James Van Der Beek is aware of he has the very best TV mother: Mary-Margaret Humes.
The Dawson’s Creek star, 47, shared a video through Instagram of a particular birthday supply from Humes, who performed his mother, Gail Leery, on the beloved teen drama from 1998 to 2003. Van Der Beek revealed that, Humes, 69, has been sending him home made cookies yearly on his birthday since his personal mother, Melinda Van Der Beek, died in 2020 on the age of 70.
“Joyful Birthday Kiddo … You MAY need to verify for a bundle in your doorstep. All my love, Mama MM,” Humes teased alongside a photograph of the pair on Instagram Friday, March 8.
Van Der Beek clearly acquired the FedEx bundle and was excited to share the information along with his social media followers.
“It doesn’t matter that I’m now older than she was once we first labored collectively, or that I’ve moved to Texas. She bakes them, and finds me, and does it from the underside of her coronary heart — and it at all times warms mine,” the actor shared on Instagram Friday, which additionally occurred to be Worldwide Ladies’s Day.
“Right here’s to all the type, fantastic, loving girls on #internationalwomensday who — moms or not — present the form of love that lights up the lives of these round them. @thereal_marymargarethumes,” he added.
“Of all of the boys who’ve ever been on tv, I for certain had the very best TV mother,” Van Der Beek insisted as he took a chunk of the candy deal with. “Mary-Margaret, thanks a lot. I like you.”
Van Der Beek’s spouse, Kimberly, then popped into body so as to add that she additionally loves Humes and her cookies. We’re certain the couple’s six children — Gwendolyn, 5, Emilia, 7, Annabel, 10, Olivia, 13, and sons Joshua, 11, and Jeremiah, 2 — loved the baked items, as properly.
Van Der Beek and Humes have stayed in contact through the years, and even reunited with Mitch Leery himself, John Wesley Shipp, in 2019 to have a good time Van Der Beek’s run on Dancing With the Stars. The costars additionally acquired to reminisce about their time in Capeside throughout a 20-year reunion piece with Leisure Weekly in 2018.
“I used to be really with James when he signed his first autograph,” Humes recalled. “My husband and I had taken James as much as Common Metropolis in L.A. to observe a film. This woman got here as much as James and mentioned, ‘Excuse me, aren’t you that man on Dawson’s Creek? Could I’ve your autograph?’ He signed it and mentioned, ‘Oh my God, Mary-Margaret, that was my first!’ And, in fact, my thought was ‘Oh, honey, cling on.’”