Taylor Wiley, who starred within the remake of “Hawaii 5-O” and “Forgetting Sara Marshall,” died Thursday. He was 56 years outdated.
Willie’s loss of life was confirmed to Hawaii’s KITV 4 Island Information by musician Lina Woman Langi, a detailed buddy of his.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I share the information of the passing of a Hawaii superstar who was additionally a household buddy,” Langi mentioned. “Taylor Wiley, former wrestler, MMA fighter and actor, died right now in Hurricane, Utah.”
“He’ll look bodily terrifying till you fold proper into the hug, and that was it,” he added. “My coronary heart is breaking.”
Michael J. Henderson, Willie’s supervisor, informed Leisure Weekly that he died of pure causes and additional particulars should not out there at the moment.
Wiley, born Teila Tuli, was born in Hawaii in 1968 and commenced his profession within the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling within the Nineteen Eighties and had a profitable run, “changing into the primary foreign-born wrestler to win a championship within the third-highest makushita division,” based on Folks.
He later went on to combat in his first UFC combat in 2000, dropping to UFC fighter Gerard Gordeau.
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Regardless of his large dimension and former profession as an expert fighter, he was extensively remembered by those that knew him as a “light big”.
Wiley appeared in seven episodes of the unique “Magnum PI” and appeared within the 2008 romantic comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”
She is finest identified for her position as Kamekona within the CBS remake of “Hawaii 5-O”, the place she appeared in over 170 episodes through the present’s 10-year run from 2010 to 2020.
“Hawaii 5-O” and “Magnum PI” government producer Peter Lenkov posted on social media that he was “devastated” and “heartbroken” by the information.
“You are available in with a towel in your head, and I am harm. You charmed me into making you a daily on the present… and in my life. You had been household. And I am going to miss you on daily basis, bro,” he mentioned in a follow-up publish. “PS: After we talked final week, we laughed at how proper you had been from day one. 5-0 was our dream job. And I am so fortunate that we get to share that magic collectively.”
