Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chris O'Meara/AP Photo Billy Mays poses with some of his cleaning products at his Palm Harbor, Fla., home on Dec. 6, 2002 Billy ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — There's no escaping Billy Mays on TV. There he is on one commercial urging you to add a scoop of OxiClean to each laundry load. Turn the channel and he's peddling a car dent fixer, ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. - There's no escaping Billy Mays on TV. There he is on one commercial, urging you to add a scoop of OxiClean to each laundry load. Turn the channel and he is selling a car-dent fixer ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Television viewers knew him as the OxiClean guy: the bearded, boisterous pitchman on commercials airing hundreds of times a week nationwide. "Hi. Billy Mays here," he would begin, ...

Billy Mays — and his booming voice — was a fixture on television screens in the early 2000s, selling products like OxiClean and Kaboom. But his career as a pitchman was tragically cut short when he ...