Tributes paid after TikTok star Dub King dies aged 43 TikTok\/Instagram: juleseusebioFilipino TikTok star Jules Eusebio, better known as the \u2018Dub King\u2019 on the app, has been reported dead at the age of 43 after contracting typhoid. Eusebio\u2019s TikTok channel has over 800,000 followers at the time of writing and almost 18m likes on his videos. His content was usually lip-syncing to recreate popular scenes from movies and TV shows or iconic lines in a similar style, often even dressing up and really playing the part of the character too. It was confirmed on Tuesday, May 16 that the Dub King had died, with a friend reporting the tragic news to GMA Network. He had passed away the day before, May 15, due to a severe case of typhoid fever, an illness caused by salmonella bacteria, commonly spread through contaminated food and water. The TikTok star was reportedly in and out of hospital with his illness, before his passing on May 15. Typhoid is uncommon in most developed countries, but is sadly still a huge problem across certain parts of Asia, Africa, and further afield. Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load Since news broke of his passing, the Dub King\u2019s TikTok and Instagram comments have been flooded with messages from fans, saying that \u201cheaven has gained another angel\u201d or saying how shocked they are to learn of his passing. The world has lost several viral TikTok stars in 2022, including 24-year-old Francesco LoPresti after a battle with cancer and Brandon Brootal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tributes paid after TikTok star Dub King dies aged 43 TikTok\/Instagram: juleseusebioFilipino TikTok star Jules Eusebio, better known as the \u2018Dub King\u2019 on the app, has been reported dead at the age of 43 after contracting typhoid. Eusebio\u2019s TikTok channel has over 800,000 followers at the time of writing and almost 18m likes on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}