Despite his and his wife Arlene Silver's 46-year age gap, Dick Van Dyke proved in a new video that he has no problem keeping up with her.
For Valentine's Day, the couple, who will celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary at the end of the month, posted their cover of "Everybody Loves a Lover" — a Richard Adler and Robert Allen song popularized by Doris Day in 1958 — to Silver's YouTube channel. In the clip, the 96-year-old icon sang part of the song while sitting in his chair before jumping up to show off some of his fancy footwork, using Fallen Fruit's technicolor SUPERSHOW art installation in Los Angeles as a backdrop. The music video also featured The Vantastix's Eric Bradley, Bryan Chadima and Mike Mendyke, the other three members of the barbershop quartet Van Dyke formed in 2020, as well as jazz trumpeter Tony Guerrero.
The Mary Poppins star previously told Parade that performing with the group is "my favorite thing to do. It's kind of my retirement amusement. I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing." And clearly, his wife feels the same way. Van Dyke and Silver, a producer and former makeup artist, originally met in 2007 at the 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards where she was working and he was presenting Julie Andrews with a lifetime achievement award. They wed in 2012 and the actor told Parade, "It's one of the smartest moves I ever made. She makes me happy. She's very mature for her age, and I'm very immature for my age, so it's just about right!"
This is Van Dyke's second marriage. For his first, he was married to the late Margie Willett for 30 years, but it ended in 1984 after a six-year separation. They had four children together, Barry, Christian, Stacy, and Carrie. The legendary actor went on to have another thirty-plus year relationship with actress Michelle Triola until her death in 2009 from lung cancer.
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