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The time Katie Couric went on a really bad date with Larry King

And he lunged at her ...

By Kat Giantis Feb 1, 2013 11:51AM
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Forget May-December romances: Katie Couric came thisclose to having a May-Paleolithic-era romance with Larry King, a man who enjoys women so much he's been married eight times. In a chat on Thursday night with Jimmy Kimmel, Katie shared her long-ago date night with the suspender enthusiast, and it's as terrifying as you'd expect.

“So I was about 30 years old, and I was going through this period of my life that I was like, 'I am going to go out with anybody who asks me because you learn something every time you go out with a new person,'" she recalls. "So I met Larry at this restaurant in Washington, D.C., so he called me and he asked me out to dinner."

Larry, who would have been in his mid-'50s, picked her up at her apartment in a Lincoln Town Car, popped in a tape of Jack Jones and off they went. Take it away, Katie ...

"We go to this Italian restaurant," she picture-paints. "They put us right next to each other like they do all the men and their ‘nieces.' ... And he ordered veal poached in chicken stock because he had just had quadruple bypass, which was hot.”

After a perfectly nice dinner, "We’re driving home, and I see we’re going over Memorial Bridge and that’s not the way back to my apartment," continues Couric. "So I go, 'Larry, where are we going?' He goes, 'My place.' And I was like 'Oh, mother of God. Oh God.'"

Katie described it as a "Dear Cosmo" moment.

"I was only thirty I just could not figure out how to extricate myself from it," she remembers. "We walk in [to his apartment] and it's covered with proclamations like 'Larry King Day' and keys to every city in the country, like all over his apartment. That was sexy."


Then things got weird.


"So we sat there, and what can I say? He lunged -- and I love Larry, by the way -- and I started laughing a little bit because the whole situation was out of a bad Lifetime movie. So I said, 'Larry, you're such an interesting, nice man, but I would like to meet someone a little closer to my age.'"


Larry's bone-chilling response: "That's OK, 'cause when I like, I really like."


Katie eventually did meet someone closer to her own age: Jay Monahan, whom she married in 1989. He died nine years later from colon cancer.


Watch her tell Jimmy about her Larry encounter ...



94Comments
Feb 1, 2013 7:58PM
Feb 1, 2013 6:53PM
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Gee, I wonder why she's bringing this up NOW?  Think she needs ratings?  I'm so over people drawing attention to themselves at the expense of someone else.  30 years ago ???  Get over it.  That is, if it's even true.
Feb 1, 2013 7:21PM
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That must have been a HORRIBLE experience for Larry!  :-O
Feb 1, 2013 5:36PM
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i'll bet if she had dated George burns- he would have scored!
Feb 1, 2013 2:19PM
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Not a fan of either but if Larry had a chance, everybody had a chance! ;)
Feb 2, 2013 6:16AM
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To the right of this thread was a little bio- stating that she is an " American journalist"
Was it in journalism school she learned such somber language as ;
It's like,   I goes, I'm like , he's like, then he goes, 
Feb 2, 2013 5:38AM
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It creeped me out, not so much about Katie & Larry, but about how many details she seems to remember.  I can barely remember last month.

Feb 1, 2013 8:58PM
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Couric just needs to 'go away'  !!  Kind'a cute for her age if she wasn't such a beyouch !!!!
Feb 1, 2013 2:20PM
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Saw him at a Dodger game, dude looks like he all ready died!

 

Feb 2, 2013 9:25AM
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she went out to dinner with him, what did she think he wanted?
Feb 2, 2013 6:26AM
Feb 2, 2013 8:32AM
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So what? I'm sure you weren't the innocent ingenue you pretend to be.
Feb 2, 2013 7:09AM
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Hey Couric, your a boring goody two shoes, who has been a has been since day one. Get off Larry's butt as its evident he must of had an intoxicated blind needy moment. You are a waste of good air time, you come on, my channel changes, my TV goes off, maybe someday the network will figure it out and just leave you at a bus stop somewhere without bus fare..........
Feb 2, 2013 8:14AM
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Larry looks like Bevis, from Bevis and Butthead, when Bevis turns 90...Or is it buthead? Anyway, you know which one I mean. 
Feb 2, 2013 6:08AM
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Yes tv anchors queen of too much sharing the Joan of Arc  colonoscopies  who shared footage of her colonoscopy, Kate Colonic Couric,strikes again with something of a even more unwanted nature 

her mystery date with Larry suspenders King.The only thing worse would be if Larry got Lucky and Katie Would describe the aftermath with something like:.Larrys lovemaking made me moan the whole time but the morning after,I glanced over and saw Larrys teeth soaking in the glass on the bedroom dresser I knew it could never be,Larry was just too old for me but I still love him. 

Feb 1, 2013 10:53PM
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OMG! How depressing! What were you thinking, Katie?
Feb 2, 2013 7:26AM
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ladies and gents.....its a known fact that she has slept her way to the top.   if larry had a chance....all us guys do.   gretchen of fox has a history of diddling with married men.  

 

where is walter cronkite when we need him?

Feb 2, 2013 5:12AM
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Gee, when I read this I was like now I know how to get on TV, you just meet the producer and go- " I'm like really ready for being a celebrity and stuff"
Feb 2, 2013 9:04AM
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What a crock. She should be so lucky. Disappointed in Larry thou, thought he had better taste.

I guess any old port in a storm thing.

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