Billy Mays of show "Pitchmen" and infomercial fame has passed away

[StoriesInTheSoil]

Title says it all. Cause of death has not been determined.

[queenjane]

Wow, i just saw him on a late night talk show recently....seemed in perfect health. Only 50 years old. What a week for famous people.


Katherine

[Soul-O]

Wow, that is so sad... I was really enjoying him on "Pitchmen", and he seemed to be a very genuine, hard working, family oriented individual. I will say a prayer for his family.

[mata]

gosh, I just read he reportedly got a head injury on a flight (last night, I think it was)-he didn't have a seatbelt on and they hit turbulence or something like that. His poor family.

[november]

RIP BILLY!

[holyhelianthus]

Too young!!

for Billy and prayers for his family.

[JessicaS]

That is very sad.

[bajamergrrl]

[lovebug]

That is so sad! he was way to young!

[LeighB]

I just heard. Really sad. I watched him a few days ago on the Tonight Show. He was in good spirits and talking about his new show.

[Emmeline II]

I remember watching a show where a person had a relatively minor car accident but died about 24hrs later. It turned out that the man had a subdural haematoma resulting from the accident but had felt fine and did not want to be taken to the hospital. Natasha Richardson died from an epidural hematoma.

[onelilguysmommy]

I hadn't heard and was watching Drty Jobs last night and there was a commercial saying that they were having tribute marathon of Pitchmen.
It looked like it meant he died, but the season finale rather than series finale confused me.

That had to be absolutely horrible for his wife to find him and I feel so badly especially for his little girl. I'm tying to figure out why the couple of news things I saw said that Billy jr is his stepson?

[Cherie2]

I heard today they think it was his heart and not his head ...

[MysteryMama]