Taylor Wily, 'Hawaii Five-0' and 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' star, dies at 56
Taylor Wily, the former sumo wrestler who was a scene-stealer in the “Hawaii Five-0” reboot and projects such as “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” died on Thursday at 56 years old.
Taylor Wily, the former sumo wrestler who was a scene-stealer in the “Hawaii Five-0” reboot and projects such as “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” died on Thursday at 56 years old. No cause of death has yet been revealed.
The news was confirmed by local Hawaiian news station KITV, as well as Instagram posts from “Hawaii Five-0” executive producer Peter M. Lenkov.
“I am devastated. Heartbroken. I’ll post some detailed feelings later. Just too hard right now,” he wrote, alongside of a picture with Wily, on June 20.
Lenkov followed it with another post of a photo montage and wrote, “T, as I told you many times, I fell in love with you at the first audition. You came in with a towel on your head mopping up sweat, and I was smitten. You charmed me into making you a regular… on the show… and in my life."
"You were family," Lenkov wrote. "And I will miss you every day, brother. PS: when we spoke last week, we laughed at how right you were from Day 1. ‘Five-0’ was our dream job. And I was so lucky we got to share that magic together.”
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