Gayle Kg and Oprah Uncensored - The O Magaze Interview

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Gayle Kg and Oprah Wey did an terview a while back and addrsed the longstandg gay mors about them. 

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DID GAYLE KG JT E OUT? OPRAH WEY’S BTIE SAYS ‘I’M GAY’ ON CBS THIS MORNG

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Oprah Wey’s btie says ‘I’m gay’ on CBS This MorngAFTER years of nyg she and talk-show queen Oprah Wey are a relatnship, Gayle Kg appears to have outed herself on live closer-than-close iendship wh talk-show queen Oprah Wey has long been the subject of mours and speculatn. Now, after s of nyg that she and the media mogul are a relatnship, journalist Gayle Kg may have jt outed herself on live is reportg that Kg, 59, allegedly uttered the words “I’m gay” durg a discsn about choosg partners on the latt episo of CBS This Morng.

GAYLE KG ON ROMANCE RUMORS WH OPRAH: ‘IF WE WERE GAY, WE WOULD TELL YOU’

The two iends s down for a startlgly hont chat about iendship, those tabloid mors, and what Oprah really thought at Gayle's weddg. Lisa Kogan listens . * oprah and gayle gay *

”SO CLOSE: Oprah Wey opens up about iendship wh Gayle Kg GALLERY: Oprah Wey fans h Sydney durg star’s vis BOOM: Oprah effect pays off for Atralia’s tourism Sourc om CBS have told TMZ that Kg — who has been bt iends wh Wey sce they met 1976 while workg at a lol TV statn — did not make the statement and was jt stutterg after jokg wh Rose.

*Gayle Kg and her btie Oprah Wey did an terview a while back and addrsed the longstandg gay mors about them.

In a nutshell, Steadman is said to be Oprah’s beard while Gayle is said to be the love of her life. As reported by I Love Old School Mic, check out below what the two women had to say about the gay mors durg a ndid nversatn wh the terviewer, Lisa, for O Magaze:.

THE O INTERVIEW: GAYLE AND OPRAH, UNCENSORED

Oprah Wey and Gayle Kg have a tly unique iendship. * oprah and gayle gay *

Every time I tell somebody, “I’m terviewg Oprah and Gayle, ” the rponse is always the same: “Oh.

Gayle: The tth is, if we were gay, we would so tell you, bee there’s nothg wrong wh beg gay. After 30 years of four-tim-a-day phone lls, Oprah and Gayle s down for a nice, long, startlgly hont chat—about their iendship, those tabloid mors (who uld fet that night the Bahamas? Not the bellboy), what Oprah really thought at Gayle's weddg, and why they are still "more or ls the same people.

When the photographer begs clickg away, Oprah Wey and her bt iend, Gayle Kg, will be impecbly operative. Start readg Lisa Kogan's terview wh Oprah and Gayle Note: This terview appeared the Augt 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magaze. Every time I tell somebody, "I'm terviewg Oprah and Gayle, " the rponse is always the same: "Oh.

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

Oprah Wey and Gayle Kg have been iends for over four s that the prs has misnsted their iendship to say Wey is gay. To this end, Wey says her God don't re about you beg gay! * oprah and gayle gay *

Gayle: The tth is, if we were gay, we would so tell you, bee there's nothg wrong wh beg gay. Oprah: The tth is, no matter where I am, whether Stedman is there or not, Gayle's the other room.

Gayle: I really do marvel at this bee if Stedman didn't accept me, would be very difficult for to be iends.

OPRAH ONCE BROKE HER SILENCE OVER BOND WH GAYLE KG THAT BEME THE TARGET OF GAY RUMORS FOR DES

Oprah says she's not gay -- perd. Wey says she felt pelled to proclaim to the world – the Augt issue of O Magaze -- that she and longtime bt iend Gayle Kg are not lovers. * oprah and gayle gay *

Gayle: Years ago when Oprah was thkg of leavg the show, she said, "You should move to Chigo, and we'll rporate you to the show. Gayle: I'm always kd of taken aback, Lisa, when Oprah talks about me and the kids, bee I see a lot of mothers who feel about their children the way I feel about me. Gayle: Well, I know what Oprah would be terted hearg and what she wouldn't, and, you know, I've figured out a way to polely cle.

Oprah: The first time Gayle spent the night at my hoe was bee there was a snowstorm and she uldn't get home. We're ught a traffic jam bee everyone was head to the ncert hall where I was speakg, and Gayle says, "Where are all the people gog?

Lisa: Gayle, when you started at the magaze, did eher of you worry that workg for Oprah might change the dynamic between you? Oprah: That's why Gayle's so great for me at the magaze—she's gog to have almost exactly the same opn that I do. Gayle: We beme iends that first night bee for the first time, I met somebody who I felt was like me.

IS OPRAH GAY? FALLY, CONFIRMATN

Media mogul Oprah Wey, nsired by some to be the most fluential talk show host and woman the world, opens up to ABC's Barbara Walters on her private relatnships wh iend Gayle Kg and longtime love Stedman Graham. * oprah and gayle gay *

Gayle: But we still had a very strong sense of beg black and were very proud of beg black. The day they cid that they were gog to take me off the 6 o'clock news, I said to Gayle—. Lisa: Gayle, has Oprah ever said anythg about you on the air that advertently crossed the privacy le?

OPRAH & GAY RUMORS -- PICTUR TELL STORY

To celebrate Oprah and Gayle's endurg iendship, we put together a timele of their standout moments, startg om how they met the 1970s. * oprah and gayle gay *

I remember once when Gayle me to my hoe: I was already makg a lot of money, and she was makg not a lot of money.

THE OPRAH WEY, GAYLE KG PLAZA HOTEL AFFAIR

It n be all that n be, and 's extraordary, terms of the level I've been able to achieve, and to have Gayle by my si as happy as I am for those acplishments. When Oprah Wey said, the God she serv do not re about your height, sk lor, or beg gay, many people uld not unrstand why a Christian would say years, there have been mors that Wey, the undisputed queen of Amerin televisn talk shows, is gay and has had an affair wh her longtime iend, Gayle though she has refuted the mors several tim, she fds irkg that people would thk she's a liar and ntue talkg about . A photo of Oprah Wey and another wh her iend Gayle Kg | Photo: TonightHOW THE GAY RUMORS STARTEDIn 1997, a lumnist, Liz Smh, ran a publitn that suated that a long-nng TV in who is a role mol to lns was ntemplatg "g out.

"This was further fueled by her support for Ellen DeGener, who stunned the world when she me out as gay after keepg her sexualy a secret for Kg and Oprah Wey at the 35th Anniversary Celebratn for Bishop Thomas Dexter "T. WINFREY AND GAY RIGHTSWey has always beg a stnch supporter of LGBTQ rights, and she had discsed the legalizatn of marriage her show sce 1991. By the time DeGener me out, people already knew her DeGener me out, one of her famo "The Oprah Show, " Wey answered the homophobic spectators pot by pot.

STRANGE THGS ABOUT OPRAH AND GAYLE'S FRIENDSHIP

One spectator said she read the Bible that homosexualy is lady also said that if Wey, a powerful woman, wanted to reprent herself as a Christian and she's sayg that she supports DeGener, she's playg a double standard game. She believed that people always need to stick a label hence the qutng of her sexual an terview wh Barbara Walters of ABC work, Wey sudnly burst to tears, nyg her homosexualy ont of a massive dience. She revealed that Kg is the mother she never had, the sister everyone would want, and the iend everyone thg is certa, Wey and Kg have been bt iends for so long, and people are sometim not ed to the ia of havg a woman a fellow woman's rner always lovg and rootg for a tell-all terview wh an O Columnist named Lisa Kogan, Kg revealed that there's nothg wrong wh beg gay, and if both of them were, they would own also revealed that she once didn't know that Wey was such a big al until after attendg a speakg show, and the crowd that me for Wey was more than she thought would show iendship dat back to 1976 when Kg was a productn assistant and Wey an anchor for the 6 o'clock news Baltimore.

From road trips to adventur, celebratg ton, marriage, childbirth, divorce, quarante, and are so close that Wey has what she lls a "Gayle's wg" her hoe. One reporter dared to go where others fear to tread: Are Gayle Kg and Oprah are a romantic relatnship? I don't know that she and Gayle are necsarily dog each other but I thk they are the emotnal equivalent of…But back to the new news...

Last night at Glamour's Women of the Year Awards New York Cy, a reporter asked Gayle if the two were together. Wey says she felt pelled to proclaim to the world – the Augt issue of O Magaze -- that she and longtime bt iend Gayle Kg are not lovers. Ined, at event after event -- pecially after 2000 -- Oprah often showed up solo, sometim talkg about her close relatnship wh Gayle.

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

Oprah Wey and Gayle Kg reportedly had a lbian affair ptured on hotel surveillance at The Plaza Hotel New York –. Acrdg to John Bolton’s nephew, Greg T Dixon, a Masonic High school iend and rmant eply nnected wh Freemasonry, Oprah and Gayle were ught together on vio durg a lbian affair at The Plaza. Apparently, surveillance spy ms ptured the affair the room Oprah and Gayle both rented together.

OPRAH AND GAYLE'S REACTN TO SEEG BEYONCé IN CONCERT IS EVERYTHG

Neher Gayle nor Oprah are ELITE (Masons), or currently married, and Oprah never had kids.

TMZ is reportg that Kg, 59, allegedly uttered the words “I’m gay” durg a discsn about choosg partners on the latt episo of CBS This Morng.

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

Yet, Oprah repeatedly has nied beg “gay” and has never mentned any alleged affair at The Plaza wh Gayle reportedly ught on surveillance.

That’s Barbara Wey, stepmother to Oprah, givg her sassy and unfiltered opn on her most famo woman the world’s famoly nspicuo relatnship wh her bt iend, Gayle Kg. Oh y, the loose-lipped Wey throws all utn to the wd—and “utn, ” here, is “suatn that Oprah and Gayle are lbian lovers. 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.

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9cezh6">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#E61957;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Oprah and Gayle" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Oprah and Gayle</a> are our absolute favore <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="celebry bt iends" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">celebry bt iends</a>. </p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The pair’s close-kn relatnship is legendary, wh fans often dubbg their own bti the “Gayle to <em>their</em> Oprah” and vice versa. The women themselv even marvel at their story. </p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">While Oprah grew up impoverished, often movg between her parents’ hom Nashville and Milwkee, Gayle spent part of her <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="childhood Turkey" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">childhood Turkey</a>, where she had a hoekeeper and a swimmg pool. But spe their vastly different upbrggs, the women found one another and never looked back.<em></em></p><p data-no-id="4" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“Somethg about this relatnship feels otherworldly to me, like was signed by a power and a hand greater than my own,” Oprah said the Augt 2006 issue of <em>O, The Oprah Magaze</em>. “Whatever this iendship is, ’s been a very fun ri—and we’ve taken together.”</p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">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 <em>Watch What Happens Live </em> December 2022. <em></em></p><style data-emotn="css 117ibkt">{m-height:733px;}@media(max-width: 30rem){{m-height:531px;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{m-height:648px;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{m-height:818px;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{m-height:732px;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{m-height:573px;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{m-height:679px;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{m-height:687px;}}{ntent:"";clear:both;display:table;}</style><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="6" class="embed align-center css-117ibkt e1dhx11l2"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 10klw3m">{height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><style data-emotn="css m3d82h">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;height:100%;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;m-height:733px;}@media(max-width: 30rem){{m-height:531px;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{m-height:648px;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{m-height:818px;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{m-height:732px;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{m-height:573px;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{m-height:679px;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{m-height:687px;}}</style><div class="css-m3d82h ez8lbhw0"><style data-emotn="css 1msakm2">{width:3.125rem;height:3.125rem;}</style><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div></div></div><style data-emotn="css 18pb4rg">{borr:0;borr-bottom:th solid black;marg:1.875rem 0;clear:both;}</style><hr data-no-id="7" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><style data-emotn="css 1dsife4">{font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;letter-spacg:-0.005em;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.875rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2rem;le-height:1.1;marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.125rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><p data-no-id="8" class="body-h3 css-1dsife4 et3p2gv0">1976: Oprah and Gayle first meet as young journalists.</p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">They were twenty-somethgs the early days of their reers, both employed at Baltimore's WJZ statn. Oprah, now 68, was an anchor for the 6 o’clock news, and Gayle, now 67, was a productn assistant. Dpe workg different partments, both were around the same age and sgle young Black women. The two stck up an immediate bond.</p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">In the<em> </em>Augt 2006 issue of <em>O, The Oprah Magaze</em>, the two reunted their iendship orig story. Lady O ved Gayle to stay wh her for the night after Gayle uldn’t make home durg a snowstorm. And as they say, the rt is history.</p><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="11" class="embed align-center css-117ibkt e1dhx11l2"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-m3d82h ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="12" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“We beme iends that first night bee for the first time, I met somebody who I felt was like me,” Gayle said. “I’d never met anybody like that. Certaly not another Black girl. I grew up an all-whe muny.”</p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The two explaed that both of them uld relate to the fact that even their mil tast put them at odds wh peers. Gayle loved Barry Manilow, and Oprah was a fan of Neil Diamond.</p><p data-no-id="14" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“It’s that whole beg-the-odd-girl-out thg—we didn’t f to everybody else’s perceptn of what ’s like to be a Black girl,” Oprah said.</p><p data-no-id="15" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Gayle add: “But we still had a very strong sense of beg Black and were very proud of beg Black. So to meet another Black girl like that was, wow!”</p><hr data-no-id="16" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="17" class="body-h3 css-1dsife4 et3p2gv0">1986: Gayle mak her first appearance on <em>The</em> <em>Oprah</em><em> Wey Show</em>.</p><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="18" class="embed align-center css-117ibkt e1dhx11l2"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-m3d82h ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="19" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Durg the but season of the inic <em>The Oprah Wey Show</em>, Gayle ma her first of many gut meos over the years. <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Apparently, the episo’s topic" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Apparently, the episo’s topic</a> was about celebri and their bt iends (ftg, huh?), and the duo spent the show entertag each other by “reuntg stori about ill-ftg drs and disastro hairdos.”</p><hr data-no-id="20" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="21" class="body-h3 css-1dsife4 et3p2gv0">1994: Gayle surpris Oprah for her 40th birthday. </p><p data-no-id="22" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">In one of our <a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="favore moments" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">favore moments</a> om <em>The</em> <em>Oprah Wey Show</em> archiv, Gayle pulled off the ultimate surprise by unexpectedly poppg on Oprah the middle of an episo. </p><p data-no-id="23" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">For an on-air party for her tone birthday, celebry guts like Gladys Knight, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Phylicia Rashad" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Phylicia Rashad</a>, Aretha Frankl, and Patti LaBelle were all attendance, talkg about how they lived their bt liv their 40s. 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(Y, voluntarily). It would bee one of the show’s most unfettable segments.</p><p data-no-id="33" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Wh no technology, nng water, or electricy, Oprah and Gayle set out to spend a weekend as the lonials did—tradnal garb and all. The two ma a valiant attempt to survive the experience, participatg a <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="bonfire dance" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">bonfire dance</a> li of more morn entertament. Oprah even relled Gayle’s hilar mov, burstg to lghter as she told the story.</p><p data-no-id="34" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“Her partner threw her down, and she falls to the ground,” Oprah said through giggl. “She fets to make the turn—flung her a ltle too far there, fella.”<br /></p><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om youTube. 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It was an experience Oprah lled “one of the most special meals” she’d ever had, as remd her of her childhood. However, wasn’t que enough to nvce them to live the lonial life.</p><p data-no-id="37" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“The whole ia of this experience was that we were gog to spend the weekend wh all of the lovely people,” Oprah said. “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.”</p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Well, at least they tried.</p><hr data-no-id="39" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="40" class="body-h3 css-1dsife4 et3p2gv0">2006: Our rint bti set out on a grand cross-untry road trip.<br /></p><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="41" class="embed align-center css-117ibkt e1dhx11l2"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-m3d82h ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="42" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">In a fan-favore<em> Oprah Wey Show</em> episo, Oprah and Gayle ped on the ultimate road trip. 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All she’s had to do was s here and relax, and she’s bchg.”</p><p data-no-id="49" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">See? Even Oprah and Gayle have fights. The mood lightened nsirably hours later when the two women found themselv rooms at a motel wh 55-year-old teepe. Durg the trip they also played bgo, met some wboys, and even crashed a weddg. To sum all up one word: epic.</p><hr data-no-id="50" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="51" class="body-h3 css-1dsife4 et3p2gv0">2018: Oprah and Gayle support each other at reer-fg moments.</p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="52" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Moet & Chandon At The 75th Annual Goln Globe Awards - Insi" tle="Moet & Chandon At The 75th Annual Goln Globe Awards - Insi" loadg="lazy" width="3896" height="2608" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Michael Kovac</span><span class="css-5hycvs e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="53" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Both 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 2018.</p><p data-no-id="54" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">First up was Lady O January. Wh <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="words heard around the world" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">words heard around the world</a>, she accepted her Cecile B. DeMille Award at the Goln Glob wh <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="a roarg speech" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">a roarg speech</a> that sparked #Oprah2020 printial race mors. Along wh <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Oprah’s partner, Stedman" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Oprah’s partner, Stedman</a>, Gayle was also Oprah’s date that night. Oprah even took to Instagram to show a glimpse of their glam ssn, which she poked fun at her iend’s lack of moisturizer.</p><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="55" class="embed align-center css-117ibkt e1dhx11l2"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-m3d82h ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="56" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“Get your elbows,” she told Gayle. “Hey, a ltle Ash Wednday on the elbows, there.”<em></em></p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="57" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><asi class="css-y6rgkz e6pr2lz5"><h6 class="css-whsy2b e6pr2lz3"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Stori</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><li class="css-1b7ml99 e6pr2lz2"><a href="/life/g23131540/gifts-for-bt-iends/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="50 Unique Gift Ias to Treat Your Bt Friend" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><img src="" alt="bt gifts for iends 2023" tle="Bt Gifts for Friends 2023" width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">50 Unique Gift Ias to Treat Your Bt Friend</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li><li class="css-1b7ml99 e6pr2lz2"><a href="/entertament/a26358673/oprah-gayle-iendship-og-chronicl/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Oprah and Gayle Live From the Girls Getaway Cise" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><img src="" alt="Gture, Human, Fun, Fger, Conversatn, Child, Happy, Se, Thumb, Step cuttg, " tle="Gture, Human, Fun, Fger, Conversatn, Child, Happy, Se, Thumb, Step cuttg, " width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Oprah and Gayle Live From the Girls Getaway Cise</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="58" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">In June, for a segment on <em>CBS This Morng, </em>Gayle joed Oprah for a first peek at Lady O’s <em></em>new exhib at the Natnal Mm of Ain Amerin History and Culture, which showsed Oprah’s monumental life and reer. </p><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="59" class="embed align-center css-117ibkt e1dhx11l2"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-m3d82h ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="60" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">And four months later, the tabl were turned when Gayle took the spotlight as she was officially <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="ducted to the Broadstg & Cable (B&C) Hall of Fame" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">ducted to the Broadstg & Cable (B&C) Hall of Fame</a>. 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(See what we did there?)<em></em></p><p data-no-id="66" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">For the show, the two share the small screen as they dish out advice for their fans. As they ment on love liv and iendships, we’re also treated to some super-fun personal stori om the BFFs. 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.</p><p data-no-id="68" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“I ma some rnbread yterday, and you would have thought I stripped myself butt naked,” she revealed.</p><p data-no-id="69" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">One thg that’s obv? We’ll never get tired of the women and their long-lastg iendship. It’s clear that they have a bond like nothg else, and ’s betiful to see. So what’s their secret?</p><p data-no-id="70" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“When we first met, Gayle was always very happy wh her life,” Oprah said. “And, therefore, happit for my life... You nnot have a iend that’s unhappy wh their life be happy wh your life. You’ve gotta have happs to give happs to other people.”</p><hr data-no-id="71" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="72" class="body-h3 css-1dsife4 et3p2gv0">March 2019: Oprah prais Gayle for her ntent R. Kelly terview.</p><p data-no-id="73" class="body-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"> Followg Lifetime’s explosive <em>Survivg R. Kelly </em>documentary, the disgraced artist <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="sat down wh Gayle" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">sat down wh Gayle</a> his first terview sce he was arrted Chigo on 10 unts of aggravated crimal sexual abe.</p><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="74" class="embed align-center css-117ibkt e1dhx11l2"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-m3d82h ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="75" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The explosive segment garnered Gayle wispread praise as she kept her ol while Kelly proceed to lose his. And one person who was her rner durg her glowg show of profsnalism? Her btie, Oprah, of urse. </p><p data-no-id="76" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“Bravo @GayleKg for lm and steady foc durg #RKelly terview. Outstandg job! Tell @CBSThis Morng we want to see the whole thg,” Wey tweeted.</p><style data-emotn="css 1m81y1o">@media(max-width: 30rem){{m-height:209px;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{m-height:225px;}}{ntent:"";clear:both;display:table;}</style><div data-embed="twter" data-no-id="77" class="embed align-center css-1m81y1o e1dhx11l2"><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om twter. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web se.</div><div class="css-ky2lhl e14n76iz1"><style data-emotn="css 44bwek">{grid-lumn:1;grid-row:1;z-x:-1;}@media(max-width: 30rem){{font-size:1.1rem;le-height:1.4rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{max-width:550px;}}</style><div class="css-44bwek e1v57j5l0"><blockquote class="twter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bravo <a href=">@GayleKg</a> for lm and and steady foc durg <a href=">#RKelly</a> terview. Outstandg job!<br />Tell <a href=">@CBSThisMorng</a> we want to see the whole thg.</p>— Oprah Wey (@Oprah) <a href=">March 6, 2019</a></blockquote></div><style data-emotn="css 47ss7b">{grid-lumn:1;grid-row:1;}@media(max-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;max-width:lc(100vw - (1rem * 2));}}</style><div data-width="550px" class="css-47ss7b e14n76iz0"><blockquote data-align="center" data-nversatn><a href=" class="twter-timele"> </a></blockquote></div></div></div><hr data-no-id="78" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="79" class="body-h3 css-1dsife4 et3p2gv0">April 2019: Oprah regniz Gayle’s big <em>Time </em>magaze honor.</p><p data-no-id="80" class="body-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Jt over a month later, Gayle’s hard work was put on display aga when she was named one <em>Time’</em>s 100 Most Influential People of 2019. <br /></p><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="81" class="embed align-center css-117ibkt e1dhx11l2"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-m3d82h ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="82" class="body-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“It feels surreal & WONDERFUL to not only be clud <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="#time100" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">#time100</a> list but to make one of the vers,” the honoree wrote on Instagram. “Wow! thank YOU <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="@ava" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">@ava</a> for a tribute that moved me tears .. to <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="@cbsthismorng" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">@cbsthismorng</a> team who cheers me on . <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="@eneida821" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">@eneida821</a> & <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="@laz2020" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">@laz2020</a> who killed on hair & make up, & photographer <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="@paridovic" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">@paridovic</a> who said he had the perfect photo. Thk’ I’ll get extra pi of @ <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="@TIME" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">@TIME</a> this week .. thanx time edors!!!”</p><p data-no-id="83" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">And should e as no surprise that Lady O was right there to support her aga—jt as they have always done the past 45 years. </p><div data-embed="twter" data-no-id="84" class="embed align-center css-1m81y1o e1dhx11l2"><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om twter. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web se.</div><div class="css-ky2lhl e14n76iz1"><div class="css-44bwek e1v57j5l0"><blockquote class="twter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So Proud of you <a href=">@GayleKg</a>! And you <a href=">@ava</a> for pturg the spir of her your words. <a href=">#Time100</a> <a href="></a></p>— Oprah Wey (@Oprah) <a href=">April 17, 2019</a></blockquote></div><div data-width="550px" class="css-47ss7b e14n76iz0"><blockquote data-align="center" data-nversatn><a href=" class="twter-timele"> </a></blockquote></div></div></div><p data-no-id="85" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“So proud of you<em> </em><a data-focable="te" dir="ltr" href=" role="lk" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="@GayleKg" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">@GayleKg</a>! And you <a data-focable="te" dir="ltr" href=" role="lk" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="@ava" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">@ava</a> for pturg the spir of her your words. <a data-focable="te" dir="ltr" href=" role="lk" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="#Time100" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">#Time100</a>.”</p><p data-no-id="86" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">So simple, but oh-so-sweet.</p><hr data-no-id="87" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="88" class="body-h3 css-1dsife4 et3p2gv0">March 2020: Oprah terviews Gayle for the first time. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="89" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="oprah's 2020 visn your life foc tour wh special gut gayle kg" tle="Oprah's 2020 Visn: Your Life In Foc Tour Wh Special Gut Gayle Kg" loadg="lazy" width="1024" height="683" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Tom Cooper</span><span class="css-5hycvs e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="90" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">In 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. But they end on a sentimental note about their iendship.</p><p data-no-id="91" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“The secret to me is tst. I tst you totally, even if I disagree wh you, I still tst you,” Gayle said. “I have this joke wh Oprah where people say, I found my bt iend wh my hband...I say to Oprah, ‘If you ever walked and ught me wh Stedman, you should not be mad, you should take me to the mental stutn. Don’t be mad, I need help!’ But I mean, we’re hont wh each other and tst each other and actually are very like-md.”</p><hr data-no-id="92" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="93" class="body-h3 css-1dsife4 et3p2gv0">June 2020: Oprah and Gayle rne after quarantg separately. </p><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="94" class="embed align-center css-117ibkt e1dhx11l2"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-m3d82h ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="95" class="body-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">After months of livg on oppose asts—Gayle New York and Oprah California—Gayle joed Oprah at her Santa Barbara home for <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="a socially distanced lunch" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">a socially distanced lunch</a>. In the days followg, Oprah proved to be an excellent host, liverg ice cream to Gayle’s doorstep, who was<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn=" stayg her gut hoe" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"> stayg her gut hoe</a>.</p><p data-no-id="96" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">But after quarantg for 13 days, Oprah and Gayle fally rned wh a hug after the latter tted negative for Covid-19.</p><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="97" class="embed align-center css-117ibkt e1dhx11l2"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="stagram" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-m3d82h ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div></div></div><hr data-no-id="98" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="99" class="body-h3 css-1dsife4 et3p2gv0">September 2021: Gayle be a grandmother—and Oprah be a grand-godparent.</p><p data-no-id="100" class="body-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Gayle’s dghter, Kirby Bump, and Kirby’s hband, Virgil Miller, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="weled their first child" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">weled their first child</a>, Lu Lynn Miller, 2021. Gayle announced the arrival on <em>CBS Morngs</em>, 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.” Gayle also later revealed <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="her special nickname for Lu" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">her special nickname for Lu</a> on <em>The Late Show wh Stephen Colbert</em>. “I have a ltle song,” Gayle said, clearg her throat. “Lu-e-lele, what a pretty baby!”</p><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om youTube. 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