{"id":955944,"date":"2026-11-02T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955944\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:22:10","slug":"ellen-show-ep-matthew-wright-dies-at-52-degeneres-has-tearful-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955944\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ellen Show’ EP Matthew Wright Dies at 52, DeGeneres Has Tearful Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMatthew Wright<\/a>, an executive producer on \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres<\/a> Show,\u201d died Oct. 30 in an \u201cunfathomable tragedy,\u201d according to a GoFundMe<\/a> campaign for his family. He was 52.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn an unfathomable tragedy, Matt Wright passed away Oct 30th while working remotely in Los Angeles His husband, father, sister and niece are in New York, desperate to be reunited for a proper goodbye. We\u2019re asking for all of his friends, who Matt loved so fully, to help the family at this time. As many of you know, Matt and Justin were both laid off this summer. And the unexpected costs of getting Matt home, a funeral and a memorial are impossible for the family to bear,\u201d the GoFundMe reads. \u201cIf Matt has ever made you laugh, said an encouraging word right when you needed it, or ordered one too many appetizers for the enjoyment of the whole table, now is the time to repay the favor. Please donate what you can and share this with anyone who\u2019s been in the orbit of Matt\u2019s huge heart. And when you\u2019re at dinner and see a sunset, know that Matt is looking down, loving you, but wildly disappointed in what you ordered.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDeGeneres posted a tearful video on Monday, calling Wright \u201cthe glue to our entire family.\u201d Wright had worked on \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show\u201d from 2006 until it ended in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\t\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. And it\u2019s just shocking \u2014 it\u2019s shocking,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna miss him. He is and always will be the glue to our entire family at the \u2018Ellen Show.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFellow \u201cEllen DeGeneres Show\u201d executive producer Andy Lassner shared photos of him and Wright on the \u201cJennifer Hudson Show\u201d set that were taken on Thursday, just \u201chours\u201d before Wright\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are all in shock. He was a brilliant producer and an even better human being,\u201d Lassner wrote. \u201cThe way he looked after his mom, flying back and forth from Los Angeles to New York practically every weekend before she died, showed what an incredible son he was. He gave that same depth of love to his friendships. My heart breaks for his husband, Justin, his family, and all of us who loved him. I was so lucky to work beside Matt for so many years and to call him my friend. We should have had so much more time with him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Wright, an executive producer on \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show,\u201d died Oct. 30 in an \u201cunfathomable tragedy,\u201d according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,10957,75,131426,348],"class_list":["post-955944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ellen-degeneres","tag-entertainment","tag-matthew-wright","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955944","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=955944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}