Call her inquisitive.
Gayle King turned the tables on Alex Cooper during a CBS Mornings interview on Tuesday.
The 70-year-old anchor asked the “Call Her Daddy” host, 30, what her favorite sex position 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 clarify. “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 while King’s CBS Mornings co-anchors Nate Burleson and Tony Dokoupil laughed.
The duo chimed in, adding that their producers said “no” to answering that question.
Despite the podcast host’s willingness to answer candidly, King clarified that she only asked the question for one reason.
“I’m making a point [that this] is what Alex does on her show [with her guests],” King explained as Cooper continued to wipe away laughing tears.
Cooper, who launched the Unwell Network in Aug. 2023, has a unique interview style. 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 said. “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 noted that during the sit-downs, she is “reading the room” and making sure 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 feedback Cooper has gotten from her audience 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.”
