Suzanne Somers has died at the age of 76 according to Page Six. The site noted that her longtime publicist R. Couri Hay confirmed her death saying, “Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15th. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years. Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family.”
Somers has lost her 50-year battle with cancer, just one day before her 77th birthday.
Suzanne Somers was the third of four children born to Frank and Marion Mahoney. In the early 1970s, she landed minor roles in film and TV, and finally won a role on the series Three’s Company, where she modeled her character after Dick Clark’s wife. She married Hamel in 1977. She then headed to Las Vegas, where she performed extensively in the mid-1980s. In 1986, she began writing her autobiography, “Keeping Secrets”, which was later made into a TV movie. In 1991, Suzanne landed the role of “Carol Foster”, opposite Patrick Duffy, on the TV series Step by Step (1991). Since the end of that show, she has begun co-hosting the series Candid Camera (1992).
We send our love and condolences to her family!
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