Larry King hospitalized
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wrote on 3 Jan 2021, 00:36 last edited by
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/larry-king-hospitalized-covid-19-reports
Legendary journalist and television host Larry King is hospitalized for COVID-19, according to media reports on Saturday evening.
King, who is 87, is reportedly hospitalized in isolation in Los Angeles.
The longtime CNN host has previously survived a heart attack and a stroke.
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wrote on 3 Jan 2021, 02:03 last edited by
Ugh. I wish him well.
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wrote on 3 Jan 2021, 03:14 last edited by
He was the man for a while.
covid and 87 and previous heart attack doesn't sound good.
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wrote on 4 Jan 2021, 22:56 last edited by
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wrote on 23 Jan 2021, 13:28 last edited by
Larry King, the Brooklyn-bred man who became cable TV’s most well-known talk-show host, died Saturday, Ora Media announced in a statement on Twitter. He was 87.
Over the course of more than 50 years 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.
By his count, he interviewed well over 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, a production company he founded with Mexican media mogul Carlos Slim, and became an active presence on Twitter.
He vowed never to retire and to keep interviewing until he died. But King was not immune to illness: 30 years after undergoing quintuple heart bypass surgery, which prompted him to quit a lifelong three-pack-a-day cigarette habit and lose weight, a 2017 checkup revealed a cancerous lung tumor that was removed with surgery.
Report:Larry King has been hospitalized with COVID-19 for more than a week
Talk show host Larry King is shown on the set of his program 'Larry King Live' at the CNN studios in Los Angeles in March 2005.
He revealed he had a stroke in March 2019, was in a coma for weeks and considered suicide. "I thought I was going to bite the bullet; I didn't want to live this way," he told an interviewer at Los Angeles station KTLA. In April of that year, he had an angioplasty after complaining of chest pains. But once again, he recovered and kept working. -
wrote on 23 Jan 2021, 14:05 last edited by
First thought was that it was Athe Covid, but looking at all the heart attacks, the stroke, cancer, et al, who knows?
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wrote on 23 Jan 2021, 17:23 last edited by
The King is dead.
Long live the King.
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wrote on 23 Jan 2021, 18:03 last edited by
An amazing man with an amazing life. I used to enjoy watching him, such a great interviewer. Made it to 87 after smoking 3 packs a day for 30 years. Survives a stroke and then has lung surgery and lymph nodes removed at age 84 and lives another 3 years.
Sounds like he definitely died of Covid after defying so many odds.