Dick Van Dyke can’t avoid the stage.
The 99-year-old Hollywood legend performed with his a cappella group, The Vantastix, at the Vandy Camp fundraiser for fire relief in Malibu on Saturday.
Van Dyke, who was joined by his wife, Arlene Silver, 53, at the event they hosted, performed a variety of songs, including “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” He wore a “Step in Time” T-shirt from “Mary Poppins.”
The actor also participated in a Q&A with the delighted fans in the audience.
The event at Aviator Nation was to raise funds for relief after the Palisades Fires ravaged the area in January.
Van Dyke was pictured using a cane in the parking lot as he left the event.
Van Dyke and his wife’s $8 million Malibu home was threatened by the deadly Palisades Fire, but the couple didn’t end up evacuating their house.
Silver shared in an Instagram Live that while their home was okay, their guest house caught fire but only sustained minimal damage. She also said they were living on a gas generator as the wildfire continued to tear through the area.
“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 said at the time, adding they had been relying on her camper to cook and charge their devices.
Silver also shared that despite the Southern California fires, she and Van Dyke have no desire to relocate.
“Dick is more comfortable here than anywhere else,” she said. “It’s easier to take care of him here.”
Silver also called 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 before Van Dyke’s 99th birthday, the star was evacuated from Malibu after the Franklin Fire threatened his home.
“We got out of here,” he said in an interview on “Today” at 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 came 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 year, sparked concerns about his health when he skipped a planned appearance at the 2024 Emmys and a fan convention in Utah.
However, Van Dyke was relatively healthy and in good spirits when he went on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” with his son Barry, 73, in December to discuss appearing in a Coldplay music video.
