Gayle King was born on December 28,1954 and is an American television personality, author and broadcast journalist for CBS News, co-hosting its flagship morning program, CBS Mornings, and before that its predecessor CBS This Morning.
24 Facts About Gayle King
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Gayle King is an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine.
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Gayle King was born in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and from age six to eleven she lived in Ankara, Turkey, where her father was deployed.
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Gayle King returned with her family to the United States in 1966, where her father worked as an electrical engineer.
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Gayle King graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a degree in psychology.
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Gayle King's career began as a production assistant at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, where she met Oprah Winfrey, an anchor for the station at the time.
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Gayle King later trained as a reporter at WUSA-TV in Washington, DC After working at WJZ, she moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where she was a weekend anchor and general-assignment reporter at WDAF-TV.
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Gayle King worked as a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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In 1991, Gayle King briefly co-hosted an NBC daytime talk show with Robin Wagner called Cover to Cover, which was canceled after 13 weeks.
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In 1997, she was offered her own syndicated talk show, The Gayle King Show, which was canceled after one season due to low ratings.
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In September 2006, King began to host The Gayle King Show on XM Satellite Radio.
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On January 3,2011, King began hosting a new show, called The Gayle King Show, on OWN.
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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 and a series of third co-anchors including for a time Norah O'Donnell.
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Gayle King and Rose were noted as having good on-air chemistry.
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Gayle King joined O, The Oprah Magazine as an editor in 1999.
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On November 10,2011, Gayle King secured a deal with CBS to co-anchor CBS This Morning, beginning on January 9,2012.
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Gayle King was chosen as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019.
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Gayle King received support, particularly from long-time friend Oprah Winfrey.
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Gayle King said CBS had used an out-of-context excerpt from the interview.
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The network said in a statement that the excerpt was not reflective of the "thoughtful, wide-ranging interview" Gayle King had conducted with Leslie.
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In January 2022, Gayle King had extended her contract with CBS News to continue as co-anchor of CBS Mornings.
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Gayle King will continue her role as co-anchor of CBS Mornings.
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Gayle King has been a close friend of Oprah Winfrey since 1976.
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From 1982 to 1993, Gayle King was married to Bill Bumpus, an attorney and an assistant attorney general in Connecticut.