Dick Van Dyke reveals he is 'praying' he makes it to next birthday in heartbreaking confession

Dick Van Dyke has been successful amusement concern for implicit 70 years now, with his enactment expanding crossed film, theatre and TV

Dick Van Dyke is "praying" that helium makes it to his adjacent birthday.

The 98-year-old histrion was notably absent from the caller Emmy awards contempt being lined up arsenic a presenter and aft precocious pulling retired of a instrumentality normal arsenic well, has admitted that helium is conscionable hoping that helium gets to observe his 99th day this coming December.

He told PageSix: "Just praying that I marque it. I'm beauteous old." The Mary Poppins prima was owed to marque an quality astatine FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention connected Saturday, but organisers informed fans via societal media that helium could not look travelling from California.

A station to X/ Twitter read: "We are atrocious to denote that Dick Van Dyke is not capable to question to FanX. He expresses his gratitude to each of those who enactment him but, astatine astir 99 years of age, traveling and interacting with thousands of radical is much than helium is capable to bash astatine this time."

The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang histrion was presented with an grant 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards for his 2023 day peculiar Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic, and admitted astatine the clip that helium has conscionable been "sticking with it" for each these decades.

He said: "I anticipation for making radical laughter for 75 years. I've been successful the concern 75 years. I can't judge that I'm inactive present and performing. I'm looking for enactment if anybody has. You person to instrumentality with it. You're gonna spell done hard times and a batch of auditions... but you person to enactment with it. Be diligent if you've got the assurance successful yourself, and it's precise important to judge that you tin bash it."

The legendary histrion has been successful amusement concern for implicit 70 years now, his enactment expanding crossed film, theatre and TV. In a caller interrogation with Deadline helium talked astir his life, his vocation and what's next. He disclosed that it's hard for him to spot himself successful the words of legend, icon and hero: "I don’t spot myself that mode and I can’t comprehend myself arsenic that."

His vocation and success, helium proclaimed to the outlet, "has been axenic kismet" and helium "never had immoderate existent drive." He explained that it's the information that helium revels successful what helium does. "Well, it was a substance of conscionable enjoying myself,” the 98-year-old said. "I ever loved what I was doing. If it had felt similar work, I astir apt would person stopped it a agelong clip ago," helium laughs, "But I conscionable loved it."

Dick has been successful truthful galore things from his large interruption successful Bye Bye Birdie connected Broadway successful 1960 past the reprising his signifier relation successful the 1963 movie mentation to Mary Poppins (1964) and the revival successful 2018 (Mary Poppins Returns) to his ain TV sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966). He besides starred successful Night of the Museum (2006), a 2020 TV amusement called Kidding and made an quality connected The Masked Singer successful 2023.

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