{"id":955578,"date":"2026-11-07T05:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T05:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/955578\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T05:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T05:28:10","slug":"ellen-degeneres-show-ep-matthew-wrights-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/955578\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ellen DeGeneres Show’ EP Matthew Wright’s Cause Of Death Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA cause of death has been determined for Matthew Wright<\/a> after he died at age 52<\/a> last Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Ellen DeGeneres<\/a> Show executive producer\u2019s death certificate lists cardiopulmonary arrest as the cause, with hypertension as the underlying cause and contributing conditions including obstructive sleep apnea and class II obesity, according to People.<\/p>\n

\n\tWright\u2019s family announced in a GoFundMe that he \u201cdied suddenly but peacefully in his sleep<\/a>\u201d in what they described as \u201can unfathomable tragedy\u201d while working remotely in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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\n\tDeGeneres mourned Wright\u2019s death in a statement, stating: \u201cHe was an amazing guy. He was funny. God, he made me laugh. He would surprise me with things that he did all the time. He was smart. He was kind. He was the part of our show that \u2014 I mean, everyone loved him. I loved him.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd it\u2019s just shocking \u2014 it\u2019s shocking,\u201d she added. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna miss him. He is and always will be the glue to our entire family at The Ellen Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Ellen DeGeneres Returning To Voice Dory In New Short Out Of Pixar\u2019s \u2018Finding Nemo\u2019 Universe<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to his regular appearance on The Ellen Show with his \u201cStrong Opinions with Matt\u201d segment, Wright was a producer on several episodes of DeGeneres\u2019 Ellen\u2019s Game of Games from 2017-18 and her 2009 special Ellen\u2019s Bigger, Longer & Uncut. He began his TV career as a producer on the 2002-06 SoapNet series Soap Talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cause of death has been determined for Matthew Wright after he died at age 52 last Friday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,12219,134,85187,427],"class_list":["post-955578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ellen-degeneres","tag-entertainment","tag-matthew-wright","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}