Wendy Williams
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Williams in 2005
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Wendy Joan Williams July 18, 1964 Ocean Township, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Northeastern University |
| Occupation | Radio personality, television host, actress, producer, author, comedian |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Known for | The Wendy Williams Show, The Wendy Williams Experience |
| Spouse(s) | Kevin Hunter (m. 1997) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | www.wendyshow.com |
Wendy Williams Hunter (born Wendy Joan Williams; July 18, 1964) is an American television host, actress, author, fashion designer, and former radio personality. She has hosted the nationally syndicated television talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, since 2008. She has become one of the most popular female hosts in daytime television.
Prior to television, Williams was a radio DJ and host and quickly became known in New York as a "shock jockette". She gained notoriety for her on-air spats with celebrities and was the subject of the 2006 VH1 reality TV series, The Wendy Williams Experience, which broadcast events surrounding her radio show. She was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2009.
She has written a New York Times best-selling autobiography and six other books, and has created various product lines including a fashion line, a jewelry collection and a wig line. On her 50th birthday, the council of Asbury Park renamed the street she grew up on, to Wendy Williams Way.
Williams was born on July 18, 1964, in Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, a suburb of Asbury Park. She is the second of three children born to parents Thomas and Shirley Williams, She grew up in the Wayside section of Ocean Township. Williams graduated from Ocean Township High School, and from 1982 to 1986, she attended Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where she graduated with a B.A. in communications and was a DJ for the college radio station WRBB.
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