Somers and Dovolani danced together on season 20 of the hit ABC competition show.
"It really hit me like a ton of bricks," Dovolani tells ET's Nischelle Turner about the moment he heard the news while working on a commercial."I had it in my calendar to wish her a happy birthday because she was turning 77 in a couple days. When I found out, it just cut my legs from under me because she was such a beckon of light.
In spite of the sometimes grueling practices and the toll that ballroom dancing could have on her body, Dovolani shares that Somers never complained. Instead she smiled and danced though whatever she was going through.is such a machine and you could be successful in everything else, but you show up in the ballroom, all kinds of things happen," he says."But she always walked in with a pep in her step. She really wanted to learn. She was always respectful, she wanted to be pushed hard.
"It was so awesome," Dovolani says. "It was so crazy because watching the show -- learning how to speak English -- then getting to dance with Chrissy and being on almost like the recreation of the set. For me, it was like wow! It was a great moment for me to kind of live a nostalgic big moment of TV and TV icons. Because she was a staple of TV. I mean, everyone knows who Suzanne Somers is. The fact that I was able to really get to live that moment with her was pretty impressive.
Dovolani recounts the last time he saw Somers at an event where she was happy to be singing and performing and sharing an important life lesson with him.
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