King Could Have More Wives Than Henry Viii

After going through six wives, you might think the romance thing would get a little old.

Not so with Larry King. In the two months since the 63-year-old, suspender-sporting talk host has met Shawn Southwick, 37, he’s sent her an array of gifts including eight huge jars of maraschino cherries, oodles of Gummi Bears and a crate of stone crabs.

“Larry is a madman,” Southwick told The Washington Post. “There has not been a day that there hasn’t been a delivery … He’s so sweet. He’s like a little boy.”

King calls Southwick, whom he met outside Tiffany’s in New York City, “an infomercial goddess.” She sells clip-on hair extensions under the Luxurious Hair label through television spots starring Priscilla Presley.

Loose talk

Al Roker, on his role in NBC’s “Today” show: “The weatherperson should generally be the goofiest-looking person on a newscast.”

Quick, somebody take his pulse - please!

Henny Youngman turns 91 today.

In the network bidding war, the Eyes have it

In case you haven’t heard, CBS is the big winner in the Bryant Gumbel sweepstakes, signing the former “Today” show host to a five-year deal that’s believed to be worth more than $5 million a year. Gumbel will host a prime-time newsmagazine, anchor three prime-time specials and co-own a company that will produce programs for syndication.

That most definitely would not be well-suited

Matt Lauer, Gumbel’s “Today” show replacement, says he’d like to dress a little more adventurously, if he thought he could get away with it. As Lauer, who calls himself the “Imelda Marcos of ties,” tells In Style magazine: “The problem with my job is that, if I come in and I’m wearing a lavender shirt and lavender tie, and that morning a plane crashes, I look out of place.”

Sounds like he just needed a little down time

Talk show veteran Dick Cavett is being sued for $35 million for walking out on his new syndicated radio show. “We were first told that Cavett had the flu. Then we were told he had pneumonia and then we were told he had a manic-depressive episode,” producer James Moskovitz said, adding that he believes the depression explanation: “We had a meeting on Feb. 21 and Cavett appeared catatonic.”

So it was pretty easy for him to break in to radio

Conservative radio host G. Gordon Liddy has been denied permission to broadcast from the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., next month during a joint visit by former presidents Ford, George Bush and Jimmy Carter. The museum is displaying tools used during the 1972 burglary of Democratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel - which Liddy help organize, landing him in prison for more than four years.

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