Dumb Celebrities, Episode 1: Gayle King

This is the first in an ongoing series.

Gayle King, a.k.a. Oprah Winfrey's best friend, is famous for being Oprah Winfrey's best friend. She has used this to great advantage, like getting a small role in the movie The Color Purple, which starred Oprah Winfrey, and becoming an editor of O Magazine, the magazine of Oprah Winfrey.

Earlier this week King was one of six women who got to wear matching designer jumpsuits that mimicked astronaut suits (see photo) and go for a 10-minute ride into what is being called "outer space," even though it wasn't really all that outer, being just over the line of the Earth's atmosphere. The ladies, all wearing earrings which you never see on astronauts, posed for a lot of photos and thought they were really hot shit. Which they weren't, as the world let them know soon enough.

Upset at the criticism she and her co-passengers received, due to the exorbitant expense of the rocket ride to nowhere paid for by Jeff Bezos, a very rich man with money to burn, and to the fact that the moronic stunt accomplished nothing, Ms. King has complained bitterly that people did not understand how important their space ride was. "What you're doing in space is trying to make things better here on Earth," she said on some morning TV show the next day.

The ladies on the rocket ride did nothing of the sort. Singer Katy Perry was one of them and she sang a song while on the ride. The other thing they all did was experience weightlessness, something I do every time I swim in the pool at my local Y.

Gayle King is truly a dumb celebrity.