{"id":43333,"date":"2025-08-12T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/danielle-spencer-child-star-from-whats-happening-dies-at-60\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:02:21","slug":"danielle-spencer-child-star-from-whats-happening-dies-at-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/danielle-spencer-child-star-from-whats-happening-dies-at-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Spencer, child star from &#8220;What&#8217;s Happening!!,&#8221; dies at 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom &#8220;What&#8217;s Happening!!&#8221; has died. <\/p>\n<p>Spencer died Monday at age 60, a representative confirmed to CBS News. Spencer died after a yearslong battle with cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/12\/368c278b-407b-4e23-991e-2fe55fa5a198\/thumbnail\/620x920\/46dadac714999771d6276ea0400e3ebd\/gettyimages-458177953.jpg#\" alt=\"What's Happening!! \" height=\"920\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/12\/368c278b-407b-4e23-991e-2fe55fa5a198\/thumbnail\/620x920\/46dadac714999771d6276ea0400e3ebd\/gettyimages-458177953.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/12\/368c278b-407b-4e23-991e-2fe55fa5a198\/thumbnail\/1240x1840\/77f1dbb75418ab279879a2baef5a8cd3\/gettyimages-458177953.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Actress Danielle Spencer from the TV show &#8220;What&#8217;s Happening!!&#8221; poses for a photo in November 1976 in Los Angeles, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As Dee, Spencer was the smarter, more serious younger sister who offered a steady stream of deadpan roasts of big brother Roger &#8220;Raj&#8221; Thomas and his friends Dwayne Nelson and Freddie &#8220;Rerun&#8221; Stubbs. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ooh, I&#8217;m gonna tell mama,&#8221; would become Dee&#8217;s catchphrase. <\/p>\n<p>The show, set in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts and among the first on television to focus on the lives of Black teenagers, was based on the movie &#8220;Cooley High&#8221; and ran on ABC from 1976 to 1979. It had a long legacy thanks to its memorable characters, including the geeky Raj, the catchphrase-spouting Dwayne, the red-bereted dancing phenom Rerun, and Dee with her eyerolls and icy stare.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the production of the show&#8217;s first season, Spencer, then 12, was in a major car accident on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, that left her in a coma for three weeks and killed her stepfather, Tim Pelt. She would have spinal and neurological problems that would require multiple surgeries in the years afterward.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, she had emergency surgery for a bleeding hematoma, which stemmed from that 1977 car crash. In the immediate aftermath, a family spokesperson<strong> <br \/><\/strong>told the Associated Press she could only speak slightly and had to use crutches to walk. She had been suffering symptoms from at least 2004, when she had to use a wheelchair and relearn how to walk. In 2014, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double mastectomy. <\/p>\n<p>Thomas also appeared on a mid-1980s reboot of the show, &#8220;What&#8217;s Happening Now!!,&#8221; which ran for three seasons. <\/p>\n<p>She went on to become a veterinarian and advocate for animals. She attended the University of California, Davis, and UCLA, and got a doctorate in veterinary medicine from Tuskegee University in 1993. <\/p>\n<p>Spencer continued to dabble in acting, including an appearance as a veterinarian in the 1997 Jack Nicholson film &#8220;As Good as it Gets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her former &#8220;What&#8217;s Happening!!&#8221; co-star, Haywood Nelson, called Spencer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNQckc6xVEj\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in an Instagram post<\/a> a &#8220;brilliant, loving, positive, pragmatic warrior.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We celebrate Danielle Spencer and her contributions as we regret to inform her departure and transition from a long battle with cancer,&#8221; Nelson said. &#8220;We have lost a daughter, sister, family member, &#8216;What&#8217;s Happening&#8217; cast member, veterinarian animal rights proponent and healer, and cancer heroine,&#8221; Nelson continued. &#8220;Our Shero. 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