Larry King has announced that he will be leaving his CNN prime-time program this fall after 25-years at the helm. Saddled with a troubled marriage, and not getting any younger, his words – not ours, the 76-year-old is hanging it up.
He said, “The daily grind is tough. And there are aspects of it, you know, when you’ve got to do tabloid shows, which is the nature of the business, you’ve got to do the girl that’s missing in Aruba. It’s hard to make the case that that is major news, but that’s what news is today. And my curiosity runs to that, but not nightly.”
CNN has slipped significantly in the ratings this year and the Larry King Live program is down 40% from the same period last year. King wants viewers to know that he was not fired. He said, “I swear to God, they never pressured me.”
King has signed a new deal to host occasional specials for the cable news channel.
Hear it straight from Larry’s lips on the video below: