Dick Van Dyke’s marriage to spouse Arlene Silver is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
The actor, 99, just lately shed gentle onto how he makes his union with the 53-year-old work, regardless of their 46-year age hole.
“We get along so well,” Van Dyke instructed Folks on Sunday, as Silver chimed in: “We just care about each other so much.”
“Everybody said it wouldn’t work,” the “Mary Poppins” actor mentioned of their 13-year marriage.
“Yeah,” the actress agreed. “I mean it’s like eerie how well it works. People the same age don’t last.”
“I never said hello to a strange girl in my life. I was too scared,” Van Dyke instructed the outlet about how the couple met. “But I was at a show backstage and she walked by, and for some reason, I just jumped up and said, ‘Hi, I’m Dick.’ There’s something about her that got me, and I was right.”
Silver gushed that her different half has “made me feel like I can do anything” earlier than Van Dyke sweetly added, “And you can.”
As Silver put it, they’re “very supportive of each other.”
The pair additionally detailed their excellent date evening collectively.
“We just love being home. We love Malibu, and it’s our favorite place, our house especially. So this is like our, you’re at our house,” Silver expressed. “We’re so grateful. Our house did get hit by the Franklin fire, but in the scheme of things, we got very lucky.”
Together with being collectively for over a decade, Van Dyke has one other milestone coming across the nook: his subsequent birthday.
“And I’m seven months from a hundred,” he shared.
Van Dyke was beforehand married to Margerie Willett, who died in 2008, from 1948 to 1976. The exes shared 4 youngsters collectively: Christian, Barry, Stacy and Carrie Beth.
Throughout his marriage to Willett, Van Dyke started an affair with Michelle Triola, whom he was with for 35 years till her dying in 2009.
The Emmy winner and Silver met throughout the thirteenth annual SAG Awards in 2007, two years previous to the dying of his longtime accomplice.
“I remember seeing Dick at the catering table with his bow tie and his big smile. Right when I sat down, he was sitting next to me. He said, ‘Hi, I’m Dick.’ The first thing I asked him was, ‘Weren’t you in ‘Mary Poppins?’’ I wasn’t sure,” Silver recalled to the Huffington Publish in 2013. “I knew who he was but I wasn’t sure why I knew who he was. I was not familiar with all his work. He has so much work I can’t believe I missed it.”
Marvin’s passing was a turning level in Van Dyke’s friendship with the make-up artist, and the 2 struck up a romance.
“Arlene would come by after work and bring me food. She was such a support, I fell in love,” he instructed Folks in 2013.
The couple tied the knot in February 2012 on Leap Day in an intimate Malibu ceremony. Van Dyke was 86 and Silver was 40 on the time.
In February 2022, the actor credited Silver for preserving him younger at coronary heart.
“Having a beautiful young wife half my age to take care of me — that works!” he instructed Yahoo! Leisure on the time. “My positive attitude, I get that from my wife.”
