{"id":60493,"date":"2023-10-15T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T21:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=60493"},"modified":"2023-10-15T17:20:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T21:20:51","slug":"suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-following-long-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/15\/suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-following-long-cancer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Somers Dead at 76 Following Long Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60494\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Suzanne-Somers.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Suzanne-Somers.webp 666w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Suzanne-Somers-300x195.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/>Actor Suzanne Somers has died. She was 76. The actor passed away &#8220;peacefully at home&#8221; in the early hours of October 15, 2023, according to a statement from Somers&#8217; publicist R. Couri Hay, on behalf of the family.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear how Somers died, but Hay said the actress \u201csurvived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years.\u201d \u201cSuzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cHer family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th. Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.\u201d<\/p><div id=\"morty-1398275831\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Somers was born on October 16, 1946, in California. She rose to fame as Chrissy Snow in the 1970s sitcom &#8220;<em>Three\u2019s Company<\/em>,&#8221; starred in &#8220;<em>She\u2019s the Sheriff<\/em>&#8221; and later portrayed Carol Foster Lambert in the &#8217;90s family comedy &#8220;<em>Step by Step<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somers began her acting career in the later 1960s and early 1970s when she took on small, uncredited roles, in <em>Bullitt, Daddy\u2019s Gone A-Hunting<\/em> and <em>Fools<\/em>. Her first credited role was as a \u201cblonde in T-bird\u201d in 1973\u2019s <em>American Graffiti.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She landed a recurring role in S<em>tarsky and Hutch<\/em>, where she played three different characters. After a few more years of one-off parts in TV shows like <em>Lotsa Luck!, The Rockford Files<\/em> and <em>One Day at a Time<\/em>, Somers landed her breakthrough role as Chrissy Snow in \u201c<em>Three\u2019s Company,<\/em>\u201d\u00a0for which she received a Golden Globes nomination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60496\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60496 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/threes-company.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/threes-company.webp 301w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/threes-company-201x300.webp 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce DeWitt, John Ritter, and Suzanne Somers star in the ABC hit comedy, &#8220;Three&#8217;s Company&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c<em>Three\u2019s Company<\/em>\u201d featured Somers as quintessential \u201cdumb blonde\u201d Chrissy Snow, roommate of the smarter and more level-headed Janet Wood (Joyce DeWitt) in an inexpensive Santa Monica apartment. John Ritter, the most familiar of the three stars, was top-billed as Jack Tripper, a culinary school student who jumps at the cheap housing, but he is forced to pose as a gay man to placate the girls\u2019 landlord, who is opposed to opposite-sex tenants.<\/p><div id=\"morty-3745254042\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Three&#8217;s Company<\/em>&#8221; was a hit, running for eight seasons between 1977 and 1984 and spawning several spinoff series. It also made Somers a sex symbol and household name. Before the show&#8217;s fifth season, Somers famously demanded a raise from $30,000 an episode to $150,000, equal to what male co-star John Ritter reportedly was making then. When producers refused, Somers claimed health issues and declined to appear in two show episodes. Despite her popularity, her role was drastically reduced for the remainder of the season and she was fired when the season ended in 1981. Somers sued the show&#8217;s producers for $2 million in response but received only a small fraction of what she asked.<\/p>\n<p>To further help make ends meet, in 1990, Somers became the commercial spokesperson for the Thighmaster, a piece of personal exercise equipment meant to be squeezed between one&#8217;s thighs to develop leg and hip strength.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KHXnnNrQ9Kk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suzanne_Somers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More About Suzanne Somers<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/15\/suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-following-long-cancer-battle\/https:\/\/www.sitcomsonline.com\/jacksbistro\/main.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And More About &#8220;<em>Three&#8217;s Company<\/em>&#8220;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/threes-company-poster.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-60495\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/threes-company-poster.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/threes-company-poster.webp 893w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/threes-company-poster-186x300.webp 186w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/threes-company-poster-635x1024.webp 635w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/threes-company-poster-768x1238.webp 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/threes-company-poster-750x1209.webp 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Suzanne Somers has died. She was 76. The actor passed away &#8220;peacefully at home&#8221; in the early hours of October 15, 2023, according to a statement from Somers&#8217; publicist R. Couri Hay, on behalf of the family. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear how Somers died, but Hay said the actress \u201csurvived an aggressive form of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"0","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"0","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[2311],"tags":[7789,156,157,4755,9497,9498],"class_list":["post-60493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obit","tag-big-story","tag-obit","tag-obituary","tag-step-by-step","tag-suzanne-somers","tag-threes-company"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Suzanne Somers Dead at 76 Following Long Cancer Battle - Morty&#039;s TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/15\/suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-following-long-cancer-battle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Suzanne Somers Dead at 76 Following Long Cancer Battle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Actor Suzanne Somers has died. 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