Gayle King

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Gayle King
Gayle King at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	December 28, 1954 (1954-12-28) (age 54) Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
Occupation	Magazine Editor
Spouse(s)	William G. Bumpus (1983 - 1993) (divorced) 2 children

Gayle King (born December 28, 1954) is editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine and is the best friend of Oprah Winfrey. She has previously worked as a television news anchor and talk show host. King was also instrumental in the planning and creation of the Legends Weekend.

Contents 1 Biography and Career 2 Personal life 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography and Career

King was born in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Her father was an electrical engineer and her mother was a homemaker. As a result of her father's work, King spent several years of her childhood in Turkey, where she attended an American school.^[1]. The family later returned to Maryland. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976 with a degree in psychology. King then moved to Kansas City, Missouri where she was a reporter and weekend anchor at WDAF-TV. In 1981, she was hired as a news anchor for WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut, where she worked for 18 years. In 1991, King briefly cohosted an NBC daytime talk show with Robin Wagner called Cover to Cover until it was canceled. In 1997 she was offered her own syndicated talk show The Gayle King Show, which was later canceled due to low ratings. King joined O, The Oprah Magazine as an editor in 1999. She has also worked as a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show and Good Morning America. In September 2006, King began to host The Gayle King Show on XM Satellite Radio.

King was rumored to be considered as a replacement for both Star Jones Reynolds (in 2006)^[2] and Rosie O'Donnell (in 2007)^[3] as a host on The View, but neither of these came to fruition. King has recently been rumored to be a potential replacement if co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck leaves The View in May 2009.

[edit] Personal life

She is the mother of two children. Her daughter Kirby graduated from Stanford in 2008, and her son William graduated from Duke on May 10, 2009.

In the August 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, Winfrey explained that "people sometimes misunderstand her close relationship with King" and that the two of them are "as one soul in two bodies, when we are together the world feels right".^[4]

Winfrey and King use the August issue of O Magazine (the theme of which is 'Best Friends') to proclaim, once and for all, that they are not gay. Says Oprah: "I've told everything there is to tell. All my stuff is out there. People think I'd be so ashamed of being gay that I wouldn't admit it? Oh, please." Gayle Replied: "...I used to say, 'Oprah, you have to do something. It's hard enough for me to get a date on a Saturday night. You've got to go on the air and stop it!" And then you realize you can't really stop it." Adds Gayle: "I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her."

The 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) King has indicated, at the risk of appearing "shallow", due to her being teased for her height as a child, that she prefers to date men taller than herself, who would be more likely to be empathetic to the problems of tall people, preferably around at least 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), although she wouldn't turn a man away for being only 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m).^[5]

A longtime resident of Wilton, Connecticut, King is in the process of selling her house in Wilton and moving to Manhattan.^[6]

King is also friends with Howard Stern, despite the fact that Stern and Winfrey do not get along.^[7]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Gayle King at the Internet Movie Database
• Oprah and Friends at XM Satellite Radio