Shock as GenX radio DJ Tim Gough dies of ‘heart attack’ on air
TSB News reports that a local radio host died from a suspected heart attack while presenting his daily breakfast show.
Tim Gough, 55, was presenting his morning programme for GenX Radio Suffolk when the music stopped playing half way through a song, about an hour into his slot.
The music resumed a few minutes later but Mr Gough, who had been speaking just moments earlier, did not return and later the station confirmed he had passed away.
GenX Radio Suffolk posted on their social media accounts: ‘It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to inform you, our dear friend and breakfast host Tim Gough passed away this morning whilst presenting his program.
‘Our love to his family, son, sister, brother and mum.
‘Tim was doing what he loved. He was 55 years old.’
The father-of-one spoke his final words after playing Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones, commenting that it was the birthday of bass guitarist Bill Wyman, a Suffolk resident.
James Hazell, managing director of GenX Radio Suffolk, was on air from 9am and shortly before 11am he informed listeners of the ‘devastating blow’.
He said: ‘I speak to you this morning with frankly some tragic tragic news.
‘At ten to eight this morning in the middle of Tim Cough’s breakfast show broadcast, he suffered a catastrophic cardiac episode – as it has been described.
‘Despite the best efforts of the paramedics, who were on site very quickly, some 20 25 minutes doing what they could to revive to – it was not to be.
‘It was in the middle of his program, he was doing something he loved to do.
He added: ‘I really have no words at this stage, he was 55-years-old, very healthy. Who knows why these things happened, but its happened.’