“Hawaii 5-0” star Taylor Wily has died. He was 56.
Wily’s dying was confirmed by KITV 4 Island Information in Hawaii. Musician Lina Woman Langi, who had been shut buddies of Wily and his family members, introduced the information on her way of life present, “Island Life Reside.”
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I share the information of the passing of a Hawaii movie star who was additionally a household pal,” Langi shared on the printed on Thursday. “Taylor Wily, former wrestler, MMA fighter and actor handed away in the present day in Hurricane, Utah.”
She added: “He would look bodily menacing till you simply folded proper right into a hug, and that was it. My coronary heart is breaking.”
Her co-host, Davey D, described Wily as one of many “kindest” and “gentlest souls.”
His reason behind dying has not been revealed.
Wily — whose actual title was Teila Tuli — performed Kamekona on the CBS drama for 171 episodes for 10 seasons between 2010 and 2020. He reprised his function for seven episodes in “Magnum P.I.”
“Hawaii 5-0” and “Magnum P.I.” govt producer Peter Lenkov shared a photograph of himself on Instagram alongside Wily with the caption, “I’m devastated. Heartbroken. I’ll submit some detailed feeling in a couple of days. Simply too onerous proper now.”
In a second submit, he wrote that he “fell in love” with Wily after his first audition.
“You got here in with a towel in your head mopping up sweat, and I used to be smitten. You charmed me into making you an everyday… on the present… and in my life. You had been household. And I’ll miss you day by day, brother,” he penned.
“PS: after we spoke final week, we laughed at how proper you had been from Day 1. 5-0 was our dream job. And I used to be so fortunate we acquired to share that magic collectively.”
The actor’s sister Alyssa shared a video of her and their household paying tribute to him at a gathering on Thursday, per the Solar.
“Mourning and celebrating our favourite brother and uncle the way in which he would need us to,” she captioned a clip through Fb. “Household, Meals, Music and Good Vibes. Aurrrrrrighhhhh (in his voice).”
The late star’s nephews and nieces additionally sang Bob Marley’s 1980 tune “Three Little Birds (Don’t Fear About A Factor).”
“Singing for his or her uncle tee,” Alyssa wrote.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1968, Wily additionally appeared within the 2008 romantic comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” which starred Jason Segel, Kristen Bell and Paul Rudd. Different credit included “Radical,” “MacGyver,” “North Shore” and “Marker.”
Off-screen, Wily was a sumo wrestler underneath the title “Takamishu.”
Based on TV Insider, he gained his first 14 matches earlier than turning into the primary foreign-born wrestler to win the championship within the third-highest makushita division. In 2000, he misplaced to fighter Gerard Gordeau within the Final Combating Championship.
He’s survived by his spouse, Halona, and their two youngsters.
The Put up has reached out to Wily’s rep for remark.