1000-Lb. Sisters’ Caleb Willingham Dead at 40: Tammy Slaton Mourns Husband
1000-Lb. Sisters’ Caleb Willingham Dead at 40: Tammy Slaton Mourns Husband
1000-Lb. Sisters star Tammy Slaton’s husband, Caleb Willingham, has died. He was 40.
Willingham’s stepmother, Shirley Willingham, confirmed the TLC star’s passing to TMZ on Saturday, July 1. No further details about Caleb’s death have been revealed.
Slaton, 36, subsequently broke her silence on Caleb’s death in an emotional Instagram post. “Rip sweet angel you will forever be missed and loved so much,” she wrote on Saturday, alongside throwback photos of the pair.
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Slaton met Caleb when they were both patients at a rehab facility in Ohio in 2021, where they were being treated for obesity-related issues.
“You know the other day, Tammy actually saved my life,” he revealed to their fellow Windsor Lane Rehabilitation Center patients in a March episode of 1000-Lb. Sisters. “I was out of oxygen. I was sitting her hurting, in pain, tears falling down my face, and she got help. It meant the world to me because you showed kindness.”
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Caleb later revealed in the scene that it was Slaton’s weight loss journey that inspired him to check into the Windsor Lane program. “Just hearing about how well somebody was able to do [made me take the plunge],” he added.
The pair wed one year later in November 2022 at the facility.
“It was the best day of our lives,” Slaton — who costars with sister Amy Slaton on 1000-Lb. Sisters — gushed to E! News in January. “There was so much love in the room. I’m thankful that so many family members and our family from the rehab were able to come. … When we had our first kiss he leaned forward and hit the control switch and drove right into me knocking me back into my wheelchair!”
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Following their nuptials, Tammy underwent gastric bypass surgery with Caleb by her side.
“We support each other wholeheartedly,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in February. “On our weight loss journeys, when he’s having issues with wanting to eat because he’s bored or because he’s an emotional eater, he comes to me and we talk about the situation. It’s the same for me and I talk to him. We talk about our issues and why we feel this way. We are true partners.”
Tammy added at the time: “He treats me so different from any other person I was with. He truly was a godsend [through my weight-loss efforts].”
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Retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Saturday that he was impressed by the U.S. strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites, praising President Donald Trump’s use of “deception and trickery.”
“I‘m fascinated and, candidly, I‘m impressed,” he said. “I never really could understand what the two-week pause meant, or what it was for, what was left to negotiate, what were we going to expect the Iranians to offer? In many ways, it was much like a Trump deal. I mean, he‘s trying to make a deal to buy an apartment, but all of a sudden the apartment was destroyed, so where‘s the negotiation? So I think the use of deception and trickery in this case, first of all, was successful. But second of all, saved the potential loss of American lives.”
Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. had struck three Iranian nuclear sites. The president said the Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities were “totally obliterated” during a brief address from the White House.
Cooper also asked Kimmitt about the effects and what U.S. forces should be worried about in the region.
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“They should be very concerned,” Kimmitt said. “Look, the Iranians are down, but they’re not out. The fact remains is the proxy networks, while diminished, are still lethal. You take a look at the significant number of Iranian-backed militias in Iraq alone, they can put up quite a fight and put a significant amount of American interests, American troops, American infrastructure at risk.”
Kimmitt served as the assistant Secretary of State for political-military affairs under former President George W. Bush.
Trump addressed the nation following the U.S. military’s strikes on the trio of Iranian nuclear facilities.
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“A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan,” he said. “Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity, and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.”
He said Iran was now backed into a corner and “must now make peace.”
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The president also threatened far greater attacks against Iran if the country didn’t come to the table.
Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
