Talk show host Larry King is receiving treatment in a Los Angeles hospital for COVID-19, according to entertainment journalist Roger Friedman’s Showbiz411 report and ABC News on Saturday afternoon.
A family member confirmed to ABC News that King, 87, has been battling the coronavirus for about 10 days.
”Larry has fought so many health issues in the last few years and he is fighting this one hard too, he’s a champ,” the source told ABC News.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Friedman said that King is in isolation and unable to receive visits from family members.
In 2019, King, who hosted “Larry King Live” on CNN for 25 years, had an angioplasty in April 2019 and also suffered a stroke, ABC News reported. King revealed in 2017 he had been treated for lung cancer, the network reported. He suffered a major heart attack in 1987 and a tumor was discovered during an annual checkup.
Over the summer, two of King’s five children died within weeks of each other, E! Online reported. His adopted son, Andy King, 65, died from a fatal heart attack in July, and his daughter, Chaia King, 51, died in August after being diagnosed with lung cancer, the website reported.
King became a household name in the 1970s with the radio program “The Larry King Show,” which ran from 1978 to 1994.