Billy Mays, Infomercial Star, Passed Away June 28th, 2009

[triverse]

I am sure a lot of us here knew him, Billy Mays, as the infomercial "yeller" but he had a funny side and that was brought out thanks to the show Pitchmen.  Mr. Mays, is no longer with us, he passed away the morning of Sunday June 28th, 2009 in his sleep, he was found by his wife.

TAMPA, Fla. – Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50.

Tampa police said Mays was found unresponsive by his wife Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m.

There were no signs of a break-in, and investigators do not suspect foul play, said Lt. Brian Dugan of the Tampa Police Department, who wouldn't answer any more questions about how Mays' body was found because of the ongoing investigation. The coroner's office expects to have an autopsy done by Monday afternoon.

Mays' wife, Deborah Mays, told investigators that her husband had complained he didn't feel well before he went to bed some time after 10 p.m. Saturday night, Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.

"Although Billy lived a public life, we don't anticipate making any public statements over the next couple of days," Deborah Mays said in a statement Sunday. "Our family asks that you respect our privacy during these difficult times."

Thanks to Ed Boon for the tip, more can be read on

Yahoo.com about this unfortunate turn of events.

[Thor]

Yeah I read about this on another forum and I thought they were just trying to start crap....(it was a chan) but when I saw it on CNN I couldn't believe it. Man 3 last week and what's going to happen this week?

[Mister Zero]

This is sad! When I ehard this I thought it was fake again, people were saying he died about half a year ago, but this time it was real. We're losing good people all over the place.

What the hell is going on?

[triverse]

From what I understand the situation with Billy Mays is that he hit his head pretty hard when his plane came in for a landing and had complications (it lost a wheel).  He had mentioned not feeling good Saturday night before laying down so it may have been a brain annuerism of some sort.

[Thor]

I know his wife mentioned him not feeling well before going to bed but I didn't know about the airplane.