Actor died at a Los Angeles hospital after a ‘prolonged’ illness, days before her 80th birthday, her publicist says

Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy WKRP in Cincinnati, died on 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.