Gayle King

Some Lesser Known Facts About Gayle King

• She lived in Ankara, Turkey, from age six to eleven, where her father was deployed.

• She returned to the United States with her family in 1966.

• She started her career in journalism by working as a production assistant at WJZ-TV in Baltimore. Later, she met Oprah Winfrey, who was an anchor at the station then.

• Thereafter, she trained as a reporter at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.

• After working at WJZ, she started working as a general assignment reporter at WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri.

• In 1981, she joined WFSB in Hartford as a news anchor and worked until 1999.

• Thereafter, she worked for The Oprah Winfrey Show as a special correspondent.

• While working at WFSB, she lived in Glastonbury, Connecticut.

• In 1991, for a short period, she co-hosted an NBC daytime talk show with Robin Wagner called Cover to Cover, which got cancelled after 13 weeks.

• In 1999, she started working as an editor at O, The Oprah Magazine.

• Some of the films in which she appeared are The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Boss (2016), and Queen and Slim (2019).
  

• In September 2006, she became the host of the show known as The Gayle King Show on XM Sattelite Radio.

• Some of the TV series in which she appeared are Being Mary Jane (2015) on BET, The Game (2021) on BET, and Billions (2022) on Showtime.
  

• In 2019, her interview with singer R. Kelly went viral. In the interview, R. Kelly yelled, cried, and got angry in response to sexual abuse allegations but Gayle King remained calm and poised throughout the interview. This earned her praise from the viewers.

• In January 2022, she extended her contract with CBS News to continue as co-anchor of CBS Mornings.

• She joined the crew for the space technology company Blue Origin’s eleventh flight to space under the New Shepard program, which was announced on 27 February 2025.

  

• Some of the other crew members included in the program were Katy Perry, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, and another journalist named Lauren Sánchez.

• She and Lauren Sánchez became the first female journalists to attend the flight to space program and a part of the first all-female crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo 1963 flight on Vostok 6.

• She is an avid lover of dogs.

  

• She maintains her fitness by cycling.