Dick Van Dyke recently talked about his union with Arlene Silver. On February 29, the couple—who got engaged in 2012 and got hitched in 2007—celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary. She has the ability to adapt. We almost always sing and dance together because she enjoys doing both. She’s just delightful,” the 96-year-old honoree actor told Closer. He gushed about their love, but he also expressed worry about their 46-year age difference.
Van Dyke previously wed Margerie Willett, with whom he had four children, before getting hitched to Silver. The 30-year relationship between the actor, singer, and dancer and Michelle Triola Marvin began in 1976. They cohabitated until her passing in 2009.
However, 81-year-old Van Dyke and 35-year-old Silver met while the couple was still together. Van Dyke presented Julie Andrews with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The 81-year-old started chatting with the makeup artist as he was getting ready to take the stage.
Silver recalled, “He said, ‘Hi, I’m Dick. We struck up a friendship right away, so it didn’t seem like he was that much older than me. “The first thing I asked him was, “Weren’t you in ‘Mary Poppins’? ”.
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From there, the two developed a close relationship, but Van Dyke was concerned about it, particularly after the couple had married. “I anticipated a backlash over a gold digger marrying an elderly man, but nobody ever adopted that viewpoint. “.
