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Fitness expert, actor and model Greg Plitt has died – some excerpts from our 2007 interview
Tragic news about fitness expert Greg Plitt who died on Saturday after being hit by a commuter train in Burbank.
Greg, 37, was shooting video with a small crew on the southbound track of the Burbank Metrolink station when an oncoming train struck him.
He is best known for his time on the Bravo series Work Out and appears on the new Bravo series Friends to Lovers? which premiered last Monday.
Andy Cohen tweeted today: “We couldn’t take our eyes off Greg Plitt after we cast him on “Work Out”-was as nice as he was beautiful. Seemed invincible, like Superman.”
I met Greg in 2007 at the Diversity Awards where Work Out’s Jackie Warner was being honored. He was a retired U.S. Army Ranger Captain by then but new to the Hollywood scene telling me all about the show’s upcoming season.
A publicist called and demanded I take it down. I refused but did agree to take out a few spoilers for Greg’s sake.
Greg said: ‘I’ve got a good story, an inspirational story about being in the war, coming from a military background and promoting fitness and a healthy lifestyle. I’ve been able to bring that to the table. My whole premise of being on the show is that it portrays fitness in a positive light, not the vanity of it where you’re working out to look good in the mirror. But where you’re working out as a lifestyle to be healthy.”
He welcomed all fans – gay and straight: “I’m a friend to everybody. Sex, gender, whatever your preference is, it’s not about that. It’s about the character of the person. That comes in every flavor. Everyone has something to give everybody and far too often people have tunnel vision and turn off their peripheral vision and miss out on learning and meeting people. I welcome everybody and try to learn from everybody. Maybe sometimes I learn from their mistakes and learn what not to do.”
Such a tragedy that he is gone.
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Cool Curt says:
R.I.P. to a very beautiful, kind spirit/soul. His smile was so warm and so inviting and his eyes twinkled and sparkled like diamonds.
His body was just amazing and you literally aspire to go to gym and workout because even if you hit the gym super hard, you knew you weren’t going to have a body like his but his calm and sweet spirit made it seem more obtainable. He wasn’t hung up on himself and he could have been but he was kind, nice and gentle which guys that look like him aren’t (sorry to throw shade and throw some extremely hot and great guys in a box) but looking at the entire package (face, smile, body and hair) you felt at ease being around this Angel on earth…….God rest his soul…….