Dick Van Dyke has been working in the entertainment industry for 60 years,
and he’s still at it today at the age of 96! Dick has a variety of things that help keep him young,
including his 50-year-old wife. While the beloved star feared at the start
of their marriage that fans were going to label her a gold digger,
the public has kept an open mind to the staggering age gap. Dick remains incredibly
candid about concerns some might have about the relationship and isn’t afraid to address them
head on. Join Facts Verse as Dick Van Dyke finally addresses the rumors about his wife.
When Dick Van Dyke first broke out into the entertainment industry over 60 years ago,
few could’ve predicted that the beloved entertainer was still going to be around today!
Dick is currently 96 years old, and he’s still dancing like he was during his prime. This past
Valentine’s Day, Dick took the opportunity to show off those seemingly immortal dance moves,
as well as his much younger wife. For the past ten years, Dick has been married to a woman
nearly half his age. While 50-year-old Arlene Silver would certainly be no spring chicken to
the average beau, the fact of the matter is that she’s 46 years Dick Van Dyke’s junior!
To celebrate Valentine’s Day 2022, Dick and Arlene posted a video showing the two of them
singing and dancing to the song “Everybody Loves a Lover”, which Doris Day popularized in 1958.
That was around the time that Dick Van Dyke was first breaking out into the entertainment industry
and before Arlene Silver was even born! The video showed that Dick still has the moves,
and the beloved entertainer says that he has Arlene to thank for
much of his continued vitality. According to Dick, Arlene loves to sing and dance,
which is something that the two of them do every day!
While one might imagine that Dick’s praise of Arlene is one-sided given the immense
age gap between the two, it seems that this is far from the truth! Arlene seems just as
deeply in love with Dick as he is with her, claiming that the beloved star is one of the
most perfect human beings that she has ever come into contact with. According to Arlene,
being with Dick is like always being under the influence of happy pills.
It was in 2007 that Dick Van Dyke and Arlene Silver first happened upon each other. The
occasion was the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Dick was there as the presenter chosen to
give former Mary Poppins costar Julie Andrews her much-deserved lifetime achievement award.
When it came time for Dick to get his makeup done prior to making his appearance on the stage,
it was Arlene who was tasked with powdering the beloved entertainer’s face.
Arlene recognized the star immediately and attempted to make conversation by
bringing up the film Mary Poppins, which was released before the makeup artist was alive.
Dick took Arlene’s attempt at conversations kindly, and the two soon found themselves
getting along. According to Arlene, the age gap was never an issue. Before meeting Arlene,
Dick Van Dyke had already had two very long and serious relationships throughout his lifetime,
and he wasn't really looking for another one. However, he found himself stricken with the makeup
artist, despite his concerns that the public might balk at their relationship's age gap.
According to Dick Van Dyke, he thought that there was going to be a public outcry as soon
as he made his relationship with Arlene Silver public. Dick claims that he was afraid that his
fans were going to label Arlene a gold digger on account of his $50 million net worth. Thankfully,
if any fans were worried about Arlene being a gold digger at the start of the relationship, those
concerns have likely been put to rest now that Dick and Arlene have
been happily married for 10 years! The couple celebrated their 10-year
wedding anniversary only two weeks after posting the aforementioned Valentine’s Day
video depicting them singing and dancing to the tune of Doris Day’s “Everybody Loves a Lover”.
At the time that Dick Van Dyke and Arlene Silver met, he was 81 years old and she was only 35.
Now, 15 years later, they are just as in love as they’ve always been!
Besides his relationship with Arlene, Dick Van Dyke claims that he has numerous other tricks
that help keep him feeling young at the age of 96, including lifting weights,
running on the treadmill, and water aerobics. If you’re enjoying this video so far,
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While Dick Van Dyke certainly credits his loving marriage to Arlene Silver with
much of his continued vitality at the age of 96, the beloved entertainer claims
he also has a few other tricks for staying healthy in his twilight years. Dick likes to stay
incredibly active whenever he can, with the star going to the gym upwards of three times a week.
Dick's favorite thing to do at the gym is apparently water aerobics, with the star spending
the majority of his time in the gym's pool. Besides water aerobics, Dick also
likes to lift weight and run on the treadmill during his gym visits.
Besides Dick Van Dyke’s routine visits to the gym, the star also stays active at home
by singing and dancing. This includes the times that he spends singing and dancing with Arlene.
According to Dick, he’ll start tapping as soon as he finds himself on solid ground. The star also
keeps a winning sense of humor in his old age, with him attributing much of his vitality to
good genes. The star also apparently feels he’s lucky that he’s never been ran over by a bus.
When Dick Van Dyke was younger, he smoked and consumed alcohol,
which are two things that the star evidently gave up many decades ago.
According to Dick, the important thing for people to realize in their lives is that they just need
to keep on moving, whether that means exercising routinely or simply moving on from the past.
One might think that Dick is incredibly blessed to be able to do what he does at his old age,
but the star still has his struggles. According to him, he suffers from arthritis and numerous
other issues that work to impede him during his workouts, but he perseveres through them.
Dick Van Dyke didn’t start singing and dancing until he was already in his 30s, so perhaps
he’s making up for his late blooming now that he’s rich and famous in his old age! The star
has always been incredibly optimistic, with him claiming that he’s rarely fallen into a funk that
he hasn’t been able to talk himself out of. With the star having appeared in such happy-go-lucky
pictures as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, this positive attitude makes a lot of sense!
Arlene Silver is Dick Van Dyke’s second wife, with the star having been married for nearly
four decades previously. Dick Van Dyke’s first wife was a woman by the name of Margie Willett.
Dick married Margie in 1948 before breaking out into the entertainment
industry. Over the course of their marriage, Dick and Margie went on to have four children together.
They were officially married until 1984, although they allegedly separated in 1976
after it came out that Dick had been involved in an affair with actress Michelle Triola.
Though Dick and Margie split in 1976, they didn’t officially divorce until eight years later, in
1984. By this time, the two had been married for 36 years. Many decades later, Margie would pass
away from pancreatic cancer in 2008. At the time of her death, she was 81 years old. Following
his separation from Margie, Dick entered into a serious relationship with Michelle Triola
that lasted for nearly as long as his marriage to Margie did. Dick and Michelle remained together
until the latter's death. It was after Michelle's death that Dick went on to marry Arlene Silver,
and the two are still together to this day after ten years of marriage!
While Dick’s marriage to his first wife was more family-oriented,
his marriage to Arlene Silver is all about having fun. The two claim that their marriage has become
a second childhood for the both of them. From Dick and Arlene’s accounts, their romance is
something out of a fairy tale, despite the fact that Arlene is nearly twice Dick’s age!
Arlene was born in September of 1971, at which point The Dick Van Dyke Show had already started
and ended its production run. Dick was onto The New Dick Van Dyke Show, but that show sadly didn’t
live up to the hype of its predecessor. Arlene spent the early years of her childhood in New
York before moving to California with her parents in 1981, where her mother worked as a bank clerk.
Arlene always had dreams of living an extravagant Hollywood lifestyle. Before
meeting Dick Van Dyke in 2007, the closest she ever got was doing makeup for awards ceremonies.
Dick seems to be happier and healthier than ever at the age of 96, and it looks like his marriage
to Arlene Silver isn’t ending anytime soon! If the public was concerned that Arlene was a
gold digger initially, those fears have likely fallen by the wayside over the past ten years.
Dick Van Dyke was initially concerned that people were going to label second wife Arlene Silver a
gold digger on account of her being half his age, but his fans have thankfully kept an open mind!
Now it’s time to hear from you: did you know that Dick Van Dyke’s wife is half his age,
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