Gayle King has revealed that her unvaccinated family members may not get a seat at her table this Thanksgiving.
The CBS This Morning co-host, 66, shared her unfiltered views about unvaccinated relatives on Monday's show during a conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The pair spoke about the challenge of getting more Americans fully vaccinated amid the threat of the new Delta variant.
"I don’t know how many more times you can say to people, 'Listen, it will save your life,'" she told Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the White House’s chief medical adviser.
Watch King's interview with Dr. Fauci here:
It was then when King admitted she has a "problem" with family members who haven't had their shot yet.
"I have this problem with some members of my own family, which I'm now going to ban for Thanksgiving vacation," she added, per Daily Mail. "That's how strongly I'm taking what you're saying."
Dr. Fauci appeared on the morning show to discuss the importance of getting the vaccine and the new risks associated with the highly contagious Delta variant.
"We really need to get more people vaccinated because that's the solution," he told King. "This virus will, in fact, be protected against, with the vaccine."
The TV host's annual Thanksgiving trip with her family was canceled last year due to the pandemic, but the group previously spent the holiday in Mexico in 2019 and Puerto Rico in 2018.
Back in May, King opened up about just how grateful she is to have had her coronavirus vaccine during a virtual appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
"I was so afraid to leave the house," she recalled. "We were broadcasting from here, so I'd literally go from my bedroom to the TV room to the kitchen to the bedroom to the TV room.
"For excitement I'd go stand in the living room and wave at the birds! "Hi, birds! Hi!" I was so afraid.' King said she was 'tired of being scared."
King added that the vaccine is her "superpower" and has given her the confidence to take "little baby steps" back into the world.