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Gayle King Bio, Family, Career, Husband, Net Worth, Measurements

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Profession: Journalist
Date of Birth: December 28, 1954
Age: 67
Net value : 38 millions
Place of birth: Chevy Chase, MD
Height (m): 1,70
Religion: Christianity
Relationship Status: Divorce

Gayle King is an American journalist, television personality and author. Additionally, she has been a broadcast reporter for CBS News, additionally, has co-hosted CBS morning show CBS This Morning, since its debut in 2012. She is also an editor for O, The Oprah Magazine. Additionally, King briefly co-hosted an NBC Cover to Cover daytime talk show with Robin Wagner, which was canceled after 13 weeks.

Additionally, King was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2019. She was also criticized notably by rapper Snoop Dogg shortly after Kobe Bryant’s death in 2020. During this time, she wore Kobe’s sexual assault allegations from 2003. Let us scroll to know more about his personal life while reading his net worth and measurements.

GAYLE KING: BIOGRAPHY, FAMILY, CAREER

The editor was born on December 28, 1954 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA. She spent her childhood in Ankara, Turkey, from the age of six to eleven. She is the daughter of Scott King and his mother Peggy King but has not revealed any information about them. The journalist is an American national and has an African-American ancestry. Regarding her education, she attended an American school in Turkey and then completed her high school education in the country after returning to America.

She attended the University of Maryland and later graduated with a double degree in psychology and sociology in 1976. She started as a production assistant at WJZ-TV in Baltimore. At the time, she met her future best friend Oprah Winfrey who was wet for the station. She trained as a journalist at WUSA-TV in Washington, DC, then moved to Kansas City, Missouri. There she worked as a weekend anchor and general reporter at WDAF-TV.

For 18 years beginning in 1981, she worked as a news anchor for WFSB, based in Hartford, Connecticut, then became a news anchor. She has also been noted for her own talk show ‘The Gayle King Show’ and in November 2011 she co-hosted CBS This Morning with Charlie Ross. Previously, she joined ‘O, The Oprah Magazine’ as an editor in 1999.

GAYLE KING: PERSONAL LIFE AND HUSBAND

Moving on to her personal life, she is divorced and currently living a single life. She had married a Connecticut-based attorney and assistant attorney, Bill Bumpus. The duo married in 1982 and would be together for 11 years. Moreover, their divorce is finalized in 1993, and separate on their own way. Also, in an interview, he was asked who do you despise the most? In response, she says despise is a strong word but she doesn’t like naked women caught on June 24, 1990 with her husband.From her marriage, she welcomed two children with her husband Bill. They are a daughter Kirby and a son William Bumpus Jr. Daughter Kirby Bumpus quietly married her fiancé Virgil Miller following a strict mandatory COVID-19 at longtime friend Oprah Winfrey’s home in December 202o.

GAYLE KING: NET WORTH AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES

The famous personality has an estimated net worth of $38 million in 2021. And she said she has a salary of around $5.5 million. In 2018, she had an estimated net worth of around $20 million.

She has personal and verified accounts on different social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. On Instagram, she has an @gayleking account with 870,000 followers. She has a @GayleKing Twitter account with 1 million followers. On Facebook, she has an account under her name with over 239,000 followers.

GAYLE KING: BODY MEASUREMENTS

The broadcast journalist has a slim and curvy body that stands 5 feet 10 inches or 1.70 meters tall. Her well-groomed body weighs 68 kg with body measurements of 38-29-40 inches of chest-waist-hips respectively. She has dark brown eye color with brown hair color.

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