(SPOILER): I feel confident in reporting that sources are telling me Peter is the next Bachelor & it will be announced soon.— RealitySteve (@RealitySteve) August 30, 2017
59 minutes after this tweet was sent out, Mike Fleiss responded with this: (Does Mike Fleiss read/follow Reality Steve? Oh you bet he does.)
Stand by for shocking news regarding #thebachelor ...— Mike Fleiss (@fleissmeister) August 30, 2017
As a reminder, back on August 17, People published an article saying that producers had fallen out of love with Peter and there was no way he was getting the job:
“Peter is every Bachelor producer’s worst nightmare: the perfect guy who cannot be coerced into proposing at the end,” shares the insider. “The fact that no one could talk Peter into buckling under and just giving her the ring — and that he wouldn’t play along — absolutely enraged the higher-ups at the show. Including Fleiss, definitely. He is totally on their s— list forever, and there is no way they will reward him with a shot at The Bachelor. No way.” (Read the story here.)
At the time, Reality Steve claimed that Peter had in fact turned down the job offer and this "we don't like him anymore" leak to People was just some face-saving propaganda from producers. Now it appears that Peter may have changed his mind. (Or successfully played hard-enough-to-get to negotiate a higher salary or some other perks.)
I'm not sure what would be more "shocking" at this point, that Peter is the Bachelor, or that he isn't. If he isn't, who is? The answer to that could be shocking, if, for example, they again broke the pattern of picking the new Bach from the most recent season of The Bachelorette and looked farther afield. Wells? Ben Zorn? Ben Higgins 2.0?
Is Peter the new Bachelor? Apparently we'll know soon. Will we be shocked? Maybe.
If you're curious, Peter now has 547,000 Instagram followers and this is his most recent post:
You can read "Is Peter The New Bachelor, Part 1," here.
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