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Matt Brown<\/a> has sadly passed away.<\/p>\n The Alaskan Bush People reality TV star has passed away due to an apparent suicide, according to his brother Bear Brown.<\/p>\n Bear uploaded a video on TikTok confirming the news.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is an update about Matt, They found a body in the river a few hours ago and it was positively identified as being Matt\u2026I would have never suspected he would have hurt himself. Honestly he struggled for a long time as I\u2019ve mentioned, and I was so worried he was gonna end up you know, like OD or something like that\u2026I I didn\u2019t think that he would hurt himself,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cPlease be respectful to my family, and to my mom, please watch the comments that you leave guys, sometimes words can hurt more than fists can,\u201d he went on to say, asking for respect to his family as they process the loss.<\/p>\n Alaskan Bush People is a Discovery series that follows the Brown family surviving in the remote wilderness, which premiered in 2014.<\/p>\n TMZ<\/a> obtained dispatch audio from the search, locating his backpack and a gun.<\/p>\n Fans became concerned after a live-stream he shared in May, in which he appeared naked and potentially intoxicated, possibly holding a gun.<\/p>\n According to family sources to TMZ, Matt became estranged from the family about five years ago amid addiction struggles. <\/p>\n He had appeared in 79 episodes of Alaskan Bush People from 2014 to 2019. <\/p>\n Our thoughts are with Matt Brown\u2018s loved ones at this incredibly difficult time. RIP.<\/p>\n We have sadly lost many stars<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n Posted To:Alaskan Bush People<\/a> Matt Brown<\/a> RIP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Instagram \/ mattbrown511 Matt Brown has sadly passed away. The Alaskan Bush People reality TV star has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-706024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}