Comic and radio present host Rickey Smiley took to social media on Sunday to announce the dying of his oldest son, Brandon Smiley. He was 32. No reason for dying or every other particulars got.
“I’ve unhealthy information this morning,” Smiley mentioned in a video posted to his Instagram account. “I’m on my solution to the airport to get to Birmingham. I simply wished all people to wish for me, pray for our household. My son, Brandon Smiley, has handed away this morning.”
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“I’m about to go get on a flight, and attempt to get to Birmingham. Lord, have mercy. Jesus,” he continued. “I simply need all our cousins and totally different relations to wish, be sturdy. I’m okay. Pray for my son’s mom, and my son’s siblings. Pray for my son and my daughter, all people that was raised with Brandon.”
“I hate to announce this, I simply need to give it to you earlier than you hear it within the streets,” Smiley added. “My son, Brandon Smiley, handed away this morning. Life comes with an entire bunch of twists and turns.”
The radio present host went on to state, “Now I see what my granddaddy went by and why he felt the way in which he felt.”
File/Brandon Smiley attends TV One’s “Rickey Smiley For Actual” season 2 premiere at SCADshow on Could 4, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Marcus Ingram/Getty Photographs for TV One)
“My granddaddy went by this shit with my dad, and one way or the other right here I’m, going by the identical factor my grandparents went by,” he mentioned. “So simply pray for our household.”
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin reacted to the information of Smiley’s son’s dying, writing on Twitter, “I’m devastated to listen to that my pal
@RickeySmiley has misplaced his son Brandon.”
“Rickey has given a lot to our metropolis; that is the time when we have to give again to him. Be a part of me in wrapping our arms round him & his household throughout this tough time. We’re praying for you, Rickey,” he added.
I am devastated to listen to that my pal @RickeySmiley has misplaced his son Brandon.
Rickey has given a lot to our metropolis; that is the time when we have to give again to him. Be a part of me in wrapping our arms round him & his household throughout this tough time. We’re praying for you, Rickey.
— Randall Woodfin (@randallwoodfin) January 29, 2023
Smiley is the host of The Rickey Smiley Morning Present, a syndicated radio program.
The comic can be a co-host of the tv present Dish Nation. Through the years, viewers have been in a position to get to know Smiley and his relations by the Rickey Smiley For Actual actuality sequence.
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