Paul Teal, an actor recognized for his recurring function on the TV collection “One Tree Hill,” died on Friday after a battle with most cancers, a consultant for Teal confirmed to CBS Information.
“His exceptional expertise, alongside together with his mild spirit, has left an indelible mark on all of us lucky sufficient to have recognized him,” Susan Tolar Walters of STW Expertise Company mentioned in an announcement on Monday. “The loss we really feel in our hearts is immeasurable.”
The actor’s fiancée, Emilia Torello, shared a tribute to Teal in a Sunday Instagram put up, calling him “essentially the most considerate, inspiring, pushed, self-disciplined, loving man.”
“Paul, you have been my soulmate, my soon-to-be-husband, my rock, and my future. You crammed my lungs with laughter, my abdomen with butterflies, and my coronary heart with love,” Torello wrote within the emotional put up. “You have been taken too quickly, in a battle that you simply fought bravely with out fail. Whereas part of me died with you, I promise to battle to search out pleasure in life as exhausting as you fought to reside each single day. The world is fortunate to have even had a second with Paul Teal, and I’m the luckiest individual in it, as a result of I bought to name you mine. I’ll love you eternally.”
Teal, who performed Josh within the seventh season of “One Tree Hill,” was additionally remembered by stars Sophia Bush and Bethany Pleasure Lenz.
Bush mentioned she was “extremely saddened to listen to in regards to the passing of Paul Teal. We’re simply beginning to watch his OTH episodes on [“Drama Queens” podcast] and he is such a expertise.”
Lenz labored with Teal on “One Tree Hill” and on a musical manufacturing of “The Pocket book.”
“He was too younger to die. Far too younger. I am gutted,” she wrote in an Instagram put up. “Paul, your time right here was like a summer season romance for all of us who knew you, particularly if just for a season. Bursting, thrilling, deeply transferring, and unforgettable.”
Teal additionally appeared in “Outer Banks” and “The Staircase.” He was additionally a part of the forged of “The Looking Wives,” which is predicted to premiere in 2025.