King

Personal data: Birth date:  28.12.1954 (age 71) Birthplace:  Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S. Education:  University of Maryland, College Park Marital status:  married 1982, divorced 1993 Children:  2 Occupation:  Broadcast journalist, Magazine editor Selection group:   Position:  Tourist Status:  Ret.

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• Gayle King (born December 28, 1954) is an American television personality, author and broadcast journalist for CBS News, co-hosting its flagship morning program, CBS Mornings, and before that its predecessor CBS This Morning. She is also an editor-at-large for Oprah Daily. King was named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2019".
• On February 27, 2025, it was announced that King would be one of the passengers on Blue Origin's eleventh flight to space under the New Shepard program, along with Katy Perry, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn and fellow journalist Lauren Sánchez. The Blue Origin NS-31 launch took place on April 14, 2025. This flight made King and Sánchez the first female journalists to fly to space as well as part of the first flight in which everyone onboard was female since Valentina Tereshkova's solo 1963 flight on Vostok 6.