Gayle King Biography

Gayle King is an American television personality, journalist, and author who was born and brought up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America.

Currently, she is working as a co-anchor of the CBS News morning show ‘CBS This Morning’, a position she has held since 2012. She is an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine. She is also famously known for being Oprah Winfrey’s best friend.

10 Quick Facts About Gayle King

1. Name: Gayle King
2. Age: 68 years old as of 2022
3. Birthday: 28 December 2022
4. Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
5. Height: 5 feet 9 inches
6. Nationality: American
7. Occupation: Television personality, journalist, and author
8. Marital Status: Divorced
9. Salary: $ 1.1 million
10. Net worth: $40 million

Gayle King Age

King is 68 years old as of 2022, she was born on 28 December 1954, in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America. She celebrates her birthday on December 28 every year and her birth sign is Capricorn.

Gayle King Height

King stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches.

Gayle King Weight

King has a  Weight of 168 lbs or 76 kg.

Gayle King Weight Loss

Gayle works out for one hour five to six days a week. For 30 minutes she does cardio, sometimes on the treadmill, followed by 30 minutes of strength training either with resistance bands or free weights.

One day she concentrates on her upper body; the next day on her lower body. On the weekends, when she has more time, she covers both. In addition, she also throws in abdominal exercises at least 3 to 4 days a week.

Gayle King Education

In her younger days, Gayle attended an American school in Turkey. She joined the University of Maryland and graduated in 1976 with a double degree in psychology and sociology.

Gayle King Family, Parents and Siblings

Gayle was born to her parents Scott King(father)an electrical engineer, and Peggy King(mother), a homemaker. Due to her father’s work, King spent several years of her childhood in Turkey, where she attended an American school. Gayle’s family later returned to Maryland.

Gayle King Ex-Husband and Children

Gayle was married to attorney William Bumpus, a former assistant attorney general in Connecticut. The two got married in 1982 and were together till 1993 when they got a divorce due to William Sr.’s affair with another woman. As of her children, King has a daughter known as Kirby Bumpus. Kirby Bumpus is 33 years old as of 2022. she is Oprah’s goddaughter.

In 2016, in an interview with Vanity Fair, Gayle was asked to name one living person that she despises the most. Gayle before she said anything she began by saying that despise’ is a strong word and she is not a huge fan of the woman she caught naked with her now ex-husband on June 24, 1990, at 9:16 p.m. but she doesn’t remember the details.”

Gayle King Husband William Bumpus

William Bumpus is an American-established lawyer and Attorney who was born and brought up in Greenwich, South eas London, England. He became known after divorcing his wife Gayle King who is a CBS anchor. After he graduated in the year 1980, William began his career as the assistant Attorney general of Connecticut. To serve as a civil Attorney, William left his role there and joined the government and worked as Connecticut Assistant Attorney Criminal Prosecutor.

William was later promoted to become an Attorney in charge of representing DCF in court cases such as Children Abuse as well as Neglect. William, now  major in the Termination of Parental Rights.

Gayle King Ex-Husband Age, William Bumpus Age

William is 67 years old as of 2021, he was born in 1954, in Greenwich, South eas London, England.

Gayle King Kids

King is a mother of two children, a son, and a daughter. Her children are all grown up. Gayle’s daughter is Kirby Bumpus and her son is William Bumpus Jr. They were born 11 months apart from each other and are both Oprah Winfrey‘s godchildren.

Gayle King Daughter

King has a daughter known as Kirby Bumpus. Kirby Bumpus is 33 years old as of 2022. she is Oprah’s goddaughter.

Gayle King Boyfriend

King is currently not in a relationship that is known to the public. However, she has revealed that she has tried her luck in love a couple of times ever since her divorce in 1993. Among the questions that she first asks her potential suitor is: ‘Are you married?’.

She says she had an experience of going on a date with a man who mentioned his wife while they were talking. When she asked him, he said they were separated although they lived in the same house and she was like, ‘Check, please, I know that story.’”

She continued to say she was married to a cheater and went to marital counseling. She has been divorced since 1993, so she is healed and everything. She has worked it out and she is not bitter.

Gayle King Oprah Winfrey

Gayle and Oprah Winfrey are really close friends to the point of being called BFFs. The two met while they were working at a Baltimore television station, long before they became famous. Gayle worked as a production assistant and Oprah was the station’s news anchor.

It is said that one evening there was a terrible snowstorm in Baltimore. Winfrey suggested that Gayle forgoes the treacherous drive home and instead spend the night at her nearby home. Gayle is quoted as saying that she was reluctant at first, noting that she didn’t have clothes to change into.

Oprah also said that she didn’t loan her clothes. They spent the evening talking, laughing, gossiping, and forming the foundation of their friendship. Gayle said that they all had similar philosophies on life and even liked and disliked the same people at work.

When Gayle was leaving Baltimore for Kansas City to become a news anchor, Oprah was already making her mark in Chicago. The two kept their friendship going despite the long distance. They have been friends since 1976 and Oprah is the godmother of Gayle’s two children.

Gayle King Salary

Between the years 2014 to 2019 Gayle’s salary at CBS was $5.5 million. In May 2019 it was revealed that she had negotiated a new deal that is worth a minimum of $11 million per year.

Gayle King Net Worth

King has an estimated net worth of $40 million dollars as of 2021. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a Television Personality.

Through her various sources of income, King has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle. It is widely known that her best friend, Oprah Winfrey, has a role to play in her huge wealth.

Gayle King Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Gayle King.

Gayle King Wiki

• Full Names: Gayle King
• Popular As: Television personality
• Gender: Female
• Occupation / Profession: Television personality,  journalist, and author
• Nationality: American
• Race / Ethnicity: Afro-American
• Religion: Christianity
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

Gayle King Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 66 years as of 2020
• Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
• Date of Birth: December 28, 1954
• Place of Birth: Chevy Chase, Maryland
• Birthday: December 28

Gayle King Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: 38-29-40 inches
• Height / How Tall?: 5 feet 9 inches or 1.78 m
• Weight: 168 lbs or 76 kg
• Eye Color: To be updated
• Hair Color: To be updated
• Shoe Size: To be updated
• Dress Size: 12
• Breast Size: 38 inches
• Waist Size: 29 inches
• Hip Size: 40 inches

Gayle King Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Scott King
• Mother: Peggy King
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): To be updated
• Marital Status: Single
• Husband/Spouse: Ex-husband William Bumpus
• Dating / Boyfriend: To be updated
• Children:  Son (William Bumpus Jr.) Daughter (Kirby Bumpus)

Gayle King Networth and Salary

• Net Worth: $40 million
• Salary: $11 million
• Source of Income: Television personality

Gayle King Career

Gayle King CBS This Morning

Gayle is a co-host of CBS This Morning, an American morning television program. She is an experienced television journalist, hence interviews top newsmakers and delivers original reporting to CBS This Morning and all CBS News broadcasts and platforms. Alongside CBS This Morning, Gayle also works as an Editor-at-Large of the award-winning O, the Oprah Magazine.

CBS This Morning is America’s fastest-growing network morning news broadcast and is CBS’s most successful morning news broadcast in more than two decades. Since she joined CBS News in 2011, Gayle has conducted revealing and news-making interviews with world leaders, political figures, and celebrities for the broadcast, including Michelle Obama, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jack, and Suzy Welch, Taylor Swift, and Cicely Tyson.

Gayle has tackled a number of high-profile assignments, including reporting from Newtown, Conn. in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. Gayle was honored with an Alfred I duPont-Columbia Award as part of CBS News division-wide coverage of the Newtown tragedy. Gayle in 2014 she contributed to CBS News’ Election Night coverage and co-anchored CBS News’ special coverage of several breaking news stories, including the Paris terrorist attacks, the San Bernardino shootings, and the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage.

Previously Gayle hosted The Gayle King Show, a live, weekday television interview program on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. It attributed a discussion of a broad variety of topics that include politics and cultural developments, which was also broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, where it premiered in 2006. Gayle also contributed to the CBS News team that received an Alfred I. DuPont Award for the Network’s coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Gayle King and Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose is King’s friend and former colleague at CBS This Morning. He was dismissed amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. He apologized in a statement to the Post while adding that not all of the allegations were accurate.

Speaking about the matter, King said, “I don’t feel as if I’ve had to reconcile my feelings.” “I don’t believe in turning your back on a friend, even when a friend has done something you adamantly disagree with and you’re disappointed in. But I also know that you listen to women, and I don’t discount their stories, either.”

Speaking to the Times, she said, in some cases, firing can be a harsh punishment and cautioned against punishing alleged offenders without due process. “I do worry about that because I think when a woman makes an accusation, the man instantly gets the death penalty,” she said. “There has to be some sort of due process here. All of these inappropriate behaviors are not all the same.”

Similarly, she believes that some men should be given second chances. But, she added, “you can’t come back if you don’t get the lesson and you haven’t acknowledged that you behaved badly.”

Gayle King Cable Hall of Fame

Gayle a CBS This Morning co-host was inducted into Broadcasting & Cable’s Hall of Fame on Monday, October 29, 2018. She said that she felt that she is getting started. Gayle was honored for her 40 years of excellence in broadcast television at a ceremony in New York City.

“This really is one of those nights when I really wish my mom and dad were here to see me because they wouldn’t believe it,” King said. “I can’t even believe that I’m actually standing here.”

Gayle began appearing on television at WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri. Later she moved on to CBS affiliate WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, where she reported for 18 years. She even hosted her own syndicated daytime program. Additionally, Gayle has also worked at WJZ-TV in Baltimore and WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C. Even with an alarm clock set at 3:22 a.m. on the weekdays, Gayle said she’s always excited to go to work every day.

“I walk past Walter Cronkite’s map every single morning and let me tell you, it is, and still is, a very very big deal to me. She continued to state that the truth is, that she can’t wait to go to work.

Oprah Winfrey Gayle’s longtime best friend made a special introduction at the ceremony and said Gayle’s “greatest virtue is being happy for other people’s success. She also stated that throughout her career, Gayle has been her greatest cheerleader and happy for any and everything that has ever come on her way. Oprah said that Gayle is happy for every coworker and happy for every friend.

Gayle joins distinguished past honorees, including Winfrey, Norman Lear, Lucille Ball, and Walter Cronkite. Maya Angelou says your legacy isn’t one thing, your legacy is actually every life you touch, so Gayle, we’re here tonight to celebrate you for continuing to build a legacy and the space of nice,” Winfrey said.

Gayle King Colloquium

Gayle an award-winning television journalist, a co-host of “CBS This Morning” and editor-at-large of O, The Oprah Magazine,  spoke at the annual Council for Women of Boston College Colloquium on October 17, 2019, at 5 p.m. in Robsham Theater.

Launched in 2015, the CWBC Colloquium hosts exceptional thought leaders to consider contemporary issues through the lens of women’s leadership.  The academic conference is made possible by the Council for Women of Boston College and the Institute for the Liberal Arts.

Gayle King Kobe Bryant

In 2020, shortly after the death of Kobe Bryant, King received social media criticism, most notably from rapper Snoop Dogg who later apologized, for a CBS This morning interview with former WNBA player Lisa Leslie, in which King brought up Bryant’s 2003 allegations of sexual harassment.

She was also supported, most notably by longtime friend Oprah Winfrey. King said the CBS had used an excerpt from the interview out of context. In a statement, the network said the extract was not reflective of King’s “thoughtful, wide-ranging interview” King had conducted with Leslie.

Gayle King Cory Booker

Cory Booker Defends Gayle King After ‘Unacceptable’ Treatment by Snoop. The CBS This Morning anchor Gayle was conducting an interview along with Lisa Leslie, the former WNBA star, in the wake of Kobe Bryant’s January 2020 death. And like any good journalist, King asked if Bryant’s legacy was “complicated” for Leslie in light of his year 2003 arrest on sexual assault charges.

However, viewers did not get to see that exchange as part of the lengthy interview. Instead, CBS released just a short clip, prompting a backlash from Bryant’s friends as well as supporters. In the span of a few days, King took heat from Snoop Dogg, LeBron James, and many others.

The rapper and celebrity threatened King to “back off” “before we come to get you.” That brought Oprah Winfrey as well as others to come to King’s defense. And the CBS anchor soon found New Jersey, Senator Cory Booker, in her corner as well.

Gayle King R Kelly Interview

Gayle a CBS This Morning co-host was interviewed by Richardson, a Girls Inc. of Lynn Hero, at a Hearts on Fire University event recently held at Encore Boston Harbor.

Aryana, a sophomore at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, was selected to interview King because of her interest in journalism and her long-standing relationship with Girls Inc. of Lynn.

Deb Ansourlian, executive director of Girls Inc. of Lynn said that they could not be more proud of Ary! since it is indeed a joy to see her develop into a strong, smart, and bold leader using many of the skills she learned at Girls Inc. of Lynn.

Richardson said that she is so grateful to Girls Inc. of Lynn and Hearts on Fire for this really cool and unique opportunity. She continued to say that It made her even more excited to pursue her career in journalism. She will always remember how Gayle advised that when someone tells you ‘NO,’ you have to flip it around and turn your game ON.”

Gayle King House

Based on the background of Gayle’s broadcasts, she’s living in her $7 million Midtown NYC penthouse, which she gave fans a tour of in 2011 on Nate Berkus’ show.

At the time, she said that she decided to paint the ceiling of every room in the 2,350 square-foot E 57th Street space a different color because that’s what her BFF Oprah Winfrey said to do.

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