On the Gandee's General Store Facebook page, his cousin Ashley posted: 'I just wanted to let everyone know that the family feels that Shain died peacefully in his sleep without pain or suffering. Nothing is confirmed but they are thinking Saturday. So private or public hasn't been decided I will try to keep everyone updated. The news came at the same time of an outpouring of support and prayers for Gandee by fellow castmembers and other MTV reality stars, who regarded him as a kind man with a big heart.
Cara Parrish, Gandee's heartbroken love interest on Buckwild, tweeted: 'This is the emptiest I've ever felt. Please pray for [Gandee's parents] Dale and Loretta. Tragedy: Authorities found the Ford Bronco that belonged to Gandee in a ditch with all three men inside. He was just a baby. He Was A Funny Dude. She declined to provide details on the future of the show, but said that the network's thoughts 'continue to be with Shain's family first and foremost.
Recovery: Authorities needed ATVs to reach the vehicle, due to the muddy terrain. It is believed that the three men died of carbon monoxide poisoning, but autopsy results are pending. Now struck with funeral costs, Gandee's family has organized a fundraiser to cover burial expenses.
TMZ reported that his cousin Ashley is putting together an off-road trucking event to raise money for the Gandee family. The reality show follows Shain and eight other young adults in Virginia, all of whom love small-town American life. In mourning: Friends and neighbors walk up and down the gravel road leading to Shain Gandee's home in Sissonville, West Virginia. Gandee in particular shunned cell phones and social media, and was happiest when he was hunting and four-wheeling, according to the West Virginia Gazette.
Neighbor Swanna Frampton, who had known him since he was a small child, told the AP: 'Shain always rides with these kids in four-wheelers and trucks. They were just out riding and having a good time. Frampton said Gandee 'loved to live and have fun.
He was a great person. He did what [the show] wanted him to do, but he wasn't like that. He was a real person. If you needed help, if [you] needed something, he would come help you no matter what. Living the life: Gandee in particular shunned cell phones and social media, and was happiest when he was hunting and four-wheeling.
Authorities had been searching for the men since early Sunday morning. They were last seen around 3am on Sunday at Larry's Bar in Sissonville and they told people they were going driving off-road. Humphreys said state police were getting ready to send out an aviation unit to search for the men when authorities received a call Monday morning that a vehicle was found wrecked a few miles from Gandee's home in Sissonville, about 15 miles outside of Charleston.
Authorities found the Ford Bronco that belonged to Gandee in a muddy ditch with all three men inside. Gandee was in the driver's seat. The terrain in the area was 'very muddy, very rough,' Humphreys said. Tragic: Shain and his uncle David, who was also found dead, had decided to go four-wheeling after heading to a bar in the town of Sissonville.
Investigation: The terrain in the area was very muddy and rough, and authorities had to use all-terrain vehicles to get to the site. Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper said the news was devastating for the small community near Charleston. We're keeping them in our hearts and prayers. In a statement, MTV said: 'We are shocked and saddened by the terrible news about Shain Gandee, and those involved in this tragic incident.
We are waiting for more information but at this time, our main concern is for the Gandee family and their friends. Shain had a magnetic personality, with a passion for life that touched everyone he met and we will miss him dearly. From Buckwild.
Could he have 30 minutes of their time? It did seem like a movie. Best friends since childhood, Shain was a garbageman for the City of South Charleston, and Joey worked at a spark-plug plant. Here now was a spaceship from planet Hollywood landing in the sticks and promising imminent blastoff to faraway realms.
But then, reality TV is nothing if not a generator of lottery-style fame bonanzas, harvesting local repute into cable-network renown, and the producers were persistent.
They reached Joey, who promised to deliver Shain to them. Later, they gathered some of their friends for a bonfire. I mud wrestled my best friend. It went from there. Williams, who grew up in nearby Morgantown, before going on to bring the world Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy. Eventually, the cast would number nine, but from early on, it was clear that Shain, with his indifference to contemporary norms, was Most Likely to Become Snooki, a character so needle-in-a-haystack extraordinary you could build a show around him.
Shain also had a sly sort of charm. A thin slug of hair clung to his upper lip, and his words tumbled out in an Appalachian smear of stunted vowels and dropped consonants. He and Joey had grown up constantly breaking bones and getting stitches; once, Shain got bit by a copperhead snake.
The show was picked up by MTV, and the producers filmed for three months. But we still took the chance. The first inkling the cast members had that MTV had high hopes for Buckwild came when they learned the show was going to get the 10 p. Thursday slot being vacated by Jersey Shore after six seasons. In January, the day before the premiere, the producers sent Shain and another cast member, a nursing student named Shae Bradley, to New York City to promote the show. Shain gave Fallon a jar of deer meat he had preserved, which the host gamely dipped a finger into and sampled.
Shain was ready to go home, though. He loved being home. But as MTV went, so went the cable universe. Formerly educational channels have not only transitioned largely to reality programming but host much of its breakthrough content.
The Real World seems quaint now, alongside all the successive generations of reality-TV innovation. Thus the endless recycling of tropes grab bag of sub-functional dead-enders thrown together in a McMansion, etc. Reality-TV programmers get pitched the same shows so often that they have a term for them, mops, which stands for most-often-pitched shows. On one level, regional shows serve as pop ethnography, to the point of inspiring a University of Chicago conference on Jersey Shore studies.
Which is, of course, genius. In the big dig for the next prime-time-ready pocket of American strangeness, the richest mother lode by far turned out to be the American South, or more broadly Redneck America.
Last year, MTV faced a looming, immoderately tan problem. Jersey Shore, after six profitable though declining seasons, was coming to an end. Across the network, prime-time ratings were down by 31 percent over the previous year. The vehicle was in a muddy area along a worn path. Inside were the bodies of three people. There was no sign of foul play. The causes of death are still under investigation and will likely be determined following an autopsy by the West Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Shain Was an Active Outdoorsman. John Stevens, executive producer of Buckwild , told Entertainment Weekly that he always had trouble getting in touch with Gandee:. The parents have to go in the woods when I call to find him, Shain is usually out there on his ATV and motorcycle.
Its debut on January 3, , opened to an audience of 2. As the season went on, the show maintained a viewership of around 3 million people. It was the No. Sissonville , West Virginia, where the show is set, is a small town of about 4, people, 10 miles away from the state capital, Charleston.
This is a very sad and tragic event. We live in a very small community and this tragedy will affect many lives in Kanawha County. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gandee family. The full details will be released later by the Kanawha County Sheriff Department. By Paul Farrell. Updated Jun 21, at pm. For more on this story, click here: abcnews.
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