The Osbournes producer Cal Boyington dies at 53 after being found unconscious at California home

Michael Carlton “Cal” Boyington, a TV shaper and Hollywood cause champion known for his enactment connected The Osbournes, has died astatine the property of 53.

Boyington was recovered unconscious astatine his location successful San Pedro, California, connected Monday and aboriginal pronounced dead, according to his member B.G. Dickey.

Dickey said the nonstop origin of decease has not yet been determined, though a aesculapian examiner believes it was apt a bosom attack.

“Known for his boundless energy, magnetic personality, and zest for life, Cal was genuinely the beingness of each party,” a connection issued to the outlet reads.

“He possessed an bonzer quality to airy up a country and bring joyousness to everyone helium met. Those who knew Cal would attest to his unwavering passionateness for surviving each time to its fullest.”

Boyington worked connected The Osbournes from 2002 to 2005, playing a cardinal relation successful the groundbreaking world TV bid that documented the lives of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne and their family. The hugely fashionable amusement turned his woman Sharon, girl Kelly, and lad Jack into household names.

The shaper besides worked connected galore US-based shows similar Workaholics, R5Sons Alaska, Bible Quest, Cabo, and Baker Boys: Inside the Surge.

He was an cause astatine ICM Partners and Paradigm Talent Agency arsenic a caput of alternate programming.

Boyington was not joined astatine the clip of his death. He is survived by his parents, Mike Boyington and Travis “Penny” Farrar, and his younger brother.

He was partially to convey for the planetary occurrence of The Osbournes, a amusement initially deemed an improbable stake for world TV that aboriginal became 1 of the highest-rating bid successful MTV history.

The Osbournes earned an mean of 5.3million viewers successful its archetypal play and 7.2million with its last occurrence successful 2005.

It changed the look of the amusement world, paving the mode for different world shows centred astir celebrities, specified arsenic Hogan Knows Best, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, and Rock of Love with Bret Michaels.

The amusement won a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding world programme upon its merchandise and followed troubling moments successful the Osbourne family, including Sharon’s crab conflict and Ozzy’s near-fatal quad motorcycle accident.

Ozzy antecedently revealed his household discontinue the amusement pursuing 4 seasons aft the effects of being perpetually filmed became excessively much.

“The level of occurrence that TV amusement got america was excessively much,’ the Prince of Darkness told NME successful 2020.

“I’m not upset that I did it, but I wouldn’t bash it again. People were going, ‘Aren’t you disquieted astir losing your fans?’ I said, ‘I’m not disquieted astir losing my fans - I’m disquieted astir losing my f***ing mind.’”