Alan Hamel (born June 30, 1936) is a Canadian entertainer, producer and television host.Hamel was born in Toronto, Ontario. He is Jewish. He attended the television arts programme at Ryerson Institute of Technology in 1954 but did not graduate.Hamel co-hosted the Canadian children's television series Razzle Dazzle (1961–64). The show featured a talking turtle, Howard. In the late 1960s he hosted two syndicated game shows which aired on all the ABC owned and operated TV stations as well as others: 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. People magazine considered him "Canada's leading TV talk show host". Wikipedia