Suzanne Somers dead at 76 after long cancer battle

Actress Suzanne Somers, best known for playing a bumbling blonde on “Three’s Company,” died early Sunday morning after a decades-long battle with cancer. She was 76.

Somers’ longtime publicist confirmed her death to Page Six.

“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,” said R. Couri Hay.

“Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family.”

The “Step by Step” star was due to turn 77 on Monday.

Hay said Somers’ family will gather Monday to “celebrate her extraordinary life.”

A private family burial will take place this week, with a memorial to follow next month.

A source close to the family told Page Six that Somers “died in her new ‘all green home’ in Palm Springs, in her sleep with her loving husband by her side.”

The source added that Somers’ longtime husband, Alan Hamel, 87, had recently gifted her a handwritten poem wrapped in pink peonies, which had been her favorite flower.

Born Suzanne Marie Mahoney on Oct. 16, 1946, the California native played Chrissy Snow on the 1970s sitcom “Three’s Company” and Carol Foster Lambert on the ’90s family comedy “Step by Step.”

Somers also found fame as an infomercial spokeswoman for the Thighmaster.

She authored several self-help books, including 2006’s “Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones.”

Somers’ passing comes mere months after she revealed her breast cancer had returned.

Somers was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 50s after battling skin cancer in her 30s and “severe hyperplasia” in her uterus.

“Even when I was Chrissy on Three’s Company, I had had cancer three times,” Somers told CBS News in 2020. “They call it severe hyperplasia in your uterus. I didn’t make a big deal about it. In my 30s, I got a malignant melanoma in my back. People just wanted to protect Chrissy Snow. Creating her was actually intellectual. How do I make her likable and loveable … dumb blondes are annoying. I gave her a moral code. I imagined it was the childhood I would’ve liked to have had.”

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