Larry Emdur gets nostalgic as he shares 31-year-old photo from his days hosting The Main Event

Channel 7 star Larry Emdur has taken a trip down memory lane. 

The Morning Show presenter shared a throwback snap on Instagram from 31 years ago. 

The black-and-white photo showed a young Larry during his days hosting Seven’s hit game show The Main Event. 

In the snap, a 26-year-old Larry is seen showing off his pearly whites as he wore a hounds tooth blazer. 

Sharing the autographed headshot to his Instagram page on Thursday, Larry captioned it: ‘Throw-up Thursday. How good was 1992??? 

‘The Main Event with hair, shoulder pads and teeth matching the t-shirt #HappyDays.’

Friends and followers of the presenter were ecstatic to see the old photo, as it brought back nostalgic memories for many who watched The Main Event. 

One person wrote: ‘Lets bring back The Main Event!’

Friends and followers of the presenter were ecstatic to see the old photo, as it brought back nostalgic memories of watching The Main Event

While another said: ‘If I had a dollar for every time mum says to me, “Brittany, I really think you should talk to Larry about bringing back The Main Event”‘

And a third commented: ‘oh lazza you’ve still got it in 2023’.

Larry has had a very successful broadcasting career after he became the youngest newsreader in Australia at age 19 on Channel Seven.

In his memoir Happy As, he detailed how he went from a being a child that was kicked out of school before he could even read or write to becoming one of the country’s biggest broadcasters. 

Speaking to Nova’s Fitzy & Wippa show last year, Larry said: ‘I did terribly at school, horribly.

‘That’s why I got kicked out, without being able to read or write, so it’s an interesting concept to write a book.’

However, it was when he began working the night shift as a copy boy at a now defunct afternoon tabloid that he got his start in journalism. 

In his memoir Happy As, Larry detailed how he went from a being a child that was kicked out of school before he could even read or write to becoming one of the country’s biggest broadcasters

‘I just started writing bits and pieces for the local newspaper,’ he told the hosts.

While still a teenager, Larry wrote to Channel Nine asking for a job as a journalist.

They turned him down at first, telling him there were no positions available for ‘juniors’.

‘I wasn’t going for a junior position!,’ Larry joked. ‘I’m talking about 60 minutes what are you talking about?!’

While still a teenager, Larry wrote to Channel Nine asking for a job as a journalist