Betty White turned 96 years old with a long bucket list — including Broadway dreams, wild adventure and even some romance before she hits 100! Despite the 2014 cancellation of her TV series “Hot in Cleveland” and some prime-time guest-star roles, Betty told pals that she’s never slowing down. “She feels she can live to 100,” The National ENQUIRER learned from a friend of the TV legend, who added that Betty is even ready to follow Angela Lansbury in taking on stage roles as a very senior citizen…
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Topping the "
Golden Girls" star's list is travel. Instead of sitting poolside sipping fancy drinks, Betty — shown here with
Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" in 1981 — is looking for a real adventure.
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“Betty says she wants to go on an African safari,” reveals her pal. “She also wants to spend
more time with her friends before they all pass on.”
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And Betty — shown here in 1987 with
George Burns,
Carol Channing and "Cabaret" star
Joel Grey — hasn’t totally given up on acting. Her
special dream is to star on Broadway.
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“That’s definitely on Betty’s bucket list,” the friend says. “She hasn’t done much live, on-stage work and she thinks it would be a perfect cap to her long career to appear on Broadway.”
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The friend says Betty takes pen to paper nearly every day to finish a new memoir, and the "
Mary Tyler Moore Show" vet’s also working on a script for a romantic comedy!
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Since
she has no children, she plans to leave her $45 million fortune to animal-welfare groups founded by her husband, game-show host
Allen Ludden, who died in 1981.
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While she could still find work on TV, the source says Broadway is the only reason the
plastic-surgery avoiding star would return to acting. “But if her acting career is over, she’s at peace with it," adds the pal. "
She wants to enjoy her time, without everyone fussing over her!”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Topping the "
Golden Girls" star's list is travel. Instead of sitting poolside sipping fancy drinks, Betty — shown here with
Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" in 1981 — is looking for a real adventure.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“Betty says she wants to go on an African safari,” reveals her pal. “She also wants to spend
more time with her friends before they all pass on.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
And Betty — shown here in 1987 with
George Burns,
Carol Channing and "Cabaret" star
Joel Grey — hasn’t totally given up on acting. Her
special dream is to star on Broadway.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“That’s definitely on Betty’s bucket list,” the friend says. “She hasn’t done much live, on-stage work and she thinks it would be a perfect cap to her long career to appear on Broadway.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
The friend says Betty takes pen to paper nearly every day to finish a new memoir, and the "
Mary Tyler Moore Show" vet’s also working on a script for a romantic comedy!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Since
she has no children, she plans to leave her $45 million fortune to animal-welfare groups founded by her husband, game-show host
Allen Ludden, who died in 1981.
Photo credit: Getty Images
While she could still find work on TV, the source says Broadway is the only reason the
plastic-surgery avoiding star would return to acting. “But if her acting career is over, she’s at peace with it," adds the pal. "
She wants to enjoy her time, without everyone fussing over her!”
Photo credit: Getty Images
