The Golden Bachelorette‘s Mark Anderson is a fan favorite, despite unfair speculation that he’s a producer plant who shouldn’t be The Golden Bachelor. Mark, a 58-year-old retired Army general, became a fan sensation during The Bachelor season 28. Mark made his television debut when his daughter, 26-year-old Kelsey Anderson, brought her boyfriend, Joey Graziadei, home to meet her father. Fans fell in love with Mark’s warmth and quiet strength. Sadly, the widowed father of five buried his beloved wife, Denise Anderson, in 2018, after 18 years of marriage. The single father doesn’t seem to have dated much since his wife’s passing, but he was given another chance to find love when he was cast in The Golden Bachelorette season 1.