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After 14 seasons on the air, , “The Wendy Williams Present” is coming to an finish. Wendy Williams is not going to return for the rest of the season, which continues to be in manufacturing. As an alternative, the speak present will proceed to air reside reveals with rotating visitor hosts — who embody Remy Ma, Fats Joe, Kym Whitley, Finesse Mitchell, Carson Kressley, and Vivica A. Fox — all of whom will commerce off their internet hosting duties from March 7 by way of April 1. Sherri Shepherd, who’s changing Williams’s time slot this fall along with her personal speak present titled “Sherri,” will even proceed as a visitor present of the speak present.
“OMG! I’m so excited to have my dream come true and debut my very personal speak present SHERRI within the fall,” Shepherd stated in a press release. “I am unable to wait till I return to NY to host the present and merge every thing I really like . . . popular culture, speak, leisure and comedy. I’m grateful to Debmar-Mercury and FOX for partnering with me on this present and sit up for this new journey.” Many people from Williams’s manufacturing workers, together with her govt producer, will start working for “Sherri,” as each speak reveals hail from Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury.
Following the information, Williams’s rep responded in a press release. “It has been a difficult time for Wendy as she offers along with her well being points,” her spokesman, Howard Bragman, acknowledged. “She is extremely grateful to Debmar-Mercury, to Sherri and everyone else who has supported the present by way of this time. She, greater than anybody, understands the truth of syndicated tv — you may’t go to {the marketplace} and promote a present that is ‘The Possibly Wendy Present.’ She understands why this choice was constituted of a enterprise viewpoint, and she or he has been assured by Debmar-Mercury that ought to her well being get to some extent the place she will host once more and will her want be that she hosts once more that she could be again on TV at the moment.”
Debmar-Mercury copresidents Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein have expressed that the door is open for Williams if and when she’d wish to make a comeback. “All of us have a fantastic love and affinity for Wendy, who grew into a real icon throughout her 12 unimaginable seasons because the solo host of a reside, every day speak present dishing on ‘Sizzling Matters’ and interviewing celebrities,” they stated in a press release. “Since Wendy continues to be not accessible to host the present as she continues on her street to restoration, we consider it’s best for our followers, stations and promoting companions to start out making this transition now. We hope to have the ability to work with Wendy once more sooner or later, and proceed to want her a speedy and full restoration.”
Shortly after their statements, Williams addressed the information herself on her personal Instagram account. “Mr. Bragman though I recognize your issues and respect you immensely I’ve not licensed you to make any statements on my behalf relating to my present standing with Debmar Mercury,” she wrote on Instagram Tales. “Once more thanks to your persevering with concern and help.”
Throughout a current look on “Good Morning America,” Williams hinted at a potential return to daytime TV, saying, “That is what I’d like to say to my Wendy watchers: Maintain watching as a result of I will be again on the Wendy present larger and brighter than ever.”
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