The 35-year-old model and actor Godfrey Gao collapsed because of cardiac arrest early Wednesday morning, while he was in time to run in realityprogrammet ‘Chase Me’. Called the doctors immediately tried to save him, and he was quickly taken to a hospital, where he died three hours later.
It writes multiple media including CNN.
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JetStar Entertainment, which is behind the big chinese reality show ‘Chase Me’ has in a statement confirmed the death.
‘We are shocked and grieved over the death. Which was all the time the doctors at his side, while his family rushed towards the scene of the accident and the hospital. We would like to thank friends from the media and everyone who has supported Godfrey, for their beautiful words about Godfrey. And we are asking everyone to let the family be in peace in the difficult time’.
In the reality tv programme ‘Chase Me’, they let celebrities fight against the ordinary people in the context of various obstacle course and physically demanding exercises.
Godfrey Gao was born in Taiwan. He achieved great success both in Taiwan and in China. But also internationally in Europe and in the UNITED states. He was the first asian model who walked the catwalk for the fashion company Louis Vuitton.
Godfrey Gao cast himself also into a career as an actor and appeared f.ex. in 2013 in the film ‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’, in which he starred opposite Lena Headey and Lily Collins, as well as the film ‘Shanghai Fortress’.
