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Wendy Williams' birthday wish is to be released from court-ordered guardianship
Wendy Williams' birthday wish is to be released from court-ordered guardianship

Perth Now

time6 days ago

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Wendy Williams' birthday wish is to be released from court-ordered guardianship

Wendy Williams' birthday wish is to be released from her court-ordered guardianship and return to work. The broadcaster and former talk show host was placed under a legal guardianship in 2022 following a series of health setbacks, including a reported alcohol relapse. She now resides at the Coterie, a retirement and wellness residence in Manhattan's Hudson Yards. Now, after turning 61 on 18 July, she has told Page Six her current living situation is like a 'luxury prison' and confirmed she is actively working with her legal team in an effort to reclaim her independence. Despite celebrating her 61st birthday with family and friends at several New York restaurants this month, she added she remains focused on regaining her freedom. She said when asked what her birthday wish would be for the coming year: 'It's obvious: to get out of my guardianship, and go back to work in the most magnificent way.' Wendy also told Page Six her guardianship prevents her from making major life decisions, including where she lives and how she communicates. According to Wendy, she is not allowed to have a mobile phone and relies instead on a landline that cannot receive incoming calls. Wendy added she has been having 'some very confident conversations' with her legal team, including attorney Joe Tacopina. She also said about her living situation: 'I like privacy… but this is too private!' Wendy revealed she spent her birthday last year alone in a Connecticut facility, describing the experience as isolating but in some ways preferable. She said: 'For my last birthday, I was in Connecticut with nothing but grass and trees. 'Nobody came to visit me in Connecticut. That was actually a good thing, because it was so bad I didn't want people to see me there.' This year's celebrations were held at Delmonico's, Fresco by Scotto, and Le Marais. Among the guests were Wendy's niece Alex Finnie, Alex's partner Eric Houston and friends including Alvina Alston, Mel Maxi and Tobi Rubinstein. Wendy told Page Six even though she had enjoyed dining out in recent days, she still eats most meals alone in her room at the Coterie. She described her interactions with fellow residents as limited to 'hi and bye'. Wendy was previously married to Kevin Hunter and has two children, Brooke and Nick. Her former daytime talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, ran for over a decade before ending in 2021.

Wendy Williams ‘doing better than ever' after 61st birthday celebration
Wendy Williams ‘doing better than ever' after 61st birthday celebration

Perth Now

time20-07-2025

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  • Perth Now

Wendy Williams ‘doing better than ever' after 61st birthday celebration

Wendy Williams is said to be doing 'better than ever'. The troubled former chat show host celebrated her 61st birthday on Friday (18.07.25) and sources say she is now feeling optimistic about what lies ahead amid her battler to end her court-ordered guardianship. An insider told Page Six: "(She's) better than ever. She was talking (at her birthday party) about how she's ready to travel once she gets out.' Wendy marked her 61st with a dinner on Thursday (17.07.25) evening at the historic Delmonico's in Lower Manhattan, a day before her birthday. The former Wendy Williams Show presenter, who has faced a series of public health struggles in recent years, arrived without her motorised scooter — a notable change from previous outings. Wendy, who has been under a legal guardianship since 2022, is currently residing at the Coterie in Hudson Yards, a luxury assisted living facility. She has referred to the residence as a 'luxury prison', according to Page Six, and is understood to be seeking legal release from the guardianship arrangement. Two of Wendy's attorneys joined her for her birthday meal, along with her former producers from The Wendy Williams Show, Suzanne Bass and Brendan Higgins. A source added to Page Six: 'She got emotional when she blew out her candles. 'Everyone seemed happy to see her and she looked amazing.' Wendy was said to have appeared in high spirits throughout the night, dining on a lavish spread that included seafood towers, caviar, Caesar salad and filet mignon. She was also presented with a birthday baked Alaska, and designer Zang Toi, who was also dining at Delmonico's, took a moment to wish Wendy a happy birthday before leaving the restaurant. Though Wendy has faced considerable personal and medical difficulties in recent years, the birthday outing seemed to reflect a sense of renewed energy and determination, according to insiders, One added to Page Six: 'She was beaming and sans scooter. 'She's confident her lawyers are going to get her out of (her guardianship.)' Wendy, once a dominant force in daytime television, stepped away from the spotlight in 2021 amid ongoing health concerns. Since then, the New Jersey native has largely kept a low profile, occasionally surfacing in New York for public appearances.

Wendy Williams Makes Her B'Day Wish: "Out Of Guardianship!"
Wendy Williams Makes Her B'Day Wish: "Out Of Guardianship!"

Black America Web

time18-07-2025

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Wendy Williams Makes Her B'Day Wish: "Out Of Guardianship!"

Michael Simon It's interesting how society has come to learn what a conservatorship means, particularly due to the fact that most of us first witnessed one through the lens of a troubled celebrity. For one, women seem to be placed under guardianships at a way higher rate than men, and obviously that's not because all male celebrities are simply sane (see: Charlie Sheen, Kanye West, Antonio Brown). However, the conversation gets deeper when you bring race into the mix. While pop icon Britney Spears had a rally of fans strong enough to get her 13-year conservatorship ended, and teen queen actress Amanda Bynes had support from family to end the nine-year conservatorship she was placed under at just 27 years old — two idols of white America, mind you — the odds don't seem to be as bright in the situation we're currently seeing take over the life of once-reigning (and melanated) daytime diva Wendy Williams over the past three years and counting. This all comes on the heels of Wendy's milestone 61st birthday today (July 18), and you can probably take a wild guess at what her biggest b'day wish would be if she had things her way. RELATED: Wendy Williams Returns To Instagram: 'My Career Is NOT Over' TMZ was able to catch the golden lady of the day as she headed to dinner at Delmonico's in New York City last night (July 17). Longtime fans of The Wendy Williams Show will notice from the clip captured by the outlet (seen above) that she was being accompanied by the show's former executive producer, Suzanne Bass. More on the cheery pre-birthday interaction below, via TMZ : 'In true Wendy fashion she was dressed to the nines and in high spirits outside the steakhouse — and she didn't hold back when asked what she's wishing for this year, saying without hesitation … 'out of guardianship.' The candid comment is her latest public plea to be released from the legal arrangement that has controlled her personal and financial affairs since 2022. As we've reported, Wendy was placed under a court-ordered guardianship amid concerns about her health and capacity to manage her life independently.' Details behind the 'why' have been cemented in the media for years now, so no need to rehash what's already understood about Wendy's recovering health journey. What matters the most is the now, and in recent months we have all witnessed Wendy looking coherent, clear-minded and even giving a glimpse of her jovial personality that made watching her spew gossip from a big purple chair every afternoon such a pleasurable experience for millions of viewers across the nation. Why can't the rally cries of her still-loyal fans be heard in a similar fashion to how the court took notice of The Britney Army? As Wendy celebrates a very special birthday today, we absolutely hope that her wish is granted sooner rather than later. Happy 61st, queen! via @donnak831 via @duffthebrand via @GrungeyGrimey06 via @StevieDerrick_ via @sjcyoungandfree via @dramatiq00 via @live4ga SEE ALSO

Wendy Williams seen in rare new photo with friends amid controversial guardianship
Wendy Williams seen in rare new photo with friends amid controversial guardianship

USA Today

time13-06-2025

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  • USA Today

Wendy Williams seen in rare new photo with friends amid controversial guardianship

Wendy Williams seen in rare new photo with friends amid controversial guardianship Show Caption Hide Caption Wendy Williams Says She Is Not Incapacitated In New Interview In a pre-taped phone interview with 'The View,' the former talk show host addressed her recent hospital visit and independent psych evaluation. unbranded - Entertainment For over a decade, Wendy Williams asked viewers "How you doin'?" Fans have been wondering how she is doing in recent years, and new pictures are giving them a glimpse. In a rare set of photos, the former "Wendy Williams Show" host – who remains in a highly controversial guardianship – is all smiles at dinner with a group of friends including author Tori Rubinstein and journalist Alvina Alston. "When all your friends show up for one great night ,even the press wants in on the action !" Rubenstien wrote in an Instagram caption featuring a screenshot of a TMZ article about their friends' night out on Thursday, June 12, in New York City. What Wendy Williams' show predicted about Diddy, Cassie amid trial In the snaps from Manhattan steakhouse Le Marais Brasserie, Williams wore her favorite fuchsia lipstick, a blue top and signature "W" necklace. Her legal guardian Sabrina Morrissey has said, through her lawyers, in court filings that "The Wendy Williams Show" star is "cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated" due to the primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia with which she was diagnosed in 2023. However, in recent months, Williams, 60, has disputed the diagnoses in interviews. The photos come after a New York Police Department spokesperson told USA TODAY in a March statement that personnel "responded to a welfare check" at the senior living facility where Williams, 60, lives. The NYPD told USA TODAY that "EMS responded and transported" a woman matching Williams' description "to an area hospital for evaluation." Contributing: KiMi Robinson

What old Wendy Williams show clips predicted about Diddy, Cassie amid trial
What old Wendy Williams show clips predicted about Diddy, Cassie amid trial

USA Today

time03-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • USA Today

What old Wendy Williams show clips predicted about Diddy, Cassie amid trial

What old Wendy Williams show clips predicted about Diddy, Cassie amid trial Show Caption Hide Caption Wendy Williams Says She Is Not Incapacitated In New Interview In a pre-taped phone interview with 'The View,' the former talk show host addressed her recent hospital visit and independent psych evaluation. unbranded - Entertainment "My thing about when you date a mogul, is that it's really difficult to avoid them," Wendy Williams blurted out from her iconic plush purple chair. "You never know when they're going to pop up on the scene," she continued. In December 2015, a "hot topic" on the talk show host's eponymous daytime program focused on the sudden breakup of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs and his much younger then-girlfriend Casandra "Cassie" Ventura Fine. The former radio personality was a longtime frenemy of Combs, often using "The Wendy Williams Show" to gab and gossip about the "I'll Be Missing You" hitmaker's personal life. Will how we treat victims change? The Diddy trial details are worse than anyone expected. Fast forward nearly a decade: Combs was arrested in September on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution following a monthslong federal investigation. He was indicted but has pleaded not guilty on all counts. And as his federal sex-crimes trial enters its fifth week, fans have resurfaced Williams' comments on Combs and are wondering if she predicted his fate. "Puffy," as Williams called him, now sits in Brooklyn prison. (The daytime diva herself lives in her own self-described "prison" amid a controversial guardianship; her show ended in 2022 after a prolonged health-related absence.) Ventura Fine, now a lowkey mom-of-two remarried to an up-and-coming actor, became the star witness in Combs' trial. And with Williams off air, loyal "Wendy watchers" are using archival online clips as reruns. Wendy Williams: Diddy, Cassie relationship was always a 'Hot Topic' In the 2015 clip, Williams quipped that Ventura Fine "broke up with (Combs), and I'm sure she'll be back soon ... or she's got cache now." Williams was right. Ventura Fine returned, testifying in court last month that although she "loved (Combs) very much," she was often coaxed back by his violent threats. Williams predicted that Ventura Fine could end up with another mogul – one of many observations the talk show host foreshadowed about Combs and the "Me & U" singer. "Once you date a superstar, you'd be foolish not to use that cache to bounce to the next superstar," Williams said. "At this point in her life, she's spent eight years of her life being flown around the world in private places and doing the best and wearing the best." Williams added that Ventura Fine had "allegedly been avoiding Puffy." "I thought she was a professional girlfriend, but apparently, she's over in South Africa filming 'Honey 3.' Now honey, I didn't even know there was a 'Honey 2,' OK?" Williams said with her signature shade. In court, it was revealed that Ventura Fine was once romantically linked to "Sinners" actor Michael B. Jordan while filming musical drama "Honey 3: Dare to Dance" in 2015. Her ex-best friend Kerry Morgan testified that she "was trying to leave" a "jealous" Combs and started talking to Jordan shortly before the two-month trip. "He can hire a plane right now, zoom it to South Africa, land on the roof of the hotel where she's staying, pay people off, give me the key and let me up in her room. Like I'm already paranoid as a person, but to know that a person could swoop down on me in the middle of nothing would scare the bejesus out of me," Williams said. Two years later, in 2017, fans zeroed in on a lengthy interview between Williams and Combs that seemingly featured awkward tension when Wiliams said "as the mother of a now 16-year-old..." before Combs interrupted her and said, "Mhm, who I met backstage. He's a great young man." Williams, appearing to stumble through her sentence, telling a "nervous" Combs that "you represent a lot to a lot of people in general," adding that the music mogul is "an example to people who aren't Black, like, 'Yes we can, yes we can.' You're an example to boys, like your boys, my boys, their boys, boys in general." But the next year, Williams revisited the pair's relationship as a topic of discussion. "Puffy's 48. Cassie's 32. 11 years of her life. I was asked during our morning meeting, 'Do I think that she wasted 11 years.' I said, 'well, in a lot of ways, yeah,'" Williams said. "She probably doesn't know how to apply for a mortgage; she has probably always been on his insurance, so she needs an insurance card, signor or something," Williams said in 2018, chiding the audience for laughing. At the time, the "Wendy" show host added, "I like them together and, on the other hand, it wasn't 11 years wasted because Puffy introduced her to a world that she would never know." But in her testimony at the start of the trial, Ventura Fine painted a far more sinister picture: For over a decade, the model and actress alleges that she was forced to participate in Combs' "freak offs" – sex performances with various male escorts around the world. When she attempted to leave, Ventura Fine said that Combs and his associates tracked her down and threatened to release "freak offs" footage. Social media users miss Wendy Williams' Diddy commentary amid trial As the trial began, some social media users missed Williams' blunt delivery, a change of pace from present daytime television's overly positive tone of "spirit tunnels" and song covers. "She would've been having a field day on hot topics right now," one person commented. Another person said, "I can hear Wendy saying 'clap if you think Puffy is guilty.'" In late May, another X commenter said that "Wendy Williams would've had the highest ratings in daytime history covering Diddy's trial this week!" On TikTok, another popular platform for Williams fans, one TMZ video about the host's guardianship on radio show "The Breakfast Club" was flooded with supportive comments after her former mentee Charlamagne Tha God mentioned that she "got fired from Hot 97 years ago because of Diddy" and she said, "Diddy done." "She sounds like she got her life back," one said as another commented, "Why can't she just start doing a weekly gossip podcast." "She got me with Diddy done," another user said. Contributing: Aysha Bagchi, Patrick Ryan, Edward Segarra

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