TV presenter and influencer Kylie Jaye dies aged 48

Australian TV presenter and fitness influencer Kylie Jaye has died aged 48.

The Sydney-born star died just weeks before turning 49, with her brother Isaac Humphries confirming Jaye died on the Gold Coast, after battling an undisclosed illness for two decades.

However, while the family awaits for ‘details to be confirmed’ he ‘categorically’ denied his sister died by suicide.

He told The Daily Telegraph: ‘Kylie Jaye was an orb of energy, you could tell when she entered a room and the room would then just seem dull when she left it.

‘Her legacy is the love she left in your heart after meeting her, the kindness she would show and her infectious smile that scrunched her nose up when she giggled.’

Jaye forged a career in front of the screen, presenting sports shows, as well as food and lifestyle programs in Australia and the United States on the Discovery Channel, Network Ten and E! Entertainment, before creating Yoga TV which was broadcast in 36 countries.

On Facebook Humphries wrote: ‘Goodbye posts are something you never think you have to post, but today I was told your light, the brightest of any I have had the pleasure to witness or be a part of has flickered out for the last time.

‘I remember you as my big sister, my defender, as a savvy and sassy business savant, aunty to my kids, but mostly I remember you as my friend.

‘I wished I could have told you one last time how amazing you were, how much I loved you and how much you meant to me and my family.

‘You will be missed so, so much. I love you Kylie, soooo much!!!’

According to her bio on talent websites, Jaye – who was also an accomplished author – used a ‘self-health’ mantra to manage her medical condition after being diagnosed in 2002.

It added: ‘She was determined not to let it affect her usual fast-paced business, and had to use her well-publicised ‘Self-Health’ mantra and background, expertise and advice usually reserved for her viewers to turn her personal health back around, rebuilding and re-energising, mentally and physically.’

Tributes came in for the star, with Jaye’s former partner, TV chef Jason Roberts, musing Jaye was one of the smartest women he’d ever met.

Sharing his heartbreak, he wrote: ‘We may not have made it to the altar KJ… we certainly had our fair share of ups and downs … but know this! I thought you were one of the smartest woman I had ever met, you absolute worked your a** off, you were a connector and a community builder, you were so beautiful and so joyful!

‘I’m heartbroken that [you’re] gone.’

He added: ‘It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.’