Get ready for the endless jokes about relationships soaring to new heights.
Peter Weber, the fan-favorite, second runner-up and Delta Airlines pilot from Hannah Brown's season of "The Bachelorette" will star on the upcoming season of "The Bachelor," ABC revealed Tuesday night on the finale of "Bachelor in Paradise."
"It's still hitting me right now. I feel so grateful right now to have this opportunity in front of me," Weber told franchise host Chris Harrison at the show's reunion taping. "I feel emotional right now. This is crazy. This is life-changing. ... I have all the faith in the world that this can work for me and I know it's going to."
Weber, 28, was eliminated from the final three on "The Bachelorette" after their much-discussed windmill fantasy suite date in Greece. He later opened up about feeling "completely blindsided" by the breakup, but says now that he remains hopeful about his ability to find love.
"I have truly, my entire life, looked forward to finding my girl and that person that I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with," he added. "I had the most amazing example with my parents growing up and I feel like the luckiest kid ever. I saw so much love in my household and just 30-something odd years later now they're still that in love with each other."
Though Weber was well-liked this season, his announcement was met with mixed reactions from fans, who were heavily pulling for fellow "Bachelorette" alum Mike Johnson to become the franchise's first black Bachelor. But Harrison still tried to paint Weber as an out-of-the box candidate for the role.
"You're different from any other Bachelor we've ever had," Harrison told the Westlake Village, California, native. "We've never had somebody who lives about five minutes from the Bachelor mansion. You literally grew up in the shadows of that mansion."
What did Weber take away from being a contestant on Brown's season? "A ton," he said.
"I think what I respected most about her from night one until the very end when I said goodbye to her, she was 100% unapologetically herself and I love that," Weber said. "And that's something that I definitely want to carry forward."
Critics of Weber's casting include former "Bachelorette" Rachel Lindsay, the leading lady from Season 13 who tied the knot with Bryan Abasolo last month.
The co-host of MTV's "Ghosted: Love Gone Missing" opened up about her disappointment to Entertainment Tonight Tuesday.
"I think Peter seems like a very nice guy. He seems lovely. This is absolutely nothing against him, but how many Peters have we seen before?" she said. "What season are we on? 24. So, we've seen 24 Peters. I'm bored. And it's nothing personal against him."
Lindsay, the franchise's first and only black Bachelorette believed Johnson would be chosen as this season's lead, not Weber, who is half-Cuban.
"For the first time, I was very confident that we were going to see our first black Bachelor," she said. "So if no one else is going to speak on it, then I guess it's my duty to say it."
Lindsay appeared conflicted in her feelings, wanting to be optimistic about ABC's choice, but still perplexed by the decision.
"I want to be hopeful, but when you have a contestant like Mike Johnson, who seems to check all the boxes, how is he not the Bachelor? I don't understand," she said. "I'm sure they have some reason for not picking him, and I'm going to trust in that, but at the same time, the system isn't working in giving us a Bachelor who is a person of color. So we need to change the system."
Lindsay's concern is that Weber will give way to another predictable Bachelorette.
"You know what his type is at this point," she said. "So, I expect girls to look more like Hannah than they do like me or someone else of color."
Ultimately, Lindsay advised Weber to "ignore the noise, including the noise that I'm giving," saying he'll be "a fantastic Bachelor."
"People just need to get over the fact that we thought something was going to happen that didn't happen," she said.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/09/18/bachelor-paradise-finale-new-bachelor-star-peter-weber/2361125001/
2019-09-18 10:40:00Z
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