ABC News executive producer Dax Tejera, 37, dies 'suddenly' of heart attack

Handsome guy.

Drugs?

Paging Chris Burrous!

Paging the "It was the vaccine" trolls.

I went there too, R3. The Chris Burrous story deserves a limited-series podcast. The sex props alone are an episode.

It was the vaccine.

Too much Double Scorpio Holiday Blend to the nose I take it?

It was long covid.

“Hug your loved ones” is the new “thoughts and prayers.”

How horrible.

no, it was ruptured aortic aneurysm!

Another one.

I hate his suit, so no big loss.

Glad I did not get the COVID "vaccine"

These weird heart attacks happen to men who used to use steroids. Or it could be just a freak thing. They happen.

R15, yeah way to cope. Just one of those things right?

It's highly possible he had an undiagnosed heart problem. At that age you'd ignore the signs if you were even aware of them.

Stephan Bonnar, dead at 45. Heart complications. Vaxxed?

[quote]highly possible

Nah, more likely to be drugs.

[quote] “Hug your loved ones” is the new “thoughts and prayers.”

At least hugging your kids accomplishes something positive.

Such a handsome guy. RIP

From the coverage of the Queen’s funeral

That smile

Dartmouth

Preppy Latino

he looks like a cunt

His name was kinda porny.

RIP, Dax Tejera.

" you, shined every Sunday morning"

Nothing "shined" ever.

Did Amy Robach have him?

It's very strange to die of a heart attack so young.

How very sad.

Why are people named Dax? What is that?

[quote]Why are people named Dax? What is that?

If only there were someplace that described such things.

[quote]The name Dax is primarily a male name of French origin that means Leader.

[quote]Dax is the transferred use of an early English surname with Anglo-Germanic origins derived from a nickname. The Germanic word “dachs” means “badger” (a burrowing nocturnal animal related to the weasel, with strong claws, short legs and fat bodies). The nickname was most common in the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia (mostly populated by the Angles, a Germanic tribe from modern-day Northern Germany). It would have been used as a sobriquet describing a person with nocturnal habits or one with a streak of gray or fair hair against black (like the stripped black/white markings of a badger’s head). The earliest recording of the surname came in the early 13th century in Germany, rendered as “Dach”. As a given name, Dax is much more modern.

Take your pick.

There's MORE to the story ....

The spikes in heart attack deaths have tracked with surges of COVID-19 infection—even during the presumed less-severe Omicron phase of the pandemic. Furthermore, the data showed the increase was most significant among individuals ages 25-44, who are not usually considered at high risk for heart attack.

Poor Dex will now be forgotten in the news cycle because of me.

They're dropping like flies over at ABC NEWS...

I’m still here, bitches!

Dax Tejera’s Wife Arrested on Child Endangerment Charges Hours After ABC News Producer Died, NYPD Says

R38, you should’ve titled your post “BREAKING!!!!” After all, we haven’t heard about that 13 hours before you posted. Nope, we didn’t.

Way to scoop, Cronkite!

Dax da suck job!

[Quote]One of my favorite movies.

[Quote]I appear to be in the minority here.

[Quote]It’s coming out in 2023 in 4K and I’ll be second on line to get it.

Sorry R39 can't be bothered wading through the posts or the 3hrs 14mins of Titanic. You seem to have lots of time on your hands.

Any relation to the Dax symbiote?

Uh, r41…??

And, now Barbara...when are they going to admit what's really going on!!!!

I ain’t trying to say nothin, but I think someone with the initials DTM is bucking for stardom and is knocking these people off.

But you didn’t hear it from me, cause I ain’t one to gossip.

wonder what happened to the wife - maybe she went crazy after his "sudden death"

Why does OP stress “suddenly,” as if it’s suspicious it was sudden?

I much prefer Dax Milne.

[quote]Why does OP stress “suddenly,” as if it’s suspicious it was sudden?

He's quoting directly from the article

Then why are the writers of the article?

R48, mmmmmmmmmm.

But I hate shots that are supposedly candid, yet obviously staged. I’m thinking of the pics on the beach of him and (I presume) his girlfriend. Who the fuck took those pictures at a supposedly intimate moment?

Puh-leez.

This story just gets weirder. When your spouse has just croaked, you'd think the cops would give you the benefit of the doubt, even if the hotel is annoyed that you left your kids on their hands as one could reasonably argue that you weren't in your right mind.

There was a 5-month-old baby, r52, you don't just give someone the benefit of the doubt if there's a baby that young involved.

Daily Mail updated to say they left the kids, went to dinner, he died at dinner

So, she didn’t leave the kids upon hearing about her husband or to go to her husband. It’s just a coincidence.

R54, Leaving young children alone, one an infant, to go out to dinner is unconscionable.

Sorry he's dead, but him and his wife left their 2 baby girls in the hotel room while they went to dinner. Ignorant stupid selfish assholes.

[quote] but him and his wife

Oh, dear!

The mother claims she had two cameras on the kids so they could keep an eye on them while the parents were at dinner

R58, What if one of them began choking or fell?

Accidents happen.

The wife is a cunt and now I’m convinced drugs were involved. Nobody in their right mind leaves a baby and a toddler unattended so they can go to dinner.

R61, Another bit of scandal for ABC on the heels of Amy and TJ.

Dax didn't look like he was on drugs.

Another victim from either the vaccine or covid itself. Scary times we live in. Hug your spouses and kids tonight.

Such a cute family.

I can see why the wife lost it.

It was so sudden.

Dax was so handsome.

Damn, the wife really scored getting a guy like him.

Handsome, successful, rich.

And now it's all gone.

what about Amy and TJ? What did they do that was so wrong?

What was Dax’s last meal?

He looks so young and healthy.

His wife really must have been in shock to see him drop dead right in front of her.

At a restaurant, no less.

I went to school with Dax at Dartmouth, he was known to have slept with men. I'm not surprised if he had a secret life or "other" life. Regardless, rest In Peace sir.

He was handsome and looks like he had big meat. I'd probably lose it if my fine young baby daddy just croaked out of nowhere and I had his kids to raise alone.

That camera shit is fucked up tho, you can't leave a 5 month old unattended! LOCK HER UP

No way, R70.

Are you bullshitting us??

You have to be.

The husband left them alone too, r51.

Leaving the kids alone is insanity. Who goes out to dinner and leaves the brats all by themselves? There is more to this "marriage" than meets the eye.

Sorry, I meant to say to r61 that the husband left the kids alone, too, not r51.

I'd bet there are a LOT of parents who leave their kids alone and use nannycams to tell themselves that it's just fine.

"We want children" Not crazy about shilling out 30 bucks an hour for a babysitter though"....Straight people be hilarious.

[quote] Straight people be hilarious

According to R70, Dax wasn't entirely straight.

I have the same information as R70 from my brother-in-law who went to Dartmouth. According to him, Dax was sleeping with men in college. He also said he was a really smart guy and extremely hard-working, even back then.

Hope he was getting some dick on the side.

RIP.

[quote]According to him, Dax was sleeping with men in college.

Every guy who lives in the dorm sleeps with men in college. They don’t permit coed rooms.

Now, if you’re talking about hooking up with, or fucking other men, that’s something different.

Are we sure about this dude’s cause of death?

R79 omg you know that's not what they are saying. Are these publicists playing thick?

R81 just suspiciously never brought up here before right? Despite endless threads wanting to talk about guys on the down low, just wasn't worthy to mention him until someone posted his pics and saw that he was cute. I hate the internet and all the bs people spew on it.

[quote]Hope he was getting some dick on the side.

My lips are sealed.

No one brought it up before because it’s Dartmouth gossip from the early 2000s on a random news producer who wasn’t a celebrity. Why would anyone post on a thread about him being gay in college before he died and was suddenly in the news?

Also, no one is saying he was still on the DL and fucking men, but my brother-in-law (a basic straight guy who has no clue what datalounge is) has no reason to make that up. And it’s nothing to be ashamed of. For all we know, his wife was fully aware of this part of his past.

Good for him for being sexually open in college. He sounds like a smart, driven guy and he was hot.

Exactly, R84.

These people coming up with "stories" about Dax dabbling with men, are full of shit!

Just trying to lie about him, after the fact.

R84, Who wasn’t sexually open in college?

He certainly had a nice body.

If you look closely at the pic at r87 and zoom in, he also looked hung.

He was acutely intoxicated and choked to death?

Is the wife out of bail from the child endangerment/abandonment charges?

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Yikes

The mother is begging for money on the internet for her kids' college expenses. This bitch is unreal.

Something about this whole story is just off. I think the wife is somehow behind it but they'll never be able to prove it.

[quote] The mother is begging for money on the internet for her kids' college expenses. This bitch is unreal.

Nothing wrong with that.

So other than the fact that he was shitfaced, no salaciousness here.

Damn.

Damn! That’s sad.

Huge L for “it was the jab” crowd

A good friend died from choking at a high end restaurant. He was entertaining clients at a steakhouse. The details are somewhat vague but he got up and walked toward the bathroom. I'm not sure if he made it there or if he collapsed on the way. And I'm still not sure if someone tried to administer the heimlich maneuver or if they waited for medics to arrive. Either way, his brain had been deprived of oxygen for too long and he was declared dead at the hospital. He was only 33 years old. This was almost 20 years ago.

R92, the steakhouse where he choked in a drunken stupor cost about $200 a head, according to the article above. And now she’s begging for money? Before investing in the kids’ education, she’d better hire a fucking nanny so she doesn’t get arrested for child abandonment again.

Ethel Kennedy’s sister-in-law . . .

I would’ve done the hiney lick maneuver on him.

Such a cutie too

RIP

So much potential abruptly cut short

Wait so he choked on his own vomit?

Seen with fellow ABC Hispanic journo and former DL FAVE Gio Benitez

What the hell kind of name is Dax?

[quote] Wait so he choked on his own vomit?

No, it was food.

Karma. Do not leave your children alone. It is beyond belief they did this and then that stupid bitch tries to justify it. Just proves your school means nothing. They were raised by wolves it seems.

These people were as bad as any uneducated, meth head Hillbillies.

If you can't get a babysitter then you fucking stay in and eat sushi in your hotel room. I'm not mourning this guy.

If he choked on his own food, they would have just said he choked on his own food

I interpreted the fact that they said he was severely drunk as that he had choked on his own vomit

It was food.

" The New York City's Office of Chief Medical Examiner told DailyMail.com on Wednesday that Tejera choked on food due to being intoxicated. The official cause of death was given as: 'Asphyxia due to obstruction of airway by food bolus complicating acute alcohol intoxication.'"

Wow, what a terrible way to go.

That’s scary. I joke but man that could be anyone of us. Imagine it happening if no one was nearby to help. Yikes!

Chew your food properly. Each bite 32 times.

He didn't collapse until outside the restaurant though. Who leaves a high end steakhouse with food in their mouths?

Yeah that’s why I think it was vomit.

I still can’t believe they left a 2 year old and a 5 month old baby alone in a hotel room. Just to get drunk and choke to death.

The anti-vaxxers are better than Fox at this point. They take a story, turn it into a conspiracy theory and then when the truth comes out, it’s already done its damage.

Had nothing to do with the Covid vaccine. He choked on his food.

Real question: how drunk do you have to be for a normal healthy adult to start choking on his food, to the point of no return?

RIP: the Higher the Hair

Nice ‘do!

This story just gets weirder & weirder.

And who chokes to death on their own vomit these days?

He probably would still be alive if he and wifey just stayed in their room with the kiddos.

“ Alcohol at very high levels can hinder signals in the brain that control automatic responses such as the gag reflex. With no gag reflex, a person who drinks to the point of passing out is in danger of choking on his or her vomit and dying from a lack of oxygen (i.e., asphyxiation).”

R122 then he would have gotten shitfaced and choked on his own vomit in front of his kids

R114 knows more than the medical examiner who did the autopsy.

Fascinating.

[quote] I joke but man that could be anyone of us.

Oh, dear!

Maybe he y th ok a mint from the host stand and choked on that

^took a mint

Intense

Will his life insurance company agree to pay for such a reckless, self inflicted, preventable death?

Anyone can choke and it can be unexpected. I think people are overthinking the role of alcohol here.

True.

[quote] Anyone can choke and it can be unexpected.

As opposed to those scheduled chokings.

[quote] Anyone can choke and it can be unexpected. I think people are overthinking the role of alcohol here.

There have been so many drunks that have died after choking on their own vomit - it is very common

Yes, but that’s usually after they’re passed on and lying in bed on their backs. Not at a restaurant.

*passed out, not on.

The whole story is weird.

What a bizarre way to die.

You’re telling me!

It could happen to anyone . . .

R138 That made me laugh out loud.

Has Mai Dough sold the DJ rig and slightly stained massage table yet?

R134 There wasn't vomit here. Why are you ignoring what the coroner said? If he had vomited on the sidewalk he was with people who would have moved him away from it.

The official cause of death was given as: 'Asphyxia due to obstruction of airway by food bolus complicating acute alcohol intoxication.'

He was either: chewing on his steak that he was carrying in his bare hands as he walked out of the restaurant

Or choked on his vomit

choked on his own vomit

[quote]He was either: chewing on his steak that he was carrying in his bare hands as he walked out of the restaurant

Well, he was extremely drunk, so that's entirely out of the realm of possibility.

But given how weird this story is, we'll probably find out next that he died while trying to drunkenly outrun a knife wielding pimp while stuffing down a cheeseburger

[quote] He was either: chewing on his steak that he was carrying in his bare hands as he walked out of the restaurant Or choked on his vomit

JFC you’re stupid.

Why would he have to be carrying a steak? He takes a bite, chokes and is drunk enough to only realize he’s not breathing well, goes out of the restaurant to get some air and collapses outside. Which, by the way, is [italic]exactly[/italic] what the eyewitnesses reported happened.

R146 = idiot

It is possible he rushed out of the restaurant because he felt nauseated and wanted to throw up outside - but choked on his vomit when he tried to throw up

Yes. It’s also possible aliens were tickling his throat which made him run, leading to an asthma attack that killed him.

But that’s not what the medical evidence and witness statements indicate.

Has the CCTV footage of him choking been released yet?

Come on, why would anybody want to see that?

I would!

After all, we've stomached Jeff shooting the Goys!

Scummy muthafucka!

That wife is a dog. That makes me think she's a beard - whether she knows it or not. Women like her need to cater to the guy to keep him. What other excuse would a woman possibly have to leave her babies alone like that? He wanted to go out and she wanted to please him.

They're both disgusting.

He gave some great head but couldn't live forever.

I have never heard of people leaving young children alone in a hotel room except for Madeleine McCann.

Past Beauty

Another past broadcasting Beauty with a wee drinking problem

36, one year younger

Jessica Savitch was nuts.

R158 She drank urine!?!

What's the Savitch connection? She died by asphyxiation by drowning. She was a passenger in a car. Both she and the driver hadn't taken any drugs and had only consumed about half a glass of wine each.

Meh. He was straight. Not the kind of breeder we need more of. He had a stupid name, went to Barfmouth, and looked bird-like from the front. Glad to see these yuppies who seem to have it all get cut down by Mother Nature. Next!

R163 I love your analysis.

I order a salad at Farmer's Market almost every night and have them add roast beast.

I feel like an old man asking them to cut it the beef as much as possible but not so much now.

RIP poor guy.

And those kids? No dad will fuck you up forever.

I choked on a small wedge of lettuce in a Boston steakhouse years ago.

It’s a terrifying feeling, two burly men from the kitchen performed the Heimlich method on me and dislodged it.

I’ve never eaten a salad since without finely chopping it up with a knife and fork since.

Very sad. The NY Post loves these stories and loves ruining peoples' lives.

Whose lives are they ruining? They both left their small children alone just to go for a steak. With his children alone he got shitfaced drunk and she claims she was really monitoring her children. A true trash couple.

A miracle nothing happened to the kids. Now they have no father, not that they really ever did, and they're stuck with a mother who is worthless. Except for the business she can drum up on line from gullible idiots.

R162: the similarity lies in the larger pictures, rather than the nitty gritty of their deaths

Both were beauties working in the glamorous broadcasting industry

Both seemingly had had it all: looks, careers, when in actual fact they were both deeply troubled in their personal lives, plagued by substance issues

Both, when you look at it, give a sense of potential, abruptly cut short: making you wonder, what went wrong?

^ oh and both died at about the same age: 36 and 37

So by his mid 30s he was already on a self destructive path not giving a shit about his children. Alcohol and a pricey steak were the important things in life. Fine if they are but then don't have children.

R171: yes, it’s really the part that he and his wife thought it’d be okay to leave a 2-year-old toddler and 5-month-old baby [!] alone in a hotel room that’s really disturbing [and not so much his drinking problem]

It’s just so recklessly irresponsible and immature

Is Mrs. Dax going to sue Bobby Van's? It's a potential revenue source.