Blake Garrett: How To Eat Fried Worms star dies at 33-years-old, his mother reveals

Blake Garrett, a former child actor best known for his role in the 2006 film How to Eat Fried Worms, has died at the age of 33.

Garrett’s mother, Carol Garrett, told TMZ he died on Sunday, February 8. She told the outlet the family is awaiting autopsy results from a medical examiner in Oklahoma to determine the cause of death.

According to TMZ, Carol said Blake had recently visited an emergency room in Oklahoma after experiencing severe pain and was diagnosed with shingles. She also shared that Blake had been living in Tulsa for the past three years and had embraced a sober lifestyle in recent years.

Garrett appeared in two on-screen roles as a child actor, including the 2004 Barney & Friends special Barney’s Colorful World, Live!, and as the character Plug in 2006’s How to Eat Fried Worms, which was based on the 1974 children’s book by Thomas Rockwell.

How to Eat Fried Worms follows a boy named Billy (Luke Benward) who makes a bet with school bully Joe (Adam Hicks) that he must eat 10 worms without vomiting after transferring to a new school.

“I play the bully’s henchman,” Blake told The Oklahoman in a 2006 interview when he was 13. “But everybody got along on the set.”

“There were rows of bicycles, and they let me have first pick,” he said of filming the movie.

“There was one scene where we were riding on a gravel road and got to slide to a stop. The guys who could ride worked on that scene. They had a camera on the ground, and in one scene I slid and gravel hit the camera. They really liked that shot, and that’s the one they used in the movie.”

Garrett did not pursue further screen acting after How to Eat Fried Worms. At the time of his 2006 interview with The Oklahoman, he said he was interested in playing football and wrestling.