- Battling lung cancer, had surgery in November to remove a malignant tumor on his chest [December 8, 2009].
- Seen on camera muttering "What a f****** idiot" after interviewing Family Research Council spokesman Robert Knight in 2000.
- Younger brother of Greg Gumbel.
- He is of Louisiana Creole descent (including African, French, some German Jewish, and distant Corsican Italian, ancestry). The "Gumbel" family in Louisiana originates with German Jewish immigrants.
- Son Bradley Christopher (b. 1978) and daughter Jillian (b. 1984).
- Brother of Rhonda Gumbel-Thomas, and Renee Gumbel.
- Son of Richard Dunbar Gumbel, Jr, and Rhea Alice Lecesne.
- Father of Jillian Beth Gumbel (born in 1983) and father-in-law of William Russell Robins (born in 1984) who married in November 2011.
- Uncle of Michelle Gumbel.
- Engaged to model and former Goldman Sachs analyst Hilary Quinlan (as of April 2002).
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