William Shatner is aware of it’s higher to offer than to obtain … and that Las Vegas is a whole lot of enjoyable.
The “Star Trek” alum plans to rejoice his 94th birthday on Saturday by volunteering – as he has for the final 35 years – at his charity.
“For the last many years, I have celebrated my birthday by working on a very successful charity called The Hollywood Charity Horse Show,” the 94-year-old revealed to Folks journal.
“We have been doing it for 35 years and raised millions of dollars for children and veterans.”
Shatner began the charity in 1990 after watching handicapped youngsters doing horse remedy.
“Shatner sat, deeply affected by what he had seen, saying ‘You can’t watch these kids without knowing you have to help, somehow,’” the charity mentioned on its web site.
The charity added, “On one special Saturday evening each year, William Shatner brings together world-class reining horses and riders in breathtaking slides and spins as they compete for top honors in their respective classes,” with all of the proceeds going to charity.
In addition to his charity work, the “Boston Legal” actor additionally plans to move to Sin Metropolis along with his household.
“My family is taking me to Las Vegas for dinner and a show, and then back to Los Angeles,” he instructed Folks. “It’s going to be a family experience in that wonderful, entertaining city. I’m really looking forward to it.”
Shatner shared his recommendation for staying younger final yr on his 93rd birthday, telling Folks, “Just staying engaged in life, to stay curious. But the luck has a lot to do with it in your health.”
“Your life’s energy, the soul energy of your body is a product of health,” he instructed Folks.
“If you’re sick, you can’t be energetic. You’re dying. So my luck has been, I’ve been healthy all my life.”
Shatner was born in Montreal, Canada on March 22, 1931.
And he hasn’t slowed down a lot. Shatner turned the oldest individual to enter area in 2021 at 90 when he was invited to trip on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin New Shepard rocket.
That report was overwhelmed simply three years later when 90-year-old former Air Drive check pilot Ed Dwight flew on a Blue Origin Rocket.
“What I experienced was not so much the flight into space, but my observation,” Shatner instructed Fox Information Digital on the time.
“Everybody knows we live on a small rock and that up to 12,500 feet oxygen is there. And after that, as you go higher, you get into a dead zone. So there’s the Karman line is 50 miles up. Oxygen is two miles up. We live on a small rock. I saw the beginning of the curvature of the Earth.”
He added, “If I followed through, I could make a circle of this rock we live on. We are so negligible. We are so nothing. We are this small rock and this negligible solar system which is beside a mediocre star in a galaxy that is barely larger.”
He additionally shared his gratitude on his social media on Saturday to everybody who wished him effectively on his day.
“As I begin my 95th journey around the sun today I want to take a minute to thank everyone for the birthday wishes!” he wrote.
“I am overwhelmed at the amount of love I have received. My best, Bill.”
Shatner obtained well-wishes from a variety of celebrities, together with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson who wrote on X: “Happy Birthday William Shatner. Today, completing 94 trips around the Sun. Congratulations on your 55-billion mile journey.”
Morgan Fairchild wrote: “Bill! Have a very Happy Birthday and I am sending you much live and good wishes! Hope it’s a fabulous day!”
Shatner hosts Fox Nation’s “Aliens Among Us.”
