{"id":5144226,"date":"2023-07-31T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/?p=5144226"},"modified":"2023-07-31T13:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:02:34","slug":"suzanne-somers-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/suzanne-somers-husband-5144226\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Somers\u2019s Husband Alan Hamel: Everything To Know About Their Marriage &#038; Her Other Spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The &#8216;Three&#8217;s Company&#8217; star has had a very long-lasting marriage with producer Alan Hamel for decades. Find out more about Alan and his marriage to Suzanne Somers here.<\/h3>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-1\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suzanne Somers is an actress, most well-known for her role on &#8216;Three&#8217;s Company.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>She&#8217;s been married to Alan Hamel since 1977.<\/li>\n<li>Suzanne was married once before and shares a son with her ex.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-2\"><strong><a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/suzanne-somers\"  >Suzanne Somers<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is one of the most <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2020\/02\/19\/suzanne-somers-diet-secrets-tips-food-book-aging\/\"  >adored sitcom actresses<\/a> of all time. She starred in the <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2022\/04\/27\/suzanne-somers-john-ritter-hologram-threes-company-reboot\/\"  >classic show\u00a0<em>Three&#8217;s Company\u00a0<\/em><\/a>from 1977 to 1981. The actress, 76, has also been featured on the cover of\u00a0<em>Playboy\u00a0<\/em>and she&#8217;s starred in many other popular shows and movies, such as\u00a0<em>She&#8217;s The Sheriff, Step By Step,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Serial Mom.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-3\">By her side for much of her career has been her husband\u00a0<strong>Alan Hamel,\u00a0<\/strong>87. The pair have been married for nearly 50 years, and it&#8217;s clear they keep their marriage very exciting! Unfortunately, Suzanne has had a series of<a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/suzanne-somers-health-5144131\/\"  > health issues<\/a>, including a <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2023\/07\/31\/suzanne-somers-cancer-again-break-work\/\"  >recent battle with cancer,<\/a> but Alan revealed that she&#8217;s currently cancer-free, and taking some time to recover in a July 2021 interview with\u00a0<em>Page Six.\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;On June 6, she got an all-clear, but cancer is tricky and we will now closely monitor everything going forward,&#8221; he said. Find out everything you need to know about Alan and his marriage to Suzanne here.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5144263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5144263\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5144263\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/suzanne-somers-husband-embed1.jpg?w=620&#038;resize=620%2C899\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"899\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5144263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzanne and Alan have been married for 46 years. (Broadimage\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>How did Suzanne meet Alan?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">Suzanne was very early in her acting career when she met the man she&#8217;d marry. She was working <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2020\/03\/30\/suzanne-somers-playboy-75th-birthday-photo-shoot\/\"  >as a prize model<\/a> on the game show\u00a0<em>The Anniversary Game,\u00a0<\/em>which Alan was the host of. Suzanne opened up about their first date in a May 2021 interview with\u00a0<em><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z2S18n6ztn8\"  target=\"_blank\"  >Daily Blast Live<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">She joked that she &#8220;did everything my mother told me not to do,&#8221; but after over 50 years together, they&#8217;re clearly still going strong. &#8220;I was 20 years old, and I thought I may never get another chance, so I had my first pot brownie. It\u2019s the first time I ever went to a man&#8217;s hotel room, and it\u2019s the first time I ever slept with a man on the first date. But we&#8217;re here all these years later. I just knew he was the one,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<h2>Suzanne &amp; Alan got married in 1977<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5144264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5144264\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5144264\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/suzanne-somers-husband-embed2.jpg?w=620&#038;resize=620%2C973\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"973\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5144264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzanne and Alan regularly collaborate on tons of different projects. (Matt Baron\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">While the couple first met on\u00a0<em>The Anniversary Game,\u00a0<\/em>Suzanne and Alan tied the knot seven years later in 1977. The\u00a0<em>Three&#8217;s Company\u00a0<\/em>star celebrated their long-lasting love in a January 2023 Instagram <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CnCsXQlpiaW\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;ig_rid=aec19446-710f-4fdc-a08f-b2d4e8f271a6\"  target=\"_blank\"  >post<\/a>, showing photos of them back when they first started going out next to more current pictures. &#8220;Still smiling 55 years later,&#8221; she wrote in the caption.<\/p>\n<h2>Alan is a former TV host &amp; producer<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">As mentioned above, Alan was a TV show host for a few game shows, including\u00a0<em>Wedding Party.\u00a0<\/em>He also served as the host of the kids&#8217; show\u00a0<em>Razzle Dazzle\u00a0<\/em>and the talk shows\u00a0<em>The Alan Hamel Show<\/em>, which\u00a0<strong>Alan Thicke\u00a0<\/strong>later took over. He also filled in for a few other famous talk shows, like\u00a0<em>The Merv Griffin Show,\u00a0<\/em>per\u00a0<em><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0357519\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_4_nm_4_q_alan%2520hamel\"  target=\"_blank\"  >IMDb<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">Besides hosting, he did take on small acting roles, making guest appearances on shows like\u00a0<em>All In The Family, She&#8217;s The Sheriff,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Lou Grant.\u00a0<\/em>He later put his focus on being a producer, often collaborating with his wife on projects like\u00a0<em>Nothing Personal\u00a0<\/em>(1980),\u00a0<em>Keeping Secrets\u00a0<\/em>(1991), and\u00a0<em>Exclusive<\/em> (1992).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5144265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5144265\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5144265\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/suzanne-somers-husband-embed3.jpg?w=620&#038;resize=620%2C876\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"876\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5144265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzanne and Alan smile together at the 2000 &#8216;Vanity Fair&#8217; Oscars Party. (Bei\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Suzanne &amp; Alan co-host a Facebook Live show<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\">While <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/suzannesomers\/?hl=en\"  target=\"_blank\"  >Suzanne<\/a> is taking a break from work as she recovers from her recent battle with cancer, the couple began holding virtual happy hours are on Facebook Live during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The couple goes live from their home bar (which they call &#8220;Big Al&#8217;s&#8221;), and the\u00a0<em>Dancing With The Stars\u00a0<\/em>alum revealed she has a fondness for tequila. &#8220;This was so uplifting. There was no divide. Everybody was happy\u2026. I drank a little tequila,&#8221; she told\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/lifestyle\/suzanne-somers-virtual-happy-hour\"  rel=\"nofollow\"  target=\"_blank\"  ><em>Fox Business\u00a0<\/em><\/a>in 2020.<\/p>\n<h2>Suzanne has said they have a great sex life<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-10\">Even though Suzanne and Alan are getting older, they&#8217;re not letting it slow down their sex life. The actress revealed that she and her husband often have <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2021\/03\/21\/suzanne-somers-husband-alan-hamel-sex\/\"  >sex multiple times a day.\u00a0<\/a>She&#8217;s credited hormone replacements for both of them <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2021\/05\/25\/suzanne-somers-secret-sex-husband-alan-hamel-interview-video\/\"  >keeping them sexually active.<\/a> &#8220;He\u2019s been on hormone replacements for over 20 years,&#8221; she said in the above-mentioned <em>Daily Blast Live\u00a0<\/em>interview, where she also mentioned that their tequila cocktails may also help. &#8220;I may be in my 70s now, and I always thought when I got in this decade that it would be over and I just want people to know it ain\u2019t over if you know how to take care of yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Suzanne&#8217;s first husband<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-11\">While Suzanne and Alan have had a long-lasting and loving marriage, he&#8217;s not her first husband. She got married to her first husband\u00a0<strong>Bruce Somers\u00a0<\/strong>in 1968, with who she had her son <strong>Bruce Jr.,\u00a0<\/strong>57. The couple split up in 1968. Alan adopted Bruce Jr. when he and Suzanne got married. Alan was also married once before Suzanne. He wed\u00a0<strong>Marilyn Shapiro\u00a0<\/strong>in 1958, and they had a son\u00a0<strong>Stephen\u00a0<\/strong>and a daughter <strong>Leslie.\u00a0<\/strong>Now, Suzanne and Alan are <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2020\/06\/11\/suzanne-somers-look-alike-granddaughter-bond-hair-care-products-watch\/\"  >proud<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2020\/12\/18\/chord-overstreet-dating-suzanne-somers-granddaughter-camelia-romance-report\/\"  >grandparents<\/a> to <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2021\/05\/01\/suzanne-somers-granddaughter-camelia-daisy-dukes-shorts-photo\/\"  >three granddaughters\u00a0<\/a><strong>Camelia, Violet,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Daisy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Three&#8217;s Company&#8217; star has had a very long-lasting marriage with producer Alan Hamel for decades. 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