William Daniels turned 97 this 12 months, whereas his spouse lately turned 95. Nonetheless, it’s not simply their lengthy lives as people which can be exceptional, but additionally the 73 years they’ve spent collectively as a pair.
“It looks like we’re breaking data,” Bartlett Daniels instructed PEOPLE in an interview.
“I imply, we each broke a file after we bought the Emmys on the identical evening for a similar present. That was a file breaker, no person had ever carried out that. Now, it looks like in Hollywood there are not any marriages which can be 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 dropping 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 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 stunned by what anyone does.”
Daniels is most notable for his function as Mr. Feeny all through the seven-season run of Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000. Round his 96th birthday, he frolicked along 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 instructed PEOPLE in June 2022 that he “nonetheless shoots out the pearls of knowledge.”
“His spouse, Bonnie, as nicely. Speaking to them remains to be magical,” he stated, 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 comfortable” lately 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 Occasions, and he does Cameos principally. And we do conventions and issues like that,” Bartlett Daniels instructed PEOPLE. “We identical to to be with one another. And we might do something for one another.”