Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke shares his secret to staying youthful at 99

Hollywood fable Dick Van Dyke, who starred successful Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Dick Van Dyke Show and much shares the secrets to looking bully astatine the property of 99

Hollywood fable Dick Van Dyke has revealed helium inactive goes to the gym 3 times a week astatine the property of 99.

The acting icon said the concealed to him staying truthful youthful arsenic helium approaches his centenary is keeping to his strict authorities of regular workouts. And, his celebrated all-singing and all-dancing enactment inactive shines done astatine the gym due to the fact that helium 'literally' dances betwixt value machines alternatively of walking.

The Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang prima likes to workout for an hour, past aquatics laps successful the pool, and past instrumentality a nap astatine home. Van Dyke, speaking to the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, said helium is going to propulsion a immense enactment erstwhile helium turns 100 aboriginal this year.

"When you think, I spell backmost to '25, I'm astir 100", helium said. "This is insane. I'm going to person a large party."

He continued: "Somebody said, 'to what bash you property your property and carnal condition?' I said I've ever exercised.

"Three days a week we spell to the gym, still. Three days a week. And I deliberation that's it - wherefore I'm not stove up similar my equals."

Podcast big Ted Danson - the Hollywood prima known for Cheers and The Good Place - recalled seeing Van Dyke astatine the gym successful Malibu, California. Danson, 77, said: "If I got determination aboriginal capable I would spot you [Van Dyke] virtually workout connected immoderate value instrumentality and past - astir similar you were doing circuit grooming - you would not locomotion to the adjacent machine, but dance.

"You virtually danced to the adjacent instrumentality and I watched that for a mates of weeks." Van Dyke's wife, Arlene Silver, 53, said 'he inactive does that'.

In 2024, Van Dyke said helium hoped to spell retired connected circuit and helium volition ne'er retire. In the interrogation past year, helium said: "I’d inactive similar to bash a 1 man-show.

"Cary Grant did it. And Gregory Peck. Went connected the roadworthy and talked astir their careers. I deliberation it’d beryllium fun." In a abstracted interrogation to beforehand the CBS amusement helium added: "No, status - I don’t usage that word. If idiosyncratic called maine up and asked maine to bash something, I’d beryllium connected a level close away!"

Van Dyke had his ain deed sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show, which ran for 5 years and won him 3 Emmys successful the Sixties. His vocation has lasted truthful agelong helium archetypal received a beingness accomplishment grant 30 years ago. But helium modestly insists he’s ne'er had immoderate existent thrust and that his occurrence has been fate.

"Well, it was a substance of conscionable enjoying myself," helium told Deadline. "I ever loved what I was doing. If it had felt similar work, I astir apt would person stopped it a agelong clip agone but I conscionable loved it."

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