Larry King Gossip and News

Well this is one thing Larry King and Simon Cowell have in common. Clearly, we don't want to think of the day when the 87-year-old star passes away, but when it comes to his own...

Oksana Grigorieva told Larry King last night that Mel Gibson hit her, choked her, waved a gun at her and made her sincerely think she was going to die. On "Jan. 6 [of this year] the beating took place," the actor's ex-girlfriend and the mother of his daughter, who also has a 12-year-old son by Timothy Dalton said. "Mel actually assaulted me while I was holding the baby in my arms." "I ran into my son's bedroom and told him, 'Mel's crazy.'" Grigorieva said that at that moment, her son, Alexander, hid behind the bed as Oksana stood with her daughter Lucia, "like a mother protecting her cubs." News came out this week that Mel admitted slapping Oksana, but not punching her, in a hysterical moment during which he says he was protecting Lucia. She says he did much worse, and recorded the Mel Gibson tapes as evidence of her murder, if that happened, but also to "help" crazy ...

CNN's got (new) talent. After months of rumors and coyly dismissive shoulder shrugs, the cable news net has finally confirmed that America's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan will...

Whatever else you want to say about CNN's Larry King, you have to admit he's not out of touch- LOL. What do you think of his singing skills? Does he have another career once he retires from his talk show 'Larry King Live' or was Ryan Seacrest wrong to ask him to sing Lady Gaga's hit song 'Poker Face'?

The good news: At least one of these "singers" isn't going to be on American Idol. Deposed CNN small-talk maestro Larry King stopped by Ryan Seacrest's KIIS radio show, and for...

Piers Morgan isn't officially signed to replace Larry King just yet, but that doesn't mean the America's Got Talent judge isn't already planning for the CNN...

Larry King is a man of his word. After announcing last month that he was hanging up his suspenders to spend more time with his family, the chatmeister and wife Shawn appear to be...

It seems like only yesterday that Larry King and Shawn Southwick were on the cusp of divorcing amid rumors he was giving it to her sister Shannon Engemann. It was mid-April. Both sides filed divorce papers separately then, and all hope appeared lost ... until both filed petitions to dismiss their divorce papers yesterday. The judge needs to sign the papers to dismiss the divorce petitions, but that's just a formality. The once-feuding pair look like they will stick this out long term. A little surprising, as Shawn's overdose and possible suicide attempt last month seemed to cast doubt on whether the issues with King were able to be reconciled. The couple, who have two children together, recently reconciled on a trial basis, not long after they filed their divorce papers, but had yet to formally call it off. Now King, who just announced his retirement, has declared an end to the dissolution of his marriage as well. We're happy ...

Now that MTV's reality series The Hills is finally coming to an end, is sliding into Larry King's interviewing chair next on the agenda for one of the show's stars? Read on...

Larry King may be signing off from his CNN talk show after a quarter century. But that doesn't mean he has any control over who'll be taking over for him. When asked by E! News...

After a quarter century on the air and amid some pretty significant personal controversy of late, Larry King will hang up the suspenders this fall. The talk show host, 77, announced on Tuesday he will end his run on Larry King Live in the fall but will remain with CNN for occasional specials. The decision to retire was made to "give me more time for my wife and I to get to the kids' little league games," the venerable newsman said. Larry and wife Shawn Southwick have been embroiled in marital problems this year, both filing for divorce at one point before calling it off. King was accused of an affair with Shannon Engemann, Shawn's sister, while she has been tied to their kids' little league coach of all people. Hopefully Larry and Shawn can work things out. In May, his wife, who has a history of painkiller addiction, was found with empty pill bottles strewn on her bed ...

Let the hunt for a successor continue. Larry King Live's stalwart host said Tuesday that he plans to end his 25-year run after this summer. "Now, decades later, I...

Nicole Richie, Ke$sha, Ne-Yo Randy Jackson, Gavin Rossdale, Pete Wentz, Alyssa Milano, Ian Somerhalder, Ryan Seacrest, Kathy Griffin, Sam Trammell, Chelsea Handler and Guiliana Rancic came out for the 'Larry King Live: Disaster in the Gulf' telethon. And to think -- this huge disaster relief effort started because Ian spoke up. Ian was the motivating force that called them to action, and Hollywood responded. Larry says that his telethon is going to put the money in the hands of the right people, right away. "Remember bureaucracy is slow; you can hear about billions being donated but it don't get there tomorrow. We're going to do our best to get it there pronto." Robert Redford also spoke at the event, saying, "...had somebody been connecting the dots and ignored the propaganda that was coming out of the company and the consequence of the collusion between government and the oil companies that has been going on for decades, we would have seen this thing coming. It ...

Somebody's gotta come to the rescue and it might as well be Tinseltown. Cameron Diaz, Kathy Griffin, E!'s very own Ryan Seacrest and Chelsea Handler and teen wunderkind Justin...

Larry King and wife Shawn Southwick King split up in April amid rumors that he was nailing her sister Shannon Engemann, but reconciled soon after. But the two have not withdrawn their dueling divorce petitions, and the rumored Shawn King suicide attempt in May indicates things are still amiss. Will they or won't they split up? It's anyone's guess, and rumor has it that the tipping point for whether Shawn becomes his eighth ex-wife is not his alleged infidelity, but money. People familiar with the situation say nothing is going to happen as Shawn recovers from her overdose (which some suspect was a suicide attempt). Larry King and Shawn Southwick married over a decade ago. But before that crisis, one of Larry King's lawyers actually presented a proposal to Shawn's lawyer to undo an agreement he signed a few years ago. Then, also amid speculation that he was railing Shannon Engemann, King signed over their houses to her. They ...