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"Cringe worthy": Viewers left speechless after star attacks Elmo

<p>Viewers were left shocked after comedian Larry David unexpectedly attacked Elmo during their appearance on the latest episode of the <em>US Today show</em>.</p> <p>The 76-year-old was there to promote the final season of <em>Curb Your Enthusiasm</em>, while Elmo was in the studio alongside his dad Louie to talk about the importance of mental health resources. </p> <p>As the show was transitioning from segment to segment, David walked over to Elmo and smushed his face in before taking a swing at Elmo's dad. </p> <p>The attack caught the show's hosts Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Craig Melvin, off-guard and they began shouting at his ill-timed act. </p> <p>“Oh, my gosh, you love Elmo, don’t you?” Guthrie said to David as an equally shocked Melvin exclaimed, “Oh, my God!”</p> <p>While Elmo didn't seem too bothered by the encounter, the 76-year-old was lectured by muppet dad Louie for his strange act. </p> <p>“Ask permission before you touch people, Larry,” Louie said.</p> <p>“Get back on the couch and let’s talk about how you feel,” Elmo added.</p> <p>Guthrie also called out David's inappropriate act and said: “Larry, you’ve gone too far this time." </p> <p>Although the <em>Seinfeld </em>star was later on forced to apologise to the plush duo and Elmo accepted his apology, the situation left many viewers disgruntled, given the topic matter that Elmo was there to discuss. </p> <p>“Larry David ruined a beautiful story,” one person commented on a video of the segment shared to Instagram. </p> <p>“I felt like I was watching Will Smith all over again. Very sad.”</p> <p>“I must say, I was shocked – it was cringe worthy,” another person wrote. </p> <p>“I love Larry David, but he should have stayed seated until his own segment.”</p> <p>“Although you tried to play it off, Larry David totally messed it up … guess no one told him the theme of the segment” a third shocked viewer added.</p> <p><em>Image: US Today Show/ Instagram</em></p>

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Beloved US musician and his wife found dead on desert road

<p>A beloved US musician and his wife have been found dead near California under mysterious circumstances. </p> <p>Larry Petree and his wife Betty, who had been married for more than 60 years, were found dead on a desert road in a bizarre tragedy, leaving family members wondering what happened.</p> <p>“When deputies arrived, they found the bodies of an adult male sitting in the driver’s seat and adult female leaning against the rear tire,” the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said.</p> <p>Criminal activity is not suspected in the case, so homicide detectives didn‘t respond to the scene, while investigators added that it appeared the couple had run out of petrol. </p> <p>It is unclear where the couple were heading, and an official cause of death has yet to be revealed. </p> <p>Larry was known for his musical talents and played the pedal steel guitar, contributing to the iconic Bakersfield Sound era.</p> <p>He was playing shows in the area up until his passing, with Larry‘s final show being with a band called The Soda Crackers.</p> <p>“We had the honour of having Larry as our steel guitarist at our first ever show in Bakersfield and had the even greater honour of playing with him for his last show a few weeks ago,” the band wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.</p> <p>“We send our condolences to the Petree family and the greater Bakersfield Sound community.”</p> <p>Larry’s cousin, Laurie Sanders, told The Californian that Larry had been disoriented recently and got lost when attending his own gig. </p> <p>He failed to show up for the performance, and a family friend had to pick him up and take him to the concert. </p> <p><em>Image credits: Facebook</em></p>

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Larry King's wife Shawn King reveals real cause of his death

<p>Larry King's wife, Shawn King, has revealed his cause of death as well as the final words she spoke to him.</p> <p>The iconic television host passed away over the weekend at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles at the age of 87, leaving behind his three children: Larry Jr, Chance, and Cannon - as well as his wife, Shawn.</p> <p>At the time of his death, no cause of death was given but it was suspected his passing was due to COVID-19 as he was hospitalised with the virus a few weeks prior.</p> <p>But now in a new interview, his wife revealed the broadcaster did not die from coronavirus.</p> <p>“It was an infection, it was sepsis,” Shawn, 61, told<span> </span><em>Entertainment Tonight</em>. “Well, he was finally ready to go, I will tell you that. You know, he never wanted to go but his sweet little body was just, it had just been hit so many times with so many things and once we heard the word COVID, all of our hearts just sunk. But he beat it, you know, he beat it, but it did take its toll and then the unrelated infection finally is what took him, but boy, he was not gonna go down easily.”</p> <p>Shawn said King's mind "wasn't right" and his "body was going", noting it was a difficult thing to witness.</p> <p>During the time of his passing, the actress and King were in the middle of a divorce, with King filing for divorce in August 2019 after 22 years of marriage.</p> <p>She confirmed the pair’s divorce was “never finalised”.</p> <p>“In my heart, I didn’t think it was really going to happen and it never did. We were partners in every sense of the way, in business, and in, well, first in our family and then in business. But we’re a close family. You know, family is the most important thing, and God,” she said.</p> <p>Shawn also touched on King’s final moments in the hospital. She said she and King’s kids were able to FaceTime him.</p> <p>“And it was hard for him to talk, but the one message that he wanted to make sure I heard was, ‘I love you, take care of the boys,’” she said.</p> <p>King's family laid him to rest in a private funeral this week. She said she still feels his strong presence around her.</p> <p>“I can very, very distinctly feel him around me and around us. I’m sure he is so happy at the coverage that his passing has gotten,” she said.</p> <p>“Larry was a little boy in so many ways. And he used to always, you probably have 30 different sound bites of him saying, ‘I pinch myself every day. I can’t believe this is my life.’ And he really, really did.</p> <p>“So all of these beautiful tributes, you know, I’m sure he’s thrilled, and the family, we’re all just so happy and so proud of him for all the wonderful things that he did. He did a lot.”</p> <p>King was married a total of eight times through his life, to seven different women. Shawn was his last marriage and his longest.</p>

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Larry King's final heartbreaking post

<p><span>Larry King, the monumental American television and radio host, died over the weekend at the age of 87.</span><br /><br /><span>On Sunday morning, his family released a statement notifying his millions of fans across the globe that he had passed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after receiving treatment for coronavirus.</span><br /><br /><span>The tragic news was announced on Larry’s official Twitter page.</span><br /><br /><span>King was hospitalised shortly before Christmas after he tested positive for coronavirus.</span><br /><br /><span>He also suffered from Type 2 diabetes, lung cancer, angina and heart attacks in recent years.</span><br /><br /><span>A statement from his representatives said: “With profound sadness Ora Media announces the death of our co-founder, host and friend Larry King, who passed away this morning at age 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.</span><br /><br /><span>“For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry’s many thousands of interviews, awards and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster.</span></p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CG37d0BHNK8/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CG37d0BHNK8/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Larry King (@larrykingnow)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><br /><span>“Additionally while it was his name appearing in the shows’ titles, Larry always viewed his interview subjects as the true stars of his programs, and himself as merely an unbiased conduit between the guest and audience.”</span><br /><br /><span>King’s last post on social media was from October 27, mere months before he was hospitalised with COVID-19.</span><br /><br /><span>In a photo with his two sons Chance and Cannon, taken the night the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team won the World Series, King wrote: “It’s a good night.”</span><br /><br /><span>The beloved TV host was known to be a family man, an avid lover of music and a loyal fan to his hometown team. His biography read: “Fan of Dodgers, suspenders and Frank Sinatra!”</span><br /><br /><span>King was married eight times and had five children and was last pictured with his two sons on social media before his health began to seriously suffer.</span></p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CKaSYsoH_XW/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CKaSYsoH_XW/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Larry King (@larrykingnow)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><br /><span>He passed away after four weeks of treatment for COVID-19.</span><br /><br /><span>King was born in New York and started his career as a local journalist in Florida in the 1950s.</span><br /><br /><span>He went on to gain worldwide notoriety when The Larry King Show launched in 1978.</span><br /><br /><span>He went on to gain global success again when he hosted Larry King Live on CNN from 1985 to 2010.</span><br /><br /><span>There was no limit to who King interviewed – he has sat with political leaders, to iconic starlets and actors from the golden age of Hollywood.</span><br /><br /><span>Among the celebrities he interviewed over the years were Donald Trump, Marlon Brando, Snoop Dogg, Liza Minnelli, Jerry Seinfeld, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra and Sir Paul McCartney.</span><br /><br /><span>The statement announcing his death ended with: “Whether he was interviewing a US president, foreign leader, celebrity, scandal-ridden personage, or an everyman, Larry liked to ask short, direct, and uncomplicated questions.</span><br /><br /><span>“Larry’s interviews from his 25-year run on CNN’s ‘Larry King Live,’ and his Ora Media programs ‘Larry King Now,’ and ‘Politicking with Larry King’ are consistently referenced by media outlets around the world and remain part of the historical record of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.”</span></p>

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