Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond passes away at 44 after a 3-week battle with cancer
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Last Updated: Feb 02, 2021, 11:41 AM IST
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Diamond, best known for playing the quirky, nerdy Screech on the hit 90s sitcom, was hospitalised last month.
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Diamond, best known for playing the quirky, nerdy Screech on the hit 90s sitcom, was hospitalized last month in Florida and his team disclosed later that he had cancer.
Related Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with cancer, according to his representative. He was 44.
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US comedy actor Dustin Diamond, best known for
Saved by the Bell, has died, aged 44.
He died due to carcinoma on Monday morning in Florida, just three weeks after being hospitalised.
“In that time, it managed to spread rapidly throughout his system; the only mercy it exhibited was its sharp and swift execution,” his agent, Roger Paul, said in a statement. “Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to lie submerged in pain. For that, we are grateful.”
Diamond shot to fame as the loveable geek Samuel “Screech” Powers on
Saved by the Bell from 1989 – 1993, but he reprised the role for spin-offs