The former CNN host is promoting heart health through dance. He has teamed with Nigel Lythgoe of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ to launch Dance 4 Your Life!

Saturday is National Dance Day, and the second annual celebration may have found an unlikely poster boy: Larry King. The former CNN host, a survivor of heart disease and founder of the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, has partnered with Nigel Lythgoe of “So You Think You Can Dance” to launch Dance 4 Your Life!, a national campaign to promote heart health through dance. Though King once struggled through a dance lesson from Janet Jackson on “Larry King Live,” he’s a dance aficionado with some serious moves of his own. (“That CNN career got in his way,” says his son Larry King Jr., who is president of the Cardiac Foundation.) King declined an invitation to appear on “Dancing With the Stars,” but he’s still got his eye on Broadway…

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