Peter Weber's Bachelor Season: What You Didn't See On TV

The Bachelor franchise managed to soar to new, dramatic heights by putting pilot Peter Weber in the cockpit for his very own Bachelor season. 

A fan favorite on Hannah Brown's season of The Bachelorette, Weber's experience as the Bachelor proved to be much more turbulent than his time as a contestant. Throughout the course of his season, Weber found himself torn between multiple women, riddled with confusion over what — and who — his heart really wanted. From Brown's emotional return, to Weber's constant back and forth with controversial contestant Victoria Fuller, to frontrunner Madison Prewett's late-season revelation, Season 24 of The Bachelor will definitely go down in the Bachelor Nation history books as one of the most dramatic seasons of all time. 

However, while Weber's season certainly wasn't lacking in the drama department, there simply wasn't enough time to showcase everything that went down during the pilot's buzzed-about season. From behind-the-scenes secrets to moments left on the cutting room floor, here's everything you didn't see on TV during Peter Weber's Bachelor season. 

One of the major storylines throughout Peter Weber's Bachelor season involved the pilot's hot-and-cold relationship with contestant Victoria Fuller. While Weber and Fuller's physical chemistry was palpable to viewers, their multiple arguments and misunderstandings left viewers wondering why Fuller continued to stick around week after week. 

However, during the Women Tell All special, Fuller shed some much-needed light on her relationship with Weber, dishing details about her time with Weber that were never shown onscreen. Speaking with host Chris Harrison, Fuller revealed that Weber fought to make their relationship work by going out of his way to reassure her of his feelings. "He kept telling me [how he felt]," Fuller said. She continued, revealing, "He would reassure me with little things here and there... like, he would write me a little letter or something, you know, just to show me that he cared." Added Fuller, "I had no idea to what extent." 

Considering these little moments were never shown onscreen, it's safe to say viewers also had no idea just how much Weber wanted to make it work with the controversial contestant. 

Madison Prewett became a top contender for Peter Weber's heart after hitting it off with the Bachelor's family during a one-on-one date to his parents' vow renewal ceremony. However, while Weber's family seemed to immediately love and welcome Prewett with open arms, the contestant's parents were noticeably more reserved when meeting Weber for the first time during Prewett's hometown date. 

Viewers watched as Prewett's father pressed a nervous Weber for assurance that the Bachelor's love for his daughter was genuine; however, the episode failed to show Weber's one-on-one conversation with Prewett's mother. Fortunately, ABC uploaded the deleted scene to YouTube, and fans were surprised to find that Tonya Prewett wasted no time jumping into the hard questions, immediately asking Weber, "Can you tell me why Madison is still in this [competition], very specifically?" When Weber said he saw "a life with her," she skeptically responded, "What does that life look like?" 

While Weber tried his best to assure her of his feelings, the conversation ended with Prewett's mom seeming even more unsure about her potential future son-in-law. 

Hannah Ann Sluss and Kelsey Weier obviously made quite the impression on Peter Weber, as both contestants made it to Weber's final four, with Sluss advancing to become one of the two remaining women vying for the Bachelor's heart. However, the women certainly didn't make the best first impressions on each other. 

Early episodes of Weber's Bachelor season were seemingly dedicated to the drama, tears, and name-calling between the two contestants, which started when Weier accused Sluss of stealing a bottle of champagne Weier had planned to share with Weber. So, when later episodes showed the two women joking around and chatting it up like BFFs would do, fans were understandably confused. One viewer tweeted, "Wait, since when are Kelsey and Hannah Ann friends??" Another fan celebrated the surprising friendship, tweeting, "Kelsey and Hannah Ann being friends after #champagnegate is the real love story this season."

While we'll likely never know how, when, or why Weier and Sluss decided to forgive and forget, it's nice to see these two fan favorites managed to rise above the drama. 

Peter Weber's Bachelor season was widely criticized by fans of the franchise for the way it placed the overwhelming majority of its focus on needless, producer-driven drama between the contestants, seemingly pitting the women against each other more than ever before in the name of making must-watch reality TV. While Bachelor fans do appreciate some drama, Weber's season was seriously lacking lightheartedness. 

So, when a mysterious bottle of maple syrup was spotted sitting alongside a can of whipped cream during one of Weber's cocktail parties, fans latched on to the hope that the undoubtedly silly moment which required the sugary sweet treats would be shown (via People). "Tonight should have been about SyrupGate," tweeted one fan. 

Unfortunately, SyrupGate was never addressed — even when a later shot in the episode showed contestant Mykenna Dorn returning from one-on-one time with Weber while holding the syrup and whipped cream. "The fact that Mykenna came back from her talk with Peter and was holding a bottle of maple syrup and a can [of] whipped cream but no one acknowledged it is absurd," one fan lamented. 

When former Bachelorette Hannah Brown appeared as a guest host for the first group date of Peter Weber's Bachelor season, the pilot was clearly conflicted about his lingering feelings for his ex. Viewers watched as the two had an emotional conversation, during which Weber even asked Brown if she'd consider returning to the Bachelor mansion as a contestant. Ultimately, the conversation between the two former flames ended with Weber seemingly rejecting Brown, telling her, "I can't do this." However, according to Weber, viewers didn't see the part where he nearly threw in the towel on his entire Bachelor season. 

"I considered doing whatever I had to do to try and give it another shot with her, and that was just me being in the moment," Weber told 6 ABC Action News. He continued, saying, "Call it smart or not, but that's the truth."

In a January 2020 Entertainment Tonight interview, host Lauren Zima asked Weber if he was still in love with Brown when she appeared on his Bachelor season. "Yeah," Weber responded. He admitted, "I don't know if you completely ever lose that for someone one hundred percent."

During the first night of the two-part season finale for Peter Weber's Bachelor season, viewers watched as his family — Barbara Weber, Peter Weber Sr., and brother Jack Weber — met finalist Hannah Ann Sluss for the first time. However, Weber's family was noticeably less enthused during their second meeting with the Bachelor's frontrunner, Madison Prewett. And Barbara Prewett suggested Prewett might not be fundamentally compatible with her son.

According to the Weber matriarch during the After the Final Rose special, viewers weren't given the full picture of Prewett's time with the Webers in Australia. Revealing Prewett made the family wait three hours before ever coming inside to see them, Weber said, "When she did come in ... we didn't get an apology from her, and when I proceeded to ask her if she was madly in love with my son, she said no and she would not accept a proposal in four days." 

The visibly concerned mother continued, "When I said I wanted Hannah Ann so badly, it was because that ... we just clicked right away." She added, "We did not have, unfortunately, we did not have that connection with Madison."

As seen during the second night of Peter Weber's two-part Bachelor season finale, his family was elated when he revealed he'd proposed to Hannah Ann Sluss. Unfortunately, however, a short FaceTime interaction was the extent to which Sluss and Weber's engagement was showcased, as the Bachelor and Sluss were shown breaking off their engagement only moments later (via Entertainment Tonight). 

That said, some clues about their relationship were dropped during the emotional break-up. Seemingly hinting at a bumpy engagement, Sluss told Weber (via The Washington Post), "I think we both know this has been hard." Revealing his heart was still torn between "two people," as noted by People, Weber told Sluss, "I've told you everything. And even when I don't deserve it, you never left me." Replied Sluss, "Because that's always what I wanted in return."

Judging by the words exchanged during their split, Sluss and Weber's short-lived engagement wasn't smooth sailing. However, it would have been nice to see the couple in happier times before the pilot decided to take flight without his fiancée.