{"id":2106888,"date":"2025-10-21T23:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2106888"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:04:31","slug":"gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Gayle King Gets Seated Next to Fox News&#8217; Jesse Watters on 4-Hour Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Some of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/gayle-king\/\"><strong>Gayle King<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s fans would have probably loved to be a fly on the wall during her recent flight with conservative political commentator <strong>Jesse Watters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo TV people from competing networks walk on to a plane and to the surprise of them both, they\u2019re seated right next to each other for over four hours,\u201d King, 70, captioned a smiley photo with Watters, 47, via Instagram on Monday, October 20. \u201cHow did it go? Speaking for @jessewatters here: A good time was had by all! Hi, Jesse\u2026saving your number!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watters donned a baseball cap and glasses as King, seen grinning from ear to ear, leaned in to snap the photo with her seatmate. The post certainly <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/gayle-king-very-disappointed-by-criticism-of-blue-origin-spaceflight\/\">garnered some mixed reactions<\/a> from King\u2019s followers. Some were quick to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/gayle-king-defends-justin-timberlake-after-his-dwi-arrest\/\">criticize King<\/a>, urging her to \u201cread the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really not cute at all,\u201d one person <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQCoe-UCexz\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commented<\/a>, while a second Instagram user said, \u201cWhy would you even post this?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/stylish\/news\/gayle-king-marks-12-years-at-cbs-in-original-first-day-dress\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/stylish\/news\/gayle-king-marks-12-years-at-cbs-in-original-first-day-dress\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Gayle King Marks 12 Years at \u2018CBS Mornings\u2019 in Original First-Day Dress<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tGayle King is keeping a 12-year-old tradition alive. King, 69, celebrated her 12th anniversary on CBS Mornings on Tuesday, January 9, by wearing the same yellow and white color-block Alexandra Kramer dress she wore on her first day exactly 12 years before. As longtime viewers of CBS Mornings might already know, this is an annual [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI have no words,\u201d a third person wrote, as a fourth person commented, \u201cU still got time to delete this sis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect and love you, Gayle. Your seat mate, however, is harming our country\u2026.\u201d a fifth comment read.<\/p>\n<p>Others were quick to come to King\u2019s defense, praising her for putting her political differences aside with the Fox News host and sharing the post with her more than 1 million followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReminder we all have to coexist people!!! \u270c\ud83c\udffdShowing human decency when (last time I checked), we can\u2019t pick our own seat mates, is why you\u2019re the best Gayle \u2764\ufe0f Thanks for showing us a positive snippet of what i\u2019m sure was a veryyyy layered convo,\u201d one supporter wrote in the comments section.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4140017\" style=\"width: 225px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:133.28571428571%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4140017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Gayle King Gets Seated Next to Fox News' Jesse Watters on 4-Hour Flight\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gayle-king-gets-seated-next-to-fox-news-jesse-watters-on-4-hour-flight-photo.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Gayle King and Jesse Watters<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Instagram\/Gayle King<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s great!!! Two people had a great time together and didn\u2019t put their political beliefs in front of a friendship or flight home! That\u2019s the way it should be! \ud83e\udd70,\u201d a second person agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love how two people with completely opposite political views can end up sitting next to each other on a plane, share a few laughs, talk about where they\u2019re headed, maybe even swap stories about their families \u2014 and genuinely get along. It\u2019s a good reminder that kindness, curiosity, and a smile go a lot farther than our differences,\u201d a third fan said, while a fourth wrote, \u201cThis is how it should be, people with different opinions and political beliefs getting on\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King did not immediately address the discourse surrounding the post.<\/p>\n<p>King currently serves as the cohost of CBS Mornings, while Watters hosts two shows on the Fox News Channel: <em>Jesse Watters Primetime<\/em> and<em> The Five<\/em>. During Monday\u2019s broadcast of <em>Jesse Watters Primetime<\/em>, the anchor said that the flight with King was \u201ccool.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Watters, who has come under fire for many of his controversial remarks on TV over the years, got some heat earlier this year for comments surrounding a clip of former Vice President <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong> and husband <strong>Doug Emhoff<\/strong> going grocery shopping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of husband goes grocery shopping with his wife?\u201d Watters said about the clip during a January episode of <em>Jesse Watters Primetime<\/em>, causing many on social media to label him as \u201cmisogynistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA normal one?\u201d one X user responded to the clip after it was shared on the social media platform, while another person wrote, \u201cNormal human?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of Gayle King\u2019s fans would have probably loved to be a fly on the wall during her recent flight with conservative political commentator Jesse Watters. \u201cTwo TV people from competing networks walk on to a plane and to the surprise of them both, they\u2019re seated right next to each other for over four hours,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2106889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,21738],"class_list":["post-2106888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gayle-King-Gets-Seated-Next-to-Fox-News-Jesse-Watters.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106890,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106888\/revisions\/2106890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}