today. today larry king knowledge would be williams the always attended talk show host sounds off on her success and her competition running this t.v. race with blinders on the way road my radio race a month or a bread and i don't need to look to the left or right i'm competing against myself i was one of those which of people i did not go to rehab and i'd never look back now and i've never looked back plus that the way you actually say honey. it's a friendly way to walk in the room it breaks up the crowd so the people don't think i'm there for evil i'm there for good cause i'm a very tall woman that's all ahead on larry king now. he's what he williams he said as his party and one thing's for sure she's hard to

ignore the talk show the wendy williams show is entering its fifth season one of the most popular programs in daytime i was shocked that it did this successful with this long it's amazing yes i am yes because you are like me you came from radio came from radio and the how did you get this whole gig to begin with the phone rang the phone rang in two thousand and seven the fall of two thousand and seven it was more marcus and i were bernstein they are dead more mercury they're the ones who produce the show and their parent company is lion's gate so they wanted to do this thing called a six week sneak peek and they wanted to do it with me a talk show the six weeks and yet now a lot of people are doing it kris jenner just came off doing it bethany got her talk show from doing it you know tried to the right try it for six weeks or four weeks during the summer with them and hear of more and i recall about eight months later next thing you know on t.v. on for fox stations l.a.

new york dallas or dallas and detroit and i. maintain my radio position while doing the six week sneak peak because i was having a good time in radio almost twenty five years i was making a decent living i was very very happy i had my family and all the sudden. the talk show came along the roses you gave up the reviewer. for me seventeen years ago well i always did both when i saw it as a kid i was twenty two or did really have been told that i was loved both men are always allowed to do both because men don't maintain the household i'm not saying anything i'm just saying you put me down or you know i'm going to let you go on hold on we're all all of putting women up even after a long day on the set where my guest is larry king and i've got tons of hot topics and ask wendy i want to get home and make sure that the food is gathered for dinner make sure the dishwasher is emptied or empty it myself i mean even if we don't do all the work in our head i was you were the house managers are you doing i'm doing well how did that start how do you. that's the way you actually say it how did.

ok because where you say yes we used to have a gay character in our morning show many many years ago i did a morning show in philadelphia and the gay character would come in and all the heterosexual smelly guys i worked with they would know how to address this gay character i don't like what you talk to the man it's not going to make you gay how do you do it shauntay and then we just started from there. now i keep it going because i feel as though that's a friendly way to walk in the room it breaks up the crowd so that people don't think i'm there for evil i'm there for good cause i'm a very tall woman i want to talk about the book in a little lot of other things ok why is this show worked if you can stick a step back and look at it objectively honestly the host. really yes does that sound big headed know your show yeah i'm going to tell you why. i left radio. perfectly great career to fully concentrate on this t.v.

show i am surrounded by a great staff of people who i listen to with open ears i'm one of the executive producers as well so you know those are my husbands exactly producer who's also my manager and then there's david pearler and most recently. a fellow by the name of jason but i will tell you that as a woman of a particular age sometimes it's very hard for us to open our heads to new ideas you know because i'll say no all day instead now i say no convince me why it should be so i'm a host that's willing to listen to criticism good and bad but i'm also a host very comfortable on the camera i'm not i'm not scared to be laughed at fall or cry secret is no secret there is no secret you have to be yourself and good talk show host is not creative create created it's she's born do you check grave danger every day do you look sorry it was syndicated you could be strong in detroit week

in memphis. and to leave oh yeah no i leave those people who are obsessing about the ratings might saying they're always obsessed and everything but i i run i'm running this t.v. race with blinders on the way i wrote my radio race i'm of there are a bread and i don't need to look to the left or right i'm competing against myself did you start and told me as an anchor in philadelphia what was what would you do you know i'm from jersey and i went to college in boston and i knew from the time i was in sixth grade that i wanted to be there newscaster or radio personality and i wanted to matriculate in boston and i graduated from northeastern university. i worked on the college radio station which is where i started newscasting and then i realized that i don't think being a newscaster is exactly in the wheel house for how i want to be as a woman you know even back then i had a bit of flamboyancy with me which is really will be acceptable at the news desk although nowadays newscasters are like showgirls you know back in the day. that's

not who they were and i think that was calling out for radio but i got an internship with a fellow by the name of matt siegel at kiss want to eat in boston he still there it casts and and i've since been back since having my talk so to thank him it was oprah arguments proof and oh yeah oh it was an inspiration but you know oprah's first couple of years on t.v. over started one thousand nine hundred sixty i graduated from college in eighty six and then i was so busy moving around from the virgin islands to d.c. i worked afternoon shifts i was so busy hustling they really wasn't watching a lot of t.v. during the day for her first maybe two or three years but yes of course oprah was a great inspiration. as well as in my earlier years dinah shore and merv griffin and mike douglas and just even as a young girl in third in second grade larry i remember adoring talk shows where your was just so you know that's yeah done a short you know the no no a bit of her show

a few times always group where can i tell you one of my favorite guests thank you i don't not i'm not saying that just because i'm sitting here with you. i was a little apprehensive about meeting you at first because i said larry is a legend we've been legit he might not understand who you know my audience everybody's colorful they're a bit last we're very outspoken overheating and i'm a newer person on the block even though i'm going into my fifth season i know when you come to new york you'll go to rip you'll go to the view when you talk to your old friend barbara walters but you were open to new things any time with you and when you came that first time i cannot believe how much fun you are and then you came back a second time and now i'm here with you but. let's discuss some of those who my friend then does include the one you're willing to be carried over so you can cancel jeff probst wonderful guy now and a good host. why do we can you measure because. you know the public is so fickle you know there's so many great shows that are on t.v.

that get cancelled right away i'm still wondering what happened in g c b i'm still wondering what happened to the playboy club and pan am remember those shows on a real say like three episodes and they're gone you know winery there is no rhyme or reason you can say well it's a full market there too many talk shows but long after propes new shows are coming on long after you know generous six weeks they pick next summer that we somebody else i don't know the rhyme or reason if you think too hard about it. my own why do you think did not go through so. i don't think people have time to pay attention to episodic you know where one episode runs into the next during the day you know the economy is bad and people. are working hard and and i believe it is my belief that people want lighter fare when it comes to daytime t.v. or your food competition. with

a closed mouth and open ears what they say and. do you know i love competition and i do believe that there's room for everybody jake world it's just how long everybody stays there but there are a thousand channels now on t.v. so there is room someplace for everybody we don't have to be crabs in a barrel with only ten channels now people think also that because she can do one thing well you can do him over this on most of the true lies this is the holy grail of my career though i mean there's nothing higher career wise than doing a talk show with your own name. a word or words wrong or what's the hot topic of late i mean people are still talking about miley cyrus twerking people are talking about lamar odom is he on drugs will chloe stay with him what will happen to his clippers career why do we talk about this puzzles me and i have to subject you can't do television and not talk about it however does pose a way as to why. the. hot topics are so juicy lamar odom

could lead over syria. supporting that to me i like limbaugh but i but he should lead over syria because. as embarrassing as it might be to a lot of people many people care about pop culture and the nonsense why because it's light conversation that often. people leave because they might not be good communicators do you realize how special it is for people like me and you we possess something we can go to a room by ourselves and totally start a conversation with anybody i don't know if that's how you are but that's how i am i'm not scared to get on the stage in front of thousands of people and i don't need to an entourage to walk into a room and talk to everybody about anything and these hot topics are in very calm in non-threatening thing to mention you go to

a dinner party and you talk about syria well that you have political opinions there's some people like me i don't like to talk my politics in public that's kitchen table talk because at the white grew up but to say you know how about that miley cyrus well now now we've got a conversation that's water because it's one of course not but that's how you get a conversation going like conversation leads to a deeper one do you know how many people out there are socially inept. people that make wads of money brilliant people that do wonderful things to not be able to communicate has got to be crippling people who swear in you know when at the thought of going to a party people sweat at the thought of giving you know the presentation at a meeting the biggest fear in america is probably b.b. king. as for the sauce is a joke i know and it's white collar crime yes it is i mean it's a joke you know what i got on my bucket list for this season i want to do stand up

for i've been doing that for years that i love that it's a lot they pay you for the stand and told stories. do you try it i'm going to try it i turned fifty this season five and so the show was asking me you know make a list of stuff that you've always wanted to do what i wanted to talk about when i was it like working with your husband i love it it doesn't work for everybody but you know but everybody's got to know their roles when we come back we'll ask about the book when b. is straight up advice for all the drama of your life all the drama well. that's right back.

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free. free. food free book deal for your media project free media done to our teeth dot com. wendy williams extended for another year and enormous success in daytime television before that and radio in the world of water should she appeared in chicago on the broadway stage try to ask about that a little while but tell me about when the the book says straight up advice for all the dreams in your life when drama it's called ask wendy and it happens to be a segment that i do on my talk show i used to do it on my radio show as well for many many years and it's simply you asked me a question a conundrum in your life whether it's your sex life your dating life dealing with your mother dealing with the p.t.a. . you ask me i'm not a licensed professional but i am a woman with an opinion and sometimes it's best to get opinions from

a stranger than from your favorite three girlfriends who are always there to keep drilling it in your head that you're having this problem to be serious for this is there a danger in that that you say to someone get the voice. know because i i say well said you're asking wendy i'm going to give you you know my best opinion that i can sometimes divorce is needed. so you'll say yes and i would also walk her through it don't do it knee jerk you have to start plotting and planning a divorce from the time you execute it to the time you think about it there should be least six months to a year in between to be good but when you do so far there's your deferred some problems you so yes i have you have well i was married for five months and i had to plot an escape from my ex husband so you know that was many many years ago but believe me he was trying to give me a problem like we were married for five years i had a cocaine

a substance abuse problem who are you from about j. . twenty to thirty years yeah so i was making great money i had no college loans my parents bought me a car for my college graduation i was making great money i fell into you know nice radio career a little bit early on i was in new york young in pretty new york city girl staying out all night you know how it is in radio how you know is what you do for a living it was the best you know coke was cheap. i was very independent i did not have to get high with a bunch of friends i always had my own money and never had to go broke off of it was your break you. did up around my thirtieth birthday when i met kevin. you know that i wanted to get married again but i knew that i wanted better in my life and i was very grateful that i had never been busted speeding on the west side highway you know with a crack pipe in the you know in the in the ashtray my mom and dad are still alive and i wanted better for myself so i just stopped i was one of those fortunate

people i did not go to rehab and i've never looked back no and i've never looked back you also disclosed body image problem i mean i still have a problem i guess to a certain extent you know i'm always food is a big part of my life denying myself indulging and going to the gym and working it off checking angles in the mirror yes larry you know i come from an average size family my my height comes from my paternal grandmother and she was passed away so i never had any women to speak to about what it's like to be five feet eight by the time you hit eighth grade i've never been to a problem i always was the face just a little loose in the waist you know what i mean plus being tall see when you were tall girl they expect two things of you your supermodel or basketball player and i'm no athlete and i you know i'm not a model so i mean the best thing for me to do was to have this talk show because now. i'm not told for no reason so the book contains questions from real people yes

my real wendy watchers everything sex here's the one that comes to my mind this married couple to marry for like ten or twelve years or something and he wants to have a threesome and she's thinking about letting it go down and you say no. why not because this is what happens as a woman and not all women are like this larry but as a woman we are soft and pink we can try to play hard and play hard ball in the boardroom and everything like that but when it comes to love we can take a drive by once or twice three times but if you look at his eyes and all you need is that one hard day at work and lonely night and they've got to look i submit to being a girl you know. how long did you enjoy doing shoes argo yes how long you do it seven weeks but worst part was preparing because the active member

all those lines and two songs i had to sing we've ever seen or know why did they cast shoes. because major mama morton they thought that i'd be perfect for that also take it right sell tickets i was doing the talk show and the chicago at the same time so it was a really busy time this summer so you have a new orleans when did you or her show do you show yeah you can take off from the show never never that she ran and did the broadway i was an absentee mom thank god he finished with flying colors all good grades you know i was absentee mom kind of an absentee wife i was opening night like for you know this is different this isn't going to be weighing in with the script now. and a bit your show yeah the major show i'm surprised i didn't cry my mom and dad were there my dad is eighty three and my mom is seventy nine so my mom and dad were there course my husband my son a whole bunch of wendy's staffers and then we had a party up the street at you know one of the watering holes how was it magical when

i open the stage door i couldn't believe there were actually people out there. there are actually people out there you know saying to songs i sang this other song and called class with one of the two major actresses in it so you know you don't want to mess her up by being bad so it was a lot of pressure you great role over the larry runs the prison larry if they called me i'd do it again i had the best summer it really was a wonderful experience and guess what else i got out of that oh my gosh one of the head writers at the a.b.c. sitcom neighbors was in the audience and saw me playing mama i didn't know this and called up my office for me to come out and play a role on the show so i did that just a couple weeks ago where did you play your mama pretty much a sassy black woman who owns a hair salon in jersey that's a mama. i know you know i've had three yes i'm

a hack stress and a single i'm a center what's next. george to do you haven't done well. gee i told you to stand up and is that to me can i just say nothing moves again without the talk show so the talk show and you might think of them pulling from the low fruit on the tree i know you're very ambitious man. hosting a talk show my own show is the best thing ever beats work guess you know but but what i like to do i don't know the standard i guess we have some social media questions for you did you call on twitter wants to know what were some of the biggest challenges to overcome to get where you are no. not being intimidated by anyone scrutinizing who wendy is. in the m.m.s. how do you keep your address to be to be bold in the face of adversity. because.

i just do and it hasn't come overnight as you know you know you get more confident with every year of your life worse so bald is second nature to me now you are a bow person when these team on instagram once and it was a good team i don't know where you are seven book we about oh i'm working on it right now i actually have the most magistrate in my bag what is it about it is a sexy romantic novel and it will be coming out well i have to turn it in like two weeks. there's no title yet vio good james on google plus asked what do you think of miley cyrus and would you want to interview or i want to interview her because i like interviewing all kinds of people but what do i think of her you know her behavior not much her music i've actually heard some songs from her album she's a very talented girl but that behavior. no bueno one more mehmood if you only

knew done lend clothes on instagram green guest i don't have one ok now we do if you only knew so version of hot c ok ok first kiss i was in eighth grade my visiting my sister at tufts university and i met a boy there at a party don't even remember his name he took me to the amtrak station and then leaned over ever so gently and kissed my lips and it was only a little bit of tongue but i remember i think he thought i was like seventeen because remember i was big and i was only thirteen. you know it's the boys on the order of i'm doing. it we fell on the truck. moment you need made it. when i got asked to be on broadway at the same time a my my talk show was renewed they both happened like within a two week period we knew till two thousand and seventeen the wendy's show and

wendy would you be on broadway i was like oh my gosh you know a kid who intimidates you know body guilty pleasure food any i love salami cheese liver worse anything in the grocery store tissues i didn't grow up in our house and i didn't grow up poor but i grew up with frugal parents tissues were reserved for company if you had to blow your nose in and use toilet paper and aren't shoes made from the concentrate was always really watered down so it would stretch longer and we were only allowed to drink four ounces in the morning so now the grocery store is my wonderland you know when i was growing up i was always on a diet i was being picked at when you can have seconds and now i go to the grocery store it's the one place i couldn't tell you what course what though it in every day food you hate china wine i hated c i love eggs the big where you hate every day food there's nothing that i hate oprah anything slimy oprah oh yeah what makes you laugh every time i do i would break

for you every time i. leave i just came from one of those restaurants that shall remain nameless whatever when a restaurant chefs think if one of the chef thinks that they're so good that they don't have to put salt and pepper shakers on the table number one ok and number two i can't stand camera phones. in a restaurant anywhere yet what happens to them with the word of people i've never take them on what do people do with things on their facebook they annoy me or i'd rather a conversation with somebody them and then a picture i've got a street corner named after me in los angeles yeah larry king square coing and sunset lucky you if you could have something named after you what would it be a rest stop on the jersey turnpike it's so funny that you want iran that fame paris that would be no i am going to jersey you can get that iran stop

a bus stop what can't you live without a diet person whose opinion matters the most to you my husband's best advice you ever got from my father find a career that you love and the money and happiness will follow one humble man an educator and he is so writes he taught he taught he professed he principled my mom and dad both smart people if god exists what would you ask him or her for eternal hell for me and my family i love to live i want to live to one hundred twenty five me too yeah oh i don't well look past that. you know what i want people did to read what bit oldest man who ever lived. as the way they. called by a jealous husband. took seven days the ward to smile is. what you want your legacy to be it's tour fifty years old what you want i'm told i'm

a legacy. you know i want people to remember. my ease of entertainment and how i entertain and always smile smile if i can make you smile once in your day. i would have done my job a great broad thank you lou those rings put those rings up thank you larry please big girls me big rings otherwise how do i look what's moment that's the reason you have to and was signaling ships off the jersey shore. thanks to my guest wendy williams catch the fifth season of the one new williams show it premieres september sixteenth and you can tweet me at kings things and wendy at wendy williams let us know how you don't see it next time.

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