{"id":40300,"date":"2025-07-27T04:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40300\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T04:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:26:07","slug":"swamp-people-star-junior-edwards-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40300\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Swamp People&#8217; Star Junior Edwards Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/junior-edwards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_junior-edwards\" data-tag=\"junior-edwards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Junior Edwards<\/a>, one of the original cast members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/history-channel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_history-channel\" data-tag=\"history-channel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History Channel<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/swamp-people\/\" id=\"auto-tag_swamp-people\" data-tag=\"swamp-people\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swamp People<\/a>, has died, per a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0vWNYE6vkEY8PEP2iGcjYCPCMBrfexH7VM3erZdQT5ANh1JoqBQDctHoxZS4m4e9kl&amp;id=61564136565491\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook announcement<\/a> posted by his grandson and co-star \u201cLittle\u201d Willie Edwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cRest easy pawpaw\u2026.i know your [sic] probably running your hoop nets or doing something crazy inside those pearly gates\u2026you will be extremely missed pawpaw we love you more than anything!!! Until we meet again,\u201d Edwards wrote alongside a photo of his father, Willie Edwards, and grandfather on a boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThough no cause of death was shared, a post from earlier this month indicated the grizzled alligator-hunting patriarch was experiencing health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cYall keep him in yalls thoughts and prayers please\u2026we need a miracle,\u201d \u201cLittle\u201d Willie Edwards wrote in a July 6 post. \u201cGet better for us papa we love you!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPremiering on the History Channel in 2010, Swamp People featured Junior Edwards in Seasons 1 through 6 of the reality television series, which follows the day-to-day lives of alligator hunters living in the\u00a0swamps\u00a0of Louisiana\u2019s\u00a0Atchafalaya River Basin. Though he departed the show in 2015, he returned in 2021\u2019s Season 12, and his tenure overall totals 100 episodes. The Season 16 Swamp People finale aired in April of this year, and the show is expected to return in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHis death sparked tributes from co-stars like Ronnie Adams and his hunting partner\/fan-favorite cast member Ashley \u201cDeadeye\u201d Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cPraying for the Edward\u2019s [sic] in this time of need!!! Rest in peace Junior!!!\u201d wrote Adams in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJones added in a post alongside a photo of her with Junior Edwards: \u201cThe world lost a legend! Mr Junior Edwards passed away! Please be in prayer for the family! He was one of the greatest alligator hunters there is! He was real hardcore outdoorsman! I watched this man bring in MONSTER gators at Duffys Gas Station in Pierre Part LA. This was after a looooong day for both of us and you can tell it! Glad we took a second for a pic!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Junior Edwards, one of the original cast members of the History Channel\u2018s Swamp People, has died, per a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,32575,32576,32577],"class_list":["post-40300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-history-channel","tag-junior-edwards","tag-swamp-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}