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Ed McMahon, Legendary TV Host and Personality, has Died at 86

Paul Short — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:00:23 +0000

Edward Leo Peter McMahon, Jr., (Ed McMahon) the legendary TV personality born March 6, 1923, has died at age 86, according to his publicist.

Ed McMahon was most famous for his 30 year stint as Jonny Carson’s announcer from 1962 to 1992 and also as host of the popular 1990’s talent show, Star Search. He was also well known as the presenter of the America Family Publishers sweepstakes (Publishers Clearing House) where he would show up at people’s homes and present sweepstakes winners with their prizes.

Ed McMahon died peacefully in his sleep at the UCLA Medical Center. His publicist and friend, Howard Bragman, has confirmed Ed McMahon died just past midnight in the early morning of Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. d McMahon was 86.

Ed McMahon Hospitalized, Condition Said to be “Extremely Serious”

JR — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:44:48 +0000

Ed McMahon is in a hospital’s intensive care unit, published reports indicate, in what’s described as an “extremely serious” condition. McMahon has been hospitalized for a month, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Ed McMahon has struggled with bone cancer and related complications for some time. His current hospitalization is said to be related to pneumonia and “other medical problems.”

“It’s serious,” a spokesperson tells Reuters. “He’s an 85-year old man with a number of medical issues going on.”

McMahon’s 86th birthday is next week. As for where he is hospitalized, his representatives indicate only that he is not at Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai, a facility against which he currently has a medical malpractice suit pending.

McMahon is best known for his role on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson, as well as his later gig as the host of “Star Search.”

Saint Donald Saves McMahon

Dominic Rivera — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:06:21 +0000

Donald Trump announced that he would save Ed McMahon’s Beverly Hills mansion from foreclosure by buying it and leasing it back to McMahon.

Nice. I am deeply touched by his act.

It was just his way of adding another property under his portfolio, masquerading as a good deed. Or maybe, he really wanted to help the former sidekick of Johnny Carson. He has not worked for 18 months because of a neck injury, defaulting $4.8 million in mortgage loans.

Trump said that he does not personally know McMahon but he watches him every night when he was still studying in Wharton School of Business.

Since Trump is so selfless with this act even to someone that he does not personally know, I would like to invite him to save the one in every 464 household in the U.S. that received foreclosure filing last month.

By then, we can call him Saint Donald.