Phil Valentine Dies Of Covid-19: Conservative Radio Host & Vaccine Skeptic Changed into as soon as 61

Phil Valentine, the Nashville-essentially based entirely mostly radio talk indicate host known for his skepticism of Covid-19 vaccines, has died following a fight with the virus. He was 61.

His situation, SuperTalk 99.7 WTN, confirmed the news in an announcement posted to Twitter on Saturday afternoon. “We are saddened to document that our host and buddy Phil Valentine has handed away,” a spokesperson wrote. “Please protect the Valentine family in your thoughts and prayers.”

Valentine first announced that he’d contracted Covid in a Fb publish published on July 11. “Yes, the rumors are real. I maintain COVID. Unfortunately for the haters accessible, it looks luxuriate in I’m going to receive it,” he wrote. “Spirited ride. I’ll maintain to have you in after I advance help on the air. I’m hoping that can be the following day, nonetheless I also can fair take a time without work real as a precaution. It’ll be a game time resolution.”

By July 22, Valentine’s situation had worsened enormously, which led his brother Tag to share an announcement along with his fans, by strategy of SuperTalk’s genuine Fb web page. “Phil would luxuriate in for his listeners to clutch that whereas he has never been an “anti-vaxer” he regrets no longer being extra vehemently ‘Authentic-Vaccine’,” he wrote, “and looks to be ahead to being ready to extra vigorously recommend that position as soon as he is help on the air, which all of us hope might be soon.”

Valentine’s radio program on WWTN, a Cumulus Media situation, first went on the air in Nashville in 1995, and was later syndicated to a range of cities one day of the U.S.

He kicked off his occupation in radio upon graduating from East Carolina College, also occurring to writer three books: The Conservative’s Instruction e-book: Defining the Appropriate Intention on Concerns from A to Z, Appropriate from the Heart: The ABC’s of Actuality in America, and Tax Rebel: The Rebel Against an Overbearing, Bloated, Smug, and Abusive Authorities.

Valentine also directed the 2012 doc An Inconsistent Reality, which served as his response to Al Gore’s Oscar winner, An Inconvenient Reality, and looked as an actor in a handful of movie and TV initiatives, including The Secret Handshake and Threat Matrix.

Over the excellent two years, the broadcaster also cohosted the podcast PodGOATs along with his eldest son, Campbell.

Plans for a memorial maintain no longer but been printed.

We are saddened to document that our host and buddy Phil Valentine has handed away. Please protect the Valentine family in your thoughts and prayers. pic.twitter.com/vhXpE7x0oX

— SuperTalk 99.7 WTN (@997wtn) August 21, 2021