After 13 seasons, “The Wendy Williams Show” will officially come to an end this Friday, Variety has learned exclusively.
The daytime talk show has been airing all season without its host, Wendy Williams, who will not be present for the final episode, which will include a video montage celebrating her groundbreaking television run.
“The final original episode of ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ will air on Friday, June 17th with a video tribute to the iconic host. The series comes to an end after 13 successful years in syndication,” a spokesperson for the show says in a statement to Variety.
Williams has been absent from her show all throughout the 2021-2022 season, due to health-related issues. Without Williams in her purple chair, the show has been airing with a slew of guest hosts and panelists, including Sherri Shepherd, who is hosting this final week and the final episode.
This fall, Shepherd will be...
The daytime talk show has been airing all season without its host, Wendy Williams, who will not be present for the final episode, which will include a video montage celebrating her groundbreaking television run.
“The final original episode of ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ will air on Friday, June 17th with a video tribute to the iconic host. The series comes to an end after 13 successful years in syndication,” a spokesperson for the show says in a statement to Variety.
Williams has been absent from her show all throughout the 2021-2022 season, due to health-related issues. Without Williams in her purple chair, the show has been airing with a slew of guest hosts and panelists, including Sherri Shepherd, who is hosting this final week and the final episode.
This fall, Shepherd will be...
- 6/14/2022
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
When Wendy Williams was going through the roughest parts of her divorce from her ex-husband, as is shown in the Lifetime documentary, “Wendy Williams: What a Mess,” she found that her greatest pillar of strength came from the staff of her talk show. “I rely on everyone here. This is my second family and all I could tell them while I was going through what I was going through is be patient with me. Just be go along to get along, be patient and I’ll make it worth your while,” Williams tells Gold Derby in our Meet the Experts: Television Documentary panel (watch the exclusive video interview above). But even with her talk show family, she still had navigate some tricky terrain during the whole ordeal. “I spent time looking crazy to my staff at my own show. I spent time dealing with a bossy husband who I’m...
- 6/3/2021
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Wendy Williams has earned success in every professional arena she’s entered, from radio to publishing, Broadway, and on television with her hit daytime talk show The Wendy Williams Show.
But along with the ups have come plenty of downs. In fact, she’s experienced an onslaught of heartache and drama along the way, and Williams reveals it all in the Lifetime documentary Wendy Williams: What a Mess! The no-holds-barred film, which she executive produced, gets into her health and weight issues, plastic surgery, miscarriages, past drug use and especially her divorce from longtime husband Kevin Hunter.
“It’s a nice story to tell of a messy girl,” Williams explained during an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event. “Very rarely do you see a person do a documentary who is still alive and thriving. … Our talk show is still relevant.”
Williams sheds a lot of tears...
But along with the ups have come plenty of downs. In fact, she’s experienced an onslaught of heartache and drama along the way, and Williams reveals it all in the Lifetime documentary Wendy Williams: What a Mess! The no-holds-barred film, which she executive produced, gets into her health and weight issues, plastic surgery, miscarriages, past drug use and especially her divorce from longtime husband Kevin Hunter.
“It’s a nice story to tell of a messy girl,” Williams explained during an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event. “Very rarely do you see a person do a documentary who is still alive and thriving. … Our talk show is still relevant.”
Williams sheds a lot of tears...
- 5/1/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Lifetime’s Wendy Williams biopic has found its star: Ciera Payton (The Oval) will portray the talk show host in Wendy Williams: The Hot Topic (working title), which is slated to debut in 2021. Additionally, Morocco Omari (P-Valley, Empire) has been cast as Williams’ ex-husband Kevin Hunter.
Executive-produced by Williams, the movie is “a revealing look at Wendy’s journey, from her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show,” per the official description. It will be paired with a feature-length documentary about Williams.
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Executive-produced by Williams, the movie is “a revealing look at Wendy’s journey, from her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show,” per the official description. It will be paired with a feature-length documentary about Williams.
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- 9/3/2020
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Ciera Payton and Morocco Omari are set as the leads in Wendy Williams: The Hot Topic (working title), Lifetime’s biopic about the outspoken television host and former radio star executive produced by Will Packer and Sheila Ducksworth. Payton will star in the title role as Williams, and Omari will play Wendy’s ex-husband Kevin Hunter. Additionally, Darren Grant is set to direct. Debuting in 2021, the film will be paired with a feature-length documentary on Williams. Production begins this month.
Executive produced by Williams, the authorized biopic reveals the highs and lows Williams has experienced throughout the years, from her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show.
A feature-length documentary about the self-anointed Queen of all Media will follow the movie. In it, Williams sheds her private persona...
Executive produced by Williams, the authorized biopic reveals the highs and lows Williams has experienced throughout the years, from her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show.
A feature-length documentary about the self-anointed Queen of all Media will follow the movie. In it, Williams sheds her private persona...
- 9/3/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Wendy Williams is saying sayonara to this "Hot Topic." A source close to the daytime talk show tells E! News that she and ex-husband Kevin Hunter have finally sold the New Jersey home they once shared. Originally listed a year ago for $1.8 million, the exes closed under asking at $1.475 million. At 5,700-square-feet, the five-bedroom mansion is totally a dream home for the new buyers, who we're told just so happen to be fans of Wendy's. "Unfortunately," the source shares, "she had to take a loss but she is really just happy to move forward with her life. She could not be more excited to get back to work." Wendy is gearing up for the return of her eponymous...
- 8/12/2020
- E! Online
Not everything has to be complicated. They were married for 21 years, but it only took about a week after Wendy Williams filed for divorce from Kevin Hunter to excise her husband-slash-manager from her daily life. Her first order of business (after having him served with divorce papers at 6:30 a.m.): making it clear that Hunter was no longer welcome on the set of her eponymous talk show. "Kevin Hunter is no longer an executive producer on The Wendy Williams Show," a show spokesperson confirmed to E! News on the morning of April 18, 2019, eight days after Williams' divorce petition was filed in New Jersey. "[Show distributor] Debmar-Mercury wishes him well in his...
- 4/11/2020
- E! Online
Just days after Wendy Williams learned she’d be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the talk show host was in true form imagining how this honor would elevate her already storied career.
“I’m already in the Smithsonian, so now I’ll be immortalized-immortalized,” Williams says.
In addition to preparing for her star ceremony, which takes place Oct. 17, Williams has been hard at work at her self-titled talker, “The Wendy Williams Show.” The Emmy-nominated series, which is broadcast in more than 50 countries, has been in production since summer 2008. It kicked off with a six-week trial, marking the first of Fox’s test-run strategy. Now, it is renewed through 2022. Williams has carved a clear and boundary-defying path in the difficult syndicated space, which has seen far more failures than successes over the past decade.
“Wendy has had to push against the tide her entire career,” says David Perler,...
“I’m already in the Smithsonian, so now I’ll be immortalized-immortalized,” Williams says.
In addition to preparing for her star ceremony, which takes place Oct. 17, Williams has been hard at work at her self-titled talker, “The Wendy Williams Show.” The Emmy-nominated series, which is broadcast in more than 50 countries, has been in production since summer 2008. It kicked off with a six-week trial, marking the first of Fox’s test-run strategy. Now, it is renewed through 2022. Williams has carved a clear and boundary-defying path in the difficult syndicated space, which has seen far more failures than successes over the past decade.
“Wendy has had to push against the tide her entire career,” says David Perler,...
- 10/17/2019
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
Wendy Williams confirmed this week that she decided to divorce her longtime husband Kevin Hunter after she found out he had impregnated the woman he was cheating on Williams with. The 55-year-old television host and Hunter were married for 21 years and it was reported in April that the couple had separated. “Kevin had a major indiscretion that […]
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- 8/28/2019
- by Pablo Mena
- Uinterview
Wendy Williams and ex Kevin Hunter are unloading their New Jersey home of 10 years amid their split. In April, the 54-year-old Wendy Williams Show host filed for divorce from her husband, a former executive producer her series and father of their 18-year-old son Kevin Jr., after 21 years of marriage. In May, Williams revealed that she moved to New York City, to "the ultimate bachelorette pad high atop everything" and that it has a "really, really good view." On Friday, the former couple put their Livingston Township, NJ home on the market for $1.8 million—just a little below the estimated market price, suggesting the two want to unload it as...
- 8/1/2019
- E! Online
Wendy Williams can't stop smiling. On the July 8 episode of The Wendy Williams Show, the talk show host drew thunderous applause when she revealed she's "officially off the market." "I know!" Williams said, covering her face as the audience cheered. "I'm not in love, but there's somebody that I'm crazy about." Williams, who turns 55 on July 18, then started crying tears of happiness, a welcome sight for her fans after the emotional turmoil the Emmy-nominee has shared with them since filing for divorce from her longtime husband Kevin Hunter in April. Like she said in May, Williams is "reclaiming" her life since her decision to end...
- 7/18/2019
- E! Online
Wendy Williams is opening up about her love life. The talk show host, who filed for divorce from husband Kevin Hunter three months ago, is giving an update on her relationship status. On Monday's episode of the The Wendy Williams Show, the 54-year-old star declared she's "not on the market anymore." "I know!" Wendy said, covering her face as the audience cheered. "I'm not in love, but there's somebody that I'm crazy about." As her audience continued to cheer for the new romance, Wendy started to cry. "Listen, it's not who you think," Wendy went on to say, addressing speculation about her relationship with...
- 7/8/2019
- E! Online
10:46 Am Pt -- Kevin Jr.'s attorney, Ray Hamlin, tells TMZ he expects the case will be fully resolved. Hamlin says Kevin Sr. is not interested in bringing charges against his son. What's more, there's a state-wide conditional dismissal program Kevin Jr. can qualify for -- available to those without a prior criminal record -- to completely clear his name as long as he stays out of trouble. 8:30 Am Pt -- Wendy and Kevin Sr.
- 6/25/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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