00:00Billy Mays here for the Gourmet Quick Chop.
00:02Billy Mays here for the Steam Buddy.
00:04Billy Mays here for OxiClean.
00:06The high-volume TV pitchman Billy Mays was found dead in his Florida home.
00:1150-year-old Mays was found dead by his wife at their lavish home in Tampa, Florida.
00:17Billy Mays was America's greatest television pitchman.
00:21He revolutionized the world of home shopping in the 1990s.
00:25Why am I smashing my hand with this hammer?
00:27This is a real live skunk.
00:29I trust ICANN for my family's health, and so should you.
00:33His brash, loud sales pitches sold billions of dollars' worth of products
00:38and brought him into almost every American home,
00:42making him a multimillionaire in the process.
00:45I think everybody in the United States knew who Billy Mays was.
00:49He was absolutely ubiquitous.
00:51Every place you'd turn.
00:52He became a cultural icon.
00:54Hi, Billy Mays here with another fantastic product.
00:57Billy was one of those guys in those early days of home shopping to really break through.
01:01He was a natural-born salesman.
01:03I mean, you know, it was theater, and he cracked it.
01:07Yet the unrelenting pressure of being a national celebrity took its toll.
01:11His life was in such chaos because of that kind of fame.
01:15He did have a lot of stress.
01:16He did worry over things.
01:19But at the very height of his fame, Billy Mays died suddenly in his sleep at the age of just 50 years old.
01:26The circumstances of his death are surrounded by controversy.
01:30We are withholding a cause of death opinion until all the studies have been completed.
01:37Billy Mays' autopsy cites heart disease as the cause of death.
01:42However, at the time, reports show that Billy Mays was living life to the fullest with a loving family.
01:49He showed no sign of slowing down and no obvious signs of ill health.
01:54So what was the real reason for Billy Mays' sudden and mysterious death?
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