Alan Hamel is a Canadian entertainer, producer, and television host.
. Hamel co-hosted the Canadian children’s television series Razzle Dazzle (1961–64) and hosted two syndicated game shows in the late 1960s: Wedding Party (1968) and Anniversary Game (1969), where he first met Suzanne Somers, whom he later married in 1977
. In the late 1970s, he hosted The Alan Hamel Show, a popular daytime talk show on CTV
During that time, he hosted the ill-fated People television series on CBS for a few months in 1978
Hamel eventually became a producer, often working on projects involving his wife
He occasionally performed as an actor as well, also sometimes on Somers’ shows
Hamel has two children, a son Stephen and a daughter Leslie, from his first marriage to Marilyn Hamel.
He met his second wife, actress and author Suzanne Somers, who was ten years his junior while she worked as a prize model on The Anniversary Game
Hamel and Somers lived together for about ten years before marrying.
A rabbi and a Catholic priest officiated at their wedding1. Suzanne Somers died in October 2023