Dayle Haddon, model and actress, found dead in home of Hallmark star
Model Dayle Haddon attends the 13th Annual UNICEF Snowflake Ball 2017 at The Atrium at 60 Wall Street on November 28, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage)
Canadian model and actress Dayle Haddon was found dead Friday morning in a suspected case of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to Pennsylvania officials and multiple reports.
According to authorities in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, someone called 911 around 6:30 a.m. Friday and said a man was lying down and unconscious on the first floor of an in-law suite.
The 76-year-old man was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Police didn’t provide his condition. According to CBS News, a second person, later identified as 76-year-old Dayle Haddon, was found dead in a second-floor bedroom.
An aerial view of the home where actress Dayle Haddon was found dead in a suspected case of carbon monoxide poisoning (FOX 29 Philadelphia)
Investigators found the home had a high level of carbon monoxide. Two medics were also taken to a local hospital for carbon monoxide exposure and a third was treated on scene.
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CBS reports that the home is owned by Haddon's daughter, former journalist Ryan Haddon, and Ryan's husband, Hallmark Movies actor Marc Blucas.
Dayle Haddon’s life
Born in Montreal, Canada, Haddon got her start as a ballerina with the Les Grands Ballet Canadiens ballet company in Canada. She was later discovered by Eileen Ford and left ballet to start her modeling career in New York City.
She’s been on the cover of Vogue magazine twice and was on the cover of the 1973 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, according to People. A L’Oréal Paris spokesperson for more than 15 years, Haddon also appeared in movies including Disney’s The World’s Greatest Athlete and North Dallas Forty with Nick Nolte.
Haddon was described on her own website as an activist and UNICEF ambassador who has traveled to refugee camps in Darfur, to Haiti after the devastating earthquake and to remote mountain schools in Bolivia.
"She was a woman in her power, yet soft and attentive to all," her daughter Ryan Haddon said in a lengthy tribute on Instagram. "Deeply creative and curious, gifted with beauty inside and out. Always kind and thoughtful.
"In conversation, she could go to the deepest of places and also soar the highest heights of spiritual understanding," she continued. "She held so many up, saw their greatness sometimes hidden to them, and always built bridges with her own connections to help them ascend."