Wendy Williams

Wendy Joan Williams (born July 18, 1964) is an American broadcaster, businesswoman, media personality, and writer. Since 2008, she has hosted the nationally syndicated television talk show The Wendy Williams Show.

For other people named Wendy Williams, see Wendy Williams (disambiguation).
"Wendy Hunter" redirects here. For Wendy Heather Hunter, the songwriting collaborator of Dragon (band), see Marc Hunter.

Wendy Williams
Williams in 2018
Born
Wendy Joan Williams

(1964-07-18) July 18, 1964
Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S.
Other namesWendy Williams Hunter[1]
Education
Occupation
  • Broadcaster
  • businesswoman
  • media personality
  • writer
  • producer
  • actress
Years active1986–present
Television
Spouse(s)
Bert Girigorie
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(m. 1994; div. 1995)​

Kevin Hunter
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(m. 1997; div. 2020)​
Children1
Websitewww.wendyshow.com

Prior to television, Williams was a radio DJ and host and quickly became known in New York as a shock jockette. She gained notoriety for her on-air spats with celebrities and was the subject of the 2006 VH1 reality television series The Wendy Williams Experience, which broadcast events surrounding her radio show. Williams was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2009.

Williams' other endeavors include authoring several books, appearances in various films and television shows, and her own product lines, including a fashion line, a jewellery collection and a wig line. On her 50th birthday, the council of Asbury Park, New Jersey renamed the street on which she grew up Wendy Williams Way.

Early life

Wendy Joan Williams was born on July 18, 1964, in Asbury Park, New Jersey.[2][3][4] She is the second of three children born to Shirley (née Skinner), a special education teacher, and Thomas Dwayne Williams, an English teacher and high school principal.[3][5][6] The couple had a combined three master's degrees[6] and traveled around the world, often buying pieces to decorate their home with.[7] In 1970, the family moved to the upper middle class community of Wayside in Ocean Township, New Jersey, where they lived in a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) house on one acre of land.[6][7] Williams graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1982,[8] placing 360th in the class of 363.[6] While in school, she acted as the announcer of her younger brother's Little League Baseball games.[6] Williams attended Northeastern University in Boston, graduating in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication and a minor in journalism.[2][9] She was a DJ for the college radio station, WRBB, and interned for Matt Siegel at WXKS-FM.[8][10]

Career

Radio
Williams discussing memories from her tenure at WBLS in 2019.

Williams began her career working for WVIS in the United States Virgin Islands.[9] Less than a year later, she obtained an afternoon position at Washington, D.C.-based station WOL. Williams commuted between DC and Queens, New York, to work an overnight weekend shift at WQHT.[11]

In 1989, Williams began at urban contemporary WRKS (now WEPN-FM) in New York City as a substitute disc jockey. WRKS hired her full-time for its morning show. A year later, Williams moved to an afternoon drive-time shift, eventually winning the Billboard Award for "Best On-Air Radio Personality" in 1993. In December 1994, Emmis Broadcasting purchased WRKS and switched Williams to the company's other New York property, hip-hop formatted WQHT ("Hot 97"), as WRKS was reformatted into an urban adult contemporary outlet. She was fired from Hot 97 in 1998.[6]

Williams was hired by a Philadelphia urban station, WUSL ("Power 99FM"). Her husband, Kevin Hunter, became her agent.[6] She was very open about her personal life on air, discussing her miscarriages, breast enhancement surgery,[6] and former drug addiction.[9] She helped the station move from 14th place in the ratings to 2nd.[6]

Williams has stated that Bill Cosby attempted to get her fired in 1991 and 1992. She also believes that Cosby is guilty of sexual assault.[12]

In 2001, Williams returned to the New York airwaves when WBLS hired her full-time for a syndicated 2–6 p.m. time slot. Williams' friend, MC Spice of Boston, offered his voiceover services to the show, often adding short rap verses tailored specifically for Williams' show. The New York Times stated that her "show works best when its elements – confessional paired with snarkiness – are conflated," and cited a 2003 interview with Whitney Houston as an example.[13] During the highly publicized interview[14] that "went haywire" and included "a lot of bleeped language", Williams "asked [Houston], insistently, about her drug and spending habits".[15]

By 2008, she was syndicated in Redondo Beach, California; Shreveport, Louisiana; Wilmington, Delaware; Toledo, Ohio; Columbia, South Carolina; Emporia, Virginia; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Tyler, Texas; and Alexandria, Louisiana, among other markets.

Williams left her radio show in 2009 to focus on her television program and spend more time with her family. She was also inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.[16]

The Wendy Williams Show
Williams on The Wendy Williams Show in 2011

In 2008, Debmar-Mercury offered Williams a six-week television trial of her own talk show. On July 14, 2008, Williams debuted her daytime talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, in four cities during the summer of 2008. During the tryout, The New York Times remarked that the show created a "breakthrough in daytime" by introducing the genre of the "backtalk show.".[15]

After a successful run, Fox signed a deal with Debmar-Mercury to broadcast the show nationally on their stations beginning in July 2009. In addition, BET picked up cable rights to broadcast the show at night. In 2010, BET started airing the show internationally in 54 countries through BET International.[17]

Williams has received multiple nominations at the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host and the show itself was for Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment.[18] The show attracts 2.4 million daily viewers on average, with Williams trading off daily with Ellen DeGeneres as the number one female host on daytime television.[19]

The Wendy Williams Show has been renewed through the 2020–21 television season on the Fox Television Stations.The renewal will keep Wendy on air through its 13th season. During the November 2015 sweeps period, the talk show finished either No. 1 or 2 in the key demo of women 25-54 in 55% of the U.S. and 20 of the top-25 markets.[20]

Williams had not missed a show until February 2018, when she took one week off; however, on February 21, 2018, Williams announced that her show would be on three weeks' hiatus due to her complications with Graves' disease and hyperthyroidism.[21]

In January 2019, a statement from the Williams Hunter family revealed that Williams had been hospitalized due to complications from Graves' disease and that her return to the show would be delayed indefinitely as a result.[22] Guest hosts such as Nick Cannon filled in for Wendy during her absence; she returned on March 4, 2019.[23]

In early March 2020, the show discontinued its live audience for two tapings due to the coronavirus pandemic; Williams's staff filled in the seats.[24] Shortly thereafter, production on the show was halted.[25] The show reemerged as The Wendy Williams Show @ Home, broadcast through video chat from Williams's apartment, and continuing through May 15, when production was halted again due to a flare in Williams's Graves disease.[26][27]

In July 2020, Williams announced that her show would be returning to live broadcasting in-studio on Sept. 21, 2020.[28]

Other television appearances

Williams filled in for Jodi Applegate on WNYW's morning television show, Good Day New York (2007), and hosted a game show for GSN called Love Triangle (2011) for which she and her husband Kevin Hunter served as executive producers.[29]

Williams played a judge on the Lifetime network show Drop Dead Diva (2011) and served as a guest judge on The Face (2013).[30] She was also a contestant, paired with pro Tony Dovolani on season 12 of Dancing with the Stars (2011); she was eliminated second.[31]

In February 2013, it was announced that Williams and her husband and manager, Kevin, were launching a reality television production company, Wendy Williams Productions.[32] that will produce unscripted content, including reality television and game shows.[33] Williams was an executive producer on the show Celebrities Undercover (2014).[30]

Williams also executive produced the Lifetime biopic Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, which premiered on November 15, 2014.[34] In September 2015, the documentary series Death By Gossip with Wendy Williams premiered on the Investigation Discovery channel, both hosted and produced by Williams.[35]

In 2020, Williams competed on the fourth season of The Masked Singer as "Lips" where she was mostly sitting due to the weight of the costume. She performed the song "Native New Yorker" by Odyssey and was eliminated and unmasked after her first appearance.

Film

Williams appeared in the film adaptation of Steve Harvey's book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, titled Think Like a Man (2012), and its sequel, Think Like a Man Too (2014).

In 2012, it was announced Williams would enter into a "production alliance" with producers Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones to create movies and television shows aimed at multicultural audiences.[36][37] These projects will appear under the heading "Wendy Williams presents"[37] and their first project will be VH1 adaptation of a Star Jones novel.[36]

On Oct. 10, 2019, Williams announced at the top of her show that she had made a cameo, released the same day, in Todrick Hall's music video for his song "Dripeesha."

Theater

In 2013, Williams was cast to play the role of Matron "Mama" Morton on the Broadway musical Chicago.[38][39] She began her tenure on July 2[40] and finished her seven-week run on August 11, 2013. Her preparations for the musical were documented in the TV Guide docuseries Wendy Williams: How You Doin', Broadway?!,[41] which was produced by her own production company, Wendy Williams Productions.[42]

Stand-up comedy

Before Wendy turned 50, stand-up comedy was on her bucket list. In 2014, Lipshtick called Williams to participate in their first all-female-based comedy series at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Williams made her sold-out comedy debut on July 11, 2014.[43] Williams' comedy tour was called "The Sit-down Comedy Tour." Williams returned to Lipshtick on October 31, 2014, and November 1, 2014, after she made a sold-out debut in July.[44]

Williams hosted her "How You Laughin'" Comedy Series at NJPAC on November 15, 2014, featuring Luenell, Jonathan Martin, Pat Brown, Hadiyah Robinson, and Meme Simpson.[45] In 2015, Williams announced a 12-city comedy tour called "The Wendy Williams Sit Down Tour: Too Real For Stand-Up."[46]

In 2019, Williams hosted the "Wendy Williams & Friends: For the Record... Umm Hmmm!" U.S. comedy tour featuring performances from various comedians.[47][48] The first date, scheduled for August 17, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey, was canceled the day before because of a “scheduling conflict,” according to the venue, but Page Six reported low ticket sales were to blame.[49] More dates in Philadelphia, Ohio and Atlanta were ultimately canceled, with statements from the venues saying the tour was "sidelined by the headlines."[50] The final remaining date in St. Petersburg, Florida, which was rescheduled from August 2, 2019, to September 21, 2019, was canceled September 20. The venue cited "unforeseen circumstances."[51]

Business ventures

HSN clothing line

By partnering with the Home Shopping Network (HSN), Williams debuted a line of dresses, pants, sweaters and skirts fit for the everyday woman. Her HSN Clothing line debuted on March 28, 2015. Williams told viewers on her talk show that according to HSN, the debut was their most watched premiere since the onset of the program. The Wendy Williams line is sold exclusively at HSN.[52]

Adorn

Williams sells a line of jewelry products on the home shopping network, QVC, called "Adorn by Wendy Williams".

Williams and her husband, Kevin Hunter, commissioned the China-based manufacturing firm Max Harvest International Holdings to make 12,140 pairs of shoes bearing the logo of her brand, Adorn.[53] The owners of Max Harvest International Holdings were said to have gone into hiding after the owner of the shoe factory who made the shoes kidnapped one of their managers and held the man prisoner for two weeks before releasing him, and Williams' failure to pay was cited the reason, reported by the New York Daily News.[54] The manager and his wife retained lawyer Staci Riordan of Los Angeles.[55] Their representative says they've been in negotiations for several months in order to reach a settlement.[53] Williams declined to comment on the matter.[55]

Lifetime

Williams signed a deal with the US network Lifetime for a documentary, Wendy Williams: What a Mess! and a TV movie, Wendy Williams: The Movie based on her life.[56]

Endorsements

Williams was a spokesperson for Georges Veselle champagne.[57] She posed for PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" advert campaign in 2012.[58]

Personal life

Williams married her first husband, Bert Girigorie, in 1994. They separated after five months, and were officially divorced a year and a half later.[59][60] In her autobiography Wendy's Got the Heat, Williams referred to him under the pseudonym "Robert Morris III".[61]

On November 30, 1997, Williams married her second husband, Kevin Hunter.[62] Their son, Kevin Hunter, Jr., was born in 2000.[62] In April 2019, Williams filed for divorce after it was reported Hunter had fathered a child with another woman.[63] The divorce was finalized in January 2020.[64]

Health and substance abuse

Williams has been open on her show about her past with substance abuse, particularly with cocaine.[65] In March 2019, Williams revealed on an episode of her show that she had been living in a sober house for several months.[66]

Williams has Graves' disease and hyperthyroidism,[21] and has been hospitalized several times due to complications. In 2019, Williams also announced she had been diagnosed with lymphedema, a non-fatal condition that causes swelling of the lower extremities.[67]

Public image

Williams sometimes has a pronounced appearance of her eyes, a side-effect of her hyperthyroidism and Graves' disease, which cause pressure behind the eye muscles.[68] Additionally, Williams wears wigs because she has stated that her natural hair is thin due to these medical conditions.[68] She often refers to herself as a "wiggy"[69] and has names for her wigs like New Bitch or Rita Ora's Older Sister,[68] changing length, texture, and color daily to match her on-air outfits and the changing seasons of the year. She has stated that she wears turbans around the house, and can at times be seen wearing a turban on-air, such as during "Wendy, What's Good: Turbans & More!",[70] and during her Pre-Show[71] and After Show segments, like "Turbanalicious".[72]

Williams has had breast implants since 1994, and been open about having a liposuction procedure.[73][74] Until 2018, Williams wore high heels on air very frequently; she had to discontinue due to her lymphedema condition and vertigo caused by her other two health conditions.[75]

Controversies

Williams has repeatedly come under fire for some of her controversial statements.

In 1995, Williams advertised false rumors that Tupac Shakur had been raped while imprisoned for sexually assaulting a woman in November 1993. Shakur was so jarred at the Williams comment that he recorded a diss track "Why U Turn On Me?", which was released posthumously following the rapper's murder in September 1996.[76]

In 2006, Wu Tang Clan performer Method Man had a personal and publicized conflict with Williams on The Breakdown, an Internet show on Onloq.com.[77] Williams had talked on air about Method Man's wife's having cancer, which was something he wanted to keep private, her own family members had not yet known about the diagnosis. Williams had dug it up and made it public over the radio. Because of this leaked information, Method Man and his wife had "many problems."[77] Williams also reported unfounded rumors that Method Man had been having an affair with his wife's doctor. Method Man first heard of this while in recording sessions in Los Angeles.

She said me and [the doctor] was f**king [sic]. What kind of s**t is that, man?," he said. "You don’t do that to nobody. You say the f**k you want to say about me, say nothing about my family, man".[78]

In 2014, Williams and two others produced a biopic on the early 2000s R&B artist Aaliyah, entitled Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B. The biopic attracted much controversy as Aaliyah's family neither consented nor authorized the use of Aaliyah's image or her material for the biopic. The film also romanticized the hebephilic relationship and subsequent illegal marriage of the young singer and R. Kelly, who in 2019 was indicted of 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, obstruction of justice, and 18 federal counts, including child pornography, kidnapping and forced labor, as of July 12, 2019. Critical reception to Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B was predominantly negative.[79][80][81][82] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times panned the film, criticizing it as "ham-handed" and "underwhelming" and writing "Condensing the singer's life into such a short space requires a cruel knife and, in this case, a wildly imprecise one. A good film doesn't show its seams. This one — based on Aaliyah: More Than a Woman, a biography by Christopher John Farley — is mostly seams. Much of the acting has dull edges, and the screenplay is aggravatingly stilted."[83] The Wall Street Journal also criticized the film, commenting that the "overuse of the three and four-way split screen montages only enhanced the lack of material."[84] Viewer reaction for the film was similarly extremely negative, and fans mocked the film on social media websites,[85][86] using the hashtags #LifetimeBiopics and #LifetimeBeLike.[87][88][89]

In January and February 2020, Williams was criticized several times over remarks made on her show. In January, while talking about actor Joaquin Phoenix, Williams used her finger to pull up a part of her lip to resemble a cleft palate (a condition which Phoenix has denied having),[90] which many took to believe she was mocking him. Williams apologized on her show.[91] In February, Williams was criticized again for making comments many regarded as homophobic while talking about the fictional holiday "Galentine's Day"; she again apologized, this time in an emotional video posted to her official social channels online.[92][93][94] Shortly thereafter, while talking about the death of Amie Harwick, Williams made a joke referring to Harwick's ex-fiancé Drew Carey and his job on The Price Is Right, saying that show's catchphrase "Come on Down!!" in response to Harwick being thrown off of a balcony.[95] In April 2020, Williams was also criticized after remarks she made saying that Yaya Mayweather, the daughter of Floyd Mayweather, should be arrested for at least eight years for a recent alleged stabbing because "she sent a woman to a hospital for no good reason".[96][97]

Williams has been accused of transphobia. In one episode of her show, after stating that trans woman can never be assigned women, she told her audience, "Stop wearing our skirts and our heels!"[92][98] After explicitly stating that to be a woman, one has to menstruate, she apologized for her remarks.[93]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2004 The Cookout Reporter No. 2
2011 The Cookout 2 Herself
2012 Think Like a Man Gail
2013 World War Z Herself Opening sequence
2014 Think Like a Man Too Gail
2016 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Herself

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1992 Martin Herself Episode: "Radio Days"
1995 New York Undercover WGHT DJ Episode: "You Get No Respect"
2006 The Wendy Williams Experience Herself
2007 Dice: Undisputed 2 episodes
2008–2015 The Insider Herself / Guest co-host 5 episodes
2008–present The Wendy Williams Show Herself / Host
2010–2011 The A-List: New York
2011 One Life to Live Phyllis Rose Episode: "1.10885"
Drop Dead Diva Judge Mary Rudd Episode: "Hit and Run"
Dancing with the Stars Herself / Contestant Season 12; partnered with Tony Dovolani
Braxton Family Values Herself 1 episode
2012 30 Rock Episode: "My Whole Life Is Thunder"
Sesame Street Episode: "The Word of the Day" segment
Tamar & Vince 1 episode
2013–2020 The Dr. Oz Show Herself / Guest co-host 8 episodes
2013–2017 The Chew Herself 5 episodes
2013 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Episode: "Funny Valentine"
Belle's Episode: "Runaway Bride"
The Neighbors Shirley Episode: "The One with Interspecies F-R-I-E-N-D-S"
Good Day L.A. Herself / Guest co-host 3 episodes
2014 Santa Con Pastor Ruth Television film
2014–2020 The View Herself / Guest co-host 9 episodes
2014–2019 Extra With Billy Bush Herself 10 episodes
2015 American Masters 1 episode
Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris Episode: "It's Neil's mum"
2016 Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade Condor Mom Voice only; television special
2017 Nightcap Herself Episode: "Go-Fund Yourself"
Odd Mom Out Episode: "Blood Bath"
Wild 'n Out Team Captain
2019 Surviving R. Kelly 5 episodes
Project Runway All Stars Herself / Guest Judge 1 episode
2020 The Real Housewives of Atlanta Herself 2 episodes
The Masked Singer Lips Eliminated after first appearance
2021 Wendy Williams: What a Mess! Herself Documentary

Bibliography

Non-fiction books
  • Wendy's Got the Heat (2003), coauthored with Karen Hunter[99] Atria; 1st edition (August 5, 2003)
  • The Wendy Williams Experience (2005)[100]
  • Ask Wendy: Straight-Up Advice for All the Drama in Your Life (2013) ISBN 9780062268389

Fiction books
  • Drama Is Her Middle Name: The Ritz Harper Chronicles, Vol. 1 (2006), coauthored with Karen Hunter[101]
  • Is the Bitch Dead, Or What?: The Ritz Harper Chronicles, Book 2 (2007), coauthored with Karen Hunter[102]
  • Ritz Harper Goes to Hollywood! (Ritz Harper Chronicles) (2009), coauthored with Zondra Hughes[103]
  • Hold Me in Contempt: A Romance (2014) ISBN 978-0062268419

Theatre
YearTitleRoleNotes
2013ChicagoMatron "Mama" Morton (Replacement)The Ambassador Theatre

Awards and nominations
  • Radio Personality of the Year awards from Billboard, Black Radio Exclusive, and Radio & Records industry magazines[16][104]
  • National Radio Hall of Fame (named in 2009)[16][105]
  • Hosted the 2013 Soul Train Awards Red Carpet[106]
  • Hosted the 2014 Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas, which aired on November 30, 2014.[107]
  • Nominated for The 42nd & 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment and Outstanding Talk Show Host.[108]
  • Nominated for The 44th & 46th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Talk Show Host.
  • Williams received the 2,677th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 17, 2019.[109][110][111]

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