{"id":2127253,"date":"2025-10-31T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2127253"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:46:08","slug":"ryan-seacrests-father-gary-lee-seacrest-dies-following-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ryan-seacrests-father-gary-lee-seacrest-dies-following-cancer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Seacrest’s Father Gary Lee Seacrest Dies Following Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ryan Seacrest is mourning the loss of his father, Gary Lee Seacrest.<\/p>\n

The Wheel of Fortune<\/em> host<\/a>, 50, announced Friday that his father had died months after he had shared his prostate cancer diagnosis<\/a> publicly. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with a heavy heart that I share with you that my loving father peacefully passed away earlier this week,\u201d Ryan captioned an Instagram post Friday featuring photos with his father over the years. \u201cMy mom, sister and I have peace knowing he is in a better place and free of any pain or suffering. We are heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Included in the post were photos of Gary with his wife, Constance Marie Zullinger; Ryan\u2019s sister, Meredith Seacrest; her husband, Jimmy Leach; and their daughter, Flora Leach.<\/p>\n

Ryan continued, \u201cHe was a devoted husband for 56 years, an incredible Papa to Flora, and my best friend,\u201d concluding, \u201cDad you will live in our hearts forever. I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The American Idol <\/em>host<\/a> announced in July that his dad had been battling prostate cancer for years, and that while the disease was not detectable in 2021, it \u201cgot worse\u201d and spread.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad is about 80 years old, and I have a very close relationship with my father,\u201d he said in the July 21 episode of On Air with Ryan Seacrest<\/em>. \u201cAnd my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer years ago and started his treatment. And he, it didn\u2019t get better. It got worse and it spread. It didn\u2019t go well for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan decided to share the news of his father\u2019s health struggle after a moment on American Idol. <\/em><\/p>\n

Ryan Seacrest with father Gary, sister Meredith and mother Connie (Photo by Gregg DeGuire\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI was on an American Idol<\/em> show live during last season and my sister called me and she said, \u2018Dad is in the ICU. How fast can you get here?\u2019\u201d he recalled, revealing that his father had been diagnosed with pneumonia. \u201cI finished the show. We were almost done. I couldn\u2019t, I couldn\u2019t even, I didn\u2019t even remember what I was saying was on the show. It was like robotic at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growing emotional as he reflected on his dad\u2019s journey, Ryan shared, \u201c[Last night], I got the most powerful, good, happy picture from my dad and my mother, who was with him. They went to a beach to sit outside. They just went to look at the water. They can\u2019t do much, but I saw him smile. I saw my mom smile.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cI watched them over the weekend send photos of smiling and happiness, and being together. They\u2019ve been married for over 55 years. They\u2019ve got each other and the pneumonia is gone, but his cancer is not.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source popculture.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ryan Seacrest is mourning the loss of his father, Gary Lee Seacrest. The Wheel of Fortune host, 50, announced Friday that his father had died months after he had shared his prostate cancer diagnosis publicly. \u201cIt is with a heavy heart that I share with you that my loving father peacefully passed away earlier this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2127254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[21872,39864],"class_list":["post-2127253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-ryan-seacrest","tag-wheel-of-fortune"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ryan-Seacrests-Father-Gary-Lee-Seacrest-Dies-Following-Cancer-Battle.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127255,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127253\/revisions\/2127255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}