William Daniels turned 97 this 12 months, whereas his spouse lately turned 95. Nonetheless, it’s not simply their lengthy lives as people which might be exceptional, but additionally the 73 years they’ve spent collectively as a pair.
“It looks like we’re breaking information,” Bartlett Daniels informed PEOPLE in an interview.
“I imply, we each broke a document after we received the Emmys on the identical night time for a similar present. That was a document breaker, no one had ever achieved that. Now, it looks like in Hollywood there are not any marriages which might be 73 years previous, so we appear to interrupt information.”
The couple, who first met as college students at Northwestern College, wed in Moline, Illinois on June 30, 1951. They share two youngsters, sons Michael and Robert, after shedding their firstborn William Jr. shortly after his delivery.
Invoice and Bonnie have spent a lifetime collectively, however the Little Home on the Prairie actress commented that, “[y]ou by no means cease studying. You by no means cease being shocked. I by no means know. Each on occasion, he’ll do one thing, and I feel, ‘The place did that come from? The place did that come from?’ Or, he the identical with me. We by no means cease being shocked by what someone does.”
Daniels is most notable for his position as Mr. Feeny all through the seven-season run of Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000. Round his 96th birthday, he frolicked together with his former Boy Meets World co-stars. He and his spouse reunited with Will Friedle, Danielle Fishel, and Rider Robust, who performed Eric Matthews, Topanga Lawrence, and Shawn Hunter, respectively, on the TV collection.
Friedle informed PEOPLE in June 2022 that he “nonetheless shoots out the pearls of knowledge.”
“His spouse, Bonnie, as nicely. Speaking to them continues to be magical,” he mentioned, to which Fishel added, “When you’re keen to pay attention, Invoice is dropping gems left and proper.”
Now that the Boy Meets World alum has largely departed from his Hollywood profession, he and his spouse are “very glad” as of late and spend their time with their three sons and a number of grandchildren.
“We sit on this home and we do issues. He reads his New York Instances, and he does Cameos principally. And we do conventions and issues like that,” Bartlett Daniels informed PEOPLE. “We similar to to be with one another. And we’d do something for one another.”
