Exclusive | Bachelor producer who bedded leading man reveals his reaction to her kiss-and-tell memoir

She was behind the scenes, and between his sheets.A “Bachelor” producer who slept with the show’s leading man penned a tell-all — and it was not all roses when she told him she was writing it.When Julie LaPlaca revealed to her former fling, Peter Weber, that she was working on the memoir, she got a very thorny reply.“I told him after I finished my first draft and offered to let him read an early copy, and instead he panicked, threatened to sue, and blocked me,” LaPlaca, 41, told The Post ahead of the Tuesday release of “The Love Producer.”“So then I really cooperated with him in terms of wanting to connect him with my people so that he could read it, and then he just ghosted me.”This week, Weber, 34, a pilot who was featured on Season 24 of “The Bachelor,” which aired in 2020, vented his frustration over the book’s impending publication via an Instagram comment.“What I’ll say is this; I asked Julie on multiple occasions to please keep private, intimate details, private.This wasn’t about a tv show anymore,” he wrote.LaPlaca, a Connecticut native who now lives in Topanga, Calif., said she is choosing to “honor his opinion.”“I think Peter is coming from a place of fear and ego instead of a place of love .

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I wish he had read the book and can see that I’m coming from my heart,” she said.In the memoir, LaPlaca reveals the first time they had sex — in 2020 at Weber’s parents’ house, where he was living at the time, after watching an episode from his season of “The Bachelor,” which had been filmed in 2019.“Peter came to the doorway.

‘Jules, come here,’ he said.I walked into his room, not realizing what was about to happen .

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‘We don’t have to — this is bad,’ he said.‘It’s up to you.’ .

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My face said it all.He leaned in and we kissed,” she wrote.“Peter reached up and turned the lights off, just like in the fantasy suites.

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