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Gayle King Details Catching Her Ex-Husband William Bumpus Having an Affair With Her Friend<\/p>\n
Gayle King<\/strong><\/a> is happy to let bygones be bygones.<\/p>\n The CBS anchor reacted to her ex-husband William Bumpus<\/strong>\u00a0apologizing, again, for the affair he had\u00a0with a family friend<\/a> in the 1990s after Gayle discussed the infidelity during her recent appearance on Call Her Daddy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI was surprised that you guys got him,\u201d Gayle told TMZ<\/a>, the outlet that received the statement from William<\/a>, on May 28. \u201cA, that you found him, that\u2019s number one. And B, that he was even talking. Because he never talks. So, I was surprised, but I can also say I appreciated what he had to say.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, William\u2014who was married to Gayle, now 71, for 11 years before their 1993 divorce\u2014shared a lengthy statement expressing his regret over his infidelity, marking the second time\u00a0in a decade\u00a0he\u2019s apologized publicly.\u00a0<\/p>\n Noting that Gayle \u201chas every right to share what was a painful chapter,\u201d William told TMZ he remains \u201cendlessly grateful\u201d to his ex-wife for giving him \u201ctwo of the greatest gifts\u201d of his life, their children, 40-year-old daughter Kirby Bumpus<\/strong>\u00a0and 39-year-old son William Bumpus Jr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gayle King Details Catching Her Ex-Husband William Bumpus Having an Affair With Her Friend Gayle King is happy to let bygones be bygones. The CBS anchor reacted to her ex-husband William Bumpus\u00a0apologizing, again, for the affair he had\u00a0with a family friend in the 1990s after Gayle discussed the infidelity during her recent appearance on Call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2436017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2436016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gayle-King-Reacts-to-William-Bumpus-New-Apology-for-Affair.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436016","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=2436016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436018,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436016\/revisions\/2436018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}