{"id":341787,"date":"2026-05-28T05:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=341787"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:07:01","slug":"gayle-king-denies-romance-rumors-with-bff-oprah-winfrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/gayle-king-denies-romance-rumors-with-bff-oprah-winfrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Gayle King Denies Romance Rumors With BFF Oprah Winfrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Gayle King<\/strong> is just not dating her best friend, <strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong>! She put those rumors to rest while appearing on Wednesday\u2019s episode of the podcast, \u2018Call Me Daddy.\u2019 These rumors have BEEN around, following Oprah and Gayle, throughout their entire friendship. Also on the episode, Gayle opened up about what it\u2019s been like on the receiving end and the way she feels concerning the rumors now.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">RELATED:\u00a0Clock It! Oprah Winfrey And Gayle King Address Rumors About Being Romantically Involved Amid Their Many years-Long Friendship<\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gayle King Says She\u2019s Unbothered By The Rumors About Her &#038; Oprah Winfrey<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>While chatting with Alex Cooper, Gayle admitted that the \u201clesbian couple\u201d headlines and speculation used to essentially trouble her, especially following her divorce in 1993. She and William Bumpus had split after 11 years of marriage and two children together. Amid her breakup, Gayle King told Cooper that The National Enquirer claimed her secret gay affair with Oprah Winfrey was one among the explanations for her divorce.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPrimary, if we were gay, we&#8217;d inform you because, imagine me, there\u2019s nothing mistaken with it. It\u2019s just that I prefer a person.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nowadays, Gayle King says she\u2019s unbothered, mostly, by the whispers of a romance. <strong>\u201cI\u2019ve gotten to the purpose in my life where only a few things get to me because while you go on social media, it&#8217;s an accelerator on hate.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>She added, <strong>\u201cSo long as I be ok with what I\u2019m doing and the people I respect and trust are okay with it, especially someone whose opinion I value, otherwise, you\u2019ll drive yourself nuts. So now, I actually don\u2019t care.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gayle King: He Cheated with My Close Friend\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fj9YNo_cUgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, the enduring best friends addressed these exact same rumors! The appeared on the series, \u2018The Moments That Make Us.\u2019 Gayle said the identical thing then that she told Alex Cooper on her podcast this week. King said she and Oprah would tell the general public in the event that they were dating one another. Winfrey shared that their tight friendship is a rare sight and doubtless why people speculate there\u2019s more between them.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe explanation why I believe our friendship has worked is because Gayle is happier, not pleased, but happier for me for any type of success or victory or challenge I get through than I&#8217;m for myself. And I feel as pleased as she does \u2014 I can\u2019t be happier than, cannot surpass Gayle. You can&#8217;t out-happy her. I&#8217;m equally as pleased for her,\u201d Oprah said on the time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gayle Shares How Speculations Affected Her Love Life<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Nevertheless, back in the sooner days of their 50-year friendship? Gayle King used to beg Oprah Winfrey to shut all of it down using her show! The rumors, Gayle alleges, were interfering together with her love life and even getting a Saturday night date. But while she encouraged Oprah to talk out, King says her best friend would urge her to let it go. <strong>\u201cWell that\u2019s advantageous so that you can say. You may have someone, I don\u2019t,\u201d<\/strong> Gayle said of her response to Winfrey.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DY2HoE_DpWr\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<p>\n                      <iframe class=\"custom-ig-embed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DY2HoE_DpWr\/embed\/captioned\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"640px\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><\/iframe>\n                  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>That\u2019s Her Bestie! How They Became Friends <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King first met while working at a TV station in Baltimore. When a snowstorm was about to hit someday, Oprah invited Gayle to crash at her house they usually\u2019ve <em>\u201cliterally been friends ever since.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">RELATED:\u00a0Falynn Pina Threatens To Expose Receipts After Porsha Williams Addresses Betraying Their Friendship With Marriage To Simon Guobadia<\/h5>\n<div class=\"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container\" style=\"justify-content: center;;\">\n<div class=\"wpra-reactions-container\" data-ver=\"1.3.10\" data-post_id=\"277311\" data-show_count=\"true\" data-enable_share=\"onclick\" data-behavior=\"regular\" data-animation=\"true\" data-share_url=\"https:\/\/theshaderoom.com\/gayle-king-denies-rumors-bff-oprah-winfrey-reveals-how-much-they-once-bothered-her\/\" data-secure=\"9fb839d663\">\n<p>What Do You Think Roomies?<\/p>\n<p>                                             <!-- end of share buttons -->\t\t\t            <\/div>\n<p> <!-- end of reactions container -->        <\/div>\n<p><!-- end of reactions wrap --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gayle King is just not dating her best friend, Oprah Winfrey! She put those rumors to rest while appearing on Wednesday\u2019s episode of the podcast, \u2018Call Me Daddy.\u2019 These rumors have BEEN around, following Oprah and Gayle, throughout their entire friendship. Also on the episode, Gayle opened up about what it\u2019s been like on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20659],"tags":[3038,1131,12913,1940,3694,1584,1296,3695],"class_list":["post-341787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bollywood","tag-bff","tag-denies","tag-gayle","tag-king","tag-oprah","tag-romance","tag-rumors","tag-winfrey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341790,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341787\/revisions\/341790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}