What is David Gest?
{{Infobox person | name = David Gest | image = David Guest.JPG | image_size = 220px | caption = Gest in 2007 | birth_name = David Alan Gest | birth_date = {{Birth date|1953|5|11}} | birth_place = [[Los Angeles]], California, U.S. | death_date = April 12, 2016 (aged 62) | death_place = [[Canary Wharf]], [[East London]], England | death_cause = [[Stroke]] | body_discovered = [[Canary Wharf]], [[East London]], England | occupation = Producer, comedian, television personality, entertainer | spouse = {{marriage|[[Liza Minnelli]]|2002|2007|end=div.}} }} '''David Alan Gest''' (May 11, 1953 – April 12, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] entertainer, comedian, producer and television personality. Gest produced the highest-rated musical television special in history, ''[[Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration: The Solo Years]]'' in 2001. Gest appeared on the [[I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (UK series 6)|2006 series]] of the British reality television show ''[[I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!]]'' He became the first American to have three prime-time series in the UK. Gest appeared in [[Celebrity Big Brother (British series 17)|series 17]] of ''[[Celebrity Big Brother]]'' in the UK in 2016 but due to illness had to leave after 13 days. He was married to actress [[Liza Minnelli]] from 2002 until they [[divorced]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/David+Gest-15030.html|title=Minnelli/Gest Divorce To Be Finalised This Week|publisher=Femalefirst.co.uk|date=April 19, 2007|access-date=July 1, 2015|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165307/http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/David+Gest-15030.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=Recordssitereviews.com|url=http://www.recordssitereviews.com/divorcerecords/david-gest-liza-minnelli-divorce.html|title=The David Gest and Liza Minnelli Divorce|access-date=April 12, 2016|archive-date=November 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127005537/http://www.recordssit