In an age where news is broadcast almost as fast as it happens, it seems impossible that any celebrity, no matter how passé, could die without any media attention. That’s exactly what happened to Neil Hope, who played Derek “Wheels” Wheeler on Degrassi: The Next Generation, Degrassi Junior High and The Kids of Degrassi Street.
Hope is said to have died on November 25, 2007, of natural causes. He was 35. The actor spent his years following Degrassi speaking out on teen alcoholism, a condition his character struggled with on the show.
Today, fans flooded Twitter with messages of mourning, confusion and shock that Hope’s death had been kept quiet for so long:
And, just for nostalgia’s sake, we present Wheels’ band, Zit Remedy:
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Feb 17, 2012 11:41 am
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TheRealJohnson
And in a fitting tribute, PostCity decides to use an image from the episode where an old man tries to molest Wheels in his station wagon.
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And in a fitting tribute, PostCity decides to use an image from the episode where an old man tries to molest Wheels in his station wagon.