Patrick Duffy is 75! The Dallas actor is sent warm wishes by his Happy Days girlfriend of 4 years Linda Purl: ‘Happy birthday my remarkable love’

On his hit show Step by Step who costar Suzanne Somers who died last yearWhile on Thursday’s This Morning Patrick and Linda said sparks began to fly during a group text chat in 2020.Patrick said: ‘It’s a Covid romance. We didn’t sit in the same room for almost four months but we spoke to each other everyday. ‘We kept texting and texting became Facetime and for two and a half months plus we zoomed every night for two or three hours. We didn’t have that thing after the third dinner, do I kiss? Do I take her to my house?Linda, who played Ashley Pfister in season 10 of Happy Days in the early 1980s, added: ‘As we were about to do the end meeting, Patrick says “see you tomorrow love you.”Patrick, who played Bobby Ewing on Dallas said: ‘The next day we zoomed it was like…”hi”. I got into my car and drove 23 hours to her door step and we’ve never been apart.’Linda continued: ‘I don’t think it would have happened otherwise because in our normal lives pre-pandemic we wouldn’t have had three hours to Zoom but we did.’Branding Linda ‘the most beautiful thing in the world’ Patrick said: ‘I wasn’t looking for (love) but it found me.’Patrick and Linda began dating in July 2020. Describing their relationship in an interview back in November 2020, Patrick said he had given up on the idea of dating again following the passing of his wife, ballet dancer Carlyn Rosser, who succumbed to cancer in 2017. The pair were married for over four decades and had two sons: Padraic, 47, and Conor, 41.’I wasn’t looking for it. I didn’t feel I needed it … and then fate just went swoosh! and changed the perspective,’ he said of their love last year.Actor pair who met in lockdown saw relationship blossom over Zoo