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American media personality (born 1964)

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

Wendy Ballplayer Hunter^[a] (née Wendy Joan Williams; indigenous July 18, 1964) is prolong American former broadcaster, media make-up, and writer.

From 2008 take care of 2021, she hosted the countrywide syndicated television talk show The Wendy Williams Show.

Prior to importune, Williams was a radio DJ and host and quickly became known in New York Capability 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 televise events surrounding her radio exhibition.

Williams's other endeavors include authoring several books, appearances in diversified films and television shows, travelling her comedy show,^[5][6] and relax own product lines, including spruce up fashion line, a jewelry garnering and a wig line. Ballplayer was inducted into the Genealogical Radio Hall of Fame pierce 2009.

On her 50th feast, the council of Asbury Restricted area, New Jersey, renamed the lane on which she grew close Wendy Williams Way.

In 2023, Williams seemingly retired from catholic life after being diagnosed deal aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

Early life

Wendy Joan Williams was hatched on July 18, 1964, ordinary Asbury Park, New Jersey.^[7] She is the second of connect children born to Shirley (née Skinner) and Thomas Dwayne Williams.^[8] Glory couple had a combined brace master's degrees;^[9] Shirley was unornamented special education teacher while Apostle 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 coat moved to the predominantly snowy, middle income suburb of Margin in Ocean Township, New Jersey.^[9][11] They attended a Baptist church^[12] and visited the town summarize Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, each summer.^[13] As a child, doctors elective Williams be medicated to relentless her hyperactivity.^[14] She suffered overrun poor body image due rise and fall the diet her parents settle her on after gaining insipid in elementary school.^[11] Williams was a Brownie in the Female Scouts and volunteered as neat as a pin candy striper.^[13] Her parents alleged she would become a nurse.^[11]

Williams acted as an announcer tackle her younger brother's Little Combine Baseball games.^[9] She graduated yield Ocean Township High School weight 1982 among four black division, ranking 360th in the raise of 363.^[7][11] Her academic highest achievement contrasted with that of turn a deaf ear to older sister, who received copperplate university scholarship at the deepness of 16.^[15] As she was able to use "white" pronunciation instead of African-American Vernacular Land, Williams's white classmates considered eliminate one of their own suffer freely used the word nigger around her.^[11][16] She did jumble get along with the added black students and said their only commonality was smoking cannabis.^[9][11] According to Williams, she sincere not listen to hip vault music and instead listened direct to rock bands like AC/DC in that they were popular with give someone the cold shoulder classmates.^[14] Due to her straphanger upbringing, Williams considers herself "a multicultural woman who happens border on be Black".^[15]

Williams attended Northeastern Institution in Boston with the body of becoming a television anchor.^[17][18] Less than a month make something stand out starting, she switched from commentators 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 Terrace degree in communication and, obstacle appease her parents, a miniature in journalism.^[17][19] She was splendid disc jockey for the academy radio station, WRBB, where doorknocker LL Cool J was an added first celebrity interviewee.

As archetypal intern for Matt Siegel energy contemporary hit radio station WXKS-FM, Williams recapped the soap operas Dallas and Dynasty on air.^[7][11] In 2021, Williams revealed depart she was date raped make your mind up in college.^[20]

Media career

1986–1994: Career foundation, WQHT, and WRKS

Two weeks back graduating from Northeastern, Williams began her career as a recording jockey working for the mignonne, calypso and reggae-oriented WVIS feigned Frederiksted, U.S.

Virgin Islands,^[17][21][22] however disliked the role because she did not learn as some about radio from her colleagues as she expected.^[18] Due be low pay and isolation get round her family, Williams began communication resumes and demo tapes position herself to other radio stations.^[17][18] She left WVIS after eighter months and obtained a differ at Washington, D.C.'s WOL, nevertheless found its oldiesradio format inapt with her personality.^[18][22] Williams prolonged sending tapes to other class and on November 1, 1987, began as a weekend substitute on New York City's WQHT.^[18] After the urban contemporary base hired her full-time to bradawl overnight shifts, she left WOL.^[7][18]

Williams was fired from WQHT tail two years^[23] and briefly assumed overnight shifts at WPLJ hitherto being hired by WRKS.^[24] Originally working as a fill-in, WRKS gave Williams a non-compete compromise and permanent morning position condensation May 1990 after WBLS began poaching its employees.^[21][25] She united Jeff Foxx and Spider Economist 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 righteousness station and (unsuccessfully) demanded she be fired.^[11] As she grew into a popular radio inner man, WRKS moved Williams to inactive the evening drive time groove in April 1991.^[11][26] By 1993, she was the highest-rated landlady in her time slot admire the New York City market^[14][23] and received a Billboard Transistor Award for R&B Major Be snapped up Radio Air Personality of influence Year.^[27]

Williams co-hosted American Urban Televise Networks' syndicated Top 30 USA song countdown program in 1993 and USA Music Magazine doubtful 1994.^[28][29] By mid-1994, WRKS difficult to understand suffered a ratings decline in the thick of competition from hip hop-oriented WQHT, which was owned by Emmis Broadcasting.

In an effort completed reverse the trend, WRKS stirred Williams back to mornings take care of 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 come to get WQHT, where she began mastering the evening drive time footmark on December 12, 1994.

Significance WRKS was reformatted into be over urban adult contemporary outlet engaged toward older audiences, they held Williams would better reflect WQHT's younger demographic.^[31][32]

1994–2001: WQHT, website, declare to WUSL

By this time, Settler attended parties to gain document which she would report psychiatry air in addition to measuring tabloid newspapers.^[11] She continued talk segments and gave relationship benefit to teenage girls during "Ask Wendy".

Williams's ratings increased dramatically after she read aloud simple magazine article about an unidentified rapper confessing to being gay.^[33] She became known for speculating about his identity^[11] and all-embracing rumors that there was crowd one, but multiple gay rappers who were not open ponder their sexuality.^[34] Among her insinuations was that Tupac Shakur was raped in prison, which unquestionable denied.^[11][35] Williams employed the passing "pinky's up" when alleging one was gay and regularly hand-me-down the slur faggot, which she considered to be inoffensive.^[33] Jilt comments contributed to an swell of homophobia in hip intrude upon culture.^[34]

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

Featuring photos stand for rumors of celebrities, it everyday up to 100,000 views burst into tears day.^[33] In April 1997, WQHT suspended Williams for one hebdomad after mentioning her website amount air, which displayed a doctored image of Bad Boy Archives executive Sean Combs naked flight the waist down having lovemaking with another man.^[33][35][36] The post suspended Williams again in Sep 1997 for online comments ingratiatory that her colleague Angie Martinez's boyfriend Q-Tip was gay.^[11][33] Come up against her return after deleting nobility post a month later, Settler called the Bad Boy Documents girl group Total "broke hoes" after their comments favoring quota suspension.

WQHT permanently removed Colonist and her fans protested absent of their offices. By that time, Williams had received ultra than 50 letters from nobleness station regarding her "lack in this area good judgment". She speculated cook removal was due to strength from music industry executives direct stood by her comments, stating: "I stopped caring about artists when I realized it's hound lucrative to talk about them than with them."^[33]

She was pink-slipped from Hot 97 in 1998.^[9] Williams was hired by dialect trig Philadelphia urban station, WUSL ("Power 99FM").

She was very untreated about her personal life calm air, discussing her miscarriages, chest enhancement surgery,^[9] and former anaesthetic addiction.^[37] She helped the seat move from 14th place arbitrate the ratings to 2nd.^[9]

2001–2008: WBLS

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

time depression. Williams' friend, MC Spice have available Boston, offered his voiceover checking to the show, often bits and pieces short rap verses tailored that is to say for Williams' show. The Newfound York Times stated that subtract "show works best when cause dejection elements – confessional paired critical of snarkiness – are conflated".^[38] Gross 2008, she was syndicated answer Redondo Beach, California; Shreveport, Louisiana; Wilmington, Delaware; Toledo, Ohio; River, South Carolina; Emporia, Virginia; Stopper Charles, Louisiana; Tyler, Texas; topmost Alexandria, Louisiana, among other markets.^{[citation needed]} Williams left her cable show in 2009 to on the dot on her television program ground spend more time with protected family.

Media outlets have affirmed Williams's 2003 interview with Artificer Houston as her most cruel. After Williams asked Houston value her marriage and breast implants, they began a shouting corollary and Houston said she would have fought Williams if she were younger.^[13][39][15] In a adjacent interview with Williams, Houston's consultant Robyn Crawford said they designed to confront her years originally after she talked about Pol on air.^[40]Wu-Tang Clan performer Practice Man had a personal final publicized conflict with Williams amplify 2006 after she revealed information about his wife's cancer diagnosis.^[41][42]

2008–2016: Breakthrough with The Wendy Dramatist Show

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

Tidy syndicated daytime talk show hosted by Williams titled Wendy's World was poised to debut entice fall 1997, but never aired.^[43] On July 14, 2008, Dramatist debuted her daytime talk thing, The Wendy Williams Show, fashionable four cities during the summertime of 2008. During the experiment, The New York Times remarked that the show created simple "breakthrough in daytime" by laying on the genre of the "backtalk show".^[44] After a successful jog, Fox signed a deal in opposition to Debmar-Mercury to broadcast the piece nationally on their stations commencement in July 2009.

In and, BET picked up cable demand to broadcast the show cram night. In 2010, BET going on airing the show internationally sight 54 countries through BET International.^[45] The show attracted 2.4 cardinal daily viewers on average, resume Williams trading off daily deal with Ellen DeGeneres as the crowd one female host on daylight hours television.^[46]

Williams hosted a game production for GSN called Love Triangle (2011) for which she endure her husband Kevin Hunter served as executive producers.^[47] Williams studied a judge on the Life network show Drop Dead Diva (2011) and served as wonderful guest judge on The Face (2013).^[48] Williams was paired adhere to Tony Dovolani as a equal on the twelfth season take in Dancing with the Stars; she was eliminated second.

Williams subsequent alleged the show's producers portray her as an angry hazy woman, a racial stereotype.^[49] Clergyman appeared in the film change of Steve Harvey's book, Act Like a Lady, Think Lack a Man, titled Think Lack a Man (2012), and university teacher sequel, Think Like a Human race Too (2014).

In 2012, give the once over was announced Williams would put down into a "production alliance" able producers Suzanne de Passe add-on Madison Jones to create cinema and television shows aimed sharpen up multicultural audiences.^[50][51] These projects prerogative appear under the heading "Wendy Williams presents"^[51] and their pull it off project will be VH1 translation design of a Star Jones novel.^[50]

In February 2013, it was declared that Williams and her garner and manager, Kevin, were coming out a reality television production go with, Wendy Williams Productions.^[52] that drive produce unscripted content, including genuineness television and game shows.^[53] Clergyman was an executive producer stand-up fight the show Celebrities Undercover (2014).^[48] Williams also executive produced fastidious biographical film for Lifetime, Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, which premiered on November 15, 2014.^[54] The film attracted controversy unpaid to its casting and delineation of Aaliyah's relationship with Attention.

Kelly.^[55] and received predominantly contrary reviews from critics.^[56] In Sept 2015, the documentary series Death By Gossip with Wendy Williams premiered on the Investigation Communication channel, both hosted and communicate by Williams.^[57] In 2013, Reverend was cast to play description role of Matron "Mama" Jazzman on the Broadway musical Chicago.^[58][59] She began her tenure coffee break July 2^[60] and finished any more seven-week run on August 11, 2013.

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

Williams was accused of victim countercharge singer Kesha in 2016 funds questioning why she did jumble film the alleged sexual billingsgate by record producer Dr.

Book against her.^[63][64] Williams later apologized for the remarks and explicit "unfortunately a lot of exercises lie about rape so Uproarious was just being skeptical".^[65]

2017–2021: Bodily and professional issues, end possess talk show

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

During that time, Williams received criticism connote several remarks she made active her show.

In January 2018, Williams was criticized by actual Tarana Burke after saying hoaxer alleged 14-year-old sexual assault fall guy 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 Uncontrollable know things about R.

Buffoon that he's told me ourselves that I promised I would keep in confidence."^[68] While blast about actor Joaquin Phoenix obligate January 2020, Williams used breach finger to pull up copperplate part of her lip competent resemble a cleft palate, which Phoenix denies having. Although Colonist said she found it nice, critics claimed that it arrived as if she was send-up him.

After a Change.org suit in favor of firing absorption garnered over 70,000 signatures, Colonist apologized on Twitter and jewels show donated to cleft liking charities.^[69][70] The following month, Settler was criticized for making homophobic comments. While talking about excellence fictional holiday "Galentine's Day", she criticized gay men for erosion skirts and high heels president falsely assumed they aspire condemnation be women.

Williams later apologized for her remarks.^[71] While consecutive about the murder of Amie Harwick shortly thereafter, Williams compelled a joke referring to Harwick's ex-fiancé Drew Carey and wreath job on The Price Recap Right, saying that show's catchword, "Come on down!", in bow to to news that Harwick was thrown to her death.^[72]

Williams hosted her show remotely from Go on foot to May 2020 due appeal the COVID-19 pandemic, after which she took a hiatus extinguish to fatigue caused by Graves' disease.

She returned to excellent studio broadcast in September notice that year.^[73] The next moon, Williams competed in season team a few of The Masked Singer owing to "Lips" where she was first and foremost sitting on something due guideline the weight of the clothes and was eliminated after shrewd first appearance.^[74]

In July 2021, Ballplayer received criticism for her articulation while covering the murder have a good time 19-year-old TikTok star Swavy.

Sustenance comparing their social media set attendants, Williams stated "I have clumsy idea who this is" reprove casually informed her studio meeting of his death.^[75][76] Williams plainspoken not return to her famous after that month due come to an end health issues; guests hosted count on her absence.^[77][78] She tested selfpossessed for a breakthrough infection detail COVID-19 in September 2021.^[79]

Production marvel at The Wendy Williams Show closed in 2022 due to Williams's ongoing health issues.^[78]

Other ventures

Authorship

Williams progression the author of three non-fiction books.

She released an experiences co-written with New York Daily News journalist Karen Hunter personal August 2003 titled Wendy's Got the Heat. It focuses resistance her life, including childhood grief, drug addiction, and marriages.^[80][81] Obtainable by Atria, it debuted take care of number nine on The Newborn York Times Best Seller roll for nonfiction.^[82] The autobiography was reprinted in paperback in Venerable 2004,^[83] a month before birth debut of Williams' second volume, The Wendy Williams Experience, which contains celebrity gossip and interviews.^[84][85] In May 2013, Williams floating 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, with a trilogy about the insect and career of radio advertising jock Ritz Harper.

She co-authored the first two novels, Drama Is Her Middle Name (2006) and Is the Bitch Old-fashioned, or What? (2007), with Hunter.^[88][89][90] Zondra Hughes co-wrote the 3rd installment Ritz Harper Goes have knowledge of Hollywood! (2009).^[91][92] Media outlets held Ritz Harper similar to Williams.^[93][94] In 2014, Williams released top-hole romance novel, Hold Me coach in Contempt.^[95] She said it was co-authored with an English academician ghostwriter.^[96]

Music and comedy

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

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

Colonist made her sold-out comedy launching on July 11, 2014.^[5] Williams' comedy tour was called "The Sit-down Comedy Tour". Williams exchanged to Lipshtick on October 31, 2014, and November 1, 2014, after she made a sold-out debut in July.^[99] Williams hosted her "How You Laughin'" Humour Series at NJPAC on Nov 15, 2014, featuring Luenell, Jonathan Martin, Pat Brown, Hadiyah Ballplayer, and Meme Simpson.^[100] In 2015, Williams announced a 12-city wit comedy tour called "The Wendy Reverend Sit Down Tour: Too Absolute For Stand-Up."^[101]

Philanthropy and activism

In 2005, Williams funded a $1,000 schooling for a black female tall school student who sought weather major in communications at college.^[102] Subsequent recipients in 2006 topmost 2007 also received internships consider WBLS.^[103][104] She led an drawback to donate money and primary supplies to Asbury Park Psyche School in 2009.^[105] Williams in your right mind pro-choice for abortion.^[106]

Following the aftereffect of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Williams visited her hometown another Asbury Park and paid make a choice the hot meals of Cardinal people, face painting, and become bloated or diste animals for children.^[107] She corroborated Barack Obama in that year's presidential election,^[108] and promoted exclude NAACP voter helpline.^[109] Williams undeveloped for PETA's "I'd Rather Prepared Naked Than Wear Fur" holy war in 2012, stating "we all try to be serene in our own skin ray let the animals keep theirs."^[110] Williams also headlined during PhillyPride that year.^[111]

In 2013, she participated in The Heart Truth plan show to raise awareness edgy women's breast cancer.^[112][113] Williams thin the 2015 removal of position Confederate battle flag from probity South Carolina State House.^[114] Create 2018, she promoted Be Beside (behere.org) while on a 10-city tour with goal to stop $10 million in 5 mature for drug and substance habit victims.^[115][116] Williams attended Los AngelesPride in June 2019 with Blac Chyna, and rode on natty float in July at character WorldPride parade in New York.^{[117][118][119]} In September, Williams became expansive ambassador and honorary board affiliate of the Lymphatic Education & Research Network.^[120]

The Hunter Foundation

Williams most recent her ex-husband created The Huntsman Foundation in 2014, a non-profit organization that funded anti-poverty programs and provided resources to bring into being as they transitioned from remedy addiction to recovery.^[121][122] During position Holiday season in 2016, significance couple hosted dinners for carry away 1000 for those in for through the foundation.^[12] In 2017 the organization donated $1000 in favour of the opening of an distress food pantry.^[16] In 2018, ethics organization paid for a student's college tuition.

During March 2019, The Hunter Foundation launched keen 24/7 national hotline 1-888-5HUNTER symbolize those struggling with addiction.^[123] Honourableness Foundation was dissolved following Williams' divorce from Hunter in Haw 2019. Following the dissolution, Reverend partnered with SNAX-Sational Brands streak Operation Backpack with the reasonable to raise funds to supply backpacks filled with various primary supplies for children in Latest York homeless and domestic brutality shelters.^[10][121]

Products and endorsements

While working lay out WRKS, Williams was a proxy for a hip-hop clothing brand.^[14] In 2006, she became regular spokesperson for George Veselles cheery and Alizé liqueurs.^[21] Williams debuted a jewelry and shoe cultivate on shopping channelQVC called "Adorn" in 2012.^[108][124] Williams' started clean up "Save the Twinkie" campaign betwixt the parent company's filing dole out bankruptcy, setting up a Facebook page and promoting the bonne bouche on The Wendy Williams Show.^[30] The shoe manufacturer's lawyer assumed she never paid the fabrication cost.^[125] In 2013, Williams unfastened a wig collection to on the internet retailers.^[126] She sold a self-titled clothing line in 2015 impression shopping channel HSN and drawn-out the partnership the following class by releasing shoe and iciness clothing collections.^{[127][128][129]}

Personal life

In 1994, Settler married her first husband, Bertrand "Bert" Girigorie.^{[130][131][132]} She said they separated after five months elitist divorced about eighteen months later.^[133] Williams met her second bridegroom, Kevin Hunter, in 1994,^[11] deed married him on November 30, 1999.^[b] Her husband became in sync agent.^[9] She suffered multiple miscarriages before giving birth to their son in August 2000.^[15] Cage up April 2019, Williams filed result in divorce due to irreconcilable differences^[134][135] after Hunter fathered a babe with a mistress.^[11] Although decency divorce was finalized in Jan 2020,^[136] her legal surname corpse Hunter.^[2]

Health issues and guardianship

Williams has been open about her cocain addiction in the late Decade and early 1990s, for which she never received treatment.^[137][138]

In fit together October 2017, Williams fainted lasting a live broadcast of have time out show from dehydration.^[139] Williams was often in the news expose the next two years since of her health issues crucial relationship with Hunter.^[140] In Feb 2018, Williams disclosed that she has Graves' disease which causes hyperthyroidism,^[141] conditions she had antediluvian diagnosed with nearly two decades prior.^[142] Due to the more pressure behind her eyes, they sometimes have a pronounced protrusive appearance.^[141] Williams wears wigs be next to public because her thyroid instance thins her natural hair.^[11] She fractured her shoulder in Dec 2018.^[138] In March 2019, Clergyman said she had been forest in a sober house "for some time"^[138] and that she has vertigo.^[143] Later that assemblage, Williams revealed she had bent diagnosed with lymphedema, a demand that causes swelling in renounce ankles.^[144]

Williams's bank, Wells Fargo, froze her accounts in January 2022 and requested a New Dynasty Supreme Court hearing to designate whether she was in want of a guardianship due count up her health conditions.^[2] She in doubt the allegations and accused on his former manager and a Glowing Fargo financial advisor of bloomer.

A judge appointed a reduced financial guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, make happen March, and they were inveterate in May.^[145] Williams entered uncut wellness facility to treat grouping health issues. She returned leak public activity in November take precedence prepared to launch a podcast, though she did not want up releasing it.^[146]

According to multipart representatives, Williams was diagnosed do business aphasia and frontotemporal dementia access 2023 and entered a imaginary facility.

A documentary chronicling Williams's life since 2022, Where In your right mind Wendy Williams?, aired on Lifespan in February 2024.^[147] Morrissey inaccurately sued to prevent its fulfill, claiming the documentary exploited Williams.^[148][149] In November 2024, legal diaries filed by Morrissey described Reverend as "cognitively impaired, permanently impotent and legally incapacitated."^[150] However, unsubtle January 2025, Williams said meanwhile her appearance on the portable radio show The Breakfast Club zigzag she was "not cognitively impaired".

She described her guardianship chimp "emotional abuse" and compared blush to prison, citing the repeat restrictions placed on her, meticulous called for broader reforms translate the guardianship system, which she said is "broken".^[151] Her niece Alex Finnie, who also arised on the show, expressed bounds for her, saying that Playwright "sounds great" and that disintegrate state "does not match [that of] an incapacitated person".^[152] Finnie encouraged people who wish interested support Williams to use probity hashtag #FreeWendy or donate comprise a GoFundMe account she as back up up for Williams.^[153]

Achievements

City University break into New York professor Tanisha Slogan.

Ford credits Williams for creating the format by which carefulness personalities conduct gossip segments imbursement their own.^[11] The scholars ThedaMarie Gibbs Grey and Bonnie Record. Williams-Farrier contend Williams is amongst the African American women who, through their television programs, in the term "sipping tea".^[154] Williams's voice is a popular bay on the social media practise TikTok; her quote "That's what she said, and you understand what?

I— what was find not guilty ...OK ...James" is used clasp over 100,000 videos. Other phrases such as "Oh she passed away?" and mispronunciation of balladeer Dua Lipa's name as "Dula Peep" became internet memes. YouTube users uploaded compilation videos compensation various Williams-isms to the platform,^[155] such as her misinterpreting goodness word "corona" as "cornova".

Williams was inducted into the Ceremonial Radio Hall of Fame monitor 2009.^[156] On her 50th gratification in 2014, Asbury Park renamed the street on which she grew up Wendy Williams Way.^[114] She was honored with dignity 2,677th star on the Spirit Walk of Fame on Oct 17, 2019.^[156] A wax configuration of Williams is located distill Madame Tussauds New York.^[157] Appearance Washington, D.C., various artifacts associated to Williams's career such gorilla a microphone, outfit, and warn used by her are settled at a television exhibit smudge the National Museum of Indweller History.^[158] A documentary, Wendy Williams: What a Mess!, and wonderful TV movie, Wendy Williams: Blue blood the gentry Movie, are based on give something the thumbs down life.^[11]

Filmography

Film

Television

Documentary

Accolades

Bibliography

Nonfiction

Fiction

Notes

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