\u201cHe was my client and dear friend for over 20 years, and I will miss him terribly. I\u2019m heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the cause of death was not made public, Dimples Karaoke Bar in Burbank, California, said in a post on its Instagram page that Haskins suffered from Parkinson\u2019s Disease, but kept quiet about the diagnosis around eight years ago because he \u201cdid not want the attention\u201d.<\/p>\n
They added: \u201cHe did not want to have to tell people. He would say, \u2018What do I even say?\u2019 So I respected his wishes and stayed quiet, and I helped him through his journey into the next chapter of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The karaoke bar added that Haskins had been such a \u201cstaple\u201d at the establishment that multiple people mistakenly assumed he owned it.<\/p>\n
The tribute, which revealed Haskins had died on September 27, continued: \u201cHe just loved the place and its people. He enjoyed singing for people, meeting them, and taking selfies with his fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cDimples closed down about 11 years ago, and people still associate him with his beloved \u2018second home.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was known to most as Mr Belding from Saved by the Bell, but, to us, he was much more than that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a cool and amazing life he had. Rest in peace, Dennis. You were very much loved and will never be forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haskins made his screen debut on The Dukes of Hazzard back in 1976, but it was his role in Saved by the Bell that he became synonymous with.<\/p>\n
His final outing as Principal Belding came in 2015, when he joined Saved by the Bell co-stars Tiffani Thiessen, Mario Lopez, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Elizabeth Berkley in a sketch on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.<\/p>\n
Haskins also starred in episodes of TV shows Mad Men, New Girl and Hot in Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe was my client and dear friend for over 20 years, and I will miss him terribly. I\u2019m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[85710,3376,18919,2033,3595,192768,6179,7126,156,303103,111,139,69,17162,223,437],"class_list":["post-615198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-85710","tag-actor","tag-aged","tag-bell","tag-by","tag-dennis","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-entertainment","tag-haskins","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-saved","tag-the","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}