Gayle Kg Reveals She Was Behd Oprah's 'You Get a Car' Giveaway

Contents:

• OPRAH WEY AND GAYLE KG EXPLA THE SECRET TO THEIR LONG-TERM BT IENDSHIP
• OPRAH WEY AND GAYLE KG SHARE THEIR 46-YEAR FRIENDSHIP’S ORIG STORY
• OPRAH AND GAYLE REFLECT ON HOW THEY’VE REMAED BT FRIENDS FOR 45 YEARS—AND COUNTG
• HOW OPRAH AND GAYLE’S 46-YEAR FRIENDSHIP BEGAN—AND WHY IT’S LASTED
• STRANGE THGS ABOUT OPRAH AND GAYLE'S FRIENDSHIP
• HOW A SNOWSTORM AND SLEEPOVER LED TO OPRAH WEY AND GAYLE KG'S 'BETIFUL' 46-YEAR FRIENDSHIP
• OPRAH TEARFULLY SAYS GAYLE KG ‘NOT DOG WELL’ MIDST OF KOBE BRYANT NTROVERSY
• OPRAH WEY & GAYLE KG: INSI THEIR 35-YEAR FRIENDSHIP
• OPRAH WEY AND GAYLE KG REVEAL WHAT LED TO THEIR ‘BETIFUL’ 46-YEAR IENDSHIP
• OPRAH EXPLAS WHY SHE AND GAYLE KG "WILL ALWAYS BE EACH OTHER’S CORNER"
• OPRAH AND GAYLE GIVE FRIENDSHIP ADVICE TO BEYONCé, KELLY, AND MICHELLE
• 25 YEARS OF OPRAH AND GAYLE ON THE OPRAH SHOW 
• WE KNOW THE SECRET BEHD GAYLE KG AND OPRAH'S LONG-LASTG FRIENDSHIP
• OPRAH'S BT FRIEND GAYLE KG REVEALS THE UNIQUE WAY SHE WAS BEHD THE 'YOU GET A CAR' GIVEAWAY
• MEET GAYLE KG: US TV STAR AND MEGHAN AND OPRAH’S CLOSE IEND
• OPRAH SAYS SHE, BT IEND GAYLE ARE NOT GAY
• OUR FAVORE OPRAH AND GAYLE MOMENTS OF ALL TIME
• OPRAH MEETS GAYLE KG’S GRANDSON FOR THE FIRST TIME

OPRAH WEY AND GAYLE KG EXPLA THE SECRET TO THEIR LONG-TERM BT IENDSHIP

Gayle and Maria, I met around the same time; Gayle and I [have been iends for] 42 years, Maria and I [have also been iends for] 42 years.

Over the years, Gayle has always been happier, I would have to say, for my I do thk that’s And you know, we beme iends not knowg, of urse, that was gog to last all of the years. I thk, you know, durg all of those years of the Oprah Show when I was risg and beg known by lots of people, Gayle was always, always cheerg me on.

OPRAH WEY AND GAYLE KG SHARE THEIR 46-YEAR FRIENDSHIP’S ORIG STORY

And I was prepared for that bee I thought…Gayle: Right after I had Kirby, Oprah to my hoe, Oprah Daily people, she has a T-shirt that says: “Hbands e and go. Friends who tell you the Oh, I remember that time…Gayle: Oprah’s very good at tellg you the tth, even when you don’t want to hear .

The pair’s close-kn relatnship is legendary, wh fans often dubbg their own bti the “Gayle to their Oprah” and vice versa. While Oprah grew up impoverished, often movg between her parents’ hom Nashville and Milwkee, Gayle spent part of her childhood Turkey, where she had a hoekeeper and a swimmg pool. ”To celebrate the forever iends, we’ve put together a timele of some of Gayle and Oprah’s standout moments—om their ial meetg the 1970s to more recent updat, like when Gayle shared the sweet story of her diamond necklace om Oprah on Watch What Happens Live December 2022.

1976: Oprah and Gayle first meet as young were twenty-somethgs the early days of their reers, both employed at Baltimore's WJZ statn.

OPRAH AND GAYLE REFLECT ON HOW THEY’VE REMAED BT FRIENDS FOR 45 YEARS—AND COUNTG

”1986: Gayle mak her first appearance on The Oprah Wey the but season of the inic The Oprah Wey Show, Gayle ma her first of many gut meos over the years. In one of our favore moments om The Oprah Wey Show archiv, Gayle pulled off the ultimate surprise by unexpectedly poppg on Oprah the middle of an episo. But jt as Knight was providg some wisdom, a clearly shocked Oprah terpted to make a special announcement: “Gayle is here!

“This is so touchg to me, bee Patti was here and Aretha me, and then everyone was g, I thought, Gee, I wish Gayle uld be here to see this, ” she was equally grateful to be attendance, offerg the most humble rponse. It would bee one of the show’s most unfettable no technology, nng water, or electricy, Oprah and Gayle set out to spend a weekend as the lonials did—tradnal garb and all.

HOW OPRAH AND GAYLE’S 46-YEAR FRIENDSHIP BEGAN—AND WHY IT’S LASTED

“After Gayle got thrown down the square-dancg episo the night before—the guy went do-si-do, and she went down—we cid to leave a ltle early. 2006: Our rint bti set out on a grand cross-untry road a fan-favore Oprah Wey Show episo, Oprah and Gayle ped on the ultimate road trip. “All you had to do today was listen to my sgg, which should have been very pleasurable, ” Gayle said as Oprah plaed about the trip.

Michael Kovac//Getty ImagBoth media legends their own right—Oprah is a billnaire bs mogul, and Gayle is an Emmy-wng journalist and member of the Broadstg and Cable Hall of Fame—each of the BFFs had a banner year up was Lady O January. ”In June, for a segment on CBS This Morng, Gayle joed Oprah for a first peek at Lady O’s new exhib at the Natnal Mm of Ain Amerin History and Culture, which showsed Oprah’s monumental life and reer.

STRANGE THGS ABOUT OPRAH AND GAYLE'S FRIENDSHIP

And four months later, the tabl were turned when Gayle took the spotlight as she was officially ducted to the Broadstg & Cable (B&C) Hall of Fame. ”January 2019: The OG Chronicl is a move that was long overdue for the dynamic duo, a jot vio seri was officially lnched, lled The OG Chronicl, starrg Oprah and Gayle.

In the first episo, we learned that Gayle once donned Saran wrap and a trench at to spice up a relatnship, while Oprah oks soul food to keep romantic wh Stedman. Kelly documentary, the disgraced artist sat down wh Gayle his first terview sce he was arrted Chigo on 10 unts of aggravated crimal sexual explosive segment garnered Gayle wispread praise as she kept her ol while Kelly proceed to lose his. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web 2019: Oprah regniz Gayle’s big Time magaze over a month later, Gayle’s hard work was put on display aga when she was named one Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2019.

HOW A SNOWSTORM AND SLEEPOVER LED TO OPRAH WEY AND GAYLE KG'S 'BETIFUL' 46-YEAR FRIENDSHIP

Tom Cooper//Getty ImagIn Denver, durg the last leg of Oprah’s WW 2020 Visn Tour, Gayle was terviewed by Oprah for the first time ever their s-long iendship. The two vered a lot of ground durg their nversatn, cludg the story of how they first met (which we tail above), Gayle’s divorce, and ter trolls. After months of livg on oppose asts—Gayle New York and Oprah California—Gayle joed Oprah at her Santa Barbara home for a socially distanced lunch.

In the days followg, Oprah proved to be an excellent host, liverg ice cream to Gayle’s doorstep, who was stayg her gut after quarantg for 13 days, Oprah and Gayle fally rned wh a hug after the latter tted negative for Covid-19.

OPRAH TEARFULLY SAYS GAYLE KG ‘NOT DOG WELL’ MIDST OF KOBE BRYANT NTROVERSY

September 2021: Gayle be a grandmother—and Oprah be a ’s dghter, Kirby Bump, and Kirby’s hband, Virgil Miller, weled their first child, Lu Lynn Miller, 2021.

Gayle announced the arrival on CBS Morngs, sayg, “I’ve wanted to be a grandmother for a long time, and ’s really somethg when you see your own child bee a parent.

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Oprah is such an important part of Gayle’s life, ’s only natural that she has a role Kirby and Lu’s liv, too.

OPRAH WEY & GAYLE KG: INSI THEIR 35-YEAR FRIENDSHIP

April 2022: People magaze honors Gayle and Oprah’s s-long 50 years after they first met, the dynamic duo’s iendship was celebrated People’s Betiful Issue 2022. Along wh pairs like Octavia Spencer and Allison Janney, Sarah Plson and Amanda Peet, and Mandy Moore and Mka Kelly, Oprah and Gayle got glammed up for shoot wh a photographer they know and love, Joe Puglie, who also ptured Kirby’s ZambranoThis was only the send time Oprah and Gayle had done a profsnal shoot together—the first was for the ver of O, The Oprah Magaze, September 2019.

December 2022: Gayle reveals the sweett gift Oprah has ever given wearg the heart-shaped necklace om Oprah this snap om 2004.

Mathew Imagg//Getty ImagDurg an appearance on Watch What Happens Live, Gayle explaed the story behd the heart-shaped diamond necklace she wears almost all the time. It was even more signifint bee Gayle was gog through a particularly difficult time—she was on the heels of her divorce—and Oprah’s support meant the ntent is imported om twter. Her name is Gayle Kg, and she's the jelly to Wey's peanut butter, her ri or die, and a permanent fixture the media mogul's life.

OPRAH WEY AND GAYLE KG REVEAL WHAT LED TO THEIR ‘BETIFUL’ 46-YEAR IENDSHIP

Their closens, as well as the strange thgs about Oprah and Gayle's iendship, fely pgs our creep-o-meter om time to time.

In an Instagram post, Kg reposted a screenshot of her outf, along wh a ptn that read, "Note @oprah sent to my [assistant] this am "plz tell Gayle I'm on treadl & 's hard to foc w/the circ around your neck" I thk she's WRONG thoughts?

OPRAH EXPLAS WHY SHE AND GAYLE KG "WILL ALWAYS BE EACH OTHER’S CORNER"

Surely iends who spend the majory of their time together are bound to have petty tiffs om time to time, and Oprah and Gayle are no different.

"The therapy that I didn't have, and the therapy that I don't need, is bee of my thoands and thoands of hours on the phone wh Gayle, " she said. Even Kg addrsed the mors after Rosie O'Donnell allud to the duo beg the "emotnal equivalent" of a gay uple durg an terview wh Howard Stern's Siri XM show. Oprah Wey was a 22-year-old news anchor at WJZ-TV Baltimore when she offered Gayle Kg, then a 21-year-old productn assistant/wrer at the statn, a place to crash for the night.

For more on Oprah and Gayle's iendship and terviews wh other famo BFFs, please pick up PEOPLE Magaze, on newsstands Friday. Oprah met "CBS This Morng" host Gayle Kg the 1970s when the two were young journalists workg at WJZ Baltimore, Maryland.

OPRAH AND GAYLE GIVE FRIENDSHIP ADVICE TO BEYONCé, KELLY, AND MICHELLE

Wey started chokg up durg an appearance on “Today” wh Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bh Hager while talkg about the backlash agast her BFF, Gayle Kg, over a recent terview. Oprah Wey has lled Gayle Kg the "origal Oprah Show ultimate viewer, " her O magaze edor-at-large and, most importantly, her BFF – err, her "MSF, " as she lovgly poted out at the 2010 Matrix Awards (where they cintally both wore orange).

25 YEARS OF OPRAH AND GAYLE ON THE OPRAH SHOW 

While workg as an anchor at Baltimore's WJZ-TV, Oprah, 22, offers Gayle, 21, a productn assistant at the channel, a place to crash durg a snow storm. "We beme iends that first night bee for the first time, I met somebody who I felt was like me, " Gayle tells O magaze 2006. "I've never had a day's therapy, but I always had my night nversatns wh Gayle, " she tells O, wh Gayle addg, "We talk about everythg and anythg.

In September 2006, Oprah and Gayle take on the open road, travelg across 3, 600 om Santa Barbara, Calif., to New York Cy for an epic road trip for Oprah. "I'd had enough by the send day, " Oprah says of the experience of listeng to Gayle sg along to every song on the r rad. "There would not be an O whout the mment and the heart of the 'G, "' Oprah says of Gayle, who has served as edor-at-large of O, the Oprah Magaze sce s April 2000 lnch.

WE KNOW THE SECRET BEHD GAYLE KG AND OPRAH'S LONG-LASTG FRIENDSHIP

Wh Oprah's meteoric rise, Gayle be the Queen of Talk's perpetual pl one, attendg A-list events like the 2009 Toronto Film Ftival premiere of Gee Clooney's Up the Air wh Oprah. After nyg (aga) that she and Gayle are lbians, Oprah offers a tearful tribute to her bt iend durg an terview wh Barbara Walters December 2010.

As Oprah says farewell to her show – and embarks on her new venture wh OWN: The Oprah Wey Network – she knows one thg for sure: She'll always have Gayle. “Every night after the show, I would e home, and I would have the ssns wh Gayle where we talked about what happened on the show, or what didn’t happen on the show, and that was the way I kd of regulated myself, ” Wey explaed.

OPRAH'S BT FRIEND GAYLE KG REVEALS THE UNIQUE WAY SHE WAS BEHD THE 'YOU GET A CAR' GIVEAWAY

Our iendship has stood the tt of may have heard me tell the story, which I’ve told often over the years: In the wter of 1976, when Gayle Kg was a productn assistant at the Baltimore televisn statn where I was anchor of the eveng news, a snowstorm prevented her om gettg back home to the suburbs. Courty of Gayle KgI believe God put the two of each other’s path to do exactly what we’ve been dog sce that night Baltimore when I was 22 and she was 21. And the reason ’s worked all the years, whout arguments or fallouts, is that we’ve always each been happy wh our own that Gayle’s a shg star on CBS This Morng, people often ask her how she felt beg the shadow of my succs.

MEET GAYLE KG: US TV STAR AND MEGHAN AND OPRAH’S CLOSE IEND

Courty of Gayle KgAnother story I’ve told a few tim: Once, back the ’80s, when Gayle was visg me Chigo for the weekend, I went to put on my at and was surprised to fd a wad of bills my pocket.

“I didn’t want you to ever thk I was out to get somethg or take advantage, ” she so we’ve moved through our iendship wh rpect and of Gayle’s many appearanc on The Oprah Wey Show, BurnsWhen Gayle got the ll to go to CBS, she was workg for OWN and didn’t want to leave for fear that the perceptn would be that even my bt iend was abandong “the stgglg work. I’ll tell you this: No matter what glass she’s actually wearg, she’s seeg the world through sunny-lored boundls posive outlook; the more-is-more approach to necklac; the love of a great burger, a warm doughnut, a cupke wh yellow ostg; the apparent faiary wh every pop/rap/untry/R&B song on Apple or Spotify; the endls cursy—that’s my Gayle.

First, they ma a stop at an Oprah Daily Insir's hoe, and then they met Katy Perry at a baby boutique to shop for Gayle's grandson. The iends' third and fal stop was visg another Oprah Insir, who creded Oprah wh spirg her own reer while drivg, Oprah and Gayle answered more qutns om rears and Oprah fans—cludg a very well-known iend group.

OPRAH SAYS SHE, BT IEND GAYLE ARE NOT GAY

Oprah and Gayle immediately were game—but clarified that they'll only go as long as 's tly glampg, the word ed to scribe a luxury mpg experience. Oprah DailyOprah DailyNow, to make this ultimate glampg trip a realy, all Oprah and Gayle need is nfirmatn om Beyoncé, Kelly, and Michelle. "I saw your recent Oprah Insir vio where Gayle admted the one time she was a ltle jealo of Oprah was when she got to dance wh Ta Turner, " the Insir wr.

Gayle and Oprah do adm, however, that while they weren't exactly jealo, they did each often long to be nsired a "pretty girl" when they were younger. "We like V Diel, but there's somethg about the Rock, " Gayle DoanFally, Oprah and Gayle reach the home of Lisa Fabrega, an Oprah Daily Insir.

OUR FAVORE OPRAH AND GAYLE MOMENTS OF ALL TIME

' You've tly been a shg star for me, " Fabrega told, Gayle, and Lisa DoanOf urse, wouldn't be a Gayle and Oprah road trip whout one sg-a-long. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web and Gayle's Road Trip EssentialsLands' End Long Sleeve Tunic TopLands' End Canvas Tote BagCred: Lands' EndJohanna Howard x Mark & Graham Striped ThrowHerschel Supply Co. The two didn't know each other that well, but one night there was a snowstorm, and Oprah told Gayle she uld stay at her home to wa out.

On top of beg the origal Oprah Show Ultimate Viewer, Gayle has been on the show 139 tim—that's more than anyone except Oprah! In between the show tapg and playg wh Kirby, Gayle terviewed Oprah about her newfound fame and where she saw her reer headg.

Oprah and Gayle's 11-day road trip across Ameri was a h wh viewers everywhere, but jt one hour to the trip, Oprah knew she was trouble.

OPRAH MEETS GAYLE KG’S GRANDSON FOR THE FIRST TIME

Oprah has said on several ocsns that their road trip was the worst experience of her life, but Gayle wants her to clarify once and for all that had nothg to do wh her. Back Season 18 of The Oprah Wey Show, someone me up wh the brilliant ia to send Oprah and Gayle 400 years back time to live the lonial days. Durg their stay the lony, Oprah and Gayle battled wh mice, okg over an open fire and the dread task of g leav for toilet paper.

One of the thgs Oprah lov about her bt iend Gayle is that she's so passnate about the two lov of her life: The first is her children, Kirby and Will, and the send is food!