Saturday, February 23, 2019

Wendy Williams set to return to The Wendy Williams Show seen on BET on 4 March, announces distributor and producer Debmar-Mercury.


Debmar-Mercury producing The Wendy Williams Show seen on Viacom Africa's BET (DStv 129) announced that talk show host Wendy Williams (54) will be returning after a long absence on 4 March.

"Wendy Williams is an incredible talent with the most unique voice in daytime," says Debmar-Mercury, the distributor and producer of the show, in a statement.

"We can't wait to welcome her back to her iconic purple chair on the set of her show on Monday, 4 March. We so appreciate all of the guest hosts and panellists who filled in for Wendy during this time."

"These people are, and always will be, true family to the show. And we want to thank all of the loyal and supportive fans who have been with us for 10 years now. And of course, we thank our station and business partners, who stepped up in such a supportive way."

Wendy Williams in a statement says "Salute to Debmar-Mercury for believing from the start and thanks to my staff for tirelessly holding it down for me."

The Wendy Williams Show has been making use of a variety of revolving hosts, including Nick Cannon, Sherri Shepherd, Michael Rapaport and Jerry O'Connell.

Wendy Williams fractured her shoulder in December 2018 and was supposed to be back on 14 January.

Her talk show return was then abruptly pushed out to 21 January, with the show then abruptly postponed again for a third time, saying Wendy Williams is taking an extended break to focus on her health, that will include hospitalisation.

Wendy Williams suffers from Graves' disease affecting her thyroid.

Staffers on The Wendy Williams Show has reportedly "moved on like she doesn't exist" and are furious with Wendy for not communicating about what's wrong with her and what's going on.