Name her inquisitive.
Gayle King turned the tables on Alex Cooper throughout a CBS Mornings interview on Tuesday.
The 70-year-old anchor requested the “Call Her Daddy” host, 30, what her favourite intercourse place is with husband Matt Kaplan. The couple tied the knot in Riviera Maya, Mexico, in 2024.
“[Alex] got Katy Perry to talk about her love language, she got Hailey Bieber to talk about her favorite sex position, Simone Biles about her mental health… I’m amazed [by it],” the journalist continued to make clear. “What amazes me about you is that we’re sitting there in those hooded sweatshirts, which makes everyone comfortable, you ask these raunchy questions sprinkled in with a lot of smart too.”
“Oh my God Gayle, are we allowed to talk about that?” Cooper replied whereas King’s CBS Mornings co-anchors Nate Burleson and Tony Dokoupil laughed.
The duo chimed in, including that their producers stated “no” to answering that query.
Regardless of the podcast host’s willingness to reply candidly, King clarified that she solely requested the query for one motive.
“I’m making a point [that this] is what Alex does on her show [with her guests],” King defined as Cooper continued to wipe away laughing tears.
Cooper, who launched the Unwell Community in August 2023, has a novel interview fashion. As she put it, “I do ask a lot of the crazier questions that we’re not [always] allowed to talk about [on a show like CBS Mornings].”
“There’s a lot that goes into it prior to [the interview],” she stated. “I’m not asking [something like their favorite sexual position] as the first question in the interview. I think there’s a rapport that I build with these people and yes, when I’m asking [celebrities], it is a question we want to know, but it’s asked in the appropriate way at the right time.”
Cooper famous that in the course of the sit-downs, she is “reading the room” and ensuring she’s “self-aware” and “not making someone uncomfortable.”
“I’ve also been interviewed a lot of times and I can recognize when someone is not reading the room and you’re like, ‘That was not an appropriate question to ask,’” she elaborated. “I think that’s what I take pride in; making my audience feel comfortable and my guests feel comfortable too.”
As for the suggestions Cooper has gotten from her viewers about her candidness?
“It has allowed them to feel less shame around normal, everyday things that we’re all experiencing [like sex], so why can’t we talk about it.”
