PREVIEW

Actress Jill Jacobson dies aged 70. The Falcon Crest star passed away on 8 December at a nursing home in Culver City, California, following a long illness, her friend Daniel Harary told Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. Her manager Ben Padua described his client as "beautiful, soulful, hysterically funny (and) elegantly raunchy”. "Jill was a total spitfire of an actress with comedic timing straight out of a Marx Brothers' flick and Hollywood glamour right from its golden age. Jill took us on so many adventures and she was an absolute blast. Thank you, Jill. We'll see you in our dreams.” Jacobson is perhaps best known for playing private detective Erin Jones in the soap Falcon Crest between 1985 and 1987. The actress, who was a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society, discussed her battle with oesophageal cancer on the Jim Masters Show in September, according to People. Admitting her "intense" cancer battle "kind of took me out of the game for a while", she added, "And now I'm so grateful, I just want to keep going, I want to help people. It makes you want to help people.”
Instructions: THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT