Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke shares how he stays youthful at 99
Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke, who starred in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Dick Van Dyke Show and more shares the secrets to looking good at the age of 99
Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke, who starred in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Dick Van Dyke Show and more shares the secrets to looking good at the age of 99Dick Van Dyke is a Hollywood legend and has stayed fit and agile well into his nineties (
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Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke has revealed he still goes to the gym three times a week at the age of 99.
The acting icon said the secret to him staying so youthful as he approaches his centenary is keeping to his strict regime of regular workouts. And, his famous all-singing and all-dancing act still shines through at the gym because he 'literally' dances between weight machines instead of walking.
The Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star likes to workout for an hour, then swim laps in the pool, and then take a nap at home. Van Dyke, speaking to the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, said he is going to throw a huge party when he turns 100 later this year.
"When you think, I go back to '25, I'm almost 100", he said. "This is insane. I'm going to have a big party."
He continued: "Somebody said, 'to what do you attribute your age and physical condition?' I said I've always exercised.
"Three days a week we go to the gym, still. Three days a week. And I think that's it - why I'm not stove up like my equals."
Dick Van Dyke is still working out regularly at 99
Podcast host Ted Danson - the Hollywood star known for Cheers and The Good Place - recalled seeing Van Dyke at the gym in Malibu, California. Danson, 77, said: "If I got there early enough I would see you [Van Dyke] literally workout on some weight machine and then - almost like you were doing circuit training - you would not walk to the next machine, but dance.
"You literally danced to the next machine and I watched that for a couple of weeks." Van Dyke's wife, Arlene Silver, 53, said 'he still does that'.
In 2024, Van Dyke said he hoped to go out on tour and he will never retire. In the interview last year, he said: "I’d still like to do a one man-show.
"Cary Grant did it. And Gregory Peck. Went on the road and talked about their careers. I think it’d be fun." In a separate interview to promote the CBS show he added: "No, retirement - I don’t use that word. If somebody called me up and asked me to do something, I’d be on a plane right away!"
Van Dyke had his own hit sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show, which ran for five years and won him three Emmys in the Sixties. His career has lasted so long he first received a lifetime achievement award 30 years ago. But he modestly insists he’s never had any real drive and that his success has been fate.
"Well, it was a matter of just enjoying myself," he told Deadline. "I always loved what I was doing. If it had felt like work, I probably would have stopped it a long time ago but I just loved it."
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