William Daniels turned 97 this yr, whereas his spouse lately turned 95. Nevertheless, it’s not simply their lengthy lives as people which are outstanding, but in addition the 73 years they’ve spent collectively as a pair.
“It looks as if we’re breaking data,” Bartlett Daniels instructed PEOPLE in an interview.
“I imply, we each broke a file after we acquired the Emmys on the identical night time for a similar present. That was a file breaker, no one had ever completed that. Now, it looks as if in Hollywood there are not any marriages which are 73 years previous, so we appear to interrupt data.”
The couple, who first met as college students at Northwestern College, wed in Moline, Illinois on June 30, 1951. They share two kids, 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 stunned. I by no means know. Each every now and then, 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 stunned by what anyone 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 sequence.
Friedle instructed PEOPLE in June 2022 that he “nonetheless shoots out the pearls of knowledge.”
“His spouse, Bonnie, as properly. Speaking to them remains to be magical,” he mentioned, to which Fishel added, “Should 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 completely happy” nowadays 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 instructed PEOPLE. “We similar to to be with one another. And we might do something for one another.”
