Gayle King Biography
Gayle King is a well-known American journalist and television personality who was born in the city of Chevy Chase, Maryland. Since 2012, she has been serving as a co-anchor on the morning program CBS News’s “CBS This Morning.” She has kept this role continuously since then. O, The Oprah Magazine has appointed her to the position of editor-at-large. She is also well known for being Oprah Winfrey’s closest friend, which has contributed to her fame.
Gayle King Age
Gayle was born on December 28, 1954, in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States. She is 69 years old.
Gayle King Education
When Gayle was younger, she spent some of her time in Turkey attending an American school there. In later years, she furthered her education at the University of Maryland, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in both psychology and sociology in 1976.
Gayle King Family
Her father, Scott King, was an electrical engineer, and her mother, Peggy King, was a homemaker when she was born. Due to the nature of her father’s work, King spent a significant portion of her youth in Turkey, where she was enrolled in an American school. After some time, Gayle’s family moved back to Maryland.
Gayle King Children
King is the proud parent of not one but two children: a son and a daughter. Her offspring have now reached adulthood. Kirby Bumpus is Gayle’s daughter, and William Bumpus Jr. is the name of Gayle’s son. They are both considered to be Oprah Winfrey’s godchildren and were born 11 months apart from one another.
Gayle King Boyfriend
King is not involved in any relationship that is open to the scrutiny of the public at this time. Yet, she has admitted that after her divorce in 1993, she has engaged in a few of other romantic endeavors in an attempt to find happiness in a relationship. One of the initial inquiries that she makes to a possible suitor is whether or not they are already married.
She shared with me that she once went on a date with a man who talked about his wife while they were chatting. Her experience was that it was awkward. When she questioned him about it, he responded that even though they shared a residence, they were no longer a couple. She responded by saying, “Check, please; I’ve heard that tale before.” She continues her story by saying, “I was married to a cheater… I decided to attend marriage therapy. Since 1993, when my marriage ended in divorce, I’ve had plenty of time to move on and put the past behind me. I was able to figure things out. I’m not bitter. I’m OK. I am in fact doing OK.”
Gayle King Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth that ranges between $500k – $2 million.
Gayle King CBS News
CBS This Morning is a popular American morning television program, and Gayle is a co-host of the show. Due to the fact that she is a seasoned television journalist, she conducts interviews with prominent figures in the news industry and provides original reporting for CBS This Morning as well as all other CBS News broadcasts and platforms. In addition to hosting CBS This Morning, Gayle serves as an Editor-at-Large for O, the Oprah Magazine, which has won numerous industry awards.
CBS This Morning is the most successful morning news broadcast that CBS has had in the past more than two decades, and it is the morning news program on the network that is expanding at the quickest rate in the United States.
Since joining CBS News in 2011, King has conducted interviews for the broadcast that have been illuminating and news-making with world leaders, political figures, and celebrities, such as Michelle Obama, the former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg, Jack and Suzy Welch, Taylor Swift, and Cicely Tyson.
Gayle has covered a variety of high-profile events, including as reporting from Newtown, Connecticut in the aftermath of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. As part of the CBS News division’s comprehensive coverage of the tragedy that occurred in Newtown, she was presented with an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award.
King was a contributor to CBS News’ coverage of Election Night in 2014 and also co-anchored the network’s special coverage of several breaking news stories, such as the terrorist attacks in Paris, the shootings in San Bernardino, and the landmark decision of the Supreme Court to legalize marriage between people of the same gender.
The Gayle King Show was a live, weekday television interview program that King formerly presented. It was broadcast on OWN, which was formerly known as the Oprah Winfrey Network. The program, which attributed a discussion of a broad variety of topics that included politics and cultural developments, was also broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, where it made its debut in 2006. The program attributed a discussion of a broad variety of topics that included politics and cultural developments. Also, she was a member of the CBS News team that was honored with an Alfred I. DuPont Award for its outstanding reporting on the tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Gayle King Oprah
Oprah Winfrey and Gayle are referred to as “best friends forever” because of their extremely tight friendship. Long before either of them became renowned, the pair first became acquainted while they were both employed at a television station in Baltimore. Oprah served as the news anchor for the station, while Gayle worked as a production assistant there.
It is stated that one evening in Baltimore there was a really severe snowstorm. It was Winfrey’s recommendation that Gayle stay the night at her residence in the neighborhood rather than risk the hazardous drive back home. According to what Gayle has been quoted as saying, at first she was hesitant to participate because she didn’t have any other clothes with her to change into.
Oprah also mentioned that she did not borrow any of her clothing from anyone. They spent the evening getting to know each other better by chatting, joking, and exchanging rumors while also laying the groundwork for their friendship. Gayle remarked that all of them shared similar perspectives on life and even had similar preferences for the coworkers they liked and disliked.
As Gayle was moving away from Baltimore in order to pursue a career as a news anchor in Kansas City, Oprah was already building a name for herself in Chicago. Despite the great distance between them, the two managed to maintain their friendship. They have known each other since 1976, and Oprah is Gayle’s two children’s godmother. Their friendship dates back to 1976.