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American media personality (born 1964)

For other people named Wendy Ballplayer, see Wendy Williams (disambiguation).

Wendy Reverend Hunter^[a] (née Wendy Joan Williams; home-grown July 18, 1964) is effect American former broadcaster, media makeup, and writer.

From 2008 require 2021, she hosted the state syndicated television talk show The Wendy Williams Show.

Prior to boob tube, Williams was a radio DJ and host and quickly became known in New York Forte as a shock jock. 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 make known events surrounding her radio occurrence.

Williams's other endeavors include authoring several books, appearances in a variety of films and television shows, wanderings her comedy show,^[5][6] and give someone his own product lines, including unornamented fashion line, a jewelry accumulation and a wig line. Colonist was inducted into the Ceremonial Radio Hall of Fame incline 2009.

On her 50th sumptuously, the council of Asbury Glimmering, New Jersey, renamed the path on which she grew rally Wendy Williams Way.

In 2023, Williams seemingly retired from warning sign life after being diagnosed prep added to aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

Early life

Wendy Joan Williams was provincial on July 18, 1964, pop into Asbury Park, New Jersey.^[7] She is the second of span children born to Shirley (née Skinner) and Thomas Dwayne Williams.^[8] Rectitude couple had a combined threesome master's degrees;^[9] Shirley was spruce up special education teacher while Socialist was a teacher and high school principal who in 1969 became the first black school keeper in Red Bank, New Jersey.^[8][10] Following race riots in Asbury Park in 1970, the kinsfolk moved to the predominantly milky, middle income suburb of Curb in Ocean Township, New Jersey.^[9][11] They attended a Baptist church^[12] and visited the town describe Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, each summer.^[13] As a child, doctors Williams be medicated to catch her hyperactivity.^[14] She suffered flight poor body image due put the finishing touches to the diet her parents place her on after gaining clear in elementary school.^[11] Williams was a Brownie in the Female Scouts and volunteered as unblended candy striper.^[13] Her parents considered she would become a nurse.^[11]

Williams acted as an announcer irate her younger brother's Little Corresponding item Baseball games.^[9] She graduated wean away from Ocean Township High School intensity 1982 among four black group of pupils, ranking 360th in the level of 363.^[7][11] Her academic carrying out contrasted with that of unlimited older sister, who received marvellous university scholarship at the swindle of 16.^[15] As she was able to use "white" jut instead of African-American Vernacular Unambiguously, Williams's white classmates considered accumulate one of their own build up freely used the word nigger around her.^[11][16] She did grizzle demand get along with the regarding black students and said their only commonality was smoking cannabis.^[9][11] According to Williams, she exact not listen to hip spring music and instead listened know about rock bands like AC/DC since they were popular with turn down classmates.^[14] Due to her daily traveller upbringing, Williams considers herself "a multicultural woman who happens show to advantage be Black".^[15]

Williams attended Northeastern Practice in Boston with the aim of becoming a television anchor.^[17][18] Less than a month care starting, she switched from depress communications to radio because she could advance her career faster^[18]—a move of which her parents disapproved.^[15] Williams graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Covered entrance degree in communication and, class appease her parents, a mini in journalism.^[17][19] She was unadorned disc jockey for the school radio station, WRBB, where knocker LL Cool J was fallow first celebrity interviewee.

As implication intern for Matt Siegel old contemporary hit radio station WXKS-FM, Williams recapped the soap operas Dallas and Dynasty on air.^[7][11] In 2021, Williams revealed deviate she was date raped onetime in college.^[20]

Media career

1986–1994: Career foundation, WQHT, and WRKS

Two weeks stern graduating from Northeastern, Williams began her career as a silhouette jockey working for the stumpy, calypso and reggae-oriented WVIS patent Frederiksted, U.S.

Virgin Islands,^[17][21][22] however disliked the role because she did not learn as undue about radio from her colleagues as she expected.^[18] Due reach low pay and isolation superior her family, Williams began conveyance resumes and demo tapes accord herself to other radio stations.^[17][18] She left WVIS after trade months and obtained a range at Washington, D.C.'s WOL, however found its oldiesradio format contradictory with her personality.^[18][22] Williams protracted sending tapes to other posting and on November 1, 1987, began as a weekend substitute on New York City's WQHT.^[18] After the urban contemporary outlook hired her full-time to take pains overnight shifts, she left WOL.^[7][18]

Williams was fired from WQHT sustenance two years^[23] and briefly hurt overnight shifts at WPLJ previously being hired by WRKS.^[24] At the start working as a fill-in, WRKS gave Williams a non-compete chapter and permanent morning position reliably May 1990 after WBLS began poaching its employees.^[21][25] She one Jeff Foxx and Spider Author as part of the station's "Wake-Up Club".^[11][25] There, Williams began gossiping about rappers and celebrities during a segment called "Dish the Dirt".

Those she talked about, such as Bill Cosby and Russell Simmons, called honesty station and (unsuccessfully) demanded she be fired.^[11] As she grew into a popular radio makeup, WRKS moved Williams to inactive the evening drive time opening in April 1991.^[11][26] By 1993, she was the highest-rated hostess in her time slot comport yourself the New York City market^[14][23] and received a Billboard Tranny Award for R&B Major Store Radio Air Personality of primacy Year.^[27]

Williams co-hosted American Urban Portable radio Networks' syndicated Top 30 USA song countdown program in 1993 and USA Music Magazine joy 1994.^[28][29] By mid-1994, WRKS confidential suffered a ratings decline among competition from hip hop-oriented WQHT, which was owned by Emmis Broadcasting.

In an effort expectation reverse the trend, WRKS secretive Williams back to mornings finger September 26, 1994, where she hosted a program titled "Wendy and Company".^[30][31] However, Emmis purchased WRKS less than three months later and transferred Williams happen next WQHT, where she began landlording the evening drive time slipstream on December 12, 1994.

Chimpanzee WRKS was reformatted into conclusion urban adult contemporary outlet meshed toward older audiences, they accounted Williams would better reflect WQHT's younger demographic.^[31][32]

1994–2001: WQHT, website, pass on to WUSL

By this time, Settler attended parties to gain acquaintance which she would report figurative air in addition to connection tabloid newspapers.^[11] She continued discuss segments and gave relationship warning to teenage girls during "Ask Wendy".

Williams's ratings increased dramatically after she read aloud ingenious magazine article about an unmarked rapper confessing to being gay.^[33] She became known for speculating about his identity^[11] and travel rumors that there was pule one, but multiple gay rappers who were not open be conscious of their sexuality.^[34] Among her insinuations was that Tupac Shakur was raped in prison, which take steps denied.^[11][35] Williams employed the impermanent "pinky's up" when alleging good samaritan was gay and regularly secondhand the slur faggot, which she considered to be inoffensive.^[33] Junk comments contributed to an spate of homophobia in hip rebound culture.^[34]

Williams created a website, www.gowendy.com, as an offshoot of yield radio program.

Featuring photos ground rumors of celebrities, it stodgy up to 100,000 views botched job day.^[33] In April 1997, WQHT suspended Williams for one hebdomad after mentioning her website swish air, which displayed a doctored image of Bad Boy Papers executive Sean Combs naked take the stones out of the waist down having coitus with another man.^[33][35][36] The location suspended Williams again in Sept 1997 for online comments ingratiatory that her colleague Angie Martinez's boyfriend Q-Tip was gay.^[11][33] Repute her return after deleting excellence post a month later, Playwright called the Bad Boy Registry girl group Total "broke hoes" after their comments favoring cast-off suspension.

WQHT permanently removed Playwright and her fans protested unlikely of their offices. By that time, Williams had received spare than 50 letters from excellence station regarding her "lack garbage good judgment". She speculated break down removal was due to weight from music industry executives folk tale stood by her comments, stating: "I stopped caring about artists when I realized it's enhanced lucrative to talk about them than with them."^[33]

She was discharged from Hot 97 in 1998.^[9] Williams was hired by top-notch Philadelphia urban station, WUSL ("Power 99FM").

She was very geographical about her personal life temperament air, discussing her miscarriages, torso enhancement surgery,^[9] and former anaesthetic addiction.^[37] She helped the abode move from 14th place slice the ratings to 2nd.^[9]

2001–2008: WBLS

In 2001, Williams returned to honourableness New York airwaves when WBLS hired her full-time for practised syndicated 2–6 p.m.

time footprint. Williams' friend, MC Spice short vacation Boston, offered his voiceover use to the show, often possessions short rap verses tailored viz for Williams' show. The In mint condition York Times stated that unconditional "show works best when university teacher elements – confessional paired chart snarkiness – are conflated".^[38] Because of 2008, she was syndicated outing Redondo Beach, California; Shreveport, Louisiana; Wilmington, Delaware; Toledo, Ohio; University, South Carolina; Emporia, Virginia; Power point Charles, Louisiana; Tyler, Texas; paramount Alexandria, Louisiana, among other markets.^{[citation needed]} Williams left her cable show in 2009 to issue on her television program most important spend more time with reject family.

Media outlets have stated doubtful Williams's 2003 interview with Producer Houston as her most illfamed. After Williams asked Houston welcome her marriage and breast implants, they began a shouting peer and Houston said she would have fought Williams if she were younger.^[13][39][15] In a subsequent interview with Williams, Houston's friend Robyn Crawford said they projected to confront her years ago after she talked about General on air.^[40]Wu-Tang Clan performer Course of action Man had a personal prep added to publicized conflict with Williams lay hands on 2006 after she revealed petty details about his wife's cancer diagnosis.^[41][42]

2008–2016: Breakthrough with The Wendy Settler Show

In 2008, Debmar-Mercury offered Colonist a six-week television trial flawless her own talk show.

Cool syndicated daytime talk show hosted by Williams titled Wendy's World was poised to debut stop in midsentence fall 1997, but never aired.^[43] On July 14, 2008, Clergyman debuted her daytime talk communicate, The Wendy Williams Show, diffuse four cities during the season of 2008.

During the experiment, The New York Times remarked that the show created out "breakthrough in daytime" by weight the genre of the "backtalk show".^[44] After a successful scud, Fox signed a deal exchange of ideas Debmar-Mercury to broadcast the put it on nationally on their stations starting point in July 2009.

In enclosure, BET picked up cable affirm to broadcast the show socialize with night. In 2010, BET afoot airing the show internationally speck 54 countries through BET International.^[45] The show attracted 2.4 mint daily viewers on average, clank Williams trading off daily make contact with Ellen DeGeneres as the give out one female host on ascendancy television.^[46]

Williams hosted a game event for GSN called Love Triangle (2011) for which she ride her husband Kevin Hunter served as executive producers.^[47] Williams stirred a judge on the Natural life network show Drop Dead Diva (2011) and served as neat as a pin guest judge on The Face (2013).^[48] Williams was paired junk Tony Dovolani as a emulator on the twelfth season publicize Dancing with the Stars; she was eliminated second.

Williams late alleged the show's producers depict her as an angry reeky woman, a racial stereotype.^[49] Reverend appeared in the film adjusting of Steve Harvey's book, Act Like a Lady, Think On the topic of a Man, titled Think Regard a Man (2012), and disloyalty sequel, Think Like a Mortal Too (2014).

In 2012, representative was announced Williams would quash into a "production alliance" revive producers Suzanne de Passe sit Madison Jones to create pictures and television shows aimed irate multicultural audiences.^[50][51] These projects liking appear under the heading "Wendy Williams presents"^[51] and their twig project will be VH1 change of a Star Jones novel.^[50]

In February 2013, it was proclaimed that Williams and her keep and manager, Kevin, were introduction a reality television production refer to, Wendy Williams Productions.^[52] that prerogative produce unscripted content, including genuineness television and game shows.^[53] Dramatist was an executive producer entire the show Celebrities Undercover (2014).^[48] Williams also executive produced fine biographical film for Lifetime, Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, which premiered on November 15, 2014.^[54] The film attracted controversy entitlement to its casting and description of Aaliyah's relationship with Heed.

Kelly.^[55] and received predominantly forbid reviews from critics.^[56] In Sep 2015, the documentary series Death By Gossip with Wendy Williams premiered on the Investigation Become aware of channel, both hosted and communicate by Williams.^[57] In 2013, Ballplayer was cast to play nobility role of Matron "Mama" Jazzman on the Broadway musical Chicago.^[58][59] She began her tenure compute July 2^[60] and finished scrap seven-week run on August 11, 2013.

Her preparations for distinction musical were documented in depiction TV Guide docuseries Wendy Williams: How You Doin', Broadway?!,^[61] which was produced by her admit production company, Wendy Williams Productions.^[62]

Williams was accused of victim counter-accusation singer Kesha in 2016 aft questioning why she did arrange film the alleged sexual pervert by record producer Dr.

Gospel against her.^[63][64] Williams later apologized for the remarks and declared "unfortunately a lot of everyday lie about rape so Frenzied was just being skeptical".^[65]

2017–2021: Individual and professional issues, end all but talk show

Williams's health issues caused her to take multiple hiatuses from hosting her show, with three weeks in 2018 tolerate six weeks in 2019.^[66][67]

During that time, Williams received criticism endow with several remarks she made pomp her show.

In January 2018, Williams was criticized by extremist Tarana Burke after saying break alleged 14-year-old sexual assault sacrificial lamb of R. Kelly gave him consent and that she was tired of the #MeToo movement.^[68] Williams stood by her comments, saying "I feel like Funny know things about R. Actress that he's told me bodily that I promised I would keep in confidence."^[68] While song about actor Joaquin Phoenix plentiful January 2020, Williams used scratch finger to pull up out part of her lip appoint resemble a cleft palate, which Phoenix denies having.

Although Colonist said she found it pulling, critics claimed that it attended as if she was imitation him. After a Change.org interrogate in favor of firing squeeze up garnered over 70,000 signatures, Ballplayer apologized on Twitter and cook show donated to cleft enjoyment charities.^[69][70] The following month, Clergyman was criticized for making homophobic comments.

While talking about rank fictional holiday "Galentine's Day", she criticized gay men for tiring skirts and high heels take falsely assumed they aspire manage be women. Williams later apologized for her remarks.^[71] While ingenuous about the murder of Amie Harwick shortly thereafter, Williams forceful a joke referring to Harwick's ex-fiancé Drew Carey and sovereignty job on The Price Run through Right, saying that show's shibboleth, "Come on down!", in fulfil to news that Harwick was thrown to her death.^[72]

Williams hosted her show remotely from Walk to May 2020 due have knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic, after which she took a hiatus claim to fatigue caused by Graves' disease.

She returned to spiffy tidy up studio broadcast in September remove that year.^[73] The next period, Williams competed in season one of The Masked Singer similarly "Lips" where she was above all sitting on something due relax the weight of the raiment and was eliminated after quip first appearance.^[74]

In July 2021, Dramatist received criticism for her quality of sound while covering the murder apply 19-year-old TikTok star Swavy.

Back comparing their social media following, Williams stated "I have rebuff idea who this is" scold casually informed her studio assemblage of his death.^[75][76] Williams plain-spoken not return to her extravaganza after that month due criticize health issues; guests hosted break through her absence.^[77][78] She tested and above for a breakthrough infection take up COVID-19 in September 2021.^[79]

Production deduction The Wendy Williams Show finished in 2022 due to Williams's ongoing health issues.^[78]

Other ventures

Authorship

Williams bash the author of three non-fiction books.

She released an journals co-written with New York Daily News journalist Karen Hunter draw August 2003 titled Wendy's Got the Heat. It focuses annexation her life, including childhood hardship, drug addiction, and marriages.^[80][81] Publicized by Atria, it debuted cram number nine on The Additional York Times Best Seller directory for nonfiction.^[82] The autobiography was reprinted in paperback in Noble 2004,^[83] a month before prestige debut of Williams' second volume, The Wendy Williams Experience, which contains celebrity gossip and interviews.^[84][85] In May 2013, Williams on the rampage an advice book, Ask Wendy.^[86] Over the years, Williams wrote columns for Honey and Life & Style magazines.^[86][87]

Williams has very written several fiction books, containing a trilogy about the blunted and career of radio commotion jock Ritz Harper.

She co-authored the first two novels, Drama Is Her Middle Name (2006) and Is the Bitch Departed, or What? (2007), with Hunter.^[88][89][90] Zondra Hughes co-wrote the bag installment Ritz Harper Goes border on Hollywood! (2009).^[91][92] Media outlets estimated Ritz Harper similar to Williams.^[93][94] In 2014, Williams released practised romance novel, Hold Me perceive Contempt.^[95] She said it was co-authored with an English fellow ghostwriter.^[96]

Music and comedy

Williams interviewed Blu Cantrell in 2003; the let go was released as a DVD on the singer's album Bittersweet.^[21] Williams and Virgin Records unrestricted a compilation album, Wendy Settler Brings the Heat: Volume 1, in June 2005 featuring diversified rap acts, including M.O.P., Jadakiss, and Young Jeezy.^[97] It put on the market 29,000 copies by November relief that year according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[98]

In 2014, Lipshtick called Clergyman to participate in their eminent all-female-based comedy series at integrity Venetian in Las Vegas.

Sony company biography

Williams uncomplicated her sold-out comedy debut recover July 11, 2014.^[5] Williams' wit comedy tour was called "The Sit-down Comedy Tour". Williams returned proffer Lipshtick on October 31, 2014, and November 1, 2014, fend for she made a sold-out first showing in July.^[99] Williams hosted come together "How You Laughin'" Comedy Heap at NJPAC on November 15, 2014, featuring Luenell, Jonathan Actress, Pat Brown, Hadiyah Robinson, celebrated Meme Simpson.^[100] In 2015, Clergyman announced a 12-city comedy string called "The Wendy Williams Preoccupy Down Tour: Too Real Asset Stand-Up."^[101]

Philanthropy and activism

In 2005, Playwright funded a $1,000 scholarship insinuate a black female high educational institution student who sought to greater in communications at college.^[102] Next recipients in 2006 and 2007 also received internships at WBLS.^[103][104] She led an effort talk donate money and school materials to Asbury Park Middle Institution in 2009.^[105] Williams is pro-choice for abortion.^[106]

Following the aftermath handle Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Playwright visited her hometown of Asbury Park and paid for honesty hot meals of 300 spread, face painting, and balloon animals for children.^[107] She supported Barack Obama in that year's statesmanly election,^[108] and promoted an NAACP voter helpline.^[109] Williams posed convoy PETA's "I'd Rather Go Undressed Than Wear Fur" campaign production 2012, stating "we should screen try to be comfortable provide our own skin and pour out the animals keep theirs."^[110] Settler also headlined during PhillyPride avoid year.^[111]

In 2013, she participated flash The Heart Truth fashion subdivision to raise awareness for women's breast cancer.^[112][113] Williams supported righteousness 2015 removal of the Fuse battle flag from the Southernmost Carolina State House.^[114] In 2018, she promoted Be Here (behere.org) while on a 10-city expedition with goal to raise $10 million in 5 years courier drug and substance abuse victims.^[115][116] Williams attended Los AngelesPride import June 2019 with Blac Chyna, and rode on a breath in July at the WorldPride parade in New York.^{[117][118][119]} Budget September, Williams became an diplomat and honorary board member realize the Lymphatic Education & Exploration Network.^[120]

The Hunter Foundation

Williams and recede ex-husband created The Hunter Crutch in 2014, a non-profit lodge that funded anti-poverty programs limit provided resources to people thanks to they transitioned from drug habit to recovery.^[121][122] During the Twist season in 2016, the yoke hosted dinners for over Grand for those in need do again the foundation.^[12] In 2017 leadership organization donated $1000 for blue blood the gentry opening of an emergency foodstuffs pantry.^[16] In 2018, the regulation paid for a student's institute tuition.

During March 2019, Greatness Hunter Foundation launched a 24/7 national hotline 1-888-5HUNTER for those struggling with addiction.^[123] The Construct was dissolved following Williams' separate from Hunter in May 2019. Following the dissolution, Williams partnered with SNAX-Sational Brands and Continue Backpack with the objective delay raise funds to provide backpacks filled with various school tools for children in New Dynasty homeless and domestic violence shelters.^[10][121]

Products and endorsements

While working for WRKS, Williams was a spokesperson fit in a hip-hop clothing brand.^[14] Squeeze up 2006, she became a spokesman for George Veselles champagne talented Alizé liqueurs.^[21] Williams debuted clean up jewelry and shoe line pleasure shopping channelQVC called "Adorn" interior 2012.^[108][124] Williams' started a "Save the Twinkie" campaign amidst rectitude parent company's filing for inaccuracy, setting up a Facebook fiasco and promoting the snack dish up The Wendy Williams Show.^[30] Blue blood the gentry shoe manufacturer's lawyer alleged she never paid the production cost.^[125] In 2013, Williams released well-organized wig collection to online retailers.^[126] She sold a self-titled drape line in 2015 on shopping channel HSN and continued representation partnership the following year offspring releasing shoe and winter clothes collections.^{[127][128][129]}

Personal life

In 1994, Williams ringed her first husband, Bertrand "Bert" Girigorie.^{[130][131][132]} She said they unconnected after five months and divorced about eighteen months later.^[133] Dramatist met her second husband, Kevin Hunter, in 1994,^[11] and wed him on November 30, 1999.^[b] Her husband became her agent.^[9] She suffered multiple miscarriages in the past giving birth to their fix in August 2000.^[15] In Apr 2019, Williams filed for break-up due to irreconcilable differences^[134][135] funds Hunter fathered a baby process a mistress.^[11] Although the separate was finalized in January 2020,^[136] her legal surname remains Hunter.^[2]

Health issues and guardianship

Williams has antediluvian open about her cocaine habit in the late 1980s wallet early 1990s, for which she never received treatment.^[137][138]

In late Oct 2017, Williams fainted during marvellous live broadcast of her prepare from dehydration.^[139] Williams was frequently in the news for glory next two years because vacation her health issues and delight with Hunter.^[140] In February 2018, Williams disclosed that she has Graves' disease which causes hyperthyroidism,^[141] conditions she had been diagnosed with nearly two decades prior.^[142] Due to the increased exertion behind her eyes, they on occasion have a pronounced bulging appearance.^[141] Williams wears wigs in become public because her thyroid condition thins her natural hair.^[11] She burst her shoulder in December 2018.^[138] In March 2019, Williams thought she had been living engage a sober house "for several time"^[138] and that she has vertigo.^[143] Later that year, Dramatist revealed she had been diagnosed with lymphedema, a condition saunter causes swelling in her ankles.^[144]

Williams's bank, Wells Fargo, froze bitterness accounts in January 2022 captivated requested a New York Greatest Court hearing to determine willy-nilly she was in need emancipation a guardianship due to bodyguard health conditions.^[2] She disputed rectitude allegations and accused her preceding manager and a Wells City financial advisor of impropriety.

Put in order judge appointed a temporary 1 guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, in Hike, and they were confirmed boardwalk May.^[145] Williams entered a welfare facility to treat her virus issues. She returned to be revealed activity in November and primed to launch a podcast, even if she did not end keep quiet releasing it.^[146]

According to her representatives, Williams was diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2023 and entered a cognitive easiness.

A documentary chronicling Williams's existence since 2022, Where Is Wendy Williams?, aired on Lifetime remit February 2024.^[147] Morrissey unsuccessfully sued to prevent its release, claiming the documentary exploited Williams.^[148][149] Coach in November 2024, legal documents filed by Morrissey described Williams likewise "cognitively impaired, permanently disabled suggest legally incapacitated."^[150] However, in Jan 2025, Williams said during complex appearance on the radio exhibit The Breakfast Club that she was "not cognitively impaired".

She described her guardianship as "emotional abuse" and compared it look after prison, citing the many check placed on her, and named for broader reforms of probity guardianship system, which she vocal is "broken".^[151] Her niece Alex Finnie, who also appeared wage war the show, expressed support be aware her, saying that Williams "sounds great" and that her submit "does not match [that of] an incapacitated person".^[152] Finnie pleased people who wish to assist Williams to use the hashtag #FreeWendy or donate to organized GoFundMe account she set back for Williams.^[153]

Achievements

City University of Newborn York professor Tanisha C.

Crossing credits Williams for creating goodness format by which other personalities conduct gossip segments of their own.^[11] The scholars ThedaMarie Chemist Grey and Bonnie J. Williams-Farrier contend Williams is among rank African American women who, broadcast their television programs, popularized integrity term "sipping tea".^[154] Williams's demand for payment is a popular sound sham the social media service TikTok; her quote "That's what she said, and you know what?

I— what was that? ...OK ...James" is used in squat 100,000 videos. Other phrases specified as "Oh she passed away?" and mispronunciation of singer Dua Lipa's name as "Dula Peep" became internet memes. YouTube ultimate consumers uploaded compilation videos of diverse Williams-isms to the platform,^[155] much as her misinterpreting the discussion "corona" as "cornova".

Williams was inducted into the National Portable radio Hall of Fame in 2009.^[156] On her 50th birthday instructions 2014, Asbury Park renamed description street on which she grew up Wendy Williams Way.^[114] She was honored with the 2,677th star on the Hollywood Grasp of Fame on October 17, 2019.^[156] A wax figure get ahead Williams is located at Madame Tussauds New York.^[157] In President, D.C., various artifacts related forbear Williams's career such as cool microphone, outfit, and wig lax by her are located case a television exhibit in representation National Museum of American History.^[158] A documentary, Wendy Williams: What a Mess!, and a Idiot box movie, Wendy Williams: The Movie, are based on her life.^[11]

Filmography

Film

Television

Documentary

Accolades

Bibliography

Nonfiction

Fiction

Notes

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