The widower of Suzanne Somers, Alan Hamel, confirmed that he was going out with the former co -star of his deceased Joanna Cassidy – with the blessing of Somers.
Before SOmers died of breast cancer at 76 in October 2023, the Compagnie des Trois Star encouraged Hamel, 88, to find the company.
“Suzanne told me that when we knew that the end was close not to” be silent “and live my life,” said the former television presenter Page six.
Hamel, 88 years old, revealed that he is in a relationship with Cassidy, 79, Wednesday, after being Spotted by leaving a Malibu restaurant With his arm in the arm earlier this week.
Cassidy appeared alongside Somers in the 1985 mini-series Hollywood wives. Hamel, who married Somers in 1977, said that he often met Cassidy while his wife was shooting the show.
“I met her in the mid -1980s on several occasions during the production of Jackie Collins’ Hollywood wives“He said Page six. “It was very cordial.”
They reconnected after the death of Somers, when Hamel’s son Stephen – of his first marriage to Marilyn Hamel – made Cassidy during a projection and suggested to him to meet his father, ignoring that they already knew each other.
Hamel, who also shares a son, Bruce, with Somers, sprang from Cassidy, calling him “extremely accomplished” and a “grandmother for her adult children”.
Cassidy – who was married to Kennard C. Kobrin, a doctor, from 1964 to 1974 and shares two children with him – discovered successful films like Blade Runner, Who framed Roger Rabbit And Don’t tell mom the baby-sitter is dead Before going to television in the 2000s in programs like Six feet under.
Hamel congratulated her as “the most hardworking and active actress in Hollywood for more than 50 years”. Noting that “presents herself for many fundraising for the first stakeholders and is the staff of her four cats,” he added, “she is not a Hollywood BS, and we laugh a lot.”
Hamel previously spoke of losing Somers and the depth of his sorrow in October 2024, which marked the first anniversary of his death.
“Suzanne missing is probably not a fairly powerful word, because in the past 55 years, we have not even spent an hour of interval,” he said to the Daily mail at the time. “It’s heartbreaking.”
Thinking about his current relationship with Cassidy, Hamel said he felt “lucky” to have him in his life – even if their future together was uncertain.
“Most men would like to have a Joanna in their lives,” he said. “I do not know where this relationship is going, but what I know is that being in the time of the cocktail of my life, I am blessed with a magnificent family – thank you for the incredible Suzanne – a privileged life and our business that we created 50 years ago.
