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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 29 > TV pitchman Billy Mays, 50, dies at Florida home

TV pitchman Billy Mays, 50, dies at Florida home

By Mitch Stacy / The Bulletin
June 29, 2009

TAMPA, Fla. — 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....

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