{"id":473414,"date":"2025-12-26T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473414\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:19:10","slug":"big-brother-season-27-star-mickey-lee-dies-at-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473414\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Brother&#8217; season 27 star Mickey Lee dies at 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UC2D6D6NZFEVNOIATB4ANMP7D4\">Mickey Lee, a contestant on the latest season of the hit reality TV show \u201cBig Brother,\u201d has died. Lee\u2019s death was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSuwcHKFTZz\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSuwcHKFTZz\/?img_index=1\">confirmed on social media Friday<\/a> by her family, who said the TV personality died Thursday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QVFN2APAWZCP3MOVEHOHVPCS3M\">\u201cMickey captured the hearts of audiences nationwide through her appearance on Big Brother, where her authenticity, strength and spirit left a lasting impression on fans and fellow cast members alike,&#8221; the post reads. \u201cShe will be remembered for the joy she brought into the lives of so many and for the genuine connections she formed both on and off screen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IRQR6ZY6ORGT3BWZVB2IVCF7X4\">Lee was hospitalized recently after suffering cardiac arrest related to flu complications. On Monday, her family announced Lee was in critical but stable condition at a Florida hospital, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/22\/mickey-lee-big-brother-icu-critical-condition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/22\/mickey-lee-big-brother-icu-critical-condition\/\">according to TMZ.<\/a> A fundraising campaign launched that same day said Lee was surrounded by family at the hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"THO5SQRYENAMVAWG4WU3POGOBY\">Castmate Jimmy Heagerty offered his condolences after the news of Lee\u2019s death was announced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KRTZ4XZ5FJF6FONEU3A64RBRLM\">\u201cMickey, my heart is absolutely broken. In the house you were my friend, my first #1, and my ride or die. Outside of the house we reaffirmed our friendship, and that meant more to me than you\u2019ll ever know,\u201d Heagerty wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SBCKJ3W2JVGUNI74NGAMJVLJOE\">Lee, who was 35, finished in 10th place in the reality competition which aired its Season 27 finale in September.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mickey Lee, a contestant on the latest season of the hit reality TV show \u201cBig Brother,\u201d has died.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":473415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5356,214696,171,4353,10669,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-473414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-big-brother-tv-series","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-georgia","12":"tag-party","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115787488812398363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}