Dick Van Dyke has opened up about skepticism over his 46-year age gap with his wife.
The Hollywood legend, 99, has been married to his wife Arlene Silver, 53, since 2012.
While the couple have been going strong for 13 years, in a new interview with People, Van Dyke revealed, “Everybody said it wouldn’t work.”
“Yeah. I mean it’s like eerie how well it works. People the same age don’t last,” Silver added in the same interview.
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The Mary Poppins actor told the outlet he and his wife “get along so well”.
“We just care about each other so much,” Silver said, adding later in the interview that they are “very supportive of each other.”
Silver said Van Dyke has “made me feel like I can do anything.”
In response, her husband chimed in, “And you can.”
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Van Dyke and Silver married in February 2012 when they were 86 and 40 respectively.
The couple first met backstage at the 2006 SAG Awards.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight about the first time he met Silver, a makeup artist, at the awards show, the actor said they were “meant to be”.
Dick Van Dyke through the years
“I never approached a strange woman in my life,” he said.
“And she walked by and I jumped and I said, ‘Hi, I’m Dick.’ I had no idea she was half my age. Beautiful,” he recalled first seeing his future wife.
In an interview with Closer in 2020, Van Dyke said Silver had “given me a third life, and I’m tickled to death with it.”
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Van Dyke was previously married to Margie Willett from 1948 to 1984. She died in 2008.
He and his first wife welcomed four children together: Christian, Barry, Stacy and Carrie.
He was then in a long-term relationship with Michelle Triola Marvin for 35 years up until her death in 2009.
Van Dyke made his Broadway debut in the ’50s and has been in Hollywood for decades.
The Emmy-winning star launched his own show The Dick Van Dyke Show and has starred in beloved films such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
He turns 100 in December this year.
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