shut up i mean keep talking
wendy wendy wendy what can we say she's an icon the self-proclaimed queen of all media did not
always have a huge dedicated tv audience she came for much more humble beginnings
in hip-hop radio however it was her penchant for gossip and earth-shattering scoops that
earned her a following in pop culture before she asked us how you doing wendy williams
was just a jersey girl from ocean township new jersey and asbury park born on july 18
1964. wendy williams attended northeastern university from 1982 and worked at her college
station wrbb as a dj she graduated in 1986 with a bachelor's of science in communications that same
year she got her start in radio professionally at wvls at the virgin islands in 1991 and 1992
bill cosby whom williams affectionately refers to as pill cosby tried to get her fired for
discussing his alleged sexual assault scandals yup yup he tried to ruin my career back in
the early this is nothing no this is nothing to laugh or clap about i've told you this before
but i was one of the i was doing i've been doing hot topics for a long time you all okay back in
the early 90s and i talked about bill cosby and his behavior on the radio and he big shot bill
cosby caused the boss of the radio station the big boss and they have a you know a guy conversation
you know and i didn't get fired because i'm bringing in ratings but what i did get was bill
cosby calling and trying to do me in and i back then a young wendy was already on the beat before
being on the beat on the beat and nobody believed what i was saying reporting the stories not being
a victim in 2018 cosby was found guilty of three felony counts of aggravated sexual assault against
andrea constand by 1993 she earned a billboard award for best on-air radio personality for her
work at wrks in new york in 1994 the station switched to hot 97 and she was fired in 1998.
by 2001 she was at wbls and back in new york to rave reviews on her 2 to 6 pm slot new york
times wrote that quote the show works best when its elements confessional paired with snarkiness
are conflated it cited her infamously expletive filled interview with whitney houston in 2003.
eight days or taking them away from watching tv to you know see what i did protect my daughter
wendy just like you would do to protect yourself okay all right you're a very defensive witness i
have to be when you talk about me every [ __ ] day well the you keep yourself in the headlines
no wendy y'all keep me in the headline i'm mind my business i try to maintain what i got
i want to know what i'm doing all the time i don't give a [ __ ] about what you're doing
all the time as long as you're healthy and god is best at you and you doing the right thing
by 2008 she was syndicated and granted with the show by vh1 called the wendy
williams experience where she showed a behind-the-scenes look at a radio program
he's one of the biggest names in music right now his latest release graduation sold almost
1 million copies in its first week and he had a major freakout session at the vmas this year after
not winning his award open the door please for the king of hip-hop kanye west don't be nervous
nice to see you ow hey up in the sky do you like that joint you know what i really do now let's
talk about what you're wearing today first of all i didn't realize it was cold enough out for a wool
scarf and a slightly padded jacket she also got approved for a six-week sneak peek for the wendy
williams show okay john let's do it wow wow this is great i love it it's edgy girly fashionable
and grown up she not only got picked up but was also inducted into the national radio hall of fame
in 2009. paula are you there yes i am hello i'm bruce dumont and i'm calling from chicago
i am chairman of the national radio hall of fame and i'm calling to let you know that
you have been selected for induction into america's only national radio hall of fame
she is currently in season 12 of her talk show and like every other show
now on youtube primarily although she was always heading in that arena posting hot topics even full
episodes on youtube was a norm for her i hate to say that but i was talking to a girlfriend
of mine who also has corona and she said wendy i've lost 10 pounds and that's the good news
yeah she was so happy throughout the show's long history she had a lot of
standout pop culture moments and of course you infuriated a lot of people anyway look
so i'm reading the article nobody else's name is brought up then i run across what the couple found
most wait excuse me it's in the inquirer you gotta you gotta show the cover for legal reasons and
here's the article okay uh what the couple found most difficult to deal with says another source
was the fact that some of the rumors were being perpetuated by people they considered friends
like talk show host wendy williams well first of all you're not a credible source because if you
were then you would know i've never partied with them i've never been to their house i don't swim
in their like we're not friends i'm a pop culture pundit and and uh commentator right that's what
you call it pop culture woman and i talk about people this documentary is the next installment
to my biographia docu-series i've added it to a convenient playlist to watch back-to-back
uninterrupted now let's continue you can't talk windy without talking celebrity beef in her radio
days fellow radio host angie martinez put hands on wendy and former r b group total tried to
jump her i remember i got off the air one day and then the total [ __ ] were downstairs waiting and
everybody upstairs at the radio stations looking down egging it on waiting for something to go down
i wasn't yet married my knight in shining armor screeched up in his car just out of
nowhere didn't even know i didn't even know it was about to happen skel hiding like a girl thanks
gal i'm standing in the door like what and i'm literally about to go through now i'm not like
what like what let's fight because i'm not one of those type of broads and plus there
was three of them several beasts followed her on her show and some even developed on live tv
her passive aggressive exchange of omarosa is a classic by now yeah now did you have a nose
job no it looks like you had a nose job no oh okay no i mean i just looked at before and after honey
before and after before and after pictures but but if i can suggest because the only thing i've
had done to my face is a little botox i would suggest for you some wrestling the lines still
they say
i would suggest and i would suggest a wig that doesn't sit off my head three inches that would
be my suggestion controversy does not escape miss williams from mocking beyonce's pregnant belly
fold the baby bump squashed bent and crumpled to sexualizing kim k's assault either way it's
very scary if she in fact was bound at her ankles and bound at her hands
and dumped in the bathtub by five guys and they only spoke french
to telling gay men stopped wearing our dresses to her most recent one about drew carey's murdered ex
who was shoved from a balcony come on down there are literally dozens if not hundreds
of examples of wendy doing this and getting a laugh at that even back on the radio she exposed
rapper method man's sick wife she already i like to thank wendy williams for bringing
that to the masses because she didn't have to go on the radio and say that [ __ ] i like to
keep stuff like that probably but yeah she was and she outed presumably several closeted celebrities
we come from a very homosexual era of hip-hop as well uh there was a radio personality once
upon a time her name was wendy williams and uh she was practically burned at the stake
for um talking about such and now it's all come full circle and she's still dropping not
so subtle hints about people's sexuality why is kanye looking at him like that
however as a talk show host she has also had very brilliant moments as well like
her recent interview with robin crawford former friend and lover of whitney houston
you were gonna jump me we were gonna we were gonna go we didn't know what you looked like okay
and our plan was to go down to hudson street and squat like collee wait feed right outside robin
i can't even fight i would have rhymed she was the first to not only interview cardi b but also
to reveal and confirm her pregnancy from a studio audience member i still don't think
she's pregnant i think this is she pregnant excuse me you know for a fact well excuse me
excuse me move over move over her move over move over
what was she wearing like a high-waisted skirt i think she was trying to cover it uh-huh yeah but
she's pregnant she's pregnant when's the last time you saw her
that was like a couple months ago case closed people thank you
her personality is insane and she very well may be insane as well from lifting her wigs
to reveal hidden objects or even using her wig as both tissue and a weapon i
take my you make me cry i'm gonna hit you with my wig i swear i'm gonna hit you with my wig
the culture of the show has become one of the real recognizable staples that makes it
stand out from other shows that appear to be too serious wendy's environment although glamorous
and sparkly is pretty casual and naturally funny without forced in written comedy her right hand
woman and producer suzanne has become a fan favorite and she can often be just as shady
if not more so than williams herself suzanne you're like kelly ripa of the hood
i love him mindy i am neil armstrong i'm the first man to step on the moon yes
yes season 18 69 yes 1969. i remember that suzanne you do yes i do i wasn't born yet well i bragging
that was a read other producer norman has just as much personality to matter today's show
i did watch it today so and how was it one of her most iconic segments besides the daily hot topics
it's ask wendy where strangers reveal a bit too much about themselves are you i don't know
how you doing how are you good how you doing um my name is rob i'm a student from long island
new york um and i really need your help so i love my boyfriend like so much but there's
this issue that we're having because he has this really unhealthy relationship with nicki minaj
so no i love nikki so much okay but he has this twitter account like for barbs where
how old are you i'm 19. okay and how old was he 20 like two days ago okay okay so anyway
so he fights people online like he's blocked by cardi b he's blocked by little kim
on instagram well yeah so what do you mean like i support everything he wants to support and like
everyone has their likes and dislikes but what is your question dear do i like he's interfering with
our relationship nikki is so what what do i do do i leave him or do you you're only 19. this should
not leave him if if this is the deal breaker at 19. should i because he's in the audience
i don't know what to do now well where is he he's over there in the brown sweater
you know what what to be 19 is so fun okay then fine stay with him but realize this
the nation comes before you okay the nation of um the navy no the bar the behind the box no
not the beehive the barbs um we'll be back they're not shady they're just when defied
and the show would not be complete without her equally shady cameramen
who live to catch people off guard or match their shot with what wendy just said
all my girls are pretty okay in case you haven't noticed her catchphrase how you doing comes all
the way from her radio days and it is actually a slogan to imply a man is gay wendy and the lgbt
community have a tattered relationship albeit but a solid and recognized she's married to a possible
bisexual man i'm not so sorry about it i asked him and of course he denied it but um you know we had
some extra friends sometimes yeah and one of that you know i saw him did something i was in school
what did your husband do that made you uncomfortable oh one day you went down
down where of the car well here oh god dang it you need to know you donkey how you doing
how are you doing he considered like having extra fun um he didn't advance to me i was
lucy stop it denial is a river in egypt your husband is gay he's a he's guys if you want to
stay there's nothing wrong with it to each his own when it comes to relationships loose um lucy
okay thank you you're welcome bye bye all right i don't like talking about husbands right wendy
well i don't mind talking about husbands i don't mind he's fabulous okay um roseanne
roseanne has done however wendy's life is not only full of laughter recently she went through a messy
divorce with former husband kevin hunter legally known as calvin hunter the pair married in 1997
and divorced in 2017 due to hunter's infidelity and a child with mistress serena hudson
the two share a child kevin hunter jr together she opened up about her divorce
on fellow talk show veteran the view now um in april you filed for divorce from your husband
correct kevin after nearly 22 years of marriage correct and 25 years being together correct and um
because of his infidelity yeah you know infidelity is one thing a full baby is a whole nother topic
okay i mean you said you said in the new york times magazine i'm a very forgiving person but
there's one thing i could never be a part of and that one thing happened mm-hmm wow
and that was it yeah the baby did it a baby i'm not changing pampers i want to be pampered yeah
wendy also suffers from several health issues including vertigo
graves disease and lymphedema she was also very candid about her past cocaine addiction
and shared she had stayed in a halfway house during her divorce drama
she is featured in my first documentary titled hollywood's drug problem for some time now
and even today and beyond i have been living in a sober house when you see me come to work
glammed up right after the show i go across the street i do my pilates i told you two hours a day
i like to take care of my body and you know i've had a struggle with cocaine in my past
and i never went to a place to get the treatment i don't know how except god was sitting on my
shoulder and i just stopped wendy as a pop culture icon is still endearing and timeless let's face it
whether you think her delivery is cruel or not she is one of the most prevalent pop culture figures
so much so that a celebrity is not really a celebrity unless they make it onto hot
topics because she talks about everyone from z to d and even a-listers who we know and love
she even recently earned a star on the hollywood walk of fame in 2019 so what is the future of miss
williams if we ever see her trot to her purple throne as the queen of hot topics will she be
met with grace or in this increasingly pc world where people not have time for one of the few
real shock chocolates left that can actually say what they want
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