Suzanne Somers on Her Iconic Sitcoms and the Secrets to Her Success | Leading Ladies of the ‘90s
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- ET’s Kevin Frazier sits down with Suzanne Somers at her home in Palm Springs, California, where the 74-year-old actress dishes on how she was fired from ’Three’s Company,' reconciling with John Ritter just before his death and filming TGIF favorite ’Step by Step' with Patrick Duffy.
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She is 74 years young and still fabulous
She was fabulous all the time, at every age, till the moment she was gone. ❤️❤️❤️
Suzanne, you are still beautiful at your age!! I always loved you! All three of you should have been paid the same amount! No matter if you are male or female, you all make the show great!!
Underrated performer. I'm glad she is starting to get more appreciation now while she's alive, something I feel Ritter didn't get.
not underrated at all
John Ritter wasn't underrated either.
@@jlbaker2000 They both were underrated.
Ms. Sommers, I'm 78, and still camping and hiking, that's what keeps me young ! Yo, you go girl! When my mother was 82, she told me , I'm 82 physically, but, I'm 18 in my mind! Now, I'm living that way.
Same here! If you stop doing it you loose it. Activity keeps the fragility away!
Suzanne Somers is one of my heroes we use to crack up laughing all the time watching threes company in the 1980's miss those days 😁
Me too 😁
After all these years she's still beautiful & vibrant looking 💯❤👏🏽
I am so sad.... She was a vibrant beautiful nice woman... I am in total shock she has passed... May she rest in peace... 🙏🙏.. 😢😢.. 🕊️🕊️.. 🌹🌹🌹🌹....
Her voice and the way she speaks is very powerful and wise❤️
What a woman! What a life! She was dropping gems in this interview. Fly high, beautiful and powerful soul
One of my favorite character in threes company
Love her so much ! I grew up with "Step by step". This series instilled so many values in me. I will be forever grateful to them
I think that it was all three of them that made the show special. She keeps saying that it was just her and John Ritter, but it wasn't. It was the combination of the three. Janet was also wonderful in her own way. That's just how I see it.
I 100% agree with you. Janet was awesome too. It was the three of them that made the show funny and special.
I couldn’t stand Joyce. She overacted and was so jealous of beautiful, successful Suzanne. Joyce was not an attractive woman.
I watch her on TH-cam and IG and she truly is young in every way. Suzanne Somers has a beautiful family and she tells wonderful stories.
❤ Love her
i watch her too on instagram, The way she and her husband interact are so sweet, hot and sexy. Theyre amazin!
No one else looks like her. Her beauty was unique, and truly stunning!
One of my favourite actresses! Just a beautiful human being!
She wrote beautiful poetry, a couple of autobiographies, was a phenominal business woman, had a great marriage, her kids adored her. She had a great life!
I don't care for celebrities usually but was very saddened to hear of Suzanne's passing. She fought courageously for her health and went to great lengths to help others step outside the system to get the help they needed too. She was a brave and kind lady who will be missed💔
Rip. Suzanne Summers. You were amazing. And brilliant, and sweet, and kind, and humble. I love her cancer in this interview. I love that she did not shy away from her sexuality. Of being a woman, when you’re in the mood, you’re in the mood, I can’t help but respect that. You know, they had a undeniable attraction for one another., And who could deny that, they had love, they blended their families together. They created a safe, Haven, for their families. To be happy, and you can tell that she was very much in love with her husband, as her husband was in love with her. And goddamn, she looks so good to be the age that she Was when doing this interview. Man I can only hope and wish I still look that way when I get in my 70s. Peace and love to Alan Hamill, her husband, I know this is got to be a more trying time for you, and my heart goes out to Suzanne Summers, sons, and the whole entire family. Rest in peace beautiful angel. And travel well with the angels. You’re safe now, in the Lord of the heavens, and in God’s arms. ❤❤ 18:54
She looks so adorable in the yellow hat and jacket. Loved her. Learned so much from her about health and alternative medicine.
Her books were good
I love her on step by step !
man I miss the 90s sitcoms, family matters, who's the boss, just Classic entertainment
I love that she said “when one door closes crawl through the window.” I have often heard the phrase “ when one door closes,another one opens”,but that is often not the case. She phrased it perfectly.
Ha ha ha I remember when my mom watched three's company and we laughed so much 😁 I love Suzanne Somers 💞
She looks fantastic after all these years. 👍🏼 May she enjoy many more years of life.
She looks beautiful 🤩
I watch all the re runs of Threes Company whenever they’re on. I could watch them over and over again. I never get tired of them. I watched them all in the 70s and 80s and they are still good. 💜❤️🥰😷
I idolize Suzanne Somers..She's the real deal actress/ dancer/ singer...Our favorite triple threat..Love her on her TH-cam channel with Alan and friends.. I agree 3's Company would have been on air for years ...
John and Suzanne were the show period TTTTTTTT...💕
Could you please link that channel? I can’t find it. Thankyou
Don't forget she's the thigh master queen!!
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Hello Eliza...
Logo channel I apologize for the 2 months delay
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Ronnie .... Hello
Most definitely 👑
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This lady is quite an inspiration!!
We love you Suzanne!
I LOVED this! what an interesting interview. She is more fabulous than I already thought. I was addicted to Step by Step and still watch re-runs today. So sad that she got fired but how brave of her to be a trailblazer, it turned out great anyway.....It was always going to with her talent.
She does a weekly broadcast from home. You can watch it on TH-cam and Facebook.. She has her own TH-cam channel, and product line.
@@brkitdwn I watched several clips of her reunion with Joyce DeWitt on her TH-cam show and learned so much! I appreciate all 3 of them. I never enjoyed the show much after she left. She was out of her league as far as acting and was lucky to be hired in the beginning. And she now admits she had a hand in much of the negativity because of her immaturity and lack of self worth.
WOW! What a woman ! We love you and will always have you in our hearts. ❤️❤️❤️ God bless you and miss you. Rest in peace out Angel.
That was a great interview. RIP Suzanne.
love Suzanne then and now amazing soul and beauty!
I love her character and her as a person
When I was in 5th grade back in the day. The teacher actually okayed me putting up the classic Suzanne in blue bathing suit on the classroom wall!😍
What a strong lady. I just can't believe she's gone rip Sweet Angel 😇 🙏 ✝️ ❤😢
She is iconic asf live Susan !!! Such a beauty!
Suzanne
Kevin Frazier was such an elegant interviewer. He knew the right questions and is such a gentleman!
You're so real !honesty is the greatest way to live !this is why you're so loved! I can relate to the voice you talk about!you and Allen are great together! Love your books!all your organics products!God blessed every one you touched with your life!
Still Love Crissy Snow. Think I've memorized the script..Lol...still watching Three's Company almost every day. Suzanne..I think you are the most Positive person of any of the Stars.
Good interviewer and love Suzanne Sommers- what an interesting, lovely lady!
Great interview Gorgeous Suzanne Somers🌟
I just see beautiful and glow when i watch Suzanne,,,watching clips of her in interviews,,,and this clip i just watched is so amazing,,,keep up the beautiful work Suzanne❤
Wonderful interview
Great role model. And now we have the Kardashians! That do nothing but show off their wealth and make more $ from it! This lady has helped so many women with her books and interviews and speaking out for us I am so grateful for her
EXACTLY! Chrissy was Real!🙏❤️🧘♀️😂😂😂
RIP Suzanne 😢❤
Great interview!!
PSA: There is a 24-hour Three's Company channel on Pluto TV.
Yesss I just discovered it a few days ago now I play it non stop!!!!
lol I know right? I was watching it on Pluto. That is so cool. I have to say Krissy snow, I love when she does that little thing when she does a little snorting, like I don’t know how she does it, but it is so funny when she snores or something or when she’s about to laugh or something, that shit cracks me up when she does that. yes Suzanne Summers, definitely crafted that role. I can’t believe she’s gone!!! Wow!!! And she passed away one day, shy of her 77th birthday, may she rest in peace. 18:54
I think my favorite episode. With Krissy, Snow. Was the episode when she ate that chocolate pie, that was the pie, that Jack was supposed to present in the bake off. And she ate the pie point!! That was so funny. 18:54
She keeps saying the 2 of us but the show was called Three’s Company. She seems to dismiss Joyce DeWitt.
The success of the show Friends was on the premise that Courtney Cox was the star 🌟 & they were going to pay her more but she said no, let us all be paid the same; eliminated adamosity, problem solved & no frueds & no one quit! I felt like Suzanne & John Ritter made the show..it simply wasn't the same after she left...& she had every right to ask for more money, she didn't do it right out of the gate but 6 yrs after the show was on air...maybe if she had approch it like Courtney & included Joyce it might have gone better for her.
I totally agree!
Yes hindsight valuable- but Alan did eventually turn this loss into a huge forward by lucrative marketing of her ‘brand’: Suzanne (‘Chrissy’) Somers !!! ❤
YES! Who knew we would be learning new things from Crissy Snow? Nice!
Even with Suzanne's limited acting experience when she got the role of Chrissy, she had great extinct on who her character was, and how she wanted to play her. I never saw Chrissy as dumb,..rather more innocent and naive to the world.
R.I.P Suzanne Somers 😢
My favorite show of all time!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Suzanne's success was as she stated, never let fame go to her head. She never took any of that serious except to make money to build a business and a loving family. Others in that place should take a look at her business model. Make the money, don't act like you're better than anybody else and use the money to build a successful brand and take excellent care of your family. Smart lady
🧐🤫She aged really well. Natural look.🤫👏🏿
She does not look 74 at all..... she look good
R.I.P. 😪
“When one door closes, crawl thru a window.” Wow, that’s deep. I used to love that show.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Three’s Company didn’t jump the shark when they got rid of Chrissy…..
All of television did!
RIP Suzanne Somers 😿
She keeps saying that they only spoke again right before he died, but both she and John Ritter said in a book about the show that they reconciled long before that. She's also a little dismissive of Joyce DeWitt, which I don't like. Joyce DeWitt is a wonderful actress, and brought so much to the show.
Watch her TH-cam reunion with Joyce. She admits to making mistakes and takes more ownership.
@@lisgreen5675 I have seen that. It did seem more like she was owning her role in all of that, though I don't think she was wrong to ask for more money considering how huge she had become as a celebrity. But to hear her speak in this clip, she acts as if it was the Jack and Chrissy show, and Janet was there solely to set up their antics. Joyce DeWitt has frequently said she was happy to focus on perfecting her role in the show and wasn't eager to be a celebrity.
@@jonthomas8569 I agree with you. Love Joyce.
She was not a dumb blond!
She was beautiful and making us happy and laugh!🎉
MAGICAL!❤🎉
That you, angel!🙏❤
That's the perfect color for Suzanne. Yellow ! Sunny and bright just like her. She never let fame go to her head. Always nice and kind and always the same.
Good! She agrees with herself!!
Wow! You did an awesome job! 👏congratulations on your success & really good work on how you ate your food!
Good interviewer in Kevin Frazier.
Love her
❤❤❤
I love her personality. And her blue eyes are mesmerizing
Loving this series!!!
RIP Suzanne Somers ❤
Rest easy, Dear Suzanne
Yaaaasss!!!!
love her giving us Carmen Sandiego realness...
I don’t agree with her analogy that Joyce Dewitt was Ethel. People were not dying to see her with John Ritter again. They were dying to see all three of them together again. I thought she really shunned Joyce in this interview. The show was called Three’s Company for a reason. She also failed to mention that she stopped showing up for work and they had to rewrite scripts at the last minute. That’s why everyone got angry at her. And that’s why she was fired. The producers did not brainwash the rest of the cast. They all suffered because of her antics.
Don’t stay at a job and worry about what happens to the others and I’m all for it. Why would she if they weren’t going to pay her what she wanted?
I love her❤️
Awww I love her!
STEP BY STEP was a great show that has been kinda swept under the rug. It was a wonderful show that I will put right up there with FRIENDS and other classic 90"s shows
When she talks out of character as herself, she is even a more amazing woman. Thank you Ms. Sommers!
In every interview she says she was on for 6 years. She was on the show 4 years and a few episodes on year 5.
I do think she forgets that it took three to make that show , Joyce was important in that show too
Suzanne Somers was very competitive with Joyce DeWitt.
RIP 10/15/23 😔
Chrissy was very sweet and had an innocence about her
he started mixing up She's The Sheriff with her character on step by step! at 13:40
I looovveeeddd her on Step by step. Such a great show
I wish someone would tell her that her contract negotiation drama didnt happen in year 6 it happened at the beginning of year 5. She only appeared in 2 full episodes of Season 5.
74 I want to be like her she eat really healthy
there were two woman that held the gamete in the 70-80's Farrah and Suzanne they were beautiful but they were strong independent woman glad they were our roll models...not to mention the great hair we all wanted!! Thanks
good interview
I grew up with step by step as I am the exact same age as the girl who played Al.
I’m not sure I think I saw this yesterday. But I’ll have to go back and see if I can find it cause I want to rewatch it. But I think it was like an interview. I’m not sure if it was with Joyce DeWitt I wanted to that it was, I don’t know if they were, asking you a question. Something went wrong. Because I think she stopped the interview. And Suzanne Somers said she did not have any issues or problems with joy to it, I don’t know, they didn’t talk for like was it too decades, I think? Someone can please correct me if I’m wrong here, but I was just curious, so also, in one of the interview that saw, she mentioned it might have been this wind that I’m just watching right now where she mentions that John Ritter, calls her up and wants to talk about a dream sequence for the show eight simple rules. She was at the head rush her getting her hair done. And on the phone was John Ritter, wanting to discuss that. Well, as it turns out, I don’t think they ended up using, Suzanne Summers, or, trust you I think it was the characters that portrayed, Krissy and Snow in his dream. But she also mentions that they spoke, and a month later he passed away. Also someone please answer this question for me when was this interview that Joyce, and Krissy, Snow, a.k.a. Krissy know I’m sorry, Suzanne Summers, did it interview and I don’t know, if that was a few years later after John Ritter passed away? In that interview to me personally. Seems like it was a bit forced. Or that it really truly was not in either one of their hard to do it. It didn’t seem real as if they were excited to even see each other. But that’s just my thoughts. Now don’t get me wrong. I like Suzanne Summers. Love during threes company. Love her step-by-step. I never did watch. She’s the shirt. So I don’t really have much to say about that show.but I think they were both amazing actors as far as choice do it as well. It’s sad the way things end it between them. But I don’t know if they ever remained talking to each other even after that interview or what I have no clue. But I imagine now. That Suzanne Richard passed away three days ago now. She passed away on Sunday. And it’s now Wednesday. I’m pretty sure the news got to Joyce duet. Of Suzanne Summers passing. I apologize I am using dictation on my iPhone device so I want to apologize for the typo. I am visually impaired. And so sometimes the words may not come out the way it is intended to, but, hopefully you get the chips of what I’m trying to say, and this comment section. Thank you. Y’all all have a great day. Rest in peace Suzanne Summers. You will be missed.
I love Suzanne Somers but I wonder if it would have been different if Joyce DeWitt would have joined her in this salary fight. Since according to SS it was a female wanting what a male is getting, if the two actresses would have joined who knows.
From what I've read, it was her husband Alan who went to the studio to try and negotiate a raise. She said it was Alan who came home afterwards to tell her she'd been fired. Maybe if she'd wanted an equal playing ground, she shouldn't have sent her husband to do her bidding wars...it was kind of hypocritical.
She allegedly also wanted partial ownership of the show and suggested a Chrissy Snow movie and animated series.
She handled it wrong. I don’t blame Joyce for not getting involved. I’m not going to lose my job behind some drama.
@@mdooms76 I agree. I just wonder what would have happened if the 3 of them would have gone to the network asking for the same salary the way the cast of Friends did.
@@christianraularroyo2497 3's C is more like Seinfeld (and less like Living Single and Friends) !
R.I.P Suzanne Somers
She is so SMART!!!
In my personal opinion, the only real professionals, the real actors, were John Ritter (precious gem, still underrated) and Joyce DeWitt (another precious gem, still underrated too). No doubts, no questions about that. Once for all. What a fuck!
When 0ne door closes,
go threw the window 👈🤣
She'll be missed
Thank you, Susanne, for all the laughs throughout the years.
R.I.P. 🎭🕯🥀
Chrissy Snow.
Love your videos 💓💓😍
Suzanne Somers was the best on three's company
Suzanne asked for too much money.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hcShe asked to be paid the same amount as her male costar. That is not “too much money.” It is equitable money.
@@joniheisenberg Suzanne also wanted 10 percent of the show's profits.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc Most likely asking for an additional caveat above a matching salary was a negotiating gambit. She had to demonstrate that she was not going to back down. As she pointed out they had to “put her in her place.” She ended up making more money on her own terms. It would be interesting to know if the executives who denied her lasted in the industry.
@@joniheisenberg Suzanne Somers also missed a couple of the show's tapings on purpose.
Loved her!
Gloria Swanson was a health advocate also but she looked better at 74 than Summers does here at the same age particularly in the face. Imagine that. Not sure though if Sommers has had any surgery at all.
"I'm chronologically old." Profound intelligence!
You are a beautiful woman and young forever ❤️
LOVED Chrissy snow!! Lousy situation that happened to you. Anna Farris definitely emulated you in Mom!
The show was good with and without Chrissy.. Suzanne stated if she stayed on they could have done 12 seasons. I disagree they need fresh characters for new storylines and the addition of Cindy and Terri gave the show that. Cheers probably wouldn’t have lasted 11 seasons if Shelly Long wouldn’t have left.The addition of the character Rebecca on Cheers opened up many more storylines to come.I also want to add that Joyce Dewitt as Janet was just as much of a star as Suzanne was on the show.I never thought of her as “ Ethel”
Yep, I feel the same way. If that was the case the show would've fallen apart after she left. It didn't. I always thought Jack and Janet had the best chemistry.
I of seen far too many people write that.
doso don In school I was taught to say by accident and not on accident.Now either is accepted.
Totally disagree...the show for me was never the same after Chrissy...I didn't like any of the subs ..If I love Lucy would have changed out Ethel & Fred it would have changed the whole dynamics of the show..& it wouldn't have worked....if its not broke don't fix it! After 6 yrs she asked for a raise how that ended in her getting fired was insane...hard to believe it wasnt even open for negotiations...I think it would have fair better if she included Joyce DeWitt.
@doso don In a home?! So is that where we put the more wholesome types these days.