Overview
- Matthew Wright, a producer who worked on The Ellen DeGeneres Show for 16 years, was found dead on Friday and was 52 years old.
- Ellen DeGeneres announced his death in an emotional Instagram video and said they had been planning a new project together.
- Jennifer Hudson and former colleagues reported seeing Wright at The Jennifer Hudson Show the day before he died, with Andy Lassner saying he saw Wright just hours earlier.
- A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to pay to repatriate Wright to New York and cover funeral and memorial costs, noting that Wright and his husband Justin lost jobs over the summer.
- No cause of death has been made public and reporting is treating the circumstances as developing while colleagues and the TV community continue to mourn.