Report: Larry King has been hospitalized with COVID-19 for more than a week King was not immune to other illness: 30 years after undergoing quintuple heart bypass surgery, which prompted him to quit a three-pack-a-day cigarette habit and lose weight, a checkup in 2017 revealed a cancerous lung tumor that was removed with surgery. He vowed never to retire and to keep interviewing until he died.
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Over the course of more than five decades in radio and TV broadcasting, half of it spent hosting CNN’s "Larry King Live," King mingled with the famous and infamous and average people who became either.īy his count, he interviewed more than 60,000 subjects, and when his run on cable ended in 2010, he segued to the internet with "Larry King Now," a daily talk show on Hulu from Ora TV, and became an active presence on Twitter. 'TV is less interesting without you': Meghan McCain, Andrew Cuomo, more react to Larry King death We will miss him every single day of our lives." He was an amazing father, and he was fiercely loyal to those lucky enough to call him a friend. And through it all, we knew without a doubt in the world that he loved us more than life itself. "He was the man who lovingly obsessed over our daily schedules and our well-being, and who took such immense pride in our accomplishments – large, small, or imagined. "The world knew Larry King as a great broadcaster and interviewer, but to us he was 'dad.' " We are heartbroken over our father's death," the statement read, signed by Larry King Jr., Chance King and Cannon King. King's three surviving children mourned him in a family statement shared Saturday night on his Twitter account. "For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry’s many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster," the company said. He died Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company King founded with Mexican media mogul Carlos Slim.
King had been hospitalized with COVID-19. Larry King, the Brooklyn-bred man who became cable TV’s most well-known talk show host, died Saturday. He was 87.
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