Dick Van Dyke wasn’t feeling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious on Saturday, June 28. The Mary Poppins actor, who’s nearing centenarian standing, needed to miss a scheduled look that day resulting from sickness.
Van Dyke was scheduled to host a Vandy Camp occasion together with his spouse at their namesake Arlene & Dick Van Dyke Theater at Malibu Excessive Faculty in Malibu, California, on Saturday. However Arlene confirmed up solo, acknowledging she was “not the Van Dyke [attendees were] anticipating,” per Individuals.
“I’ve to tell you that Dick is lower than coming to have fun with us as we speak. I’m sorry,” Arlene added. “Once you’re 99 and a half years previous, you might have good days and dangerous days … and sadly, as we speak will not be a superb day for him, and he’s sick that he can’t be right here.”
That mentioned, Dick did be a part of Saturday’s festivities through livestream, and Arlene mentioned she was “fairly assured” he may attend the subsequent Vandy Camp in individual.
For Vandy Camp, Dick and Arlene current a “whimsical, classic circus,” as Arlene explains on the Veeps ticketing web site. Attendees get pleasure from dwell performances, clips and uncommon footage from Dick’s movie and tv profession, in addition to dialog and Q&A with viewers members.
And at a Vandy Camp present final month, Dick revealed that he and longtime good friend Ed Asner, who died at age 91, needed to star in a remake of The Odd Couple.
“That may’ve been such enjoyable, and we misplaced it,” the Dick Van Dyke Present star mentioned of that remake concept. “I’ve misplaced plenty of buddies.”
Arlene defined that “the curse of residing to virtually 100” is that Dick has “outlived all people.”
However Dick mentioned he couldn’t complain. “Life’s been good to me,” he mentioned.
And life has been particularly good not too long ago. In 2023, Dick competed on The Masked Singer and handled viewers to an encore efficiency of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” That very same 12 months, he acted out a Days of Our Lives arc that earned him a Daytime Emmy Award and appeared in a CBS particular that earned him a Artistic Arts Emmy. And final 12 months, the Van Dykes produced and starred in Coldplay’s “All My Love” music video, with Dick one once more exhibiting off his dance strikes.