Wendy Williams
Wendy Joan Williams is an American television host, businesswoman, media personality and author. Williams is the number one female host on daytime television, trading off daily with Ellen DeGeneres. Prior to television, Williams was a radio DJ and host and quickly became known in New York as a “shock jockette”
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Wendy Joan Williams is an American television host, businesswoman, media personality and author. Prior to television, Williams was a radio DJ and host and quickly became known in New York as a “shock jockette” She has written a New York Times best-selling autobiography and six other books, and has created product lines including a fashion line, a jewelry collection and a wig line. The council of Asbury Park, New Jersey renamed the street on which she grew up Wendy Williams Way on her 50th birthday. Williams is the number one female host on daytime television, trading off daily with Ellen DeGeneres. She was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2010, BET picked up the rights to broadcast the show at night. The Wendy Williams Show has been renewed through 2020 through BET, and the show was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Host and the Outstanding Talk Show Awards for 2008 and 2009. The show is syndicated internationally in 54 countries through BET International and has received multiple Emmy nominations at the Emmy Awards. 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. 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 WendyWilliams Show, in four cities during the summer of 2008. After a successful trial run, she signed a deal with Fox to broadcast her show nationally on their stations beginning in July 2009.
Her show attracts 4 million daily viewers onEntertainmentEntertainment.com. She is married to Kevin Hunter, who is also her agent. She has three children and a stepson and two step-grandchildren. Williams was born on July 18, 1964 in Asbury park, New NJ. She graduated from Ocean Township High School, and from 1982 to 1986 she attended Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where she graduated with an Associate of Science degree in communications in 1986 and was a DJ for the college radio station, WRBB. Williams’ friend, MC Spice of Boston, offered his voiceover services to the show, often adding short rap verses tailored specifically for Williams’ show. In 2001, Williams returned to the New York airwaves when WBLS hired her full-time for a syndicated 2–6 p. m. time slot. She helped the station move from 14th place in the ratings to 2nd. She was fired from Hot 97 in 1998. Williams left her radio show in 2009 to focus on her television program and spend more time with her family. In 2011, she was hired by a Philadelphia urban station, WUSL. She was very open about her personal life on air, discussing her miscarriages, breast enhancement surgery, and former drug addiction. She won the Billboard Award for “Best On-Air Radio Personality” in 1993. In 2012, Williams began hosting a daytime show in Redondo Beach, California; Shreveport, Louisiana; Wilmington, Delaware; Toledo, Ohio; Columbia, South Carolina; Emporia, Virginia; Lake Charles, Louisiana and Tyler, Texas; and Alexandria, Louisiana.
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