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William Darrell Mays Jr. (July 20, 1958 – June 28, 2009) [2] [3] was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson.Throughout his career, he promoted a wide variety of products, including OxiClean, Orange Glo, Kaboom, Zorbeez, and Mighty Mendit.
Following Mays' death in 2009, Sullivan became the sole star in season two (as well as a spokesperson for OxiClean line of products from Church & Dwight). The show follows how new products are selected by the firm in association with DRTV company Telebrands and its CEO, A. J. Khubani , the products' origins and their inventors, and the ...
Billy Mays' son, Billy Mays III, has worked hard to keep his dad's memory alive in the 15 years since his death The 37-year-old tells PEOPLE what it was like to witness his dad's rise to fame and ...
After Billy and Dee Dee divorced, Billy married his second wife, Deborah, and the couple welcomed their daughter, Elizabeth, around 2006. She was 3 years old when her father died in 2009 at age 50.
Anthony Sullivan (pitchman) (born 1969), English producer and pitchman known as "The OxiClean Man" Tony Sullivan (born 1949), former Australian rules footballer;
from the government to the reassuringly blue-collared Billy Mays, who pitched dozens of products, including Oxy Clean and the "Shamwow," until his death in 2009. As for the Ginsus, the knives were ...
Stevenson compared Offer to earlier, "more upbeat" television pitchmen like Billy Mays and the Home Shopping Network hosts and concluded that Offer's "smooth-talking condescension" was more suited to the present "zeitgeist" than the "earnest fervor" of spokesmen like Mays and Ron Popeil. [15] Consumer Reports reported that the infomercial for ...
As the direct-marketing industry copes with the sudden death of pitchman Billy Mays, it's worth considering the fragile relationship between celebrity endorsement and death.