Suzanne Somers Getting Shut Out?

HSN vendor-of-all-trades, Suzanne Somers, seems to be slowly getting shut out of HSN. She certainly hasn't been getting the air time or good time slots she once did.

Take a quick look at the Suzanne Somers Fashion page on HSN. I count about ten pieces of clothing, most of which are on clearance.

What's going on? Is HSN dropping her fashion line?

This just makes the recent slight with the gold mesh necklace seem more suspicious.

Some customers claim her quality has suffered over the years. Maybe she's not selling like she used to. Maybe she has a high return rate or bad product reviews. Or maybe HSN is trying to get away from the "Thigh Master" image.

For all you Suzanne fans, she has a great new website up and running. You can order an autographed copy of her new book, Breakthrough, about health and bio-identical hormone replacement and read the first chapter free. All her products are for sale (or will be soon) and there is even a community forum section under construction.

Whatever your opinion of Suzanne--and, trust me, everyone has one!--she has created an empire with the notoriety that she got off a silly little sitcom in the Seventies. How many other actors have had so much success parlaying a little bit of fame?

BTW, it's California Gold Rush Day on the Q today. You might want to check out Queen Bea's take on all those fruity tooty colors of gold ... and it's just getting worse!

Suzanne Somers Sued!

Suzanne Somers is being sued for $400,000 by former business partner, John Bouchillon, over a a restaurant chain that never happened.

Supposedly, he invested the money, but the partners couldn't agree if the chain should be organic or not. Couldn't they have just a done partial organic menu? That just seems like a strange thing for a business deal to fall apart over. And I have to wonder if she was planning on using all her Somersize products in the recipes.

Between this and the gold mesh necklace that wasn't, Suzanne's been having a rough time of it lately.

The Tale of Two Gold Mesh Necklaces

Watch the video below of Suzanne Somers presenting a suite of gold mesh jewelry. Even though the model was wearing a sample of the necklace, it was not for sale--only the bracelet and the earrings. Unbeknownst to Suzanne, there was a bit of a problem with the necklace.



The host, Colleeen Lopez, explained that the necklace shipment was delayed for some reason, which happens often ... or at least every now and then!

None of this would be suspicious or strange if it weren't for the fact that a few days later, a heavily-promoted Miss Paula Abdul shows up selling her own gold mesh necklace. Here's the presentation of Paula's version of the necklace:



Did HSN pull Suzanne's necklace at the last minute to placate Paula and her people? No matter what you think of Suzanne or her stuff (and I'm not a fan of either of these scarf-necklace things), she has been with HSN for years and has consistently made them money. Why would HSN dis a proven money maker for a crapshoot on Paula?