Blonde bombshell, actress Loni Anderson, has died just days before she would have turned 80. Anderson was best known as her character Jennifer Marlowe, the receptionist of the fictional radio station “WKRP.” Her publicist said that Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital after a prolonged illness, The Associated Press reported.

Loni Anderson, whose role as Jennifer Marlowe on "WKRP in Cincinnati" was nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe awards, has died, her publicist confirmed Sunday. She was 79.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following a prolonged illness, said her longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan.