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 This Morning, a position she has held since its debut in 2012.[2][3] She is also an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine.[4]

For the darts player, see Gayl King.

Gayle King
King in 2019
Born (1954-12-28) December 28, 1954
Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Maryland, College Park
Occupation
  • Broadcast journalist
  • magazine editor
Years active1981–present
Title
Spouse(s)
William G. Bumpus
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(m. 1982; div. 1993)​
Children2

King was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019. [5]

Early life

King was born in Chevy Chase, Maryland [6] and from age six to eleven she of her childhood lived in Ankara, Turkey, before eventually returning with her family to the United States.[7] She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a degree in psychology.[7]

Career
King in 2009

Television broadcast news

King's career started as a production assistant at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, where she met Oprah Winfrey, an anchor for the station at the time. King later trained as a reporter at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.[8][9] After working at WJZ, she moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where she was a weekend anchor and general-assignment reporter at WDAF-TV.[10] In 1981, she was hired as a news anchor for WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut, where she worked for 18 years and became a news anchor.[9] Part of that time, she lived in Glastonbury, Connecticut.[8]

Talk shows

King worked as a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 1991, King briefly cohosted an NBC daytime talk show with Robin Wagner called Cover to Cover, which was canceled after 13 weeks.[8] In 1997, she was offered her own syndicated talk show, The Gayle King Show, which was canceled after one season due to low ratings.[11][12]

In September 2006, King began to host The Gayle King Show on XM Satellite Radio.

On January 3, 2011, King began hosting a new show, also called The Gayle King Show, on OWN.[13] The Gayle King Show ended on November 17, 2011, as a result of King going to CBS to co-anchor CBS This Morning alongside Charlie Rose.[14] The show succeeded in the ratings due to their on air chemistry.[15][16] The two became friends as well even through Rose's exit from CBS due to the sexual misconduct allegations against him.[17]

King joined O, The Oprah Magazine as an editor in 1999.[18]

Network news
King interviews Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on CBS This Morning in 2019.

Before joining CBS News, King worked as a special correspondent for Good Morning America.[18] On November 10, 2011, King secured a deal with CBS to co-anchor CBS This Morning, beginning on January 9, 2012.[14] She publicly called for CBS to have full transparency when it was learned CBS planned on keeping the findings of sexual abuse and harassment at the network private.[19][20] She received recognition for remaining stoic during an interview with R. Kelly, who rose from his chair and began to scream and beat his chest in an interview discussing the sexual abuse allegations made against the singer.[21][22][23]

In 2018, King was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame.[24] She was also chosen as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019.[25]

In 2020, shortly after the death of Kobe Bryant, King received social media criticism, most notably from rapper Snoop Dogg who later apologized,[26] for a CBS This Morning interview with former WNBA player Lisa Leslie, in which King brought up Bryant's sexual assault allegations from 2003.[26] She also received support, most notably from long-time friend Oprah Winfrey.[26] King said CBS had used an out-of-context excerpt from the interview. The network said in a statement that the excerpt was not reflective of the "thoughtful, wide-ranging interview" King had conducted with Leslie.[27]

Personal life

King has been a close friend of Oprah Winfrey since 1976.[28] In a 2010 interview with Barbara Walters, Winfrey said of King, "[s]he 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".[29]

From 1982 to 1993, King was married to Bill Bumpus, an attorney and an assistant attorney general in Connecticut.[4][30] King has a daughter, Kirby, and a son, William Bumpus Jr.[7][30]

Filmography
YearTitleRoleRef.
1985The Color PurpleChurch-goeruncredited
2004The Manchurian CandidateMedia Icon
201230 RockHerselfEpisode: My Whole Life is Thunder
2015Being Mary JaneHerselfEpisode: No Eggspectations
2015Saturday Night LiveHerselfEpisode: Tina Fey & Amy Poehler/Bruce Springsteen
2016The BossHerself
2017Queen SugarHerselfEpisode: Yet I Do Marvel
2019Queen and SlimHerself

See also

References
  1. "UPI Almanac for Monday, Dec. 28, 2020". United Press International. December 28, 2020. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved January 5, 2021. …TV personality Gayle King in 1954 (age 66)
  2. Battaglio, Stephen (January 7, 2017). "Freewheeling news anchor and Oprah BFF Gayle King celebrates five years with 'CBS This Morning'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
  3. Hutcheson, Susannah (July 31, 2018). "Gayle King: How I became a 'CBS This Morning' host and O magazine editor-at-large". USA Today. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  4. King in Bonawitz, Amy (July 16, 2007). "Gayle Opens Up About Ex husband cheating". CBS News. Retrieved January 9, 2019. I have been divorced since 1993...
  5. "Gayle King: The 100 Most Influential People of 2019". TIME. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  6. "Gayle King Biography". TV Guide. Archived from the original on February 6, 2020. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  7. "Gayle King". CBS This Morning. CBS. Archived from the original on July 10, 2019. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  8. Hawkins, Carol Hooks (2009). American Women Leaders: 1,560 Current Biographies. McFarland. p. 204. ISBN 978-0786452750.
  9. Cole, Maxine (December 1, 2017). "I Took My Former Boss, Gayle King, To Lunch & We Talked Breakups, Career Goals, & Yes, Oprah 2020". refinery29.com. Refinery29, Inc. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  10. Cole, Maxine (March 8, 1998). "Talk Show Host Gayle King Focusing on Family Life Issues". newsok.com. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  11. Littleton, Cynthia (April 16, 1998). "CBS Eyemark won't renew rookie yakker". variety.com. Variety Media, LLC. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  12. "Gayle King's Talk Show Cancelled for For Fall". Jet. Vol. 60 no. 93. Johnson Publishing. May 4, 1998. p. 60.
  13. "Revamped CBS Morning Show With Charlie Rose & Gayle King To Premiere January 9". Deadline Hollywood.com. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  14. "Charlie Rose and Gayle King to Join Revamped Early Show Next Year". TV Guide. November 10, 2011. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  15. "Broadcast Morning Shows Boast Final Ratings As 2016 Wraps". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  16. "Our culture needed an adult. Gayle King rose to the challenge". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  17. "Gayle King Explains Why She's Still Friends With Charlie Rose". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  18. Alexandra, Steigrad (February 23, 2017). "Gayle King On Magazines, Morning Shows and Megyn Kelly". WWD. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on September 14, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  19. Baldoni, John (September 12, 2018). "Gayle King calls for CBS to release results of Leslie Moonves investigation". Variety. Retrieved January 9, 2019. 'I'm sick and sick of the story and sickened ... by everything that we keep hearing,' King said. Regarding the plan to keep the report private, she said: 'How can we have this investigation and not know how it comes out? Les Moonves has been on the record, he says, listen, he didn't do these things, that it was consensual, that he hasn’t hurt anybody's career. I would think it would be in his best interests for us to hear what the report finds out.' King said noted, as have many others, that the women who have come forward with claims about Moonves have little motivation to fabricate or exaggerate past incidents with Moonves. 'You have women who are coming forward, very credibly talking about something that's so painful and so humiliating. It's been my experience that women don't come out and speak this way for no reason. They just don't,' King said. 'And so I don't know how we move forward if we don't — we at CBS – don't have full transparency about what we find. …. In our own house we must have transparency.'
  20. Saad, Nardine (September 11, 2018). "Gayle King says CBS 'must have transparency' after Moonves' departure". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  21. "Gayle King praised for composure in R. Kelly interview: I thought 'let it play itself out'". USA Today. March 6, 2019.
  22. McNamara, Mary (March 11, 2019). "In her R. Kelly interview, Gayle King proves she's got nothing to prove". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  23. "R. Kelly screams and shouts in explosive CBS interview with Gayle King". Film Industry Network. March 6, 2019.
  24. Edelstein, Robert (April 30, 2018). "B&C Announces Hall of Fame Class of 2018". Broadcasting & Cable. Future Publishing Limited Quay House. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  25. DuVernay, Ava (April 2019). "Gayle King Is on the 2019 TIME 100 List". Time.
  26. "Oprah Winfrey says Gayle King is receiving 'death threats' over interview clip about Kobe Bryant rape case". The Independent. February 7, 2020.
  27. Owoseje, Toyin (February 6, 2020). "Gayle King criticizes employer CBS for sharing 'salacious' clip of Lisa Leslie defending Kobe Bryant". CNN. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  28. "Oprah Winfrey and Gail [sic] King". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on October 3, 2016. Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King have been friends since 1976, when they met working at a Baltimore TV station.
  29. Walters, Barbara (December 10, 2010). "Oprah on Oprah: Talk show host sits down with Barbara Walters for a soul-searching interview". ABC News – via YouTube.
  30. Willis, Jackie (July 7, 2016). "Gayle King's Ex-Husband, William Bumpus, Apologizes for Cheating on Her 26 Years Ago". Archived from the original on March 8, 2019. Retrieved February 10, 2020. King and Bumpus were married for 11 years, and share a daughter and a son together, Kirby and William Bumpus Jr. King’s daughter, Kirby Bumpus, is engaged to Virgil Miller, the Chief of Staff of Cedric Richmond.
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