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Gayle King Meets Her 'Favorite' Grandson Luca for the First Time — See the Sweet Photo!

Gayle King grandson
Gayle King grandson

Courtesy Gayle King

Gayle King couldn't be happier to meet her first grandchild.

During Monday's CBS Morning broadcast, King announced that her daughter Kirby Bumpus welcomed her first baby, son Luca Lynn Miller, with husband Virgil Miller last week. She later shared the first photos of her grandson Luca Lynn on Oprah Daily.

One of the sweet photos shows King, 66, meeting her grandson after Bumpus returned home from the hospital. King looks lovingly down at Luca, who is resting on her lap.

The journalist also shared a picture of the new family of three, though she didn't show the newborn's face.

"Kirby got out of the hospital on Friday and I got on a plane, I left the set, got on a plane and I actually beat her home Friday 'cause it took so long to get released from the hospital," she said on air.

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Gayle King grandson
Gayle King grandson

Courtesy Gayle King

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"... I wanted to be a grandmother for a long time, and it's really something when you see your own child become a parent. I am so nuts about him. And then I was holding him, Kirby goes, 'You know, you have to support his neck.' Uh, okay! I actually know how to do this!"

"He's very, very cute, so congratulations to my favorite daughter, my favorite son in law," King added. "Now I have a favorite grandson! I'm over the moon."

Gayle King and daughter
Gayle King and daughter

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Back in April, King revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that her daughter was expecting.

"I've been keeping a list of baby names. ... Ellen, I have to tell you this: Right before I came on the air, I said, 'Kirby, you know, I'm doing Ellen today. Can I tell Ellen?' Ellen — she's pregnant. She is pregnant," she said at the time.

"We haven't told anybody because I've been held to secrecy. She told all of her friends this past weekend, so she said I could tell you," added King. "And, Ellen, I'm going to be a grandmother and I can't wait! ... Right before we went on the air, I said, 'Kirby, if Ellen doesn't ask me anything about grandchildren I'm not gonna mention it. But if she does ask me, I don't wanna stand there and say I don't know. I don't want to do that.' "