Gayle King
Gayle King (born December 28, 1954)[1] is an American television personality, author, and broadcast journalist for CBS News, co-hosting its flagship morning program, CBS Mornings,[2] and before that its predecessor CBS This Morning. She is also an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine.[3]
For the darts player, see Gayl King.
Gayle King
December 28, 1954
- Broadcast journalist
- Magazine editor
1981–present
- Co-anchor of CBS Mornings
- Editor-at-large of O, The Oprah Magazine
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King was named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2019".[4]
Early life[edit]
Gayle King's parents are Peggy Tucker and Emmett Scott King. King was born in Chevy Chase, Maryland,[5] and from age six to eleven she lived in Ankara, Turkey, where her father was deployed. She returned with her family to the United States[6] in 1966, where her father worked as an electrical engineer. King graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a degree in psychology.[6]
Personal life[edit]
King has been a close friend of Oprah Winfrey since 1976.[31] In a 2010 interview with Barbara Walters, Winfrey said of King, "She is the mother I never had; she is the sister everybody would want; she is the friend everybody deserves; I don't know a better person".[32]
From 1982 to 1993, King was married to Bill Bumpus, an attorney and an assistant attorney general in Connecticut.[3][33] They share a daughter, Kirby, and a son, William Bumpus Jr.[34][33]
In 2023, King appeared on Celebrity Family Feud. Competing against Sophia Bush, King's team lost.[35]