Jason Mesnick is a real estate broker and TV personality who first gained fame on ABC's The Bachelorette and The Bachelor. As a single father, he was the runner-up on season 4 of The Bachelorette in 2008, when DeAnna Pappas chose Jesse Csincsak over him. He became the first single dad to be the Bachelor on season 13 in 2009, where he proposed to Melissa Rycroft but later changed his mind and pursued runner-up Molly Malaney.