In Memory to Jon-Erik Hexum The Most Gorgeous Man on Earth

 By Greg Hernandez  | Permalink  

The first time I ever laid eyes on the dreamy Jon-Erik Hexum. It was in the 1983 television movieThe Making of a Male Model opposite Joan Collins.

The Dynasty diva played a successful modeling agent who meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett (Hexum) in Nevada while attending an outdoor shoot. She notices his good looks and invites him to move to New York and start working as a male model.

Hexum had already starred in the TV seriesVoyagers! which lasted one season. But I had never watched it so this movie was my introduction to him. By 1984, he had landed the lead in another series: CBS’s Cover Up oppositeJennifer O’Neill. Hexum played a former Marine Special Forces Operative working undercover as a male model.

Sadly, the young actor was killed on the set of the show after completing just seven episodes. He was playing with a gun loaded with blanks and shot himself in the right temple. He was declared dead six days after the accident.

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