Suzanne Somers, ‘Three’s Company’ actor and fitness entrepreneur, dies at 76

Actor Suzanne Somers, best known for her role on the sitcom “Three’s Company,” died Sunday after a decades-long battle with cancer. She was 76.

“Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th,” Somers’s family said in a statement Sunday. “Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.”Somers in July posted on Instagram, letting her followers know about her ongoing battle with breast cancer.

The popular sitcom ran for eight seasons from 1977 through 1984, and followed the lives and misadventures of two women and one man living in California. She won a People’s Choice Award for her role as Snow in 1978 — but Somers’s time on the show ended abruptly after she asked for a raise,. Somers requested her pay increase from $30,000 per episode to $150,000 and asked for a portion of the show’s earnings. Producers were reluctant, and she was eventually fired.

She later went on to star in the seven-season sitcom “Step by Step,” for which she again won a People’s Choice Award.After the Fall: How I Picked Myself Up, Dusted Myself Off, and Started all Over Again ,” which took readers behind the scenes during her time on set of “Three’s Company,” including her fight for a raise.magazine in 2020, Somers said she was best known for her commercials for the ThighMaster, a fitness device she marketed in the 1990s.

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