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Larry King — from broadcast to bagels
Just days after announcing he will be quitting his CNN interview show in the fall, Larry King has found a new job that takes him right back to his Brooklyn roots — promoting a new bagel franchise.
King, 76, is to play a key role in promoting and developing the franchise business for the Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co, and help with training and seminars, the company said on Thursday.
The Florida-based franchise is a quick-service restaurant chain that creates Brooklyn-flavored water and uses it in bag
els, sandwiches and coffee.
King, who was born in Brooklyn and whose father was a restaurant owner, is apparently a big fan.
CNN’s Larry King offers Chris Brown a lollipop
Midway through Larry King’s interview with singer Chris Brown that aired this week on CNN, the “Suspendered One” asked Brown what he and pop star Rihanna actually fought about. It was as King was trying to get the 20 year-old singer to finally open up about the night in February, when Brown attacked his then girlfriend Rihanna while in Los Angeles, leaving her bruised and bloodied.
Brown refused to talk about the incident, and much has been made of that in media reports about KIng’s interview with Brown. But one exchange has received scant mention, and it’s a zinger from King directed at Brown. The 75 year-old King was asking his much younger interviewee what, at their young age, he and Rihanna might fight about that could lead to such a violent result, and he gave a sardonic example.
