Actress Joyce Dewitt is offering her condolences following the demise of her former Three’s Company costar Suzanne Somers.
“My center goes out to Suzanne’s family,” DeWitt, 74, mentioned in a observation to Us Weekly on Monday, October 16. “They are an excessively close circle of relatives — deeply attached and caring one to the other. I will handiest imagine how tough this time is for they all.”
She endured: “I’m sure Suzanne was greeted by Angels into the loving knowledge looking ahead to all people at the other facet, and I'm hoping that may help her circle of relatives’s hearts in therapeutic as they commute via this tough time.”
Somers passed away at the age of 76 on Sunday, October 15, following a two-decade-long battle with breast cancer. “She survived an competitive type of breast most cancers for over 23 years,” R. Couri Hay, Somers’ longtime publicist, mentioned in a commentary to Us. “Suzanne was once surrounded through her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her instant circle of relatives.”
Sunday would have marked Somers’ 77th birthday. Despite the loss, Hay famous that her circle of relatives would still “rejoice her peculiar lifestyles” in her reminiscence. “[They] need to thank her millions of enthusiasts and followers who liked her dearly,” Hay’s commentary concluded. “A personal family burial will take place this week, with a memorial to follow next month.”
Somers and DeWitt starred alongside the late John Ritter on the hit sitcom Three’s Company, which ran for 8 seasons from 1976 to 1984. The show followed the hijinks of Ritter’s John Tripper after he strikes into an condominium with two unmarried ladies, Janet Wood and Chrissy Snow, performed by means of DeWitt and Somers, respectively.
Somers was fired from the display in 1980 after demanding pay equity with Ritter. Her departure from the show also marked the end of her friendship with DeWitt, though the two made amends all over a February 2012 episode of Somers’ communicate display Suzanne Somers Breaking Through.
“It’s time [to reunite]. I believe that you gave me the opportunity to make sure that I stroll my talk for the ultimate 30-odd years,” DeWitt said all over the emotional reunion. “Whenever something about Three’s Company comes up, I've relentlessly mentioned that it's my opinion that the one explanation why Three’s Company is value remembering is that it created a chance for all of us to chortle together, to rejoice pleasure. It’s a profound present.”
When it got here to their falling out, DeWitt noted that she and Somers had “very different approaches” to their careers as Somers was once occupied with earning profits to toughen her son, Bruce Jr., whom she shared with ex-husband Bruce Somers. “We had very different needs. I did not have a child that I was supporting on my own,” DeWitt added. “I didn’t have a industry head, so I didn’t perceive any individual who did.”
Somers, for her section, shared that she respected and revered DeWitt’s formal performing training. “I do want you to know how much I realized from gazing you,” she advised her former solid mate.
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Last 12 months, Somers proposed the theory of a Three’s Company reboot. During an interview on the “Behind the Velvet Rope” podcast, she steered that the sequence may practice the son of her and Ritter’s characters and that the child might be played through Ritter’s personal son, actor Jason Ritter. (John died in 2003 on the age of Fifty four due to an aortic dissection.)
“I had advised this to Jason’s other folks and that the show could be me and Jason, however that John would seem as a hologram as it’d be like he was back and alive,” she explained on the podcast in April 2022. “But Jason doesn’t wish to do the rest harking back to what his father did.”
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