Radio Broadcaster Tim Gough Dies While Presenting Live On Air

Veteran British radio host Tim Gough has died. He was hosting his morning breakfast show on GenX Radio Suffolk on Monday when he suffered a suspected heart attack and was pronounced dead at 7:50 a.m. at his home in Lackford, Suffolk.

"It is with the heaviest of hearts that we have to inform you, our dear friend and breakfast host Tim Gough passed away this morning whilst presenting his program," GenX Radio Suffolk's statement reads. "Our love to his family, son, sister, brother and mum. Tim was doing what he loved. He was 55 years old.

"Tim was a hugely experienced and highly talented broadcaster with an army of fans for his daily show. He is a very sad loss to radio and the county of Suffolk. The entire GenX Radio family are shocked and devastated beyond words," the statement continues.

Gough started working as a broadcaster in the 1980s and went on to feature on several radio stations since then. In a statement after his passing, GenX Radio Suffolk Managing Director James Hazell described Gough as a warm and caring man.

"Tim has been on the radio since the 80s and had come out of radio retirement to fully involve himself in our project from the beginning, to bring local commercial radio back to his beloved Suffolk and was hugely excited for our DAB launch at the end of the month," said Hazell.

"To know Tim personally, as I did very closely for over 30 years, was to know a warm, caring, fun guy who myself and my family loved dearly. We are heartbroken by the news. I know his family are enormously comforted by the hundreds of loving messages that have been received and have asked for privacy at this devastating time," he added.

A Suffolk native, Gough grew up in a village close to Bury St. Edmunds and launched his career in broadcasting in 1986 at Radio Orwell. He went on to have his own breakfast show on Saxon Radio and SGR-FM while appearing on other radio stations in the East Midlands, including Smooth Radio.