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CHEERS, KIRSTIE!

MAKING your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. So, began the theme song to Cheers, the beloved ’80s show that made her famous – and it’s a line that fitted her as well as the bikini she regretted wearing on the Oprah show.

Kirstie Alley went from house cleaner to sitcom darling to movie star and all the way to almost zero again.

She was ridiculed for putting on weight, vilified for being a Donald Trump supporter and scorned for being a Scientologist. But each time she put on her big girl panties and just kept going.

So, when news broke earlier this month that she’d died, there was an outpouring of sadness. Poke fun

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