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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 stay exhibits with rotating visitor hosts — who embrace 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 via April 1. Sherri Shepherd, who’s changing Williams’s time slot this fall together with her personal speak present titled “Sherri,” may 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 mentioned in a press release. “I can not wait till I return to NY to host the present and merge the whole lot I like . . . popular culture, speak, leisure and comedy. I’m grateful to Debmar-Mercury and FOX for partnering with me on this present and stay 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 exhibits 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 together with her well being points,” her spokesman, Howard Bragman, said. “She is extremely grateful to Debmar-Mercury, to Sherri and all people else who has supported the present via this time. She, greater than anybody, understands the fact of syndicated tv — you’ll be able to’t go to {the marketplace} and promote a present that is ‘The Perhaps Wendy Present.’ She understands why this choice was produced from a enterprise viewpoint, and she or he has been assured by Debmar-Mercury that ought to her well being get to a degree the place she will host once more and may 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 an important love and affinity for Wendy, who grew into a real icon throughout her 12 unbelievable seasons because the solo host of a stay, day by day speak present dishing on ‘Scorching Matters’ and interviewing celebrities,” they mentioned in a press release. “Since Wendy continues to be not accessible to host the present as she continues on her highway to restoration, we imagine it’s best for our followers, stations and promoting companions to begin 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 approved you to make any statements on my behalf concerning my present standing with Debmar Mercury,” she wrote on Instagram Tales. “Once more thanks to your persevering with concern and help.”
Throughout a latest look on “Good Morning America,” Williams hinted at a attainable return to daytime TV, saying, “That is what I might like to say to my Wendy watchers: Hold watching as a result of I will be again on the Wendy present larger and brighter than ever.”
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