Gayle King chosen as Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covergirl

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When Oprah travels her copy’s pages will be stuck together and slick with macaroni cheese, cocoa butter, and dildo lube.

How much did she, meaning Oprah, pay for this?

What even is the audience for that magazine? Do they exist solely to make conversation about who is chosen for the cover? Does anyone even buy it.

R5 men are the main readers of SI. The swimsuit issue opens up the demographic, but with porn now a hot girl isn’t enough so they do stunt casting to drum up interest. But Gayle King? Who is buying that? The 7 Black Panthers who religiously watch her morning show?

Gayle is a superwoman! She does it all!

I thought Sports Illustrated had ceased publication last year?

aka 'woke' pick

Advice before the shoot: Don’t Eat Icing

Barf.

Am I supposed to know who this person is?

Was I the only one who assumed this was a DL parody until they scrolled down and saw the link?

A woke nightmare! I remember how my brother used to dread Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue season at the grocery store because so many men had to be ejected from the bathrooms and changing rooms for masturbating to it. Not any more! Thanks for the syrup of ipecac, SI!

She has nice skin for a woman in her 80s.

So will this be a fold-out cover to get ALL of her in the picture?

No one complained when Martha Stewart was asked to pose..gee I wonder why.

Are there no more MTFs to put on the cover?

Why not the newly svelte Oprah?

[quote] No one complained when Martha Stewart was asked to pose..gee I wonder why.

Because she actually made it on her own and not on the extremely broad shoulders of her famous girlfriend.

Anything else?

I’m fucking a swimsuit model, bitches!

More talentless boomers shoved down our throats.

In all seriousness, who is expected to buy this? This is supposed to be the “sexy” issue and has been so for decades.

Who wants to see Oprah’s senior-citizen girlfriend running around in a swimsuit? It’s like they don’t want to make money.

Any remaining Sports Illustrated subscribers -aka, mostly heterosexual men older than 50 - will rightfully complain and request a replacement when this horror arrives in the mailbox.

She's old, how ridiculous.

Even Madonna would have made more sense.

[quote] Why not the newly svelte Oprah?

Just paste O's head on Ann Margret's body.

Obvious publicity stunt.

Disgusting.

These types just keep crowning themselves as Queens of Somewhere Not America while raking in the bucks, their sole talent being the assertion of the power of ignorance and race.

Sports Illustrated barely exists anymore. It's been nothing for years, bought and sold and resold to various ventures. Cutting more and more staff - eventually trying AI generated content. No standing as a legit sports journalism source for quite some time. But maybe the Swimsuit Issue is handled separately and just uss the branding; I don't know. But even the Swimsuit Issue hasn't had the cultural cache as it once did - for a number of years.

R17 you’re delusional, plenty complained just like when Elon’s mom posed, but keep slamming that race card down endlessly.

So much for being a serious journalist

Next year....Caitlin Jenner, lol.

I’m surprised Dylan wasn’t on the cover.

Didn't they already have a trans person in the last few years? Not sure it was on the cover but I remember reading something about it.

Then they sit and wonder why there magazine is sold for a dollar.

They have gone the way of T, fatties, and every other type of freakshow model over the past decade. So has Pirelli's annual calendar.

I can't see straight men salivating over a heavily tattooed 300lb woman in a thong, a 69-year-old Gayle in a caftan or a chick with a dick, but what do I know.

No one steals it anymore?

And this is why Gayle is not taken seriously as a journalist. By anyone.

When she’s not exploiting her relationship with Oprah - which is a 24-hour job for her - she’s parading around at the Met Gala or some other event. She’s only interested in being a celebrity and she didn’t even honestly earn that.

She’s a nepo adult.

Was she ever taken seriously as a journalist? I thought she was more a presenter/interviewer. I know great journalists can also do interviews, but I thought Gayle was the type to have someone else write all the questions and outline the interview.

Meet your cover model

Oh, Lord. Obviously touched up as every picture is, but a pretty good body for her age. But still, who wants to see this? Maybe it's crass, but isn't the point of a swimsuit issue or the former ESPN magazine "The Body Issue" that people honestly want to look at the people inside - because they think they're attractive and have great bodies?

Wow! Sports Illustrated is finished.

Why does Gayle always look like a surprised beaver?

If they wanted a gorgeous, sexy, mature woman who’s no stranger to the glamorous world of modeling, they should have contacted Sharon Stone.

[quote] Why does Gayle always look like a surprised beaver?

That’s our nickname for her snatch.

Is she...even an athlete?

I'm a 26-year-old ingenue. I should be on that cover.

No, R46, but SI Swimsuit Issue models were never limited to athletes - even in its heyday. In fact was mostly models, and then a couple of athletes would have spreads near the end.

Her facial expression is the worst part of the photo.

That is a really bad picture. It looks like a vacation photo from Sandals resort posted on Facebook by someone’s grandmother.

Carrot Top from the neck up. Old soccer mom from the neck down.

No one is jerking off to this.

I can imagine the vigorous lovemaking sessions that took place between Gayle and O to get her in fighting shape for this otherwise unremarkable and unsexy pictorial.

[quote] I remember how my brother used to dread Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue season at the grocery store because so many men had to be ejected from the bathrooms and changing rooms for masturbating to it.

Why were there changing rooms in a grocery store?

Yeah. I hear ya. Women in swimsuit pictures were so hard to come by. Not cum by. That was easy.

I realize magazines feel pressured to bow to the loudest and most "woke" voices, but the line has to be drawn somewhere. Print mags have been in a death spiral for years, and doing things like this kind of accelerates the nosedive. It reminds me of when I worked with GQ a few years ago, and they had a few covers that generated a negative reaction from subscribers (one was Harry Styles in a dress). Catering to the core audience should still be a thing if you want to sell magazines. Otherwise, don't be surprised when subscribers don't renew.

She’s no Martha Stewart.

She asked if it was a gag cover because that’s exactly how it looks!

Gayle has massive hips and even broader thunderthighs. Blech!

And the sad part is, she dresses in clingy clothes that show every ass dimple.

She must think she's hot.

[r32] You mean "she" hasn't already been on the cover? LOL

Does EVERY magazine has to look like Ebony Magazine???

King is KWEEN!

You’re filth r58.

Hubba, hubba! I'm flicking my button in anticipation!

R60 fuck off, Blq supremacist Nazi.

I have no issue with this but I do wonder what happened to her voice. When I was a teen and watching As the World Turns on WFSB-Hartford (I lived in Springfield), King was the 5 pm anchor and had a nice voice.. Now it’s gravelly.

O, O, O, it’s magic! Never believe it’s not so

Next year’s cover: Madea in a bikini with all her funky junk

Why? This is not the SI market. Read the room .

Did Oprah give her a car if she'd do it?

Just like King Charles...Cancel.

Va va va va boom!

[quote] Just like King Charles...Cancel

Choose wisely when selecting a celebrity with upcoming projects to serve as a representative for your signature event.

Boy that's not a flattering pic of Gayle, and I don't mind her, per se. She doesn't have a bad figure but the expression and the busted hair, no.

Gayle and Oprah are pathetic. Two wrinkly, old women with the mentality of teenagers still sadly trying to be the pretty, popular girl instead of just be grateful annd enjoying their mostly unearned success.

It’s embarrassing yet amusing to watch someone go through a late midlife crisis with billions to burn at their disposal.

I don't have an issue with this. Wasn't Martha Stewart in the last one? Ham planets like Tess Holliday and the obligatory trannies...none of the people on their magazines are attractive or anything a het male would want to see, so of course put them in a bathing suit!

JFC.

[quote]Ham planets like Tess Holliday

I must insist that future DL references to this woman always are phrased as "Ham Planet Tess Holliday."

Apparently, Gayle still has a healthy tuft of public hair in her crotch.

Quite big balls.

Oprah arranged it because she loves sucking on Gayle’s droopy tits.

Are we pretending not to see the woolly mammoth toe?

Apart from everything else that is wrong with her wanting to do this and still be taken seriously as a (…clears throat) journalist, plus how unappealing she looks there, the pose itself is ludicrous. She looks supremely uncomfortable, like she’s about to brace herself so she doesn’t fall over.

And her reaction to learning that her pic is on the cover is totally disingenuous. She would have us believe she’s surprised??? Didn’t she engineer the whole thing?

These fake celebs make me sick.

And Oprah's Hustler cover drops tomorrow!

They said they wanted me!

Gayle's reaction starts at about 3:50.

This is just a gimmick like when they made Ellen DeGeneres the new face of CoverGirl.

Gay-les and O are wealthy women with personal chefs, trainers, nutritionists, and doctors on retainer.

They could not and didn't lose weight and keep it off until these medications became available. These medications work.

But weight gain and loss, growth spurts causes the skin to stretch and can leave scarring known as stretch marks behind, an unsightly skin deformation with no correction available.

Yeah, Gay-les is on the cover and she is now thin but the pic on SI will be so heavily edited and filtered it will be impressionistic.

I am so thrilled this important newswoman is being honored! I would love to be invited in person to her house again (for the first time in years) to tell her how highly I think of this honor.

[quote] Gay-les and O are wealthy women with personal chefs, trainers, nutritionists, and doctors on retainer.

I bet those two have some major binge-fests with ice cream, cake, cookies, etc.

Why?? She’s such an artificial-looking dog.

Gayle is attractive now. Because she has lost the excess weight. Through the use of the weight-loss medication.

Who is the target audience for this?

Mamma's mussy was once hot and greasy like a Deluxe Spicy Crispy Chicken 10 Piece but she cooled off and now the ranch dressing is separating.

^Do better, Mamma's Mussy!

Bask in the sensuality.

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Playboy 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰!

Watching R94 she looks like Oprah. No wonder O is her BFF.

I meant in the R95 video...

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JFC.

In one of the photos she is wearing green eyeshadow.

As if she isn't ugly enough.

I'm a model? Oh…I'd like to thank Oprah, God and SI magazine.

That is fuckin’ creepy!

O’s going to give her a good ole fashion tongue lashing for acting like such a hussygirl

SI has had old women and fat women as cover models in the past, but at least they were models. Gayle King looks like a soccer mom.

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In the video her stock pose is surprised.

R106 Reminds me of Joanna Lumley talking about her modeling days.

Gayle is the very essence of sexy!

she looks like an ass full of lard. I’m so over everything being woke...I cant stand the fake fawning over shit like this

So fucking ugly and that's probably with loads of Photoshop!

Gayle, Oprah, and now Faye Dunaway are all monsters from horror movies or your worst nightmares.

Oh man, if they wanted to go old, they should have used the lovely Wendie Malick, she really was a model and still looks good, as good as Martha or Gayle.