Veteran radio and television personality, Jeremy Mansfield has died, his close friend, Samantha Cowen confirmed on Monday.
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“This morning a light went out in the world,” she said in a statement. “Jeremy Mansfield passed away just before dawn.”
“He died peacefully at home surrounded by family and friends and boundless love.”
“Jeremy lived large. He didn’t know how to do small. He loved hard, laughed loud and managed to combine mischief and mayhem with heart and soul.”
“He changed lives every day. When he wasn’t raising millions for charity, he was raising fresh hell.”
“Under a naughty exterior Jeremy had a huge soft heart. A lot of people got to see and hear that over the radio but he saved his vulnerability for a select few. He was determined the world be a better and shinier and funnier place and he drove the road to that destination at 1,000 miles an hour with no rearview mirror, all of the rest of us clinging on for dear life.
“We will miss him. The family is devastated and is asking for privacy during this time.”
Following a previous battle with leukemia, doctors confirmed that Mansfield had stage 4 liver cancer, in January. He was put onto treatment immediately.
Then, in August, the much loved media personality revealed that he was terminally ill and only subject to palliative care.
He added that he wanted to dedicate that he wanted to spend his remaining time having as much fun as possible.
“This dream team (as I now refer to them) will guide me through how to have as much fun in the time I have left and fulfil as many dreams, big and small, I have in my bucket list. A new journey for Kari and the rest of our families start today,” he wrote on Facebook..
In her statement this morning, Cowen added that Mansfield had continued to read messages of support from well wishes until the very end.
“He knew he was loved and it mattered. He mattered. There will be a new star in the sky tonight.
“As he would have said: good night, bunnies.”
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Picture: Facebook/ Jeremy Mansfield