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Gayle King Pulls the Oil Rig Prank on Oprah Winfrey and Charles Barkley: See Their Hilarious Reactions

The 'CBS Mornings' anchor tried convincing her friends and family to join her in taking a job in underwater welding.

On Sunday, the 69-year-old CBS Mornings anchor shared a video on Instagram of her pulling the viral oil rig prank on her friends Oprah Winfrey and Charles Barkley, whose reactions are vastly different with the same messages: hell no. When King asks her to approach the idea as "stepping outside your comfort zone," Winfrey responds that learning how to cap an oil rig is "not something that I want to do in this lifetime, OK? During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show in April 2021, Winfrey became emotional while discussing what King has meant to her all these years.

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