Dick Van Dyke Responds To Critics Of His 46-Year Age Gap With Wife

The two married in 2012 when Van Dyke was 86 and Arlene Silver was 40.

Dick Van Dyke thinks that age is indeed just a number.

The actor, who is just a few months shy of his 100th birthday, opened up about how well his marriage with his wife, makeup artist Arlene Silver, works ― despite their expansive age gap.

“We get along so well,” Van Dyke, 99, said in a new interview with People magazine published Monday. Silver, 53, added that the two “just care about each other so much.”

“Everybody said it wouldn’t work,” the actor shared.

“I mean it’s like eerie how well it works,” Silver said. “People the same age don’t last.”