Billy Brown, Alaskan Bush People Star, Dies at 68
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Billy Brown, the patriarch in the reality-documentary series “Alaskan Bush People,” which follows an isolated Alaskan family, died Sunday night after suffering a seizure. He was 68.
“We are devastated to hear of Billy Brown’s sudden passing,” a Discovery spokesperson said in a statement to
Variety. “He has been part of the Discovery family for years a trailblazer, a lovely man and most definitely one of a kind. Our heart is with his family and those that knew him and loved him as they deal with this devastating loss.”
Billy Brown, Alaskan Bush People Star, Dies at 68
Natalie Oganesyan, provided by
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Billy Brown, the patriarch in the reality-documentary series “Alaskan Bush People,” which follows an isolated Alaskan family, died Sunday night after suffering a seizure. He was 68.
“We are devastated to hear of Billy Brown’s sudden passing,” a Discovery spokesperson said in a statement to
Variety. “He has been part of the Discovery family for years a trailblazer, a lovely man and most definitely one of a kind. Our heart is with his family and those that knew him and loved him as they deal with this devastating loss.”
Deadliest Catch Deckhand Mahlon Reyes Cause of Death Revealed 5 Months After He Died at 38 People 1/7/2021
The cause of death for Mahlon Reyes, who appeared on over a dozen episodes of
The 38-year-old deckhand died of acute cocaine intoxication on July 27, Brian Heino, the sheriff and the coroner at the Flathead County Sheriff s Office, told
His manner of death was ruled as being accidental, according to Heino.
A spokesperson for the Flathead County Sheriff s Office did not immediately respond to PEOPLE s request for comment.
At the time of his death, Reyes wife told TMZ that he had died in his hometown of Whitefish, Montana, a day after suffering a heart attack. Though Reyes initially survived the heart attack, he never regained consciousness and was taken off life support a day following his hospitalization.
Deadliest Catch deckhand Mahlon Reyes died of accidental cocaine overdose, coroner says
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Mahlon Reyes, 38, a popular deckhand on Discovery Channel s reality show Deadliest Catch, died in July from what officials now say was a cocaine overdose.
Over the summer, his wife, Heather Sullivan, posted on a memorial Facebook page that Reyes had suffered a heart attack July 26 in his hometown of Whitefish, Montana, and had been transferred to the intensive care unit.
“Mahlon never woke up there was too much time without oxygen, causing irreversible brain damage,” she wrote on July 31. “On Sunday night our family together made the hardest choice we ve ever made and that was to remove him from life support.”