Gayle King Biography
Gayle King is an American TV personality, author, and broadcast journalist working as a CBS Mornings co-host, a seasoned television journalist, conducts interviews with top newsmakers, and provides original reporting for “CBS Mornings” and all CBS News broadcasts and platforms.
Gayle King Age
King is 67 years old as of 2021. She was born on 28 December 1954 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States.
Gayle King Height and Weight
King stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.78 m) and Weighs 168 lbs (76 kg).
Gayle King Family
King was born to Peggy King and Scott King. Since 1976, King has been a close friend of Oprah Winfrey. In a 2010 interview with Barbara Walters, Winfrey said of King, “[s]he is the mother I never had, the sister everyone wants, the friend everyone deserves, I don’t know a better person.”
Gayle King Husband
King is divorced. He was married to Bill Bumpus, a Connecticut attorney and assistant attorney general from 1982 to 1993. They have two children; a daughter Kirby Bumpus and a son William Bumpus Jr.
Gayle King Education
King earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Gayle King Salary
King earns an annual salary of $11 Million.
Gayle King Net Worth
King has an estimated net worth of $40 Million.
Gayle King CBS This Morning – Career
She joined CBS News in 2011, she has conducted revealing and news-making interviews with world leaders, politicians, and celebrities, including former President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Chappelle, Dylan Farrow, Chris Rock, Elon Musk, Billie Eilish, R. Kelly, and Michelle Obama and her mother, Marian Robinson, in their first joint TV interview. She also conducted the final interviews with Rep. John Lewis and Cicely Tyson before they passed away.
King has a slew of exclusive and competitive interviews lined up for him. Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, spoke exclusively with King in October 2020 about the night Taylor was fatally shot by police in her own home. When Kelly exploded during their lengthy interview in 2019, King’s interview with embattled singer R. Kelly made international headlines. The interview was broadcast on all channels and was featured in a primetime special. Following the Kelly interview, King conducted exclusive interviews with Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage, two young women who lived with Kelly in Chicago at the time and were at the center of the Kelly controversy.
She has also led CBS News’ on-the-ground coverage from the Texas border to report on the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, she reported from Newtown, Connecticut. She co-anchored CBS News’ special coverage of the Paris terrorist attacks, the San Bernardino shootings, the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage, and the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, among other breaking news stories.
She co-anchored live broadcasts from the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia, as well as prior to the museum’s opening, from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., moderating CBS News’ 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate in Charleston and co-anchoring CBS News’ election night 2020 coverage. She also co-anchored CBS News’ coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding.
“The Gayle King Grammy Special,” which featured interviews with nominees such as Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Jonas Brothers, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, and Lil Nas X; “BET News and Facebook Present: COVID-19: Black America’s Fight;” CBS News’ special on racism and police brutality, “Justice for All;” BET’s “Say Her Name: The Untold Story of Breonna Taylor;” BET’s “Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy” and “The Chauvin Verdict.”
On OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, King previously hosted “The Gayle King Show,” a live weekday television interview program. The program was also broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, where it first aired in 2006. It covered a wide range of topics, including politics and cultural developments.
King previously worked as a television news anchor for CBS affiliate WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, for 18 years, during which time she also hosted her own syndicated daytime show. King worked at several other television stations before joining WFSB, including WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri; WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland; and WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C. For her extensive work as a journalist, King has received numerous awards, including three Emmys. She was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2018, and she was named to Time Magazine’s TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people in 2019.
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