{"id":128854,"date":"2026-02-10T15:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/128854\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:49:28","slug":"blake-garrett-child-star-from-how-to-eat-fried-worms-dies-at-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/128854\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Garrett, child star from \u2018How to Eat Fried Worms,\u2019 dies at 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JGS5FG76ZBEGHID62FJNT7PLLU\">Former child actor Blake Garrett, best known for his role in the 2006 film \u201cHow to Eat Fried Worms,\u201d has died, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/09\/blake-garrett-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/09\/blake-garrett-dead\/\">a report from TMZ<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TG2APN34ZREANLCYDKD5ZLF3I4\">Blake Garrett, 33, died on Sunday, Feb. 8, the outlet says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KN74KA3KFJDULC3KGJZKYU22VU\">The former child actor\u2019s mother, Carol Garrett, confirmed his death, adding that it came after a recent emergency room visit and shingles diagnosis, according to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TWYO2RXTN5BWDADYWOCSYTLSQI\">While Carol Garrett said that her family would wait for a medical examiner\u2019s report, she told the outlet that her son\u2019s death could have been an accident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YYK6LP4QC5A4REOR6GVEQKNAC4\">Blake Garrett had been living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and had gotten sober, his mother said to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2UREKLD2L5ALLIAPEVRRXEYU4I\">Born in Austin, Texas, Blake Garrett appeared in two productions as a child actor, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RHIXQYILZBGCTODVW65J7FIDVA\">In 2004, he was featured in the special \u201cBarney\u2019s Colorful World, Live!&#8221; before playing the character Plug from \u201cHow to Eat Fried Worms\u201d in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former child actor Blake Garrett, best known for his role in the 2006 film \u201cHow to Eat Fried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-128854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}