{"id":302,"date":"2021-01-04T18:49:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwmedia.news\/?p=302"},"modified":"2021-01-04T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T18:49:21","slug":"larry-king-veteran-talk-show-host-in-hospital-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Larry King: Veteran talk show host in hospital with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Veteran US talk show host Larry King is in hospital with coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King, 87, has been receiving treatment for\u00a0<strong>COVID-19<\/strong>\u00a0at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in\u00a0<strong>Los Angeles<\/strong>\u00a0for over a week, sources close to his family told CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The broadcaster is currently in isolation and unable to have any visitors, they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/01\/768x432\/skynews-larry-king-covid-19_5225606.jpg?bypass-service-worker&amp;20210103075345\" alt=\"King, 87, is unable to have any visitors, reports claim\"\/><figcaption>The 87-year-old is in hospital and unable to have any visitors, reports claim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/01\/768x432\/skynews-larry-king-madonna_5225625.jpg?bypass-service-worker&amp;20210103082005\" alt=\"Madonna shares a laugh with Larry King on the set of the CNN talk show &quot;Larry King Live&quot; in New York City January 18 1999\"\/><figcaption>The talk show host pictured during an interview with Madonna in 1999<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>King, whose career spans more than six decades, has Type 2 diabetes and has suffered from lung cancer, angina and heart attacks in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Larry has fought so many health issues in the last few years and he is fighting this one hard too, he&#8217;s a champ,&#8221; the source told CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King&#8217;s broadcasting fame began in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, which he hosted on the network Mutual Broadcasting System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then went on to have his own television show, Larry King Live on CNN, between 1985 and 2010, where his guests included politicians, celebrities, sports stars and well-known conspiracy theorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran US talk show host Larry King is in hospital with coronavirus. King, 87, has been receiving treatment for\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}