Burt Reynolds‘Ex -woman and old WKRP in Cincinnati star Loni Anderson is dead. She was 79 years old.
“We have a broken heart to announce the death of our dear wife, mother and grandmother,” Anderson’s family said in a press release Associated Press Sunday, August 3, announcing his death. According to his long -standing publicist, Cheryl J. KaganAnderson died in a Los Angeles hospital due to a “prolonged” disease, AP reported.
US Weekly contacted the representative of Anderson to comment.
Anderson was married in Burt from 1988 to 1994. The pair met for the first time in 1981 The Merv Griffin showWhen she was still married to the actor Ross Bickell And Burt was involved with her colleague actress Sally Field. The pair began to go out together a year later and continued to play with each other in the years 1983 Ace Stroker.
In 1988, during their wedding ceremony on the Ranch of Florida of 160 acres of Burt, the late actor presented in his time a “yellow canary diamond of seven carats surrounded by smaller white diamonds”, as indicated above by People. At the time, Anderson was 41 years old and Burt was 52 years old.
Frazer Harrison / Getty Images throughout his decades under the spotlight, Loni Anderson had a lot of wild celebrities meetings. When I was married in Burt [Reynolds]I had never met Fred Astaire and loved him, “he said exclusively Anderson to us. […]
The pair shared a son, Quinton ReynoldsWho said that Anderson was “the best decision we have ever made in all our relationship” during the disclosure in 2021 of a bronze bust on the Hollywood tomb site of his ex-husband. (Burt died in 2018 after undergoing a heart attack. He was 82 years old.)
“I think back at the beginning of our relationship, it was so much, oh, gosh, tabloid,” she said previously to AP. “We were only a show all the time. And it was difficult to have a relationship in this atmosphere. And in one way or another, we did it through many ups and downs.”
Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson
Frank Trapper / Corbis via Getty ImagesAnderson then detailed his dramatic marriage and his subsequent divorce in the 1995 autobiography “My Life in High Talels”, saying to AP That year that “if you are going to write on yourself, you have to do warts and everything.”
“You can’t even say the most beautiful things about yourself, because you say the truth,” she added at the time.
In addition to his high -level relationship with the former Hollywood star, Anderson made the headlines for his award -winning performance on the successful TV comedy WKRP in Cincinnatifor which she received two nominations at the Emmy. She also won roles in Easy street,, A letter to three women, White Hot: The mysterious murder of Thelma Todd and co-star in Lifetime’s Ladies of the 80s: a divas Christmas next to Linda Gray,, Donna Mills,, Morgan Faichild And Nicollette Sheridan.
“My heart is broken to hear the death of the wonderful Londi Anderson!” Fairchild wrote via X shortly after the news of his death broke out. “The sweetest and most graceful lady! I’m just devastated to hear this.”
Anderson is survived by her daughter Diedra, whom she shared with her ex-husband Bruce Hasselbergher son Quinton, his fourth husband, Bob Flick, as well as his grandchildren and his fine little.
