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 together with her former co-star, Joanna Cassidy.

Now, the Canadian tv persona explains why shifting 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 better within the remaining 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 need you to stay your life. You may have an excellent life. You may have an excellent household. You may have nice associates. I need you to stay 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 selection of recent main girl, Hamel advised PEOPLE Journal that Somers would have notably favored Cassidy as a result of they received alongside. Each girls starred alongside one another within the 1985 miniseries “Hollywood Wives.”

“Suzanne actually favored her loads, and Suzanne additionally was an excellent skilled. So the 2 of them received 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 speak present, “The Alan Hamel Present.” They might, nevertheless, 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 loads, nearly every single day, and so we reconnected, and that was it, interval,” Hamel declared.

The entertainer, who stated he favored that each girls 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 realizing the “Buffalo Invoice” actress for many years, it took the assistance of Hamel’s son, Stephen Hamel, to spark a connection.

Apparently, after working 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 together 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 would 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. “Now we have loads in frequent, and we have had fun courting, and that is sort of the place we’re,” he shared.

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

As The Blast reported, the pair was photographed trying 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.