Gayle King

Gayle King is a coanchor of CBS This Morning and an editoratlarge for O, The Oprah Magazine. She is best friends with Oprah Winfrey.

King was born in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Her father was an electrical engineer and her mother was a homemaker. As a result of her fathers work, King spent several years of her childhood in Turkey, where she attended an American school. The family later returned to Maryland. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976 with a double degree in psychology and sociology. King then moved to Kansas City, Missouri where she was a reporter and weekend anchor at WDAFTV. In 1981, she was hired as a news anchor for WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut, where she worked foryears. Part of that time, she lived in Glastonbury, CT. In 1991, King briefly cohosted an NBC daytime talk show with Robin Wagner called Cover to Cover which was cancelled afterweeks. In 1997 she was offered her own syndicated talk show, The Gayle King Show, which was cancelled after one season due to low ratings.

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