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Adam Richman expressed his shock, saying: “What? ! ? ! Can’t fathom this – met him a few times, each nicer than the last. What a vibrant gentleman. Makes no sense.”<\/p>\n
Hayley Kiyoko also paid tribute, stating: “OMG I am so incredibly sorry for you and your family. He always led with kindness and love. His light will carry on.”<\/p>\n
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The Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office reported James’ death at 6.44am local time. No cause of death was provided.<\/p>\n
When James revealed his diagnosis, he shared that he and his family had been dealing with it privately, adding that they had been “Taking steps to resolve it”.<\/p>\n
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Last November, he revealed plans to auction personal memorabilia from Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues, aiming to offset expenses related to his continued medical care.<\/p>\n
Supporters had the opportunity to acquire the costume he donned in Dawson’s Creek’s debut episode, anticipated to fetch up to \u00a33,000. Additionally, the necklace Dawson presented to his on-screen love interest Joey for the prom was available, with estimates suggesting it could command around \u00a340,000.<\/p>\n
James was due to reunite with his his Dawson’s Creek castmates in September last year, but made the decision to withdraw due to ongoing health issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor James Van Der Beek has died at the age of 48, a year on from being diagnosed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-293351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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