Dick Van Dyke can’t keep away from the stage.
The 99-year-old Hollywood legend carried out together with his a cappella group, The Vantastix, on the Vandy Camp fundraiser for fireplace aid in Malibu on Saturday.
Van Dyke, who was joined by his spouse, Arlene Silver, 53, on the occasion they hosted, carried out quite a lot of songs, together with “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” He wore a “Step in Time” T-shirt from “Mary Poppins.”
The actor additionally participated in a Q&A with the delighted followers within the viewers.
The occasion at Aviator Nation was to boost funds for aid after the Palisades Fires ravaged the world in January.
Van Dyke was pictured utilizing a cane within the parking zone as he left the occasion.
Van Dyke and his spouse’s $8 million Malibu dwelling was threatened by the lethal Palisades Hearth, however the couple didn’t find yourself evacuating their home.
Silver shared in an Instagram Dwell that whereas their dwelling was okay, their visitor home caught fireplace however solely sustained minimal injury. She additionally mentioned they had been dwelling on a gasoline generator because the wildfire continued to tear via the world.
“Keeping Dick warm and entertained has been the two things that have been my top priority, so, you know, we don’t have power […] or regular electricity, so we don’t have Wi-Fi,” Silver mentioned on the time, including that they had been counting on her camper to prepare dinner and cost their gadgets.
Silver additionally shared that regardless of the Southern California fires, she and Van Dyke don’t have any need to relocate.
“Dick is more comfortable here than anywhere else,” she mentioned. “It’s easier to take care of him here.”
Silver additionally known as her husband a “trooper,” sharing, “I don’t know of any other person of, you know, senior citizen age that would put up with this.”
In December, shortly earlier than Van Dyke’s 99th birthday, the star was evacuated from Malibu after the Franklin Hearth threatened his dwelling.
“We got out of here,” he mentioned in an interview on “Today” on the time. “I was trying to crawl to the car, I had exhausted myself, I couldn’t get up.”
Van Dyke revealed that his neighbors got here to his rescue. “Three neighbors came and carried me out and came back and put out a little fire in the guest house and saved me,” he shared.
The “Bye Bye Birdie” actor, who turns 100 later this yr, sparked considerations about his well being when he skipped a deliberate look on the 2024 Emmys and a fan conference in Utah.
Nevertheless, Van Dyke was comparatively wholesome and in good spirits when he went on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” together with his son Barry, 73, in December to debate showing in a Coldplay music video.
