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When all of this Wendy Drama began, It felt to me like we had seen the last of Wendy on The Wendy Williams Show and that seems to be what is about to happen. Then she took another week off. After that, she extended her “recovery time” once again. Then this week production booked hosts for the show even further out, through February 15th. First they announced three days of Nick Cannon and then a day later they shared new hosts for and other week and a half.
Nick Cannon will host for three days from February 4-6, Jason Biggs will host on February 7th, Keke Palmer takes the reins on February 8th. The following week begins with Sherri Shepherd on February 11th and 12th, The DOUCHEBAG who shall not be named stinks up the joint on February 13th, and Jerry O’Connell finishes off the week on February and 14th and 15th.
She’s a Catastrophe!
I have no doubt she is not coming back. But my sources are now agreeing with me. Despite production’s uber supportive words when announcing Wendy’s absence, their patience has run out. Exclusive Tamara Tattles sources are describing the situation with Wendy as “a catastrophe.” Both the production and distribution company Debmar-Mercury (Lionsgate) are at their breaking point. They are discussing taking the show off life support and pronouncing the show dead.
The show is picked-up by affiliates until 2019-20. However, Wendy’s absence is doing serious financial damage to the affiliate markets. Fox owned affiliates are being hit the hardest because they own the major market stations including NYC and Los Angeles. To say everyone is pissed is an understatement at this point.
Production Considers Pulling The Plug
Lionsgate, the company that distributes the show, is facing disastrous financial damage. Nielsen Sweeps weeks begin this week. They could not come at a worse time for The Wendy Williams Show. This will have a huge impact on ad revenue that is used to pay Wendy, production, affiliate stations and Lionsgate.
Who is the douchebag
Andy Cohen?
HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED!
LMAOOOO for once I know who we’re talking about……
I’m guessing it’s that blond guy who played Phoebe’s cop boyfriend on Friends.
He’s a misogynistic prick.
Sorry Tamara, got it.
Ditto!
Well the couple pic’s showing Wendy surfacing in Fla., with her college bestie Regina was good to see in that she’s still functioning at some level, w/a good long-time friend she can trust & w/her parents nearby, but Wendy looks distraught, inconsolable. I pray Wendy finds the strength within to rise like a Phoenix!
You called it Tamara!
Hate this for her. If she’s in South Florida, she’s laying low.
Even though leaving her show would devastate her; she has to do what is and will be the best for her. Wendy has been through so much; she has put out so much energy and didn’t fill her own needs. You can only exsist so long in this manner.
Enjoy your friend, family, and Florida. It may not seem as though now but things will get better. She doesn’t owe or have to prove anything to anyone except herself. God Bless!
This is really sad. Wendy has always been in denial about her husband’s many disgusting proclivities – at least publicly. Kevin Hunter Sr. seems like a thuggish prick, who’d have no career without his wife’s success. It was in the local NY/NJ news that he had the gall to buy an $800k house for his mistress fairly recently – within miles of the North Jersey home he shares with Wendy. I hope for her sake she had a pre-nup; it seems she’s been financially supporting the girlfriends throughout the marriage! Wishing her strength to pull through this!?
Actually, he bought that house a while back. Once Daily Mail found it, he put it on the market. They have moved somewhere else.
And we weren’t going to mention HIM.
This is terrible news! Wendy needs to take care of herself and I’m glad she has Reggie’s and her parent’s support.
When you give and give of yourself, sometimes you need to step back and recharge. I hope Wendy finds peace of mind and healing.
Got to hand it to you Tamara. You said it and I had some doubt, but now I can see the writing on the wall. The fact that she was seen out in Florida shows she is not in hospital or rehab so she could be on show. Kevin is a producer on show yes? Seems staying the hell away from him could be a motivator?
So sad about this, I really enjoyed her show and was happy when she called out certain ones. I liked that she didn’t seem to bow down to the Kardashians. I hope she has a really good attorney that can get her extracted from that rotten husband of hers. She deserves better. To lose her show and her home as she wanted it is a lot to handle.
Hope she comes back even better in the future.
We must live in a awful country if the star of her own talk show cannot take off for two months without getting fired. It’s no wonder as to why we do not have maternity leave in this so called “greatest country in the world”.
Yeah, see when you have a live show that you host for a season and have several months a year off. You don’t get to take two months off. Jussie Smollett was lynched in the middle of his season and he was back on set in two days and meeting his live concert commitments. Taraji P Henson can’t take two months off during filming her show.
Jimmy Kimmel took ONE WEEK Off when his seven month old child had a very serious heart surgery during his live season. You can’t just take two months during sweeps and expect to still have a show. And now nearly a hundred people will be unemployed.
The people who will be w/o jobs is who I feel for. I mean, yes, I feel bad for any woman dealing w/a cheating spouse. It sounds like things have been bad for awhile. I watch the show. Wendy would ordinarily be the first one to explain adulting to someone. I’m sure she’s hurting right now, but her fans would love her for it if she would be honest, up to a point, some things are no one’s business, and explain that her life isn’t perfect either.
That will never happen.
I have a pretty good idea what happened though. I think she and Kevin had a three way with the mistress and it briefly turned into a throuple and then Wendy didn’t care for that so he just kept seeing her on the side.
As a frequent Wendy Watcher, I know that she has been asked during ask Wendy if she thinks it is okay for an audience member to have a threeway with her husband. She said yes, but if AND ONLY IF you do it in vacation in a foreign country where you never see the person again. I could tell by the way she said that she and Kevin had done it and the woman was still at the very least someone they ran into here and now. Now I think their third became Kevin’s mistress because Wendy had already given her permission to have sex with her. That relationship continued to deepen and eventually Kevin was going back and forth between the two households. Supposedly that last part has been going on for at least the last two or three years.
I bet you are SO right! I saw an episode one day where she did say that it was ok if you were on vacation & wouldn’t see them again. Wow! You’re perceptive. I hadn’t thought about that.
The Wendy Williams Show is not a one-woman show. There are hundreds of people tied to this project, and her messy life is the reason they are about to be unemployed. I have the most compassion for Wendy, but let’s not pretend like her life is the only one in absolutely turmoil right now.
When I saw her photo on another site my heart went out. She looked a wreck and I totally get it. It looks like her shoulder is now heeled. I really hope that she gets a divorce and moves on. Nobody deserves public humiliation. My heart goes out to her crew, hopefully they will all land on their feet.
I had the feeling that the network was not going to wait around. Any news on The Hunter Foundation? I’m sure Wendy’s husband has drained all the money out of the foudation by now. If Wendy goes, he’s out of a job.
It’s hard knowing her dedicated staff will be w/out a job but sure many will land on their feet! GOOD part though is HE will be out of a job. And before Wendy got so big nobody even knew who HE was. HIS money is from her, she made it. Hope she has great attorney who can untangle their financial affairs and she will be free of him. Their son is off to college but this undoubtedly hurts when he hears all that’s being said and feels protective of both his parents. Healing vibes sent their way.
This woman was living her dream. She loved that show. Annoying as she was at times, she was good at what she did, as evidenced. I really hope she can recover from the madness and her health issues.
She was good at it up until the last year or so. Then she struggled to complete a sentence and often seemed to get confused. I blamed menopause because I do similar things here. But it seems in retrospect that she was self medicating and she stopped eating a couple years back and only recently started eating again.
Looks like they are basically doing host “auditions” for the show…I feel bad for Wendy but you can’t allow trash to come into your marriage in the first place then expect it not to stink up and rot up everything around it.
I agree with TT, I’ve heard Wendy too say that about threesomes to which I was shocked. But Wendy has had and will always have a toxic relationship with Kevin because it seems he only wanted her for the money. It def was not for love because no woman in their right mind would allow a 3rd party be intimate with their man unless she was totally insecure with the relationship in the 1st place.
I pray Wendy finds TRUE peace and healing from the Lord.
I will never understand successful independent women like Wendy. It seems that her husband runs her life and businness. It seems that he has all the control. Sad to know that women like her let men ruin their lives?
How sad. I’ve been a long-long-long-time watcher & fan, and I will miss her show. Though I often disagree with her, she’s still a friend in my head. I wish the best for Wendy.
Wendy has always said she only deals with a few people in her life, she doesn’t do the “celebrity” lifestyle. The people around her have remained loyal to her. Only vague rumers floating around and nobody selling stories about her. She is good at what she does, it has took years to build her successful show. She has done some things right in her life.It makes me sad that whatever is happening in her personal life is bleeding into her professional life. She loves doing her show, she is bigger than her dreams. I’m sorry girl…
I will miss you, no one can replace you. “How you doin” I wish you well Wendy Williams, I wish you Peace…..
I am a fan of hers from way back. From watching the WW experience with Charlemagne and I will really miss the show. But it seems like she is either really struggling with some substance issue, and/ or just can’t come back and face the music because someone will get a picture of the mistress pregnant, etc and she’ll have to address it at some point or keep lying. From the statement that they issued and what we hear about lawyers’ letters, she is clearly choosing to act like nothing is wrong in the marriage and so go out that way too. I don’t think either of them are angels. If I remember the allegations from that talent broker who sued for sexual harassment against him, I think they alleged that a male employee said he felt pressure to sleep with her as well. I think that the freak meter at the Hunter household is very high, which is their business as long as everyone is in agreement. Remember when she, I think this year, said she was going to a strip club for her birthday? Not his, HER bday. It’s just pretty incredible to think that she still has so many years left of a career and so much money is on the table, it’s just unbelievable that this is happening. I think fans would forgive her if she came clean. Not everyone, but most. Wow. I think Sherry will be good but there’s only one Wendy to do that format and be so entertaining. To me anyway.
I like Sherri, but she has her own dirty laundry.
Yes, very true. She does.
I think the rumors of physical abuse are true. Wendy not coming clean and rising above it to her fans are the death of the show.
The issues with her husband aren’t her fault, but the possibility of losing her show is truly on her. Her choice has been to run and hide, rather than continue working. If she’s okay with losing the show, that’s fine. If it would hurt her to lose it, she needs to reevaluate her plan.
I’ve been through some bad shit, but I didn’t just stop working and dedicate my days to wallowing in my despair. I pushed and continued living so I wouldn’t lose what was important to me despite my circumstances.
I’m not trying to be mean. It pains me to see people do this because in the end, the initial tragedy will still have occurred, but there will also be several more issues due to how the tragedy was handled. That’s what running and hiding does.
While she has my sympathy for the trouble she’s having in her marriage, she does not for walking away from her obligations and from those who need their income from the work they do on her show. I hope she returns and at least finishes her obligations through the end of her show this year for both herself and her staff. I hope she doesn’t come out the other side regretting what she’s done.
I think it’s really out of her hands. It’s either drugs or she had a complete nervous breakdown over her husband. Sometimes people just snap and it takes a while for them to heal. She hasn’t been right in a long time, so this has been a long time coming. I think she was trying to hold it together, but she just couldn’t function anymore. I saw a picture of her with her son. He’s getting more and more handsome. Anyway, he was holding her up while they were walking and she looked like a zombie. How can a zombie like person host a show?
I really wish this wasn’t happening. I’ve been watching her from the beginning. I miss her and hope whatever is going on with her, she deals with it and heals.
Maybe it’s time for her to take a break. I’m sure she can get another show in a year or two. It might not hurt to let it go now while she’s struggling, she certainly is well off enough financially and she won’t have to pay her deadbeat husband alimony if she divorces unemployed.
Love Wendy, but felt like the past year it has been a struggle to keep watching her. Am I the only one that has noticed how she has spent much of her first 15 min of show talking about herself and giggles trying to get audience to laugh, at nothing? It just seemed like she was trying to stall so much of the time rather than give us some celebrity gossip, or she’d spend the whole time talking only about 2 stories and really not be saying anything, just repeating herself. Personally I love Carson being on the panel of guests. They all are giving us some news, like pushing info out there for us.
I pray for Wendy to find inner peace and her own resolve. Being with family and her bestie is wonderful. They will be there for her. I hope she and Kevin Jr have had the time to have good conversation as well in preparation for what would eventually come one day. Wendy is a survivor, she has always preached that to us.
I am so sad to read this update. This story went from juicy to just downright sad. I hope Wendy stays down there in Florida and lives her best life.
The only issue with their divorce is that they know where all the bodies are hidden. If you think it’s ugly now, I expect it to get even uglier later…
I feel deeply saddened for anyone going through chemical dependency or anyone going through a divorce. However, when 200 people depend on you for their livelihood, there is an accountability factor. I feel that perhaps Wendy was self-medicating to try to hold it together and that it got the best of her. I feel bad about her marital problems, but then again, part of her livelihood and fame was to poke the stick at others having romantic problems. Many of us have had to continue working through our strife and depression and broken hearts. OK, most of us are not in the public eye, and I hate to judge, but Debbie Reynolds and Jennifer Aniston were. Wendy COULD be in rehab, some places give you a day pass after two weeks. Pee test upon return.
The more I think about it, I think that it’s, as others have said, a combo. I don’t know what the signs of Adderall/coke are, but it sure seems very suspect that someone who has said that she’s been heavy since childhood at a great source of pain for herself, suddenly loses a great deal of weight after 50, when all of us struggle to keep pounds off. She has previously talked about when she was addicted to Coke or whatever, she said she was a functioning addict who went to work every day and that it spanned a good 11 years or so. So I think it’s a combo of that plus some sort of mental health component. I’m thinking Kelly Bensimon and scary island meets Mariah pushing the ice cream cart. And the nervous breakdown component would explain her just needing to chill out for a very long period of time in combination with, if she’s been abusing substances for years now to lose that weight etc., it’s going to take a long time. I also think that she has been pushing herself work wise to the brink. The show, the clothes line, and the older you get, the harder that is. You then add in that she doesn’t want to face the music because it Has to be so difficult to be a person who never missed work to walking away from a show making her and other people a lot of money. I’m going with D- all of the above.
I forgot to say as part of all of the above, I think the fact that all the secrets are being brought out to the forefront is also too much for her. The streets have been talking for years, we can all remember Kandi on WWHL , the lawsuit, & Evelyn tweeting and on and on, all talking about him. But now it’s all more widely reported and the receipts have been shown that the Say It Like You Mean It woman actually only does for everyone else, but not for herself. Like in the Wizard of Oz, the woman behind the curtain. It’s been revealed and that in combo with everything made the wheels come off plus her not wanting to come clean about all of it. She can’t lecture others from the purple chair each day with that whole mess going on in her glass house that everyone now knows. I hope she gets it together and comes back, but I just don’t see a production company ever signing with her again in light of this meltdown. But maybe, if she comes clean, everyone loves a comeback. I’d be there for it.
I need Wendy to pull herself together and take her own advice! She is still “juicy” as she says to women of a certain age who take care of themselves and are still vibrant. Shake off that bad dude and start the fuck over with a good therapist and your support system on standby.
Come on, Wendy! Hot Topics have gotten my ass through many a dark time….Light hearted daily messiness breaks up the day.
Whether it comes back or not, I hope she is in a better space of mind.
What I hate is everybody saying she needs rehabilitation when there is no proof of resent cocaine use or pharmaceuticals. Just speculations from anonymous sources around her.Yes she lost a lot of weight but remember she went ultra vegan (can’t remember the name of the lifestyle) for at least a year after her son had that drug issue. Hard to believe she would go back to drugs after he scared her like that. Her husband has a lot to do with her behavior. His abandonment probably has knocked her off her game and she’s embarrassed as she talked so much shit about everybody’s husband’s bad behavior. She always said just pay him and move on to the next. She’s having a hard time because of her purple chair advice. She is still denying any of this is true so I guess we’ll see if she is the woman she said she was or if it was all bravado.
Yes I know she had a crack/cocaine problem in the past but that doesn’t mean she’s at it again. I think she should come forward and tell what’s happening. .She can really help others who are struggling with demons of abuse whether physical, emotional or pharmaceuticals.. A true Ask Wendy. With today’s news cycle she’ll be yesterday’s news once she comes clean!
She’s known for “Saying it like I mean it, #POW #POW”. She’s kinda been ‘Don’t do as I do, do as I say’.
Now she needs to be real at least with herself and “Do it like she means it, pow pow”. It’d certainly be better for her mentally, and we could respect that. She’s human like everybody else. WHO she’s married to? Poof, be gone. Next!
I really like Wendy and this makes me sad for her. I really think she’s afraid to come back…maybe there is not guaranteeing her safety on set from her husband…..I really hope she comes back and makes a clean break from this man.
I’m sad for Wendy. Why won’t they force her husband to leave? Why is he still an executive producer on her show? I really hope she is able to make it back.
Sorry for the double post.
Wendy’s very own “insider” is talking and now there are stories that “there is NO TRUTH to the rumor that Wendy and her husband are splitting up.”
They go on to say that they’ve been married for a long time, that they’ve weathered other storms together and the current situation is no different.
The timing sure seems interesting…
Sherri is as dumb as a box of rocks… that alone will kill off the show. WW’s life has been a shit show since she caught him cheating on her the first time around. By “working it out” she gave him the ok to continue. I believe he abuses her and everyone around them in one way or another. He keeps her very isolated… allowing her limited friend(s). He needs to keep his cash cow close. It’s real shame she has now taught her son that it’s ok to treat women like shit. She made her bed…. and allowed a man to rule her world and take her money to support his side ho’s… it’s a shame. She’s a “strong woman” on T.V. and completely pathetic off camera.
It is so damaging to refer to the abused as ‘pathetic’ – do you not realize that this derogatory tone is what an abused person hears consistently from the abuser. They are CONDITIONED to think this so the abuser can stay in CONTROL. If you are led to believe you are pathetic- the will to change anything about the situation is not there. Please research domestic violence. Abused people are STRONG.
One BIG positive to come out of this is that the abusive blood sucker and his co-dependent blood suckers will all be swiftly cut off without Wendy having to handle it in court…maybe that’s her goal at this point bc she is smart enough to know rebuilding herself after all this can’t be done in front of the camera…it’s not a safe place for her. Sending her lots of love and prayers bc no one deserves this. #IkeAndTina
I’ve always thought it was weird how she said she wasn’t friends with anyone. Like she’d never go to anyone’s house or have anyone over ()Suzanne). That she keeps her 2-3 old friends and doesn’t want them to be friends with anyone else and she doesn’t need new friends? (I guess we know why now. Too many secrets. I was embarrassed for Suzanne when Wendy was saying this!
Would you leave a show rather than split it with Kevin??? I think she’d get picked back up, she always does!
How embarrassing- but No excuse to leave work!
The #1 tactic of abusers besides being controlling, is isolation. I too remember when Wendy told Suzanne she’d never be invited over to her house & asked, no told her, you know that right? Very awkward & why tell Suzanne that on the air??