If producers wanted Mark Anderson to be The Golden Bachelor, they should never have cast him as a contestant on The Golden Bachelorette. Now it just makes it look like the 58-year-old retired Army veteran was a “producer plant” who was only cast as a contestant to prepare him for being a future lead. Everybody knows that the Bachelor franchise often casts leads from among the contestants of past seasons, so it’s only natural that the assumption would be made. While many contestants apply to be on Bachelor Nation shows, Mark’s casting was more organic than that.

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