Veteran CNN talk show host Larry King hangs up his famous suspenders Thursday, after a quarter of a century of interviewing the powerful and famous.
The 77-year-old, who will be succeeded by former British journalist Piers Morgan, is finally retiring from "Larry King Live," the show he has presented on the Atlanta-based news network since 1985.
During more than two and a half decades the famous show seen as its guest celebrities and world leaders, sportsmen and business executives, in a word all prominent and powerful from all spheres of life.
Those big names were drawn from the worlds of politics and entertainment. In politics his guests included Margaret Thatcher, Vladimir Putin, Yasser Arafat and every US president since Richard Nixon.
Other highlights included Playboy founder Hugh Hefner with a bevvy of Playmate girlfriends, Mike Tyson interviewed inside the boxing ring at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas
Tributes have been flowing since he announced he was leaving the show. "We will miss Larry's giggle. We will miss Larry's stupid suspenders," said Washington Post TV columnist Lisa de Moraes.
"We will miss the way he, at times, has no idea who he is interviewing. There will never be another like Larry," she added.
King's last show, broadcast from CNN's Los Angeles offices on Sunset Boulevard, will air at 6:00 pm Pacific Coast Time (0200 GMT) Thursday, and CNN says it has "a bunch of surprises for him."
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