Gayle King, CBS This Morning's smartest cookie, will host the CBS News special Meghan and Harry Plus One, marking the one-year anniversary of the royal marriage and the birth of their first child, who will be the first British-American child to be in line for the throne.

In one of those incredible coincidences, just ho…

Gayle King has emerged as CBS News’ biggest star, and the network is doing  everything it can to keep her. King had been in negotiations about continuing as host of CBS This Morning with a new contract that would give her a major salary increase.

As of tonight, no formal new deal has been inked yet. However, the host a…

Gayle King, still tearing up TV news landscape, got the first sit-down with Beto O’Rourke since he officially announced he’s running to beat President Donald Trump in 2020. The full interview airs on Friday’s CBS This Morning, but a clip airs on Thursday’s CBS Evening News.

King reminded O’Rourke he has called for Trum…

The parents of R. Kelly’s live-in girlfriend Azriel Clary sat down for an emotional interview with Gayle King that’s set to air Wednesday morning.

Alice and Angelo Clary told the CBS This Morning co-host they think their 21-year-old daughter duped them from the beginning of her relationship with Kelly, whom she met in…

UPDATED with video: Jimmy Kimmel opened his Monday show admitting he didn’t think CBS could top Gayle King’s interview with R. Kelly last week. But the network did with its Friday one-hour special in which King and her team emptied their notebooks, so to speak.

“We got a fresh round of unforgettable moments,” the ABC l…

UPDATED with video: Saturday Night Live skewered R. Kelly’s explosive interview with CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King.

Series regular Kenan Thompson turned in a dead-on performance of the embattled R&B singer, insisting he was a “victim” despite repeated accusations over the years of sexual abuse.

“Thank you for hav…

Gayle King’s intense interview with accused sex predator and pop singer R. Kelly won the Friday primetime ratings race, scoring a 1.2/6 demo triumph among adults 18-49 and 6.60 million total viewers, toppling Fox’s Last Man Standing from its usual perch atop the evening.

King’s interview had been well-previewed in the…

"The explosive interview I had with him is part of larger conversation America is right in the middle of," Gayle King said at the top of Friday night's The Gayle King Interview with R. Kelly.

The one hour special, King told viewers, "has to do with violence, privilege, and the rights of women. It has to do with the beh…

On the theory there is no detail too small in the R. Kelly saga, and with Gayle King’s 80-minute interview A-matter having already aired across the week on CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News, the network has issued footage in which King scolds the singer for visiting McDonalds after his February 25 release from…

UPDATED with video: Gayle King guested on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Thursday night to take a victory lap after her much-discussed R. Kelly interview on CBS This Morning. Colbert noted she’d gotten “a lot of props” from other journalists, and asked if she had been happy to hear from Fox News’s Jesse Watters.

Watters w…

Fox News host Jesse Watters apologized after confusing CBS This Morning‘s Gayle King with ABC’s Good Morning America‘s Robin Roberts.

It came during a segment Wednesday on Fox’s The Five as Watters was trying to compliment King for her composure and professionalism during her R. Kelly interview in which the R&B singer…

Gayle King got universal rave reviews on the late-night shows Wednesday for her composure and professionalism during the segment of her interview with an unhinged R. Kelly that aired earlier in the day on CBS This Morning.

“I believe this was the first time a defendant pleaded insanity during an interview,” ABC host Ji…