Suzanne Somers

TV Actress

Suzanne Somers was born in San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, United States on October 16th, 1946 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 77, Suzanne Somers biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Suzanne Marie Mahoney, Suzy, The Queen of the Jiggles
Date of Birth
October 16, 1946
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, United States
Age
77 years old
Zodiac Sign
Libra
Networth
$100 Million
Profession
Actor, Autobiographer, Businessperson, Film Actor, Film Producer, Model, Screenwriter, Singer, Television Actor, Writer
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Suzanne Somers Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 77 years old, Suzanne Somers has this physical status:

Height
165cm
Weight
56kg
Hair Color
Blonde
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Suzanne Somers Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Capuchino High School, Mercy High School, San Francisco College for Women
Suzanne Somers Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Alan Hamel
Children
1
Dating / Affair
Bruce Somers (1964, Alan Hamel (1976-Present)
Parents
Francis ‘Frank’ Mahoney, Marion Elizabeth
Siblings
Daniel Mahoney (Older Brother), Maureen Gilmartin (Older Sister). She also has a younger sibling.
Other Family
Caroline Somers (Daughter-in-Law) (Writer, Producer), Bill Gilmartin (Brother-in-Law)
Suzanne Somers Career

Somers began acting in small roles during the late 1960s and early 1970s (including on various talk shows promoting her book of poetry, and bit parts in movies, such as the "Blonde in the white Thunderbird" in American Graffiti, and an episode of the American version of the sitcom Lotsa Luck (as the femme fatale) in the early 1970s. She also appeared in The Rockford Files in 1974 and had an uncredited role as a topless "pool girl" in Magnum Force in 1973. She also had a guest-starring role on The Six Million Dollar Man, in the 1977 episode "Cheshire Project,” she played a passenger on the first episode of The Love Boat as well as a guest appearance in a 1976 episode of One Day at a Time. She later landed her most famous role of the ditzy blonde "Chrissy Snow" on the ABC sitcom Three's Company in 1977. Also that year, she was a celebrity panelist on Match Game, and appeared with husband Alan Hamel on Tattletales.

Somers was cast in the ABC sitcom Three's Company in January 1977. After actresses Suzanne Zenor and Susan Lanier did not impress producers during the first two pilots, Somers was suggested by ABC president Fred Silverman, who had seen her on the Tonight Show and she was auditioned and hired the day before the taping of the third and final pilot officially commenced. She portrayed Chrissy Snow, a stereotypical dumb blonde, who was employed as an office secretary.

The series co-starred John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt in a comedy of errors about two single women living with a single man who pretends to be gay in order to bypass the landlord's policy prohibiting single men sharing an apartment with single women. The program was an instant success in the ratings, eventually spawning a short-lived spin-off series (starring Norman Fell and Audra Lindley).

When Three's Company began its fifth season in late 1980, Somers demanded a hefty salary increase from $30,000 to $150,000 an episode and 10 percent ownership of the show's profits. Those close to the situation suggested that Somers' rebellion was largely due to husband Hamel's influences. After ABC denied her a raise in salary, Somers refused to appear in the second and fourth episodes of the season, due to excuses such as a broken rib. She finished the remaining season on her contract, but her role was decreased to just 60 seconds per episode, her character only appearing in the episode's closing tag in which Chrissy calls the trio's apartment from her parents' home. After ABC fired her from the program and terminated her contract, Somers sued the network for $2 million, saying her credibility in show business had been damaged. The lawsuit was settled by an arbitrator who decided Somers was owed $30,000, due to a single missed episode for which she had not been paid. Future rulings also favored the network and producers. Somers says she was fired for asking to be paid as much as popular male television stars of the day such as Alan Alda and Carroll O'Connor.

In 1983, Suzanne Somers through her Hamel/Somers Productions had signed a deal with Columbia Pictures Television.

Somers and her Three's Company co-star John Ritter reconciled their friendship after 20 years of not speaking to each other, shortly before Ritter's death in 2003.

Somers appeared in two Playboy cover-feature nude pictorials, in 1980 and 1984. Her first set of nude photos was taken by Stan Malinowski in February 1970 when Somers was a struggling model and actress and did a test photoshoot for the magazine. She was accepted as a Playmate candidate in 1971, but declined to pose nude before the actual shoot. During an appearance on The Tonight Show, she denied ever posing nude (except for a High Society topless photo), which prompted Playboy to publish photos from the 1970 Malinowski shoot a decade later, in 1980. Somers' original motivation for posing nude was to be able to pay medical bills related to injuries her son Bruce Jr. suffered in a car accident. By the time the photos were published, her son was 14 and Somers feared seeing his mother posing nude would be difficult for him. Somers sued Playboy and settled for $50,000—which was donated to charity, at least $10,000 of it going to the Easter Seals. The second nude pictorial by Richard Fegley appeared in December 1984 in an attempt by Somers to regain her diminished popularity after the Three's Company debacle in 1981. Despite her anger and the earlier lawsuit, Playboy approached her earlier that year to pose nude a second time. Initially she was angered again, but eventually agreed after discussing it with her family. She felt she would have a better chance to control the quality of the photos the second time, and having such control was an important condition that Somers attached to posing. Despite Somers' earlier belief that her son would not want to see his mother nude, her then 18-year-old son did view the second pictorial.

During the 1980s, Somers became a Las Vegas entertainer. In the early 1990s, she was the spokeswoman in a series of infomercials for the Thighmaster, a piece of exercise equipment that is squeezed between one's thighs. During this period of her career, she also performed for U.S. servicemen overseas. Calling her a legend in the industry, on May 2, 2014, Direct Marketing Response inducted Somers into the infomercial Hall of Fame.

At the height of her exposure as official spokesperson for Thighmaster infomercials, Somers made her first return to a series, although not on network television. In 1987, she starred in the sitcom She's the Sheriff, which ran in first-run syndication. Somers portrayed a widow with two young kids who decided to fill the shoes of her late husband, a sheriff of a Nevada town. The show ran for two seasons.

In 1990, Somers returned to network TV, appearing in numerous guest roles and made-for-TV movies, mostly for ABC. Her roles in these, including the movie Rich Men, Single Women, attracted the attention of Lorimar Television and Miller-Boyett Productions, who were developing a new sitcom. Somers had starred in the film with Heather Locklear, who inadvertently directed the focus of both production companies to Somers due to Locklear's starring role on Going Places (from Lorimar and Miller/Boyett). For Lorimar, this was asking Somers back, since they alone had produced She's the Sheriff.

In September 1991, Somers returned to series TV in the sitcom Step By Step (with Patrick Duffy), which became a success on ABC's youth-oriented TGIF lineup. A week after the premiere of Step By Step, a two-hour biopic of Somers starring the actress herself, entitled Keeping Secrets (based on her first autobiography of the same title), was broadcast on ABC. The movie chronicled Somers' troubled family life and upbringing, along with her subsequent rise to fame. Playing off her rejuvenated career, Somers also launched a daytime talk show in 1994, aptly titled Suzanne Somers, which lasted one season. Step By Step continued on ABC until the end of its sixth season in 1997, whereupon the series moved to CBS that fall for what turned out to be its final season. With her sitcom now airing on CBS, Somers was chosen to co-host the network's revival of Candid Camera with Peter Funt, which began airing later that season.

From 1997–99, Somers cohosted the revised Candid Camera show, when CBS chose to bring it back with Peter Funt. Somers stayed for two years before PAX TV renewed the series without her.

In summer 2005, Somers made her Broadway debut in a one-woman show, The Blonde in the Thunderbird, a collection of stories about her life and career. The show was supposed to run until September, but was cancelled in less than a week after poor reviews and disappointing ticket sales. She blamed the harsh reviews (The New York Times referred to it as "...a drab and embarrassing display of emotional exhibitionism masquerading as entertainment") and told the New York Post: "These men [New York critics] are curmudgeons, and maybe I went too close to the bone for them. I was lying there naked, and they decided to kick me and step on me, just like these visions you see in Iraq."

In 2012, Somers began an online talk show, Suzanne Somers Breaking Through, at CafeMom. Three of the episodes featured a reunion and reconciliation with former Three's Company co-star Joyce DeWitt; the two had not seen nor spoken to each other in 31 years. Somers and Dewitt briefly discussed John Ritter and how glad they were that they both had spoken to him shortly before Ritter died.

In the fall of 2012, The Suzanne Show, hosted by Somers, aired for a 13-episode season on the Lifetime Network. Somers welcomed various guests covering a wide range of topics related to health and fitness.

On February 24, 2015, Somers was announced as one of the stars participating on the 20th season of Dancing with the Stars. Her partner was professional dancer Tony Dovolani. Somers and Dovolani were eliminated on the fifth week of competition and finished in 9th place.

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www.dailymail.co.uk, March 21, 2024
Richard helped millions of people around the world lose weight through his aerobic classes and at-home work-out videos, but the fitness guru's meteoric rise from the spotlight was overshadowed by his tragic fall from the spotlight. Since battling a life-threatening eating disorder he suffered as a youth, the exercise specialist, who is now 75, opened his first gym in 1974. However, what started as a way to help those that might benefit from losing some weight quickly turned into a massive fitness empire, with Richard becoming a huge Hollywood celebrity along the way. His eccentricity, flamboyant costumes, and vivacious spirit all helped him to gain a large fanbase who came to him for exercise but also for a smile on their faces. But in 2014, the man who once clamored for a chance to get in front of cameras suddenly disappeared entirely from the spotlight overnight, leaving many to wonder: What would drive one of the most extroverted characters in the world to abruptly become a recluse? This week, Richard's meteoric rise to the top and tragic departure from the spotlight are on everyone's minds - as he has now revealed that he has been diagnosed with skin cancer. FEMAIL pushed ahead and recapped his rollercoaster ride from start to finish amid the devastating news.

Lance Reddick, Suzanne Somers and Treat Williams were among the actors left out of the Oscars 2024 In Memoriam segment

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 11, 2024
Those who had died with the annual In Memoriam segment at Oscars 2024 were remembered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, although some were not included. The segment was supposed to be a new interpretation of Andrea Bocelli's classic song Time to Say Goodbye, which he performed on stage with his son Matteo. Many Hollywood celebrities were honoured in the program, but there were also plenty of high-profile actors left out, including Lance Reddick, Suzane Somers, and Treat Williams.

Suzanne Somers' STUNNING Palm Springs estate she shared with husband Alan Hamel hits the market for $9 MILLION - just three months after Three's Company star died from breast cancer

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 29, 2024
Suzanne Somers' lavish Palm Springs home has hit the market for nearly $9 million. Suzanne and her husband, television presenter Alan Hamel, and producer Suzanne Hamel, all 87, bought the 28-acre property in California in 1977, the same year they were married. The actress died at the age of 76 with Alan by her side at the estate in October 2023. Breast cancer was the cause of death, a condition she had suffered with for decades. The property's 7,280 square feet includes five separate buildings, with the main home housing a primary suite, six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, 24-seat dining room, and wine cellar.

Her Ghost??Suzanne Somers' Widower Says 'Very Strange' Things Have Been Happening Since Her Death

perezhilton.com, January 17, 2024
Is Suzanne Somers visiting from beyond the grave?? It's hard to believe that it's only been three months since the iconic Three's Company founder passed away at the age of 76. She left her son Bruce Somers Jr. and husband Alan Hamel, who were married for almost 50 years, to whom she was grateful. So impressive. But surprisingly Alan now says he hasn’t been completely lonely since she left him…

Suzanne Somers’ Husband Alan Hamel Gave Her A Handwritten Poem Before Her Death That Will Leave You Speechless!

perezhilton.com, October 16, 2023
We're getting more information about Suzanne Somers' last gift. On Sunday, the Three's Company actor died of cancer at the age of 76. She was home surrounded by her family, son Bruce and husband of 46 years (!!!)Alan Hamel. A source close to the actress had told Page Six that prior to her passing, Alan bestowed her with a beautiful gift from the heart:
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