The pitches are immediately recognizable - enthusiasm, intensity, and from the heart. Pitching products brought Billy Mays fame and fortune. His commercials aired some 400 times a week. Brian Fasulo has known Mays for 12 years, starting at the Home Shopping Network. Fasulo said, "He was well aware that he was blessed, because there's only one Billy Mays."
Mays' wife found him not breathing at their home in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday morning. When Tampa Fire and Rescue arrived, he had passed away. A friend of Billy Mays, Todd Schnitt, spoke of talking to him just the night before. Schnitt said, "I spoke to him a little before 10 o'clock last night, and he said that he was a little tired. He had some stuff fall on him on the airplane. He hit his head on the US Airways flight. It was a rough landing at TIA, and he was just getting ready to go to bed."
Mays was onboard the US Airways flight that blew its front tires landing at Tampa International Airport on Saturday. He posted on Twitter about the rough landing incident. However, a police spokesperson caution, "As for trying to link Billy Mays' untimely death to the emergency landing of the US Airways flight would purely be speculation."
The family has asked for privacy as funeral arrangements are made.
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