Peter Kraus has finally revealed the shocking real reason he was never The Bachelor lead

Peter Kraus has spoken out about the shocking real reason he wasn’t the lead on The Bachelor, revealing he was set to be the lead until the day before Arie Luyendyk was announced.

He revealed all on the Almost Famous podcast, explaining that his therapist on the show was actually the one who first proposed that Peter Kraus would make a good Bachelor.

He recalled: “The conversations about it started while I was still on the show, in therapy,” Kraus shared. “The therapist was the first one who ever brought it up.

“As we were getting to the final couple weeks on the show, the therapist was the one who said, ‘Would you think about being the Bachelor?’”

He continued, explaining that following his split from Lindsay the producers approached him about being the next Bachelor.

He said that as he still felt so emotional from the breakup he couldn’t make an instant decision about it, with the producers telling him they’d get back in touch with him about it once he was back in America.

He revealed that conversations involving “courting” him “started pretty quickly” with the producers doing everything they could to try and get him to agree to be the lead on the next season.

He explained: “Flying me first [class] to Good Morning America in New York. I took a red eye out there and that was the day after the final airing of the show.

“They kind of walk me around town with another lead producer and said, ‘Would you do this? We think you’d be perfect.’ They took me out to a nice lunch, bought me a nice watch. It was a very interesting experience. Obviously courting me.”

Peter Kraus was then flown out to Malibu to have a “deeper conversation” with The Bachelor showrunner Mike Fleiss about the prospect of being the lead.

Peter recalled that at this point he realised that going on The Bachelor would have to be “really worth it financially” for him as he didn’t “have a lot of money” at the time.

His salary request was quickly “agreed upon” with Peter adding: “Then there was more negotiations about what I would hope to have done on the show to benefit me and my relationships, and those were eventually all agreed upon.”

As far as Peter was concerned the decision had been made for him to be the next Bachelor, but as he kept waiting for the announcement, he claims that producers kept telling him it wouldn’t happen until the day after as the weeks slowly passed by.

Peter was then waiting at the airport to fly to New York to reveal his new role as The Bachelor on Good Morning America, but a producer told him to go back home just as the flight started boarding.

He explained: “Right before they left the room, they said, ‘Do you want to do this?’ and I said, ‘No, but I’m going to because I think it would be foolish not to. It would be a dumb opportunity for me to miss out on if it’s here for me.’”

Peter Kraus revealed that in the end he messaged Mike Fleiss to confirm that he was “100 per cent” in to be the next Bachelor but received a response saying that the show was going in a “different direction.”

Arie Luyendyk was then announced as the next Bachelor lad the following morning, and that’s got to have hurt for Peter!

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