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Frank Fritz has died, Fox News Digital tin confirm.
"We are saddened to stock that our person and beloved subordinate of The HISTORY Channel and ‘American Pickers’ family, Frank Fritz, has passed distant connected September 30, 2024," The History Channel and Cineflex Productions shared successful a connection with Fox News Digital. "Frank filmed ‘American Pickers’ for implicit a decade. We volition ever retrieve ‘the bearded charmer’ and his never-ending hunt for vintage motorcycles and bikes. Our thoughts are with Frank’s loved ones during this hard time. He volition beryllium profoundly missed."
His erstwhile co-star Mike Wolfe besides posted astir the "American Pickers" star's decease connected Instagram. "It’s with a breached bosom that I stock with each of you that Frank passed distant past night," helium wrote.
"I’ve [known] Frank for much [than] fractional my beingness and what you’ve seen connected TV has ever been what I person seen, a dreamer who was conscionable arsenic delicate arsenic helium was funny. The aforesaid disconnected camera arsenic helium was on, Frank had a mode of reaching the hearts of truthful galore by conscionable being himself."
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Frank Fritz died Monday, according to his "American Pickers" co-star Mike Wolfe. (Getty Images)
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Danielle Colby, who besides stars successful "American Pickers," shared a tribute to the Midwestern native.
"Frank, I volition miss your quality to marque everyone laugh, your emotion for talking tattoos, your epic collections but what I volition miss the astir are those small glimpses of vulnerability from clip to time," Colby wrote connected Instagram. "Frank, you loved your feline and your momma and we bonded connected those things. You volition beryllium missed for each of these reasons and truthful galore more."
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Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz starred successful "American Pickers." (Getty Images)
Fritz suffered a stroke successful 2022 and had been recovering.
"I person been precise backstage successful the past twelvemonth successful regards to Frank's beingness and the travel he’s been on," Wolfe wrote connected Instagram astatine the time. "There has been tons of opinions successful regards to excavation and Frank’s relationship and the amusement but present is not the clip to acceptable the grounds straight. Now is the clip to commune for my friend."
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Frank Fritz near "American Pickers" successful 2022. ( Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
The TV prima had near "American Pickers" earlier that year.
"We each bash attraction astir Frank, and we privation him backmost connected the show," Wolfe told The Sun astatine the time. "I would emotion to speech with him again, we would perfectly emotion to, but helium conscionable can’t get it right."
"Frank is conscionable going done a batch personally with addictions," helium alleged. "It’s unfortunate that he’s made decisions that person him the mode helium is."
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