Dick Van Dyke On His 46-Year Age Gap With His Wife: I’m Lucky ‘I Didn’t Grow Up’
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“I had no idea she was half my age,” the 98-year-old “Mary Poppins” star said upon meeting his wife, Arlene Silver.
Arlene Silver admits that when she first met her very famous husband — Dick Van Dyke — she had no idea who he was.
“I had never seen the ‘Dick Van Dyke Show,’ I never saw anything he was in,” Silver, 58, recently told Entertainment Tonight in a joint interview with her husband, 98.
Van Dyke first laid eyes on Silver backstage at the 2006 SAG Awards, where she was working as a makeup artist. The “Mary Poppins” star was so struck by her, he said, he decided to hit on a woman for the first time.
“I never approached a strange woman in my life,” the Emmy-winner confessed. “And she walked by and I jumped and I said, ‘Hi, I’m Dick.’ I had no idea she was half my age. Beautiful.”
The TV legend said when he found out Silver was a makeup artist, he quickly figured out a way to get to know her better.