Larry King, 87, is OUT of intensive care unit after being hospitalized with COVID for more than 10 days

Larry King is out of the intensive care unit after being hospitalized with COVID-19 for more than 10 days, according to reports.

The broadcast legend, 87, was reportedly moved from the intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Sunday.

He is believed to have caught the virus from a health worker visiting his home, a source told NBC. One of her sons, who has not been named, has also tested positive, they said.

King’s advanced age and poor health are cause for concern and place him at high risk. He had many health problems and suffered from a heart attack, prostate and lung cancer, and type 2 diabetes.

Hospital protocols have prevented King’s family members from visiting him. His 23-year-old wife Shawn King, 61, and their two sons, Chance and Cannon, cannot see him. He has another son, Larry Jr, 58, from his brief marriage to Annette Kaye,

The Peabody Award-winning broadcaster was among the most prominent interviewers of American celebrities, presidents and other journalists in a half-century career that included 25 years with a nighttime show on CNN.

Last year, King lost two of his five children within weeks of each other. Her son Andy King died of a heart attack at age 65 in August and daughter Chaia King died of lung cancer at age 51 in July, Larry King said in a statement.

King’s granddaughter Jillian, 31, said at the time that the 87-year-old TV show host was still recovering from her stroke and was unable to travel from Los Angeles due to coronavirus, and therefore had to watch his Florida-based son be buried In video.

“Everyone feels pretty bad and broken. Larry is really hurt and upset, ” Jillian told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview in August.

“He was very sick last year. His children all took very good care of him. He’s upset that he’s lost them now.

The State Department of Public Health on Sunday reported another 181 deaths and more than 45,350 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 across California, bringing the total of cases to nearly 2.4 million.

More than 26,530 people have died from the virus in California, making it the third state to exceed 25,000 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic, behind New York with nearly 38,000 deaths and Texas with more than 27,000, according to a count from Johns Hopkins University.

More than 20,600 people were hospitalized across California on Sunday with COVID-19; 4,500 of them were in intensive care, according to state records.

King and his wife are still legally married and are said to be on good terms despite being divorced.

In August 2019, Larry filed for divorce from Shawn just five months after suffering a stroke.

Last month it became known that King had agreed to pay his ex-wife Shawn $ 20,000 in a lump sum, plus $ 33,000 a month in spousal support.

The monthly payment – revealed in new court documents obtained by DailyMail.com – will last at least until the couple’s next hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court, scheduled for April 29 of next year.

While $ 33,000 a month might seem like a large sum, that only covers about a third of Shawn’s monthly expenses, which she listed in court documents as just under $ 90,000.

This includes $ 25,000 per month for rent on her luxury home, $ 12,000 on clothes, $ 3,500 for groceries, $ 4,500 for “ hair, nails, pet care, and the gym. plus $ 6,300 per month for her vacation home in Provo, Utah.

But then Shawn confesses that she has over $ 7 million in assets, including property and savings.

In November 2019, Larry King told the Extra news site he was recovering and spending two weeks in a coma after suffering a stroke the previous March.

“I had a stroke. Everything has improved except [for] my left foot, and I rehabilitated myself every day, and they tell me I’ll be walking by Christmas, ”he said.

“I walked with a walker. It’s been a difficult year, I can’t remember anything since March.

“I haven’t driven a car, but I’m back to work and it makes me feel good.”

In the interview, Larry reassured fans that his doctors were in awe of his positive attitude: “ My chief doctor said I have an incomparable spirit. ”

The Larry King Show star has had a complex and story-rich love life, with eight marriages with seven wives and fathered five children.

He married Alene Akins twice, adopting her late son Andy in their first marriage and fathering his late daughter Chaia in their second.

After divorcing Alene in 1972, he married Freda Miller, Annette Kaye, Mickey Sutphin, Sharon Lepore, Julie Alexander and most recently Shawn Southwick in 1997.

Shawn, who mothered Larry’s two youngest sons Chance, 21, and Cannon, 20, once joked that she was’ the only one [wife] to have lasted in two digits ”.

The couple filed for divorce in 2010, but then tore up the papers – to file for divorce again in August 2019 after 22 years of marriage.

In 2009, Larry revealed that he had another son named after him, whom he had not recognized for 33 years.

Larry King Jr, born from his brief marriage to Annette Kaye, first appeared in public with his father on “Larry King Live” 11 years ago.

The TV host said at the time that he first met his son, 58, in 1994.

Larry Jr. is said to be married, a father of three and would have worked as the head of the King’s Heart Disease Foundation in California.