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' wife found him unresponsive Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. It was not immediately clear how he died. He said he was hit on the head when an airplane he was on made a rough landing Saturday, and his wife, Deborah Mays, told investigators he didn't feel well before he went to bed about 10 p.m. that night.

There were no signs of a break-in at the home, and investigators do not suspect foul play, said Lt. Brian Dugan of the Tampa Police Department, who wouldn't answer 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.

I heard this today...this bytes! We'r enow up to about five or six dead.


Sad times. I feel bad for his family.

50...again, way too young! Makes you realize you have to live each day as if it was your last, sigh...

This is really sad...I feel for his friends and family. I totally agree we need a break from all the deaths.

I don't recall a year when so many celebs died so close together.

Yeah....It is really SAD....then again, that is the nature of Life coming full Cycle....After sometimes, babies get to make an entrance (need to be born) into this World....just as the Older ones (all ages) leave us to make room for them!!!! It is excruciatingly painful when it is a life that...left early....before his/her time and with so much unfinished business!!!!