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Billy Mays the famous pitchman of well known TV products like Oxy Clean and Orange Glo has died at the age of 50, Tampa police report that Bill Mays was found dead in his home by his wife. Foul Play is not suspected.
Billy Mays is the fourth “celebrity death” in less than a week, the recent celebrity deaths started with Ed McMahon when he died on June 23, 2009 who was than followed by Farrah Fawcett who died of cancer on June 25, 2009. Before Farrah Fawcett’s death could set in the news broke that Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital suffering from possible cardiac arrest, the pop legend Michael Jackson died at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009 as well.
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A quick Billy Mays tribute video with Billy Mays recording a commercial
Billy Mays was also recently featured on the reality tv show “Pitchmen” which followed Mays on his marketing journeys, and the search for new products to pitch. Billy Mays was the best of the best when it came to taking a virtually unknown product and turning it into a sales machine, Billy Mays will be missed. You can remember Billy Mays and his famous “Hi, Im Billy Mays!” by checking out the Top 10 Billy Mays Commercials.
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Billy Mays last Twitter message (thanks to @shotofcoffee)
@realBillyMays
Just had a close call landing in Tampa. The tires blew out upon landing. Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.3:01 PM Jun 27th from txt
Billy Mays was on a US Airways flight that had a rough landing at Tampa International Airport yesterday after a tire blew out on the aircraft.
The Twitterverse deems June 28th #ALLCAPSDAY
In honor of Billy Mays the tweeps and tweople of twitter have deemed June 28th #ALLCAPSDAY with the hash tags #ALLCAPSDAY as shown previously. For the rest of the day you can set your CAPS LOCK IN HONOR OF BILLY MAYS! search.twitter.com search #ALLCAPSDAY
Tampa Runway closes after rocky landing by US. Airways Flight 1241 on Saturday, Billy Mays was on the US Airways flight.
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Tribute to Billy Mays the “Infomercial King”
There are currently over 7000 Twitter references and Twitter searches for Billy Mays as seen on Tweet Volume. search: billy mays
Billy Mays Dies Twitter Search
R.I.P Billy Mays is the number one search on Twitter based on Twitter Search
Breaking Billy Mays News
- Billy Mays last interview has just been released and posted on TMZ
Billy Mays’ unexpected passing has family and fans wondering if an airplane mishap in which he was hit on the head injured him enough to cause death. continue
It is now being reported by TMZ that Billy Mays was not wearing his seatbelt on the flight that landed rough at Tampa International Airport on Saturday, TMZ goes as far as to report that Billy Mays hit his head during the rough landing.
The FAA is already deflecting blame for the death of Billy Mays — claiming the legendary TV pitchman wasn’t wearing a seat belt when he took a shot to the head during a rough landing on a flight he was on yesterday. continue
TMZ is now reporting that the FAA Spokesperson that made the initial statement about Billy Mays (from the article above), has now gone on to say that they she did not make the statement at all. FAA Spokesperson takes back Billy Mays seatbelt quote.
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Wow…And it just doesn’t stop!
I actually just watched his show a few days ago. Even though it sucked and I couldn’t stand him, still very sad. The man had talent without a doubt.
Now go buy some mighty putty
I liked Billy Mays, I liked the way hey pitched the products that he pitched and I also had a tremendous amount of respect for how Billy Mays chose the products he chose to pitch.
When Billy Mays sold something, regardless of how annoying some people might have found him to be he SOLD IT. Think of Billy Mays and think back to how many products you have heard him pitch, than think of how many times you heard those commercials or infomercials? He was a legendary pitchmen, I can assure you the moron that wears the headset for the sham wow (Vince) will never be hired to push as many products as Mays has, nor will his pitch be as well respected as Billy Mays.
He was a Legend at what he did in the same right that Farrah Fawcett was the hottest angel and Michael Jackson had the most pop, Billy Mays had the best pitch.
He lived right over here in Dunedin, Florida.
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It seems that June is a bad month for the entertainment industry, which is a real shame, it wasn’t until I read your post that I realised who he was..
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@Karen I can understand that being the case, Im sure a lot of people don’t tie the Billy Mays name with the Billy Mays Infomercial King.
I really think it’s a shame that Billy Mays went when he did, he was just getting into that next level of status. Especially with the reality show “Pitchmen” that he had going on.
I am also very curious to see what the cause of Billy Mays death was, which we won’t know until the autopsy is done on Billy Mays. I am curious if it will tie into the rough landing the he was a passenger in during the US airways flight landing at the Tampa International Airport yesterday. I am curious if he sustained an injury or something along those lines that maybe went undetected.
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It’s so sad that he has died. He is so young and from his info commercials was so vibrant and full of life. I bet he suffered internal brain injuries from the incident experienced on flight he took. R.I.P Billy.
I really wasn’t a big fan of him until I started watching his show. I always thought he was an annoying infomercial guy until I saw what goes into their infomercials, how they pick their products and how he had a great business mind.
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pretty crazy. Makes you wonder who will be next. I’ve grown to like Billy over the last few months.
So sad
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Billy Mays will probably become more popular by association with all the other celebs that died this week
@Grant as sad as that might be your probably right
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Hi, One day Everyone will know the taste of “DEATH”, so in my view no need to worry about it. I am so sad to hear this news about Billy Mays.
my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ?we leave it to you to decide?.
Billy Mays was a fantastic pitchman.If you didn’t want to buy the product before the infomercial, you were sure sold on it after. That’s why its is always best to turn the TV off. He was very annoying, but that is how he got and maintained your attention. He will be missed.
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