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Bobby Rivers dies aged 70: Cause of death and obituary

It is sad to announce the death of Bobby Rivers. He died on December 26, 2023, at the age of 70, and he was an American television, and radio personality and actor. Rivers was the host of the Top 5 show on the Food Network, and Watch Bobby Rivers, a prime-time celebrity talk show on VH1.

Bobby Rivers’s Cause of Death

Bobby Rivers had been living in St. Paul, Minnesota, and died Tuesday night in a Minneapolis hospital, his sister, Betsy, told The Hollywood Reporter. She said he had suffered a series of mini-strokes and had a recurrence of lung cancer.

Bobby Rivers obituary

Bobby Rivers was born in 1953 and grew up in South Central Los Angeles during the tumultuous 1960’s, graduating from Marquette University in Wisconsin. Rivers’ first television appearance was on a 1970 syndicated classic film trivia game show.

Bobby Rivers was a high school student. During those times on “The Movie Game”, shot in Hollywood, he was the program’s first African-American contestant and its youngest winner.

After working in Milwaukee radio, he made his professional television debut in 1979 on Milwaukee’s ABC affiliate, WISN-TV, as the city’s first African-American film critic on TV.

Source: Ghanafuo.com

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Carisa Kissane

Update: 2024-05-20