LOS ANGELES – Dick Van Dyke is a very happy newlywed at age 86, his spokesman said Friday.

Van Dyke and makeup artist Arlene Silver, 40, were married last week in a small Leap Day ceremony at a Malibu chapel near the actor’s home, publicist Bob Palmer said.

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Dick Van Dyke and Arlene Silver arrive at the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles in January. The Associated Press

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“I’ve never seen him happier. She adds a lot to his life,” he said, adding that the couple has much in common, including a love of singing.

Members of Silver’s family and some of Van Dyke’s close friends were on hand for the intimate wedding. Van Dyke suggested the couple may hold a bigger ceremony in the future, Palmer said.

Silver and the stage, film and TV star became friends about five years ago after meeting at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Palmer said Friday.

Michelle Triola Marvin, Van Dyke’s partner of 30 years, died in October 2009 at age 76.

Van Dyke gained fame in the musical “Bye Bye Birdie,” for which he won a Tony Award in 1961, and starred in the 1963 film based on the play. His other movie credits include “Mary Poppins” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”

The 1961-66 “The Dick Van Dyke Show” made him a TV star, and he’s proved an enduring one: His other series include “Diagnosis Murder” (1993-2002) and made-for-TV movies such as 2008’s “Murder 101: New Age.”

Van Dyke, who had a longtime marriage that ended in divorce, has four children.

Houston’s sister-in-law feared drugs

LOS ANGELES – Whitney Houston’s sister-in-law said she feared that drugs would end the singer’s life.

In a partial transcript of an interview with Oprah Winfrey scheduled to air Sunday, Patricia Houston said she would be “kidding herself” to say otherwise.

Patricia Houston, who was her sister-in-law’s manager, was asked if she thought drugs would end up “taking” Whitney Houston. The “handwriting was kind of on the wall,” she replied.

The pop star was changing how she lived, Patricia Houston said, and “it wasn’t about substance abuse or anything like that relative to the … latter days or anything like that.”

“It was just more of a lifestyle. I was afraid for other things,” Patricia Houston said. “I saw her chasing a dream, you know, looking for love in all the wrong places.”

Bobbi Kristina, Whitney Houston’s daughter with singer Bobby Brown, also was interviewed for the episode of “Oprah’s Next Chapter” airing at 9 p.m. Sunday on Winfrey’s OWN channel.

Houston, 48, was found underwater in a Beverly Hills hotel room bathtub on the eve of the Grammy Awards. Investigators found several bottles of prescription medication in the room, and tests were being conducted to determine the cause of her Feb. 11 death.

The pop star, whose hits included “I Will Always Love You,” had a history of substance abuse.

Rapper Coolio arrested for 2-year-old ticket

LAS VEGAS – Rapper Coolio was arrested Friday on a warrant charging him with failure to appear in court on a traffic ticket almost two years ago.

Coolio, 48, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr., was a passenger in a vehicle officers stopped about 2:20 a.m. several blocks east of the Las Vegas Strip, Officer Laura Meltzer said.

No one else in the car was arrested.

It was not immediately clear if Ivey had a lawyer. His manager Susan Haber said she had not heard about the incident and had no comment.

Ivey was sought on a warrant charging him with failure to appear on an illegal stop and driving without a license summons issued in June 2010.

He was freed later in the day.

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