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Frank Fritz Wanted to Return to 'American Pickers' Before Death, Friend Says


Frank Fritz would’ve returned to ‘American Pickers’ before his death if not for his ‘health issues,’ his friend Jerry Gendreau said

(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesLate American Pickers star Frank Fritz would’ve liked a chance to return to the History Channel reality series before his death, his friend Jerry Gendreau says. A rep for the reality TV star subsequently told TMZ that Fritz’s Crohn’s disease — a chronic, inflammatory illness that affects the gastrointestinal tract — may have contributed to his death. “It has taken me a long time to figure out what I was going to say or if I even wanted to post that we have new episodes starting tomorrow night,” Wolfe wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, October 8.

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