Author: Erin Carlson

MTV

A relative of Buckwild star Shain Gandee, who was found dead Monday in a vehicle along with his uncle and friend, says arrangements are being made for a funeral that may take place on Saturday.

An update Tuesday on the Facebook page of Gandee’s General Store, which is owned by the 21-year-old’s cousin Ashley Gandee Lewis, reads: “I just wanted to let everyone know that the family feels that Shain died peacefully in his sleep without pain or suffering. That it probably was carbon monoxide. They are making arrangement[s] now for his funeral. Nothing is confirmed but they are thinking Saturday.”

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Gandee attended the grand opening of Lewis’ Crown City, Ohio-based store on Saturday. In photos from the event, he looks happy and carefree in a camouflage hat and gray T-shirt emblazoned with an image of a truck.

Lewis did not immediately respond to THR‘s requests for comment.

An official cause of death is pending. Dan Humphries, spokesman for the sheriff’s department in Kanawha County in West Virginia, told THR that speculation of carbon monoxide poisoning is “not irresponsible.”

MTV, which airs Buckwild, has halted any decisions regarding the upcoming second season of its hit series. Producer J.P. Williams said that production had been suspended but the fate of the series will not be decided for a couple of weeks.

Gandee was reported missing over the weekend, having last been seen at 3 a.m. Sunday at a local bar. According to reports, he told bar patrons that he was going off-roading, or “mudding,” as it’s called on the show.

With Shia LaBeouf on his show Monday, David Letterman seized the moment to put the candid young actor on the spot over his recent dramatic departure from Broadway’s Orphans.

“Why did you get fired?” the late-night host asked LaBeouf point-blank. Letterman also grilled his guest about reports that Orphans star Alec Baldwin requested the show drop LaBeouf, saying: “What did you do to him?”

“He’s a good dude and the show is terrific. I got nothing bad to say,” responded LaBeouf, adding: “I’m pretty passionate and impulsive, and he’s a very passionate individual as well and I think that impulsiveness and passion make for some fireworks.”

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Late February, LaBeouf was pushed out of the production a week into rehearsals in what Orphans PR described as the result of “creative differences” with producers. (Explained LaBeouf on Letterman: “I think that’s what you gotta say as sort of a business-savvy answer for what actually happened.”) He then took to Twitter to air private email exchanges with Baldwin and director Daniel Sullivan, among others, and also posted his Orphans audition video. And last week, he surprised his former co-stars by sitting front row at the very first preview performance.

“I showed up as a fan,” said LaBeouf, who stars opposite Robert Redford on the big screen in the drama The Company You Keep, in theaters Friday.

“Me and Alec had tension as men. Not as artists, but as men. In a room, that became hard to deal with,” he admitted.

Letterman, meanwhile, demanded the two reconcile. On that note, LaBeouf stared into the camera, tossing another compliment toward his former adversary:  “Alec, I think you’re awesome man.”