Gayle King is an American television personality and journalist, who is co-anchor of the CBS News morning show CBS This Morning, a position she has held since 2012. She is also an Editor-at-Large of the award-winning O, the Oprah Magazine. King previously hosted The Gayle King Show, a live, weekday television interview program on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network from January to November 2011.
Gayle graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976 with a double degree in Psychology and sociology. Gayle was married to Bill Bumpus, an attorney and an assistant attorney general in Connecticut, from 1982 to 1993. She has a son William Bumpus, Jr. and a daughter Kirby Bumpus.
