Daytime diva Wendy Williams steps off the TV screen and into the pages of ‘Uptown’ Magazine rocking their new April/May 2014 issue and looks stunning. In the pages the radio pioneer talks her storied career and troubled past, as well as her flourishing future in entertainment and upcoming ventures. Check out the snaps and excerpts below!
On Her Fabulous Studio Audience
“I love and value them,“You cannot turn on another talk show and find an audience where everyone looks as good or has as much energy as mine,” “It’s a mistake to say that my show is solely a woman’s show, a gay man’s show or a black show,”
On Being Wendy on Radio vs. TV Wendy
“I am so glad that I can still be that girl, but on TV,”
“Yes! Who I am right now is exactly who I was on radio. The difference is, now I am 49 years old. There are certain things that I had beaten to death. I had to move on. These other little girls in radio can now imitate me. I am not going to sit in that purple chair and act like I am MediaTakeOut.com! I invented MediaTakeOut.com. I was doing that long before it existed. But, I was not raised like that.”
On Having No Regrets About Her Controversial Radio Career
“I regret nothing in my radio career, nothing,”
“I had to be that person back then to be the person I am today. The person who was on the radio then was authentically me. We all have our sloppy, greasy side. My original Wendy listeners, here in New York, they grew up with me. They come up to me all the time and say, ‘Oh, I have been listening to you since I was 12.’ I feel proud. I am glad that I have been able to evolve.”
On Her Being Proud Of Her Family Unity
“It makes me so proud that my black mother and my black father can sit in my audience and the camera can zoom in on them and, without them saying a word, the world sees: ‘Oh my God, there is a full black family!’ And my parents have been married for a hundred years! And, when my black husband and my black behind can pull up to my black son’s school for a parent-teacher night and they see a full black family, that is really important. We need to discuss race not necessarily because I am being followed in the mall because someone knows that I am Wendy Williams, but because I am a black woman in the mall at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.”
On if Her One Time Nemesis P. Diddy Would Do Her Show
“If I had a problem with you in the past, chances are I have moved on. I have a good life,”
“My parents have seen me go from a loser to a winner. Most people don’t have the luxury of their parents seeing them come full circle. I feel sexy and I feel very accomplished. I have my family. I am grateful. And if Puffy did come on my show, he would have to remove those damn sunglasses.”
Check out the full interview HERE
