She Could Have Been Wife Number 8! Katie Couric Dishes On Awkward Date With Larry King
Feb. 1 2013, Published 11:36 a.m. ET
It’s hard to imagine that Katie Couric and Larry King could have been a couple!
Years before the 56-year-old talk show host married her late husband, Jay Monahan, in 1989, she went out with none other than a then single King, and she relived the awkward details of their disastrous date on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night – and Breaking Celebrity News has the juicy details.
Couric reveals that she met the legendary broadcaster, 23 years her senior, at a party when they were both living in Washington D.C. and he asked her out.
“So I was about 30 years old and I was going through this period of my life where I was like ‘I am going I am going to go out with anyone who asks me because you learn something every time you go out with a new person,’” she explains chuckling.
“He picks me up from my apartment, and he was driving a Lincoln town car,” she continues. “We go to this Italian restaurant. 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 ...”
King – who’s now been married eight times - apparently thought dinner went w