Wendy Williams’ Talk Show Comes To An End After Nearly 14 Years
American talk show host, Wendy Williams, is officially ending her talk show after nearly 14 years with a video tribute to the iconic host.
The 57-year-old has been fighting for her health for quite some time, which has impacted the workflow of her eponymous talk show.
In October 2021, ahead of the talk show’s 13th season premiere, Wendy’s’ breakthrough COVID-19 case and her ongoing health issues tied to Graves’ disease, delayed its initial return. The premiere episode was delayed once more to Oct. 18, despite Williams’ recovery from COVID-19.
“Her healing is going slower than everyone had hoped. She continues to deal with a number of medical issues, including Graves’ disease, and she and her team are taking it one day at a time,” the source said.
A former New York radio DJ, Wendy previously went on hiatus from the show in March 2018 and again in May 2020, due to complications with her Graves’ disease and hyperthyroidism and blamed it on neglecting her six month endocrinology appointment.
She also took a six-week break in early 2019, after fracturing her shoulder. She later revealed that she was quietly focusing on her sobriety during the leave of absence. A few weeks later, she filed for divorce from husband of 22 years, Kevin Hunter, amid rumours he’d fathered a child with another woman.
She had removed her then-husband as an executive producer, shortly after filing for divorce. He held the title since the show premiered 13 years ago, and they shared her company Wendy Williams Productions.
Wendy’s show was one of the first to return to production in September 2020, after Hollywood went into lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The TV personality was recently the subject of a self-titled Lifetime biopic and the network’s documentary Wendy Williams: What a Mess!
