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Gayle King has been speaking to some fellow celebs about her upcoming space flight.
In an interview with “Entertainment Tonight,” the journalist talked about her upcoming Blue Origin flight into space.
King is scheduled to be a part of a six individual, all-female crew that can embody singer Katy Perry, former NASA rocket scientist and chief government officer of STEMBoard Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, movie producer Kerianne Flynn and pilot and vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, Lauren Sánchez, who’s engaged to Amazon government chairman Jeff Bezos.
King instructed “ET’s” Nischelle Turner that she is “going to space and I’m really psyched about it. Nervous, but really psyched.”
Turner requested what she is most nervous about.
“The obvious, you just don’t want anything to go wrong” King stated. “If favorite daughter Kirby or favorite son Will or Oprah had said ‘Uhhhh, no,’ I really would not have done, but they’re all like, ‘Yup’ and they’re all going to be there.”
The 70-year-old co-host of “CBS Mornings” stated she not too long ago did a Zoom name with her felliow crew members and had a second with Perry.
“I had a funny thing with Katy Perry,” King stated. “She said ‘Gayle, may I interrupt for a second?’ because we had been on the phone for well over 30 minutes. [Katy said] ‘Our flight is going to be shorter than this frigging phone call.’”
A complete of 52 different individuals have made a comparable flight, together with actor William Shatner and “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan.
“I went to Michael Strahan’s house and sat down and looked him in his face and he was very reassuring to me,” King stated. “And so I feel good about it.”