Popular American broadcaster, Larry King has died at the age of 87.
Although he was hospitalised earlier this month after contracting COVID-19, the cause of his death has not been released.
Below are 10 things you should know about him:
- He was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn on November 19, 1933.
- He got the name Larry King on his first day of doing radio when the station manager suggested it
- His parents, Edward and Jennie Gitlitz Zeiger were immigrants from Austria and Belarus.
- May 1, 1957 was the first time, he sat behind a live microphone at WAHR, a radio station in Miami, where he had been originally employed to sweep floors and run errands.
- It is estimated that during his career which spanned five decades, Larry King chatted with 50,000 people from all walks of life.
- Mr. King rose to prominence with an all-night coast-to-coast radio call-in show starting in 1978.
- He anchored CNN’s highest-rated, longest-running program, reaching millions across America and around the world from and from 1985 to 2010.
- King became a strict dieter since a 1987 heart attack and quintuple bypass surgery. In 2019, he was hospitalized for chest pains and he had also suffered a stroke.
- He was married eight times.
- King was also a gambler who declared bankruptcy twice in 1960 and 1978.
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