Somers’ Widower Alan Hamel Embraces Romance with Costar Joanna Cassidy
A soliloquy of renewal unfolds beyond grief’s shadow, as Alan Hamel steps into the lingering light of love once more. The Hollywood ennui lifts when we learn that twenty months after Suzanne Somers’ poignant farewell, her devoted husband, now eighty-eight, has kindled an unexpected flame with Joanna Cassidy, Somers’ former costar in the glittering realm of Hollywood Wives.
In a voice as gentle as a page turned late at night, Hamel confides to Page Six that he feels “fortunate” to have Joanna gracing this season of his life. Their connection, years in waiting, first stirred on The Alan Hamel Show in Canada during the seventies, when Cassidy, then a guest star bursting with talent, earned mutual respect rather than romance. Decades flew by; both souls followed separate stars under the celestial canopy, each bound by vows, until destiny’s quiet cue arrived courtesy of Hamel’s son, Stephen. After a chance encounter at a screening, Stephen sensed that his father and Somers’ on-screen sister could bridge past and future, unaware that their acquaintance spanned nearly half a century.
Love, it seems, has its own script. Hamel—who vowed forever to Somers in the late seventies—recalls his late wife’s blessing with a soft smile: “Don’t mope around. Live your life. We will see one another after you cross over.” In interviews with Today, he continues to extol Somers’ memory, praising her as the lodestar who held their blended family together and the architect of joy that buoyed them through tragedy and triumph alike. Her two children, along with Hamel’s daughter, carry forward the legacy of compassion she wove into every intimate gathering and camera-lit moment.
Though whispers of new chapters often stir the currents of tabloid waters, this experience is anchored in tangible moments of shared laughter, mutual admiration, and decades of history. As E! News first reported, the couple has navigated pandemic years apart yet found a path back to one another’s company. Their comfort is not born of novelty but of an enduring camaraderie, rekindled as a vessel of hope for Hamel’s cocktail-hour years.
What awaits them in this gentle renaissance? Only the unwritten lines of tomorrow hold the answer. And so, in poetic fidelity to life’s ceaseless odyssey, we watch Hamel and Cassidy turn a new page—bearing the weight of the past while stepping ever forward. The quill rests, yet the story’s heart still beats with unanswered longing.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and E! News, Page Six, Today
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