Lionel Richie Health Scare: The Latest Details

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Hey, welcome to the TMZ Podcast. I'm Branson Quirk.

**Eric Wilson** (1:41)
I'm Eric Wilson.

**Branson Quirk** (1:41)
And in the spirit of who we're talking about today, I almost opened with hello.

**Eric Wilson** (1:46)
That would have been appropriate.

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Hello.

**Eric Wilson** (1:49)
That would have been appropriate.

**Branson Quirk** (1:49)
You and I are known for singing songs here at the office.

**Eric Wilson** (1:51)
Oh, now we're known. We did it once.

**Branson Quirk** (1:52)
We did it one time. If you weren't here for the last podcast, we'd be singing Endless Love Together. And you can let us know if we should start, you know, maybe...

**Eric Wilson** (2:01)
Is that Friday? Yeah, check out Friday. Singing.

**Branson Quirk** (2:03)
Yeah, it might be our thing.

**Eric Wilson** (2:04)
You're a singer.

**Branson Quirk** (2:05)
Lionel Richie, he's heading home after his three-day hospital stay. Some good news, and we hope it stays that way. We put prayers out to him and everything. We'll get into all the details. We're also gonna talk about, unfortunately, you know, Tim Carey did pass away.
Huge actor, more than 250 credits on his resume. You know him from countless films, Rocky Horror Picture Show, you know him from Home Alone 2
He was an icon, and we found out the cause of death. So we'll get into that. We're also gonna talk about Transformers star, Peter Cullen. His cause of death has also been revealed. And we're gonna hear from somebody who knew Peter Cullen very, very well that we spoke with. Big A-lister, you know him as well. And to finish off, we're gonna talk about what everybody's talking about. If you're a fan of Wheel of Fortune, you know this guy, he's the announcer. Jim Thornton is now, past, I think, being investigated. They're now cutting him from the show.

**Eric Wilson** (3:04)
Well, he's suspended right now, but I'm surprised the story took off the way it did.

**Branson Quirk** (3:10)
Yeah, I mean, Wheel of Fortune, people love it.

**Eric Wilson** (3:11)
People care about Wheel of Fortune.

**Branson Quirk** (3:13)
Wait, Tony, at some point, give us the answer. How many people watch Wheel of Fortune every day on Syndication?
It's ridiculous. Just wait, just wait.

**Eric Wilson** (3:23)
I wouldn't have known this guy.

**Branson Quirk** (3:24)
Your grandma loves it.

**Eric Wilson** (3:26)
Both my grandmas are dead, so I think.

**Branson Quirk** (3:28)
Sorry.

**Eric Wilson** (3:28)
She's bringing that up.

**Branson Quirk** (3:29)
Sorry, sorry, sorry. You know the point I was trying to make. I was trying to make the point.

**Eric Wilson** (3:33)
Rest in peace. All right, let's get into Lionel Richie. He's heading home after three days in the hospital in St. Louis.
Obviously, we saw some footage, or you could check it out on our site, of him on stage in St. Louis. A little winded, he was sitting down. He went to the hospital, allegedly for dehydration, but we know he was in the cardiac ICU unit.