SPOTTED: My and probably your teenage crush, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, was at The Grove in Los Angeles May 23, 2011, looking better than ever, for an interview with fellow Saved By The Bell and Bayside High hottie, Mario Lopez (A.C. Slater).

During the interview which will soon air in full on Extra, Mark-Paul said people are surprised when they meet him and realize the platinum blonde hair he sported as Zach Morris on the popular 1990’s sitcom wasn’t real and that he is in fact a brunette.

Mario asked him to recount the funniest rumor he’e ever heard about himself and he said he once heard that he had died. Mario said, “Ya, I heard that too!” Mark-Paul said people believed it until the rumor morphed into a story about him dying on his bike with Screech riding on his back…people then apparently didn’t think something that silly could happen. Speaking of Screech (played by Dustin Neil Diamond), watch the video below to see what Mark-Paul says about his old cast mate (something about locking him up in lockers):

More recently, Mark-Paul has been in Atlanta filming the new TNT series Franklin & Bash, a show which premieres on June 1, 2011. I for one will definitely be watching for some much needed eye candy!

Mark-Paul and me 🙂