Valerie Harper to guest on 'Hot in Cleveland' for reunion show

Friday March 22, 2013 4:15 PM By Anne Machalinski

Photo credit: Getty Images | Actress Valerie Harper attends NBC's taping of "Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl" at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. (Jan. 8, 2012)

Valerie Harper, who recently revealed that she's been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, will reportedly guest on Betty White's "Hot in Cleveland" for a "Mary Tyler Moore Show" reunion episode.

Deadline reported Thursday that Harper, a 73-year-old Suffern native, would appear on the TVLand show with Mary Tyler Moore, Cloris Leachman, Gloria Angel and White, and that the episode is set to tape on April 5.

As a 1970s TV star, Harper won fame playing Rhoda Morgenstern on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff, "Rhoda." She won four Emmys in the role.

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In the wake of her cancer diagnosis, Harper has appeared on the "Today" show, telling host  Savannah Guthrie on March 11 that "it feels awful damn good to be open about [my illness], face it and see what [I] can do. If [I] die, [I'm] not a failure. [I'm] just somebody who had cancer, and that's the outcome."

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