Gerry Ryan: Irish Broadcaster, Dead at 53...

Gerard "Gerry" Ryan
(4 June 1956 – 30 April 2010)



Gerry Ryan was a veteran Irish full-time presenter of radio and part-time presenter of television employed by RTÉ. He presented The Gerry Ryan Show on radio station RTÉ 2fm each weekday morning from 1988 until his death.

After a stint in pirate radio, the often controversial and outspoken DJ joined Ireland's state broadcaster RTE in 1979.

The Gerry Ryan Show began in 1988 and quickly became one of Ireland's most popular radio programmes.

Ryan has also hosted several television series including Secrets, Ryantown, Gerry Ryan Tonight, Gerry Ryan's Hitlist, Ryan Confidential and Operation Transformation.

In 1994 Ryan co-presented the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest with former newsreader Cynthia Ni Mhurchu.

Ryan separated from his wife Morah in March 2008 after 26 years of marriage. The couple had five children together.

Ryan was found dead in his bedroom after officers were called to the scene when a friend couldn't gain access to the apartment in central Dublin.

Ryan is survived by his five children and his wife.

RIP

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John Forsythe: Actor, Dead at 92...

John Lincoln Freund
(January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010)



John Forsythe, born John Lincoln Freund in New Jersey, was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning three decades, as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the 1950s sitcom Bachelor Father (1957–1962); as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the 1970s crime drama Charlie's Angels (1976–1981), and as ruthless and beloved patriarch Blake Carrington on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty (1981–1989). He hosted World of Survival during the 1970s.

Forsythe was briefly married (1938-40) to Parker McCormick, with whom he had a son. Three years after their divorce, he married Julie Warren. They had two daughters and were together, for more than 50 years, until her death in 1994. Nicole Carter became his third wife in 2002.

Forsythe is survived by his third wife Nicole Carter. He is also survived by his son, Dall; his daughters, Page Courtemanche and Brooke Forsythe; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Forsythe died at his home in Santa Ynez, California, after suffering a bout of pneumonia. He was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006.


RIP

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