Alan Hamel Defends Romance With Suzanne Somers’ Co-Star

Two years after the “Three’s Firm” actress handed away, her widower, Hamel, sparked courting rumors after he was seen getting cozy along with her former co-star, Joanna Cassidy.

Now, the Canadian tv persona explains why transferring on with a well-known face is exactly what his late spouse needed.

Hamel broke his silence on his new relationship with actress Cassidy, explaining that Somers’ dying want impressed it.

“When it was clear that Suzanne was not going to get well within the ultimate days of her life on this planet, earlier than she crossed over, she stated to me, ‘I do not need you to mope round after I am gone,'” he recalled.

The “Razzle Dazzle” star talked about that he hadn’t heard the expression “mope round” earlier than that dialog. Nonetheless, when he requested Somers if she would not need him feeling sorry for himself, she urged him to take pleasure in his life.

Hamel stated his late spouse advised him, “I would like you to reside your life. You will have an incredible life. You will have an incredible household. You will have nice buddies. I would like you to reside your life.”

The 88-year-old held on to these phrases to seek out the energy to maneuver on after 18 months of mourning.

As for his alternative of recent main girl, Hamel advised PEOPLE Journal that Somers would have notably appreciated Cassidy as a result of they bought alongside. Each ladies starred alongside one another within the 1985 miniseries “Hollywood Wives.”

“Suzanne actually appreciated her so much, and Suzanne additionally was an incredible skilled. So the 2 of them bought alongside nice,” he confessed.

He admitted to the publication that he and Cassidy first met within the ’70s when she was a visitor on his discuss present, “The Alan Hamel Present.” They’d, nonetheless, reconnect a decade in a while the set of the miniseries.

“She and Suzanne spent fairly a little bit of time collectively throughout the manufacturing of that miniseries, and I used to be there so much, virtually every single day, and so we reconnected, and that was it, interval,” Hamel declared.

The entertainer, who stated he appreciated that each ladies did not take part in “Hollywood BS,” added:

“She’d [Somers] be very blissful that I am blissful. Completely, yeah. She needed that. Our relationship was primarily based on every of us making the opposite one blissful.”

Regardless of understanding the “Buffalo Invoice” actress for many years, it took the assistance of Hamel’s son, Stephen Hamel, to spark a connection.

Apparently, after operating into Cassidy at a movie screening, Stephen struck up a dialog, throughout which he introduced up his dad, telling the actress that he believes they’d get alongside.

“She stated, ‘Who’s your dad?’ Stephen didn’t know that I had a relationship along with her going again [to] the ‘70s. And when he talked about his dad is Alan Hamel, she stated, ‘I do know Alan. In fact, I might like to see Alan,” the TV host recalled of his son’s interplay.

Cassidy and Hamel quickly hit it off and have been courting for months now. “We now have so much in widespread, and we have had fun courting, and that is type of the place we’re,” he shared.

Hamel and Cassidy’s romance grew to become public information earlier this week after they stepped out collectively.

As The Blast reported, the pair was photographed wanting cozy whereas strolling the oceanside on the Malibu Seashore Inn on Carbon Seashore.

Hamel and Cassidy twinned in matching white caps bought from the resort present store. They have been later seen grabbing a lobster lunch at Broad Seashore Oyster Firm earlier than leaving collectively in a black SUV.