Pat Boone is happy to be labelled 'a square'
msn.comPat Boone is “glad” to have been seen as a wholesome family man. The 88-year-old singer-and-actor - who sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films - is happy to be seen as “a square” throughout his long career in Hollywood.
He told the US edition of Closer magazine: “My wife and I moved to California when my career was in full bloom. I said, ‘We’re not going to adopt Beverly Hills standards, we’re going to live by Tennessee standards. ; Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
We raised our kids going to school and church, and people thought of me as a square. I was associated with all the good things, which I was glad about. " Pat - who was married to wife Shirley for 65 years until she died in 2019 - still lives in his and his wife’s marital home where they raised their four daughters, Debby, Laurey, Cherry and Linda, because of the “memories”.
He said: “I still say we’ve been married for 67 years. Two of those years she’s been in heaven! I’m living in the same house we lived in for 62 years - I fight off the realtors with a stick!
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