CCTV host Li Yong died of illness and left CCTV to coach in 2013

Li Yong, the former host of China Central Television, died last week in the United States at the age of 50.(China News Service)

Li Yong's death time was 5 and 2, which made fans deeply moved. The puzzle game show Lucky 52 was the first China Central Television program he hosted in 1998.

His witty responses, curly hair and handsome appearance with a rectangular face have brought laughter to countless Chinese audiences.Li Yong, the most popular variety show host in China in the 2000s, died in the United States last week at the age of 50.He posted his last Weibo on Thanksgiving Day on November 23 last year, thanking his wife Harvin, daughter Fatumai and everyone, and posted a picture of a bear and a red heart.

Many people did not expect that the next time he appeared in the public eye would be his obituary.

Ha Wen announced his death on Weibo yesterday: In the United States, after 17 months of anti-cancer treatment, at 5:20 am on October 25, 2018, I lost my love forever.

His death time was 5 and 2, to the great emotion of fans, the puzzle game show Lucky 52 was his first show hosted by China Central Television (CCTV) in 1998.Since there was no news of his illness before, the sudden bad news came as a shock.

Li Yong was born in Urumqi, Xinjiang on May 3, 1968. After graduating from Communication University of China (then Beijing Broadcasting Institute) in 1991, he was the only announcer of CCTV that year.In 1992, he married Ha Wen, a classmate who graduated with him in the same year.

He started as a choreographer, reporter, and commentator.In January 1998, he started his career as a variety show host in CCTV's Joyful Gathering. He has hosted popular programs including Very 6+1 and Yonglehui.The 2000s was the golden period of CCTV variety shows, and it was only after the 2010s that they were replaced by variety shows from local stations.Li Yong hosted the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the first time in 2002, and was promoted to the top host sequence of CCTV.For the next six years, he was selected as the host of the Spring Festival Gala every year.

In 2013, he left CCTV to coach

In 2007, he, Zhu Jun, Zhou Tao, Dong Qing, Zhang Zequn and Liu Fangfei made a mistake when co-hosting the Spring Festival Gala. During the countdown to midnight, the six hosts forgot their words, snatched their words, made slips of the tongue many times, and felt awkward and embarrassing many times.Netizens speculated that Li Yong's official career was frustrated because of this, but he still hosted the Spring Festival Gala the following year.Although it stopped for two years in 2010 and 2011, it has been the host of the Spring Festival Gala for another three years since 2011.

Li Yong left CCTV in 2013 and transferred to the Communication University of China to teach, and occasionally hosted variety shows on Shandong Satellite TV, Beijing Satellite TV, Liaoning Satellite TV, Zhejiang Satellite TV and other local stations.After leaving CCTV, his popularity gradually declined.In the mid-2010s, online variety shows emerged. In 2016, Li Yong also hosted Aunt Jiang, an idol jointly launched by Youku and Tudou.The last time he hosted a show was at the iQiyi Scream Night at the end of 2017.

Li Yong disappeared from public view this year.From the photos Ha Wen posted on Weibo, we can see that he has cut his hair short and looks younger, but also thinner.Some people even maliciously speculated whether he was taking drugs. Now everyone knows that he was sick and went to the United States for treatment.

Luo Jing, a famous CCTV news program host, said before his death that his biggest regret was not writing a book of his own.Touched by this remark, Li Yong decided to publish a book as a 40-year-old gift for himself. In 2009, he launched Yong Yuan You Li.

Li Yong mentioned in the book that in the future, he will record a last word for himself and put it on his farewell ceremony:...hellip;hellip; come to see me off today, don't send flowers, give me a microphone.I wish I had microphones around me.Decades of life go by in a flash, and I, Li Yong, can easily talk in this life, so at the end of the day, I have come this far, and I am still talking here.Didn't scare you?

This microphone has since been muted.