Dick Van Dyke, 99, has to skip fan event due to illness: 'Today is not a good day for him'

Dick Van Dyke was reportedly nether the upwind Saturday and couldn’t big his recurring Vandy Camp instrumentality lawsuit with his woman astatine the couple’s namesake theatre astatine Malibu High School.

Introducing herself arsenic “not the Van Dyke you were expecting,” Arlene Silver explained, via People, that “when you’re 99½ years old, you person bully days and atrocious days ... and unfortunately, contiguous is not a bully time for him.”

Van Dyke and constitution creator Silver, who joined successful 2012 erstwhile helium was 86 and she was 40, usually helm the celebrations together, on with their philharmonic radical the Vantastix.

Silver told the assemblage that she had to deterioration her “big miss pants and clasp the reins without Dick present arsenic the information net.”

Fans were disappointed but undaunted arsenic the amusement — described by Silver arsenic a “whimsical, vintage circus” — did spell on.

“All of the radical astatine the lawsuit were truthful benignant and amazing. Many had flown successful from astir the satellite and country. I did alert successful from the Bay Area,” 1 fan, Christy Vaca, wrote connected Saturday nighttime connected Facebook. “It turned into everyone sending astonishing messages to Dick Van [Dyke] who was watching astatine home. He means truthful overmuch to america all.

“It was truly Heartbreaking.”

Last clip we checked successful with the “Mary Poppins” star, helium was being rescued by neighbors during the Franklin fire, which started successful Malibu successful aboriginal December 2024 and burned for 9 days.

“I’m retired determination laying connected the crushed trying to undo this occurrence hose, and the fire’s coming implicit the hill,” Van Dyke said a fewer days aft the occurrence started. “What I did was exhaust myself. I forgot however aged I am, and I realized I was crawling to get out.”

Neighbors managed to get the beloved entertainer, woman Silver and a fig of their pets into a conveyance and retired of danger, helium said. Cat Bobo was missing, but helium turned up erstwhile they returned location the adjacent day. Thousands of radical had to evacuate.

The neighbors “carried maine out,” helium said, “and came backmost and enactment retired a small occurrence successful the guesthouse and saved me.” Van Dyke’s location was spared. Twenty structures were destroyed and 28 were damaged successful the fire, according to Cal Fire.

The Van Dykes did not evacuate a period aboriginal during the tremendously destructive Palisades fire, Silver said connected societal media successful January.

“Keeping Dick lukewarm and entertained has been the 2 things that person been my apical priority, so, you know, we don’t person powerfulness […] oregon regular electricity, truthful we don’t person Wi-Fi,” she said, via Page Six. At the clip of her Instagram live, they were cooking and charging their devices courtesy of her tiny camper-trailer.

“I don’t cognize of immoderate different idiosyncratic of, you know, elder national property that would enactment up with this,” she added, calling her hubby a “trouper.”