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Thats really sad. RIP.


I wonder if he will be embalmed with Orange Glo? Oh, come on. You know the jokes will start sometime!



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It's really sad when anyone that young passes.

RIP Billy.

....at least we still have the Sham Wow guy!

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It's really sad when anyone that young passes.

RIP Billy.

....at least we still have the Sham Wow guy!

Their is no Justice.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

Crazy


TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead in Florida home

By Erin Durkin
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Updated Sunday, June 28th 2009, 3:01 PM
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Spirited TV pitchman Billy Mays was found dead at his Tampa home earlier this morning, police said.

Mays, 50, lent his trademark booming voice to infomercials for products like OxiClean and Orange Glo.

His wife, Deborah Mays, found him at their home Sunday morning, the Associated Press reported. Tampa police said there were no signs of a break in or foul play.

An autopsy will be done by Monday afternoon to determine the cause of death.

"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. "Our family asks that you respect our privacy during these difficult times."

Mays, who got his start peddling products to passersby on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, has plugged Mighty Putty, the Ding King dent repair kit, and, most recently, the website ESPN360.com

"With every product you see me on TV with, I've turned down 100, 150 more," Mays told the News earlier this month, while in New York for a look alike contest. "I've been on TV for 11 years, and all I have is my good name."

"I compare myself to a big-league slugger, a quarterback, the doctor who delivers the baby," he said. "I'm not an inventor, but I'll take your product to the next level."




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Already been posted Bingo.

I looked, but not well enough I guess. Late to the dance again.

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Sad but true (Bingo, remember, you ALWAYS want an official "Helter Report" confirmation on all celebrity deaths. Here's the "Billy Mays official confirmation" )



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BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

Unfortunately, not this time.

does this mean that the products he pushed will sell better?....like Michael Jackson's catalogue

Who is he?

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Who is he?

Sells Late night sh*t on Late night TV (cable stations that go dead around 2am - 5am)

I've seen him on day time TV. Every time he came in the tube I ahd to turn doen the volume, as his voice was like a cannon. Rest well Billy...

Perhaps he's not known outside of North America? One thing to note is that after he started promoting Oxyclean, other manufacturers have now come out with their version and also the Orangeglow, companies like Pledge now have orange cleaners. At least some of the products he promoted seem to be legitimate cleansers!
I didn't mind seeing him but I can't stand Vince, the Shamwow guy!

From the dye that he had in his beard!

Mrs Tatters: Did you hear that Willie Mays died?
Tatters: Willie Mays died? Willie Mays the ballplayer?
Mrs Tatters: No. Willie Mays the pitchman.
Tatters: Huh?

"No play for Mr. Gray"

my mother also announced that willie mays was dead...

my first thought when i figured out who she meant was - another death caused by a head injury?? same pattern as natasha richardson...hit head, felt fine, felt bad, died.

it means that we need to really be grateful for keith - he went through the same sequence but oh-soooo-fortunately, skipped the last step!!

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my mother also announced that willie mays was dead...

That's funny. For the benefit of non-Americans, Willie Mays is a retired American baseball player who played centerfield for the New York Giants, the San Francisco Giants, and, briefly, the New York Mets, during a career that spanned the years 1951-1973.

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my mother also announced that willie mays was dead...

That's funny. For the benefit of non-Americans, Willie Mays is a retired American baseball player who played centerfield for the New York Giants, the San Francisco Giants, and, briefly, the New York Mets, during a career that spanned the years 1951-1973.

It should also be pointed out,that he is still very much alive.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

i bought orange glow.....and i also met Billy Mays.

he signed a photo to my wife & me...saying... "keep it clean!"

i'll scan it when i find it.

here's a news report which speculates on the cause...

How can a person be fine one minute and dead the next?

It happened to Natasha Richardson in March. After hitting her head on a ski slope in Canada, the Tony Award-winning actress was seemingly fine, laughing about being clumsy before heading back to her hotel room.

But a short-time later, Richardson complained of severe head pain and from there her condition deteriorated, she went into a coma shortly after arriving at a Canadian hospital and was taken off life support two days later.

Now, some are wondering if that same fate befell TV pitchman Billy Mays, who died Sunday after suffering a head injury Saturday after the airplane he was on had a rough landing at Tampa Bay's airport.

It's "something we call the ‘talk and die’ syndrome,” Dr. Steven Flanagan, director of Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, told FOXNews.com at the time of Richardson's death.

“What this implies is that someone hits their head and they are seemingly OK initially," he said. "But then they get a rapid collection of blood — usually called epidural hemorrhage — and that means bleeding between the skull and the brain.”

Fifty-year-old Mays, who joked with a reporter about his head injury after the plane's landing Saturday, apparently told his wife later that night he was not feeling well when he went to bed. He was found dead the next morning.


IORR............but I like it!

autopsy reports show that Billy Mays died from a heart-related condition and not from head trauma as was speculated

with all due respect to the subject (RIP), as far as infomercials go, does anybody remember Tom Vu? his shows were better than any comedy show on TV at the time

brilliant video, and at the time many years back he was holding a seminar in my city, and I didn't go because Tom Vu wasn't appearing. I wanted to see the star of the show! (not that I believed in anything he was peddling - like I said, best comedy show on TV)

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brilliant video, and at the time many years back he was holding a seminar in my city, and I didn't go because Tom Vu wasn't appearing. I wanted to see the star of the show! (not that I believed in anything he was peddling - like I said, best comedy show on TV)

lol!...good story...Tom Vu rocks....got a waterfall in the front.. a waterfall in the back....a waterfall inside the house.....sick of hearing water!



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He was the greatest baseball player of the second half of the 20th century. That catch he made with the Giants on Vic Wertz in the 1954 World Series will live forever. His statistics were cheated by all those years playing in Candlestick Park. Nonetheless, he hung on past his sell-by date with the Mets.

You mean you're not talking about Willie Mays? Who the f-ck is Billy Mays? Some whippersnapper whose informercials are broadcast way past my bedtime! So what?



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my mother also announced that willie mays was dead...

That's funny. For the benefit of non-Americans, Willie Mays is a retired American baseball player who played centerfield for the New York Giants, the San Francisco Giants, and, briefly, the New York Mets, during a career that spanned the years 1951-1973.

It should also be pointed out,that he is still very much alive.

It should also be pointed out that Willie Mays is the greatest all around baseball player of all time, bar none.


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