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Catherine Bach, the actress who performed Daisy Duke on the traditional TV present The Dukes of Hazzard, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles on an emergency foundation. Her former co-star, Ben Jones, who performed Cooter Davenport, shared the information on social media, asking followers to maintain her of their ideas and prayers. In keeping with Jones, Bach has an embolism that seemingly developed after a current surgical procedure.

Bach’s portrayal of Daisy Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard, which aired from 1979-1985, made her a family identify and impressed the enduring Daisy Dukes vogue pattern. Her character’s signature cutoff denim quick shorts offered tens of millions of posters and cemented her standing as a intercourse image of the time.

As Jones wrote in a since-deleted submit, “Breaking information! Our expensive Catherine Bach has simply been admitted to the hospital in Los Angeles on an emergency foundation. Catherine has an embolism that most likely developed on account of a current surgical procedure. We’ll preserve you posted, and Catherine will share her story as quickly as she is recovered. She is so, so sorry to must cancel her look at Cooterโ€™s this weekend. Please preserve her in your ideas and prayers. Love, Ben and Miss Alma.” Bach has needed to cancel her scheduled appearances at Jones’ Cooter’s Place location in Nashville for the weekend.

Since The Dukes of Hazzard ended, Bach has continued to work within the leisure business, taking over varied performing roles in TV reveals resembling Monk, Hawaii 5-0, and The Younger and the Stressed, the place she performed Anita Lawson from 2012-2019. She has additionally reprised her position as Daisy Duke in a number of Dukes of Hazzard reunion movies and tasks.

Now 71 years outdated, Bach was born on March 1, 1954. The Dukes of Hazzard solid, together with Bach, has aged remarkably nicely because the present’s debut in 1979. The present was a tv phenomenon that not solely launched the careers of its solid members but additionally turned a cultural phenomenon, with its solid members changing into family names and intercourse symbols of the time.