Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Wendy Williams. Getty Photographs (3)
Sara Haines is wanting again on her expertise witnessing the magic of The Wendy Williams Present — however not everybody was thrilled about her and Sunny Hostin‘s go to to the well-known daytime sequence.
Whereas showing on the Behind the Desk podcast Thursday, February 22, The View cohost recalled visiting Wendy Williams’ speak present as an viewers member with Hostin, 55.
“I wished to go see Wendy, Sunny and I,” she shared in a dialogue with The View government producer Brian Teta. “We tried to get tickets by means of all of our hair and make-up folks. Brian was like, ‘You possibly can ask for tickets, like, we might most likely prepare with the present.’ We obtained tickets, they usually have been going to place us within the entrance row.”
Haines, 46, stated she wasn’t occupied with being on digital camera or having a VIP seat. As a substitute, she merely wished to see Williams’ interview type in particular person.
Since The View premiered in August 1997, greater than 20 ladies have had everlasting roles as cohosts on the ABC morning speak present. The sequence, which was created by Barbara Walters, encompasses a multi-generational panel that conducts interviews and discusses the information of the day, starting from politics to leisure. The unique lineup was comprised […]
As soon as the chance got here, nonetheless, Haines remembered Teta, 47, watching the present and being lower than excited.
“We have been taking photos from the entrance row,” Haines recalled, “and also you’re like, ‘You actually are on digital camera within the entrance row of one other present.’”
Teta replied, “I used to be not blissful about it on the time, as a result of I simply thought, it was early within the time you labored right here, and also you and Sunny simply going to hang around, simply to be within the viewers of one other speak present.”
As time has handed, Haines — who joined The View as a everlasting cohost throughout Season 20 in 2016 — stated she has a greater understanding of Teta’s response. However when it initially occurred, Haines was stunned by the dearth of pleasure.
“We couldn’t perceive why,” she stated. “We have been so mad at you. We have been like, ‘Why is he not celebrating this? We’re so excited.’”
The View welcomed Williams’ niece, Alex Finnie, to the desk on Thursday, February 22, to replicate on her aunt’s life forward of Lifetime’s new documentary The place Is Wendy Williams? Throughout the interview, moderator Whoopi Goldberg urged viewers to observe the two-part particular to get a greater understanding of Williams’ actuality after her speak present got here to an finish in 2021.
“She is a pal of the present and plenty of us have recognized her for a very long time,” Goldberg stated. “Do yourselves a favor. Please test it out.”
Wendy Williams has made headlines for way more than her brutally trustworthy opinions and on-air spats along with her A-list interviewees. The speak present host has discovered herself face-to-face with quite a few well being and private struggles, from fighting a cocaine habit to start with of her profession, to extra lately, battling Graves’ illness, hyperthyroidism and different […]
On the finish of the present, Goldberg, 68, alerted viewers that Williams, 59, was recognized with each frontotemporal dementia and aphasia. The previous radio hosts’ crew first confirmed the information in a press release to Web page Six.
“Receiving a prognosis has enabled Wendy to obtain the medical care she requires,” the assertion stated. “The choice to share this information was tough and made after cautious consideration, not solely to advocate for understanding and compassion for Wendy, however to lift consciousness about aphasia and frontotemporal dementia and assist the 1000’s of others dealing with comparable circumstances.”
The press launch assured followers that the previous shock jock is “nonetheless in a position to do many issues for herself” and has maintained her “trademark humorousness.”
The place Is Wendy Williams? premieres on Saturday, February 24, and Sunday, February 25 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime.
