One Tree Hill icon Paul Teal dies aged 35 after secret health struggles

One Tree Hill histrion Paul Teal died earlier this month, his heartbroken fiancée Emilia Torello has announced to fans

One Tree Hill's Paul Teal has died.

The histrion played played movie prima Josh successful bid 7 of the programme backmost successful 2009. While the origin of his decease remains unclear, Emilia confirmed that helium had been secretly battling a wellness condition.

His fianceé Emilia Torello said: "The astir thoughtful, inspiring, driven, self-disciplined, loving antheral passed distant connected Friday, November 15, 2024. Paul, you were my soulmate, my soon-to-be-husband, my rock, and my future. You filled my lungs with laughter, my tummy with butterflies, and my bosom with love. You were taken excessively soon, successful a conflict that you fought bravely without fail.

"While a portion of maine died with you, I committedness to combat to find joyousness successful beingness arsenic hard arsenic you fought to unrecorded each azygous day. The world is fortunate to person adjacent had a infinitesimal with Paul Teal, and I americium the luckiest idiosyncratic successful it, due to the fact that I got to telephone you mine. I volition emotion you forever."

Elsewhere, his co-star Bethany Joy Lenz, who was known for playing Haley James Scott admitted she was "gutted" implicit the news. She told followers: "My bosom is heavy. Paul Teal was the benignant of feline who lit up a country without trying. His agleam smile, infectious laughter and benignant bosom made you privation to beryllium adjacent him.

"I worked intimately with Paul for months erstwhile helium played Noah successful my and @ronaniello philharmonic accumulation of The Notebook successful 2006. He was shy and comic and truthful so comfy connected stage. Wow. Like his 2nd skin. You couldn’t instrumentality your eyes disconnected him. Later, I was giddy to beryllium directing an occurrence of One Tree Hill wherever I’d get to formed a caller recurring character, Josh- the sleazy movie star. With his self-effacing consciousness of wit and willingness to dive afloat into immoderate character, Paul was cleanable for the part. He was a joyousness to enactment with successful immoderate situation and truthful generous.

"We stayed successful interaction connected and off. I privation it had been more. I privation I’d called each those times I meant to but got distracted. Life is short. I support reasoning that this week. Life is short. Here is simply a video of the fewer photos I person connected my hard thrust of Paul arsenic the iconic Noah Calhoun successful our small achromatic container production. And the opus is ‘Sunday Train’, Noah’s large solo, which we recorded that twelvemonth with Paul singing. Now astatine 35, he's taken different train. He was excessively young to die. Far excessively young. I'm gutted." She added that Paul's beingness was "like a summertime romance."

Aside from One Tree Hill, Paul was known for his roles arsenic Deputy Clark successful the 2022 movie, Deep Water and Pastor Pete successful the TV series, The Hunting Wives.

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