison&nbsp;said she didn&#8217;t love Peter and wouldn&#8217;t accept a proposal. In the end, she said her son would just have to &#8220;fail to succeed.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Madison insisted she has &#8220;love and respect&#8221; for Peter and his family and said she&#8217;d &#8220;never say a negative word about anyone or anything.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, this is about me and Peter, our journey, just he and I should be talking about it,&#8221; she later added.<\/p>\n<p>Chris admitted he was shocked by Barb&#8217;s exchange with Madison. While he said he knew Barb &#8220;wasn&#8217;t in a great mood&#8221; when he saw her, he said he &#8220;didn&#8217;t know what she was mad at and\u2026didn&#8217;t think that was what was going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think she was just going to roll right over Peter like that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Even when we tried to fix that\u2014I thought, OK, we&#8217;re going to come back from this and she&#8217;s going to say, &#8216;You know what? At the end of the day, it&#8217;s my boy&#8217;\u2014it just never got there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.196319018405\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.233128834356\">\n<p>Even though Peter&#8217;s season is over, the rumors keep on spreading. For instance, fans were curious why contestant <strong>Kelley Flanagan<\/strong> was spotted at the finale and why Barb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1130207\/peter-weber-s-mom-barbra-praises-bachelor-star-kelley-flanagan-as-her-fave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commented on a photo<\/a> of her there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Most Beautiful, Elegant, Classy, Intelligent, Stylish Girl in the World!!!&#8221; Peter&#8217;s mom wrote on Instagram. &#8220;You were and will always be my Fav rav.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also wrote, &#8220;We need to do lunch and go shopping for the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Chris said Kelley was a &#8220;red herring [and] little Easter egg we threw out there for Bachelor Nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even when&nbsp;a fan asked Kelley why she was there on Instagram, the attorney replied, &#8220;Lol I wish I knew.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>Watch the video to see the interview.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1130435\/chris-harrison-officially-shuts-down-those-peter-weber-and-bachelor-producer-romance-rumors?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Harrison is setting the record straight on those romance rumors about Peter Weber and&nbsp;Bachelor producer&nbsp;Julie LaPlaca. The host of the ABC franchise cleared the air on Wednesday&#8217;s episode of Lights Out With David Spade. &#8220;Yeah, we can categorically say that&#8217;s a big no,&#8221; Chris said when asked about the speculation. Earlier this season, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-27 01:45:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}