Suzanne Somers Dead at 76

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nbcnews.com
Suzanne Somers, star of 'Three's Company,' dies at 76
By Diana Dasrath and Mirna Alsharif



Suzanne Somers is dead at 76, according to her longtime publicist, R. Couri Hay.

Somers, the “Three’s Company� actor, died in her home surrounded by her family early Sunday, the eve of her 77th birthday.

“Her 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,� Hay said in a statement on behalf of Somers’ family.

It wasn't immediately clear how Somers died. Hay said she "survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years."

Somers will be buried in a private ceremony this week, and a memorial will follow next month, Hay said.

In July, Somers shared on Instagram that her breast cancer had returned.

She told “Entertainment Tonight� at the time: “Like any cancer patient, when you get that dreaded ‘it’s back,’ you get a pit in your stomach. Then I put on my battle gear and go to war. This is familiar battleground for me, and I’m very tough.�

She was first diagnosed in 2000, and she also had skin cancer. She faced some criticism for her reliance on what she described as a chemical-free and organic lifestyle to combat the cancers.

Somers appeared in many television shows in the 1970s, including “The Rockford Files� and “The Six Million Dollar Man,� but her most famous part came with “Three’s Company,� which aired on ABC from 1977 to 1984. She also played the mom in the long-running kids sitcom “Step by Step.�



Diana Dasrath is entertainment producer and senior reporter for NBC News covering all platforms.

[Terry]

Was surprised to find out she was worth a fair amount of money when she died, much of which (from what I gather) came from sales of her Thighmaster and various product pitches she made on Home Goods Advertising Channels. I guess she had some real estate worth a good bit of money, too.

I do remember she was very popular in the late 1970s, but after she left Three's Company in...1980? 1981?...far as I could tell she faded away...like, I think I was aware of her post-Three's Company Show, Step By Step (was that with Patrick Duffy?), but I don't remember having seen a single episode...I can't even remember which decade that was aired now...was it the late 1980's? The early 1990's?

I also recall in the late 1990's there was a book that came out called (if memory serves) Come And Knock On Our Door (I may well still have my copy gathering dust somewhere), which was an episode guide/chronicling of the series production from beginning to end. The author interviewed all of the cast and producers of the show, and the E! network did one of those True Hollywood Stories about the show as the book was being released.

How much did I like Three's Company, you might (or probably might not) have asked? Well, I bought the complete series on dvd, and not too long ago I binge-watched both spin-offs of the show (The Ropers and Three's A Crowd) in their entirety on...IFC? Hulu? The Sundance Channel? Some fuckin' network that has free content on my antiquated cable tv system.

Ah. The bygone days of mid-to-late 1970s jiggle broadcast tv, which came along at a wonderful time in my life when I was just approaching an age that was making me conclude girls might not be yucky...smack between the era of The Banana Splits and just before cable tv and late night Skinemax gave me entree to the endless world of smut.

Thank heavens the interwebs weren't around in my adolescence: as it was I was already beating my dick like it constantly owed me money...had PornHub been around, I may well have never left the house.

Memories.

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Nobody really knows what anyone is worth. Unless you manage all their finances you don’t know. Taxes only indicate income over a certain period. Value can be tied up into tangibles that only show up when they are sold. Antiques, art, collectibles ect. Huge amounts of wealth in those. Some people look wealthy but it’s all credit. They are making minimum payments to the bank. It’s the bank’s assets. Most of what we see banks own. Trying to figure out what a person is worth is complicated. On some things only an auction will tell you what it’s worth and that also depends on how good the auction is. I’ve seen families sell estate items through sub par auctions to save on the auction fees and eat it.

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Internet porn, video games and junk food has created a mass of fat fucks with worn out dicks living in a fantasy world thinking they are now a woman.

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Joyce DeWitt gets the last laugh. She outlasted them all.

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Everyone dies but Sammy Hagar. That fuck will live to be 110. Only the good die young.

[Terry]

Internet porn, video games and junk food has created a mass of fat fucks with worn out dicks living in a fantasy world thinking they are now a woman.

A bunch of socially inept, friendless, sexless hermits who barely have any meaningful real-world relationships (if any at all).

Bad enough there are more than a few sociopathic, small-time criminals running around, fully armed and ready to shoot someone in the head in order to jack their car: now there are Lord knows how many of these marginally employed males who can't interact normally with anyone outside of cyberspace...these fucks are always the type who end up getting assault rifles and going on mass shooting sprees.

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Or they run for Congress.

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Well doing a little jerking to Suzanne Summers in Playboy and having that motivate you to hone your social skills and work on your peck and bicep muscles to get the real thing was not necessarily a bad thing. Nobody wants to shoot up the school when they are banging cheerleaders.

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Just don’t use th Playboy jokes to try and win friends. Those were lame.

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Shit. Our school had a skeet team. I used to bring a shotgun to school.