One of The Golden Bachelor’s rejected hopefuls had her eye on a younger man: none other than Joey Graziadei’s future father-in-law, Mark Anderson.
“When we met him at [The Bachelor] finale, of course, Susan [Noles] elbowed her way in to see if she could maybe date the guy,” Golden Bachelor alum Kathy Swarts laughed. Susan admitted that she’d been emailing with Mark long before the reunion, and they both agreed that Kelsey Anderson’s dad is a “great guy.”
When Kathy joked that she might like to date Mark since he’s such a nice guy, Susan reminded her that he’s 57. Kathy, who’s 71, fired back, “So what? I can go younger.”
Does Kelsey want her dad to date?
When asked how she would feel to see her dad on a dating show like the upcoming Golden Bachelorette, Kelsey admitted that she would “fully support it.”
“I want my dad to get out there. I want my dad to date,” Kelsey said on the Bachelor Happy Hour: Golden Hour podcast. “My mom … always said, like, ‘I want you to find somebody else [after I’m gone]. I want you to find another love.’ Before she even was sick she would always say this. She just knew that she was going to pass before him.”
Kelsey added that her siblings would also support their dad dating because they “want him to be happy.” Even though it took some of her siblings “a little bit longer to feel that way,” they eventually came around.
“My dad gave all of us so much love growing up and he still does,” she explained. “My dad deserves love as well … Loving your family is different than loving a partner … He needs that support of a partner, someone that’s not his kid, not his brother, his sister-in-law. Like his best friend. I think my dad is deserving of that.”
“My dad hasn’t really dated,” Kelsey added. “He kind of dated one or two ladies but … he always felt guilty about it … He feels like nobody is going to replace our mom … but it’s going to be a different love … something [he deserves].”
“We just want him to be happy and [to] find a best friend like how he was with my mom,” she concluded. Kelsey’s mom, Denise Anderson, died in 2018 following a battle with breast cancer.
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