Shazam! 'Andy Griffith' star Jim Nabors marries longtime male partner

As his character Gomer Pyle would've put it, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" Actor Jim Nabors, best known for black-and-white classics "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." (kids, ask your parents about the entire first half of that sentence), has married his longtime male partner. Nabors, 82, and Stan Cadwallader, 64, have been together for 38 years. "When you've been together 38 years … you've got to solidify something," Nabors said. "And at my age, it's probably the best thing to do." The couple live in Hawaii but were married in Seattle's Fairmont Olympic Hotel. "What can I tell you," he said. "I'm just very happy." Well, gol-l-ly! [Source]

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