Gayle King isn’t going wherever — no less than not but.
After stories started circulating that the longtime CBS Mornings anchor was getting ready to go away the present subsequent 12 months, CBS Information is setting the document straight.
“There have been no discussions with Gayle about her contract that runs by Could 2026,” a CBS Information spokesperson informed Folks on October 30. “She’s a really valued a part of CBS and we look ahead to partaking together with her concerning the future.”
The rumors started shortly after CBS Information’ father or mother firm, Paramount International, introduced a shake-up throughout the community — together with the cancellation of a CBS Mornings streaming program. The transfer fueled hypothesis that Gayle would possibly step away from the anchor desk, presumably taking up a special position throughout the firm. However for now, it seems to be like viewers can anticipate to maintain waking up with Gayle on their screens.
The Emmy-winning journalist, 70, has been a mainstay at CBS since 2012, when she first joined CBS This Morning alongside Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell. Over time, she’s shared the anchor desk with a number of cohosts, together with Anthony Mason, and at present leads CBS Mornings with Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson.
All through her 13 years on the community, Gayle has delivered numerous headline-making interviews, sitting down with everybody from President Barack Obama and First Woman Michelle Obama to her shut pal Oprah Winfrey. However her most iconic on-air second stays her 2019 interview with R. Kelly, which went viral after the disgraced singer turned visibly agitated and commenced shouting.
“It escalated moderately rapidly,” Gayle recalled to Folks that very same 12 months. “It went from 0 to 200. When it’s occurring in that second, you don’t actually really feel it. I may inform he was getting just a little indignant, I may see that, however I didn’t anticipate it to go there.”
“When he jumped out of the chair, and he’s hitting, and he’s screaming, and spit is flying as a result of he’s indignant, I simply thought, ‘You possibly can’t reply in sort to that,’” she added. “If you happen to reply in sort to that, then we’re each off the rails.”
