Wendy Williams Wants to Produce Cute, Non-Fighting Reality TV

People sometimes expect a deeper answer than what I’m willing to give. Because I come from the place of interviewing I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more. I also have a habit of turning an interview into me interviewing you. It’s a very, very difficult habit to break. It’s not hard to break on my show because it’s only one hour … so I know what do there.

On her secret for having a successful talk show:

Being myself. Not paying attention when people say you’re great and not paying attention when people say you’re horrible. I just listen to myself, I’m my own worst critic. The person that’s on TV is the person you see in the grocery store, with of course the usual modifications of decorum. I’m a quick wit, straight to the point, no nonsense. If I don’t have time to say ‘Hi’ to you at the grocery store because my son is standing outside in the rain, I’m going to tell you that. But it’s the same kind of delivery that I’m going to give you on my talk show. Like, George Clooney got married and I really don’t care, but you do so here’s the story.

On what halted the film about her life, based off of her autobiography: 

My autobiography [2003’s “Wendy’s Got the Heat”] was the first book I wrote. My husband and I made the decision that we were going to turn it into a movie. Robin Givens played me. We funded it ourselves, which I would never wish on my worst enemy. We shot around Manhattan and told the story of a girl from Jersey, me, with a pretty big radio career and a lot of potholes. Being married, having a child, going through infidelity and miscarriage, heartache and drug abuse. A month after the movie wrapped in 2007 the phone rings and it was Debmar-Mercury. They had been streaming my radio show and were looking for the next big thing in daytime. Less than a year later I was on TV doing a six-week sneak peek in four cities.

On pausing the film for the show:

I was doing radio and TV at the same time. I made the decision to leave radio and take a chance. Our executive decision was to put [the biopic] on the shelf because if we passed that test then we’re going to get a first season. And then when we got the first season we thought to keep it there because the bigger the show gets, the bigger the budget we’d have to make the film better.

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