Irrespective of how she slices it, Wendy Williams isn’t returning to her eponymous discuss present this fall.
The TV host stays emphatic that she’ll be again in her purple chair in September — but it surely’s “logistically inconceivable,” in response to a number of insiders.
For starters, TV professionals level out, the manufacturing firm, Debmar-Mercury, signed a cope with “The View” alum Sherri Shepherd to take over Williams’ time slots.
“The place’s she gonna go? It’s executed. Logistically, it received’t work. Sherri has her time slots,” an insider instructed Web page Six.
Williams sat down for an IG Dwell with Fats Joe over the weekend and insisted she’ll “completely” be returning, and that she received’t be tuning in for Shepherd’s present.
“I’m coming again to ‘The Wendy Williams Present.’ Completely. Completely,” she instructed the rapper, who has been filling in with Remy Ma as a guest-host throughout Williams’ absence.
And in relation to Shepherd’s present: “That’s probably not my factor… anyway, however I really like being alone present, and I really like that individuals love to observe it on a regular basis,” she mentioned.
Fats Joe has been one in every of a number of visitor hosts to fill in for Williams throughout her year-long absence. Williams even instructed him she solely desires him and Ma to fill in for her going ahead.
“I really like everybody internet hosting it, however I’ve to say, I want you solely did that… I really like you two or simply her or simply you,” she mentioned.
One other insider instructed us Debmar-Mercury “isn’t completely satisfied” that Fats Joe interviewed Williams.
“He didn’t give them a heads-up about it and he or she didn’t seem properly. She didn’t appear to be she was all there. At instances, she couldn’t even full a sentence,” the supply mentioned.
In addition they mentioned the elephant within the room is that “Wendy is uninsurable.”
“She has not been capable of persistently work… She didn’t have the psychological and bodily capability to host her present,” they mentioned. “[Debmar] wished her again greater than anyone. They might’ve liked for her to complete out this chapter.”
“The Wendy Williams Present” will formally finish in June. Williams — who initially stepped away from her present on account of ongoing well being points — couldn’t be reached for remark. A rep for the present and Debmar-Mercury didn’t get again to us.
Williams is presently in a nasty authorized battle with Wells Fargo after they froze her account in February claiming she wants guardianship. Williams can also be mounting her comeback. She hit up a Met gala afterparty final week and was additionally not too long ago seen at energy eatery Fresco By Scotto speaking to friends about her deliberate TV comeback.
