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[FONT=&quot] White is in the 2014 Guinness World Records book as the record holder for the “Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (Female).” Her TV career has — so far — spanned more than 77 years.[/FONT]
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She originally signed on to appear only in the Hot in Cleveland pilot. She remained with the TV Land sitcom through its 2015 series finale.[/FONT]
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Betty quote: “You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.”[/FONT]
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White hosted the Tournament of Roses Parade for two decades on NBC and CBS.[/FONT]
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She hosted the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade for a decade on NBC.[/FONT]
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She co-authored the 2008 novel Together: A Novel of Shared Vision with actor Tom Sullivan.[/FONT]
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As a kid, she and her parents once had 26 dogs.[/FONT]
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She has said she is “obsessively addicted” to crossword puzzles.[/FONT]
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She once turned down a co-hosting job on The Today Show. It went to Barbara Walters.

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[FONT=&quot] She is of Danish, Greek, English, and Welsh descent.[/FONT]
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White and her Golden Girls co-stars made a Clueless spoof for the 1996 MTV Movie Awards

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She collects stuffed animals, and has rooms full of them in her homes in Los Angeles and Carmel, California.[/FONT]
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She was the star of a Betty White 2011 calendar.[/FONT]
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White has visited with Koko, the gorilla who communicates with sign language, on several occasions. Koko nicknamed her “Lipstick.”

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[FONT=&quot]. Gorgeous: 37-year-old Betty White in commercials for Richard Hudnut home perm kits and cosmetics.


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[FONT=&quot]A 2011 Reuters poll revealed Betty White is the most trusted and favorite celebrity in America.[/FONT]
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Betty quote: “Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not. All my life, even as a kid, I have preferred men older than I am. Unfortunately, today I don’t think there is anyone older than I am!”[/FONT]
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She wakes up at 6:30 a.m. and goes to bed at midnight.[/FONT]
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In December 2016, after a year of celebrity deaths that included Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, George Michael, Alan Thicke, Gene Wilder, Glenn Frey, Alan Rickman, Florence Henderson, David Bowie, and many other beloved stars, a South Carolina man launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to help him keep Betty White alive through the traumatic year. Demetrios Hrysikos ended his campaign on January 1, 2017, having raised $9,245 of his $10,000 goal. And, most happily, since Betty White defeated 2016, Hrysikos is donating the cash to a local theater in his hometown.[/FONT]
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Her star on the Walk of Fame is at 6747 Hollywood Blvd. Allen Ludden’s is at 6743 Hollywood Blvd.[/FONT]
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White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty guest starred in the “Here We Go Again” episode of The John Laroquette Show that spoofed The Golden Girls. White won an Emmy for playing herself.

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[FONT=&quot]For more than 50 years, White has worked with the Morris Animal Foundation, which has raised and invested more than $92 million for animal health research.

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[FONT=&quot] She starred in the spoof Ugly Betty White at the 2007 TV Land Awards, and then guest starred on Ugly Betty later that year.


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White played Ann Douglas, the mother of fashion matriarch Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery) on The Bold and the Beautiful. Ann died on the soap in 2009, three years before Stephanie — one of the daytime drama’s main original characters — was also killed off the show.

She did a Reddit AMA.

She was roasted by the Friars Club in 2012.

In 1971, White hosted The Pet Set, a talk show for pets (and their celebrity owners). Pets included water buffalo and elephants, while her celeb guests included Mary Tyler Moore and Jimmy Stewart Betty quote: “Let’s say I meet someone I find attractive. I have to keep reminding myself of how old I am, because I don’t feel like I’m that old. I fight the urge to flirt and try to shape up. No fool like an old fool.”


To help White with her grief after Allen Ludden’s death, Lucille Ball would host White for backgammon games at her home.

 

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[FONT=&quot]White’s mother and Ball’s mother were best friends.[/FONT]
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She dreamed of being a forest ranger as a child, and she was named an honorary one by the Forest Service in 2010.[/FONT]
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The stars of Animal Planet’s Tanked made a Noah’s Ark-themed aquarium for White.

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[FONT=&quot]Before The Golden Girls, White co-starred with real-life friend Rue McClanahan on Mama’s Family. McClanahan’s Fran was the aunt of White’s Ellen. The series began as a skit on The Carol Burnett Show.[/FONT]
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When White accepted her second Emmy for The Mary Tyler Moore Show — in 1976 —she wore a black and white Bob Mackie gown she was given when she guest starred on The Carol Burnett Show.[/FONT]
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In 2017, the Rue La Rue Cafe will open in New York City. The Rue McClanahan-themed restaurant, which will feature a gold glitter floor and photos and props in homage to McClanahan, will also include a daily tribute to White: the coconutty Betty White Cake.[/FONT]
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. White has been on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Zoo since 1974.[/FONT]
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She co-starred with another famous nonagenarian — George Burns — in a series of commercials for Southern California Edison in the 1980s.

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[FONT=&quot] She voiced doggie owner Agatha McLeish in The Hub’s remake of the animated [/FONT]Pound Puppies[FONT=&quot] cartoon.

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[FONT=&quot]On Saturday Night Live, she proved the only thing tastier than Schweddy Balls are Dusty Muffins.

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[FONT=&quot]One of her addictions: She loves buying stationery, but not the fancy kind; she likes three-hole punch notebook paper.


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[FONT=&quot] Her frequent appearances on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson were a result of the friendship she sparked with Ferguson when the two co-starred on the short-lived 1995-96 ABC sitcom Maybe This Time (which also starred Marie Osmond and Dane Cook).

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[FONT=&quot] White spoofed herself in the classic FunnyorDie.com video “Behind the Scenes of The Proposal,” in which she calls co-star Ryan Reynolds an “ab-crunching demon,” and he calls her a “seething demon.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Her latest TV appearance: She’ll reprise her guest role as forensic anthropologist Dr. Beth Mayer in an upcoming episode of Bones. The Fox drama, currently airing its 12th and final season, will welcome White back in episode 10, scheduled to air on the network in March.[/FONT]
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Betty quote: “I’m the luckiest old broad on two feet, because my life is divided absolutely in half — half animals and half show business. You can’t ask for better than two things you love the most.”



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happy 96th

 

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Happy 99th


[h=1]Betty White turns 99 Sunday: She’s no ‘egomaniac,’ COVID is ‘afraid’ of her[/h]By Rob Bailey-Millado
Updated: January 17, 2021 | 12:22am

 

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