Gayle King: 'Oprah and I aren't gay'

Gayle King has said that she has been angered in the past by rumours that she and friend Oprah Winfrey are lovers.

In an interview with USA Today, King suggested that she is most offended by the implication that she and Winfrey would attempt to hide their sexuality.

"It used to bother me, and now I say, 'OK, if people believe it, there's nothing we can do to change their minds'," she noted.

King continued: "Oprah has been so outspoken and I have about my dating life, my desire to have a significant other, that it's just silly that we would deny or hide that because it implies something is wrong… That's what bothers me more than anything. There's nothing wrong."

Earlier this month, Rosie O'Donnell weighed in on the issue and insisted that King and Oprah do not have a romantic relationship with one another.