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The "King" is leaving his throne.
After a quarter-century at CNN's "Live", Larry King has announced that he is stepping down as host this fall. The 76-year-old revealed in an interview he felt no pressure from the network to leave.
"I'm tired of the nightly grind," he said. "I do want to do other things, but I want to stay at CNN in some way ... . There's a case of great mixed emotions."
As cable news audiences gravitated toward politically pointed shows and newsmakers found many more outlets for interviews in recent years, King slipped in the ratings behind Fox News Channel and MSNBC -- two networks that didn't exist when he first began his show.
King and his seventh wife Shawn, 50, have two sons. After rumors of infidelity on both sides, they called off divorce plans last month. "We love our children, we love each other, we love being a family," they told E! in a statement.
So far, no word on who will replace King. Among the frontrunners include "America's Got Talent" judge Piers Morgan and "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest.
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