Bob Beckel, former co-host of Fox’s The Five, dies at 73

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Bob Beckel, a Democratic strategist and original co-host of The Five, died Monday at the age of 73.

The cause of his death is not immediately clear, and he is survived by his two children. Beckel co-hosted over 700 episodes of The Five and published an autobiography in 2015, I Should Be Dead: My Life Surviving Politics, TV, and Addiction, in which he discussed his battle with substance abuse.

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