Sam Rubin, beloved LA leisure anchor and interviewer, dies at 64

LOS ANGELES — Sam Rubin, a beloved leisure anchor and reporter for KTLA in Los Angeles who was on a first-name foundation with Hollywood’s prime stars, has died. He was 64.
The station introduced that he died unexpectedly on Friday. No trigger was launched.
Rubin joined the station’s morning information crew in 1991. He performed upbeat dwell interviews with actors and musicians from behind the anchor desk and was a mainstay at premiere pink carpets and film junkets. His last interview was with Jane Seymour on Thursday.
Seymour joined Tom Hanks, Viola Davis, Ben Stiller, Guillermo del Toro, Kiefer Sutherland, Octavia Spencer and different Hollywood figures in mourning Rubin on social media.
“Even when I used to be on my eighty fifth interview that day, I used to be at all times completely satisfied to see Sam. Even when HE was on his eighty fifth interview that day, he at all times introduced real kindness, curiosity and an out of doors the field query,” Ryan Reynolds posted on X.
“There was no yet another obsessed with his job than Sam Rubin. I’ve identified Sam for many of my profession, and he had a lightweight in his eyes each early morning as he began his every day work,” Jamie Lee Curtis wrote on Instagram.
Born in San Diego, Rubin graduated from Occidental Faculty in Los Angeles. He earned a number of honors from native information journalism teams, together with a lifetime achievement award from the Southern California Broadcasters Affiliation.
Rubin is survived by his spouse, Leslie, and 4 youngsters.