“Cheers” star Ted Danson and his wife Mary Steenburgen’s date nights look a little different at age 70.
during an interview with PeopleDanson said the couple, who will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary next year, prefer spending time together early in the morning to romantic date nights.
“Date nights at my age are kind of an early bird special,” Danson, 76, told the outlet.
She added, “The most fun is early morning, 4:30 in the morning, coffee in bed, playing Wordle, Connections and Spelling Bee, talking and laughing and sharing.”
“It’s heaven on earth for both of us,” the actor said.
Despite both of their busy schedules, Danson said the distance doesn’t stop them from spending their lovely morning together Steenbergen, 71.
“Even if she’s working in a different time zone, we’ll wake up on time so we can play our games and have coffee on the phone,” he said.
Danson told the outlet that he treasures these moments with his wife, one of the reasons they didn’t meet until later in life. When they met, Steenbergen and Danson were both 40 and already married.
Steenbergen has a son and daughter with actor Malcolm McDowell, to whom she was married from 1980 to 1990.
Danson first married Randy Danson in 1970 before they separated in 1975. He married his second wife, Casey Coates, in 1977 and they divorced in 1993; They have two daughters, Alexis and Kate.
Danson recalled before meeting Steenbergen, “About a year ago I decided I wanted to be a more emotionally mature, honest human being.” “I worked very hard on it or I don’t think Mary Steenburgen would have even seen me.”
Since Danson is dedicated to becoming his best self later in life, he told People he’s pretty sure his relationship with the “Elf” actress wouldn’t have worked had they met earlier.
“You are guaranteed the answer is no. I will only speak for myself,” Danson said. “I really wasn’t fully prepared emotionally until sometime before I met Mary… Thank God we didn’t meet earlier.”
Steenbergen and Danson tied the knot in 1995 after first meeting on the set of 1993’s “Pontiac Moon.”
The actor had told in 2019 nearest weekly He is still madly in love with his wife.
“We wake up every day and really celebrate,” the star told the outlet. “We would be stupid if we didn’t do that because we’re so lucky. We have great children and grandchildren, and we have each other. We are madly in love.”
Danson credits his upbringing for inspiring him to have such a blissful union with the actress.
Danson said of his parents’ nearly 40-year marriage at the time, “I consider myself a family man, partly because my parents had it so well.”
Danson also revealed that when he and Steenbergen first met they were ready to start a new chapter in their lives.
“We found each other when I was 45 and she was 40,” he said. “We had lived a little. We both saw some demons within ourselves, and it was lucky that we met then.
