Gayle King has addressed hypothesis about her reported exit from CBS Mornings.
“All I can say is that this: From what I'm being informed inside this constructing … that they need me right here, [and] they just like the job I'm doing,” King, 70, informed TMZ on Friday, October 31. “I just like the job I'm doing. I just like the job and the those that I work with, so I don't know what to let you know.”
She added, “What I'm listening to within the constructing is just not what I'm listening to within the press, and what I'm not gonna do is negotiate within the media. Not doing that.”
King additional confused that she has “no thought” what is going to occur along with her eventual contract negotiations.
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“All I do know is I'm right here and glad to be right here,” she concluded.
Selection reported on Thursday, October 30, that King was prone to depart CBS Mornings in 2026 amid the community's structural overhaul and its merger with Skydance Media.
A spokesperson for CBS later responded to the rumors in an announcement shared with Us Weekly.
“There have been no discussions with Gayle about her contract that runs by way of Might 2026,” the assertion learn. “She's a really valued a part of CBS and we look ahead to partaking along with her in regards to the future.”
King has anchored CBS Mornings since 2012.
“My dad used to all the time make us watch the information,” King recalled of working in media throughout a 2024 look on “The Pivot” podcast. “I might say to him, ‘God, Daddy, the information is so boring. Why do we have now to look at the information?' He stated, ‘As a result of it's all the time vital to know what's happening on the planet.' I assume on some degree that caught.”
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King additionally didn't seem to let the rumors of a possible TV shakeup up faze her look on Friday's broadcast, the place she shut down different viral hypothesis that she secretly acquired married.
“Been getting numerous texts, numerous messages, tales on-line that I acquired engaged,” she stated through the morning present. “Check out me with an enormous ring on my finger. There's a fortunate man — I do not know who he's. These AI-generated photos have been making their manner throughout the web. I'm right here to say completely on CBS Mornings, I'm not married, not even engaged.”
King had been the topic of AI-generated wedding ceremony photographs earlier this week, by which she appeared to pose with a person and wore a bridal robe.
“The place is he? I wish to see you, sir! Present your self,” she joked of the viral photographs and the fictional man, including that any actual eligible singles “nonetheless have a shot” to win her coronary heart.
King's cohost Nate Burleson subsequently clarified her courting standing for anybody nonetheless confused.
“For all you guys watching, go forward and shoot your shot,” he quipped. “She's nonetheless single.”
King was beforehand married to William Bumpus from 1982 to 1993, and so they welcomed two youngsters.
“They had been 4 and 5 on the time,” King recalled of her divorce on “The Pivot” podcast episode. “I've by no means been an, ‘Oh, woe is me, individual.' I say you'll be able to have a short interval of bereavement when dangerous stuff occurs however then it's a must to keep it up. Every time stuff occurs and doesn't go my manner, I simply work out how I can repair it now.”
