Yahoo Lifestyle Gayle King Turns the Table on Alex Cooper, Stunning Podcaster With Intimate Question
As the host of the popular podcast Call Her Daddy, Alex Cooper has a talent for getting her guests to open up about their lives—but she wasn't prepared to do the same when Gayle King asked her a very personal question.
During an interview on CBS Mornings on Tuesday, Feb. 11, King, 70, surprised Cooper by bringing up her sex life.
“What’s your favorite sex position with Matt?” King queried, referring to Cooper's husband of one year, Matt Kaplan.
“Oh my God, Gayle! Are we allowed to talk about that?” Cooper, 30, replied.
“The producer said no," King's co-anchor Nate Burleson answered from off camera.
“I’m making a point here, because this is what Alex does on her show,” King continued. “She’s gotten Katy Perry to talk about her love language, she’s gotten Hailey Bieber to talk about her favorite sex position, Simone Biles about her mental health.”
King went on to say that she was "amazed" by Cooper's interviewing style.
"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," she told Cooper.
“I ask those questions, but there’s a lot that goes into it prior to that," Cooper explained. "I’m not asking that as the first question of the interview; there’s rapport that I build with these people.”
“It’s asked in the appropriate way at the right time," the podcaster added. "I’m reading the room, I’m being self-aware; it’s not like I’m making someone uncomfortable. I’ve 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.'”
“That’s what I take pride in, is making my audience feel comfortable and my guests feel comfortable,” Cooper added.
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As Cooper told King, she's received positive feedback from audiences for her candid conversational approach.
"It has allowed them to feel less shame around normal, everyday things that we're all experiencing, so why can't we talk about it," she said.
Cooper also shared the details of her new partnership with Sirius XM radio—which includes two daily live shows—while chatting with King.
“One is gonna be a pop culture show, and the other one is a call-in where you can ask me advice, you can tell me all your crazy stories, and I will be on the phone answering," she revealed.
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