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Dick Van Dyke missed a comedy event on Saturday due to an unhappy disease.
The 99 -year -old actor was to welcome Vandy Camp at Malibu high school, but has never shown. His wife, Arlene Silver, welcomed alone instead. She told the crowd that she was “not the Dyke Van you are waiting for”, according to People magazine.
“I must inform you that Dick is not ready to come and celebrate with us today. I’m sorry.”
“When you are 99 and a half, you have good and bad days … And unfortunately, today is not a good day for him, and it is sick that he cannot be here,” she continued.
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Dick Van Dyke missed the Vandy camp due to a disease. (Monica Schipper / Getty Images)
Van Dyke attended the comedy event via a live flow and money promised in money that the actor would be at the next Vandy camp “in person”.
Vandy Camp presented several performances, games and a session Q and a session.
Silver also talked about Van Dyke’s love for the fundraising event, telling the public that it is more than “just Dick Van Dyke”.
“It is a celebration of your childhood, our whole childhood, the music that is in the fabric of all of us, [and] Dick Van Dyke is a large part, “she continued.
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The wife of Dick Van Dyke, Arlene Silver, organized the fundraising event in his absence. (Getty Images)
Van Dyke celebrated his 99th birthday in December. The star of “Dick Van Dyke Show” opened on his age while appearing in Coldplay’s clip for the song “All My Love”.
“I am perfectly aware that I could go any day now, but I don’t know why, that doesn’t concern me, I’m not afraid,” said Van Dyke in the video. “I have this feeling, totally against anything intellectual, that I am well.”
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Casting of “Dick Van Dyke Show”, around 1965. (Getty Images)
“I think I am one of those lucky people who could do to live what I would have done anyway,” he added. “When you think how lucky I am – I have to do what I do, play and act silly.”
Dick Van Dyke became famous in the 1960s. (Getty Images)
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In September, Van Dyke opened the way he would like to remember after his victory in creative arts Emmy.
“To laugh,” he said, holding his trophy for a special exceptional variety for “Dick Van Dyke 98 years of magic” People magazine. “I hope to make people laugh for 75 years.”
Christina Dugan Ramirez of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
