Watchable at every age - Betty White with her own TV show in 1954
Betty White has been invited to the November Marine Corps Ball by a sergeant some 70 years her junior.
“I would like to take Betty White, she’s funny, she’s sweet, she’s mature, she’s the all-around the perfect women,” Sgt. Ray Lewis says in his YouTube video. “I’m fun… I’m going to be performing. I think I could make her laugh, I think she could make me laugh. I think we could laugh together. It’s gonna be great.”
Mila Kunis had agreed to accept an invitation from a marine to the Ball, and then Friends With Benefits co-star Justin Timberlake also accepted a request to appear.
No word yet on whether Ms. White‘s schedule will permit her to attend the event at the request of the gentlemanly sergeant, but if she can, what celebrity would dare decline a future invitation? And if it helps their client’s publicity, agents will certainly push their charges in that direction.
Of course stars don’t know that they’d actually have a better time with the Marines than they do with the usual Hollywood soirée.