Gayle King is an American television personality, author, and broadcast journalist for CBS News. She co-hosts the main morning show, CBS Mornings, and before that, she worked on its earlier version, CBS This Morning.
She also serves as an editor-at-large for Oprah Daily. In 2019, Time magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Husband, Children & Parents
According to the reports, she is married now. From 1982 to 1993, she was married to William Bumpus, who worked as a lawyer and assistant attorney general in Connecticut.
The couple has two children — a daughter named Kirby and a son named William Bumpus Jr. She was born to her American parents.
Her father’s name is Mr. Emmett Scott King, and her mother’s name is Mrs. Peggy Tucker. Her siblings’ information is not updated yet.
Net Worth, Ethnicity & Religion
According to the source reports, her current net worth is approximately $50 million from all of her income sources as of 2025(source). She has African American and European descent. Her religious faith is in the Christian religion.
Age, Height & Weight
As per her birth date, she is 70 years old as of 2024. She is approximately 5 feet 10 inches (1.7 m) in height, and her weight is approximately 53 kilograms (117 lbs). She has light golden brown hair, and her eyes are also light brown.
Early Life & Educational Details
Her real name is Gayle King. She was born on 28 December 1954 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States. From the age of six to eleven, she lived in Ankara, Turkey, where her father was stationed for work.
In 1966, her family moved back to the United States, and her father began working as an electrical engineer. She later earned a psychology degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Career Details
She started her career as a production assistant at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, where she met Oprah Winfrey, who was working there as a news anchor. Later, she trained to become a reporter at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.
In 1981, she became a news anchor at WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut, where she worked for 18 years. She also served as a special correspondent on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In 1991, she co-hosted a short-lived NBC talk show called Cover to Cover with Robin Wagner, which ended after 13 weeks. In September 2006, she started hosting The Gayle King Show on XM Satellite Radio.
Later, on January 3, 2011, she launched a new version of the show on OWN. By November 2011, she signed a deal with CBS to co-host CBS This Morning, which began on January 9, 2012.
In 2018, she was added to the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. The next year, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people.
In January 2022, she renewed her contract with CBS News to keep working as co-anchor of CBS Mornings.
On April 22, 2023, CNN announced that Gayle would co-host a weekly primetime show called King Charles with Charles Barkley. The show started in the fall and ended the following spring.
On February 27, 2025, it was announced that she would join Blue Origin’s 11th space flight under the New Shepard program with Katy Perry, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez.
The NS-31 launch happened on April 14, 2025.
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