Billy Mays, pitchman extraordinaire, dead at 50 - The Star-Ledger

Billy Mays, the bombastic, bearded TV pitchman best known for his OxiClean ads, was found dead in his Tampa, Fla., home early Sunday by his wife, People reports. He was 50.

People says that Mays was one of the passengers of a U.S. Airways flight that made an emergency landing in Tampa on Saturday because two of the plane's front tires blew out. But an airport spokeswoman says that none of the passengers reported injuries.

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