Dee’s cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.<\/p>\n
Dee became a well-known cast member of the Bondi Rescue reality television series and appeared on the show between 2008 and 2017.<\/p>\n
Tributes and messages of support flowed on the Instagram post confirming his death today, including from the official Bondi Lifeguards account and former lifeguard Trent Maxwell, who commented “rest easy brother”.<\/p>\n
Dee co-founded clothing and events brand FTW Revolution as a suicide prevention resource for young Australians. He would later go on to become an ambassador for the Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) peak body.<\/p>\n
The company said it had raised at least $500,000 for SPA.<\/p>\n
“We send our war cry to the government asking why the f—k more is not being done about suicide, Australias [sic] biggest killer for people under 44,” Dee said in a LinkedIn post about the company.<\/p>\n
“We represent the underdogs in the trenches, the battlers in the dark places.”![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0156a798dcf4984c42e9d425da514c6b.jpeg\")
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Matt Dee featured as a cast member on the reality television series Bondi Rescue for almost a decade. (Supplied: Instagram\/FTW_Revolution)<\/p>\n
In 2015, Australian big wave surfer Justen “Jughead” Allport said in an interview<\/a> that Dee sought to offer FTW as an outreach service for young people who may not contact traditional mental illness helplines.<\/p>\n “Matty just wanted kids that were down, that were from poor backgrounds, to connect with something that could help them,” he said.<\/p>\n “Matt’s just trying to be an alternative for the people who aren’t gonna [sic] ring Lifeline. Matt and FTW are about turning negatives into positives.”<\/p>\n