Golfer
Got plenty on the side. Going without a marriage license helped.
Bob Hope, sex machine, ‘often cheated’ during his 69-year marriage
I saw him in Saigon at his last show there. I was so far away I couldn’t tell if it was him or Arnold Schwarzenegger but I was there up in a tree, 14 years old too.
I remember security being much tighter getting on the base because of all the big wigs there. But I got in pretty easily as I went on the base almost every single day to hang out at MACV. It wasn’t long till all the barracks were empty and only military contractors around though.
âÂÂI’ve just flown in from California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.”
Hope 1976
Some people just have good genes. Some are just plain lucky.
There’s no “secret” since we have no control of our destiny.
-PJ
Met him in Destin Florida at a Circus. No kidding. I was around 14 at the time which would have made him 81. He was surprised a kid my age, wearing a Black Sabbath t-shirt, would know him. I told him that my Grandma and I watched all of his movies and my dad saw him in Nam. It was awesome.
I’ve told this before...
I met and shook the hand of the great Bob Hope in 1961. It was on the SS Liberte, New York to Le Havre (France), stopping at Southampton (UK).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po1wGfM7vA0