Nothing ever appears peaceable in Wendy Williams’ world.
Within the midst of his battle together with his court-appointed guardian and after his ugly divorce battle, the speak present legend is now engaged in a battle together with his former pal and government producer over a documentary meant to rejoice his profession.
Williams’ lawyer says she was blindsided by information of the Peacock docuseries “Clap If You Care” — however insiders say she knew in regards to the challenge all alongside.
Lawyer Joe Tacopina instructed Web page Six Williams he had “no concept something was occurring” earlier than the NBC streamer introduced the three-part EP produced by “Wendy Williams Present” Suzanne Bass.
“Suzanne by no means mentioned she was producing a documentary on ‘The Wendy Williams Present.’ She by no means had a dialogue with Wendy,” Tacopina mentioned.
Williams’ former protégé, Charlamagne tha God, and his “Breakfast Membership” co-host, Loren LoRosa, initially reported that Williams was caught off guard by the announcement. Charlamagne mentioned he declined to take part within the documentary as a result of Williams was not a part of it. He additional claimed that these closest to Wendy, like her information anchor niece Alex Finnie, had been additionally unaware of the challenge.
The documentary is billed as a collection that may rejoice Williams’ “outrageous enjoyable, cultural affect and meteoric rise.”
However sources inform us it was Bass who was blindsided by Williams’ response.
A supply near Bass instructed Web page Six that Williams “completely” knew the documentary was within the works and insists “Suzanne instructed him she was doing it twice!” »
“She had so many dinners with Wendy, and so they talked about doing panels collectively, podcasts, documentaries… It was an entire factor. Wendy being blindsided is bullshit,” they mentioned.
Tacopina defined that Bass “requested Wendy virtually a 12 months in the past if Wendy can be interested by doing press on her life and her state of affairs. Wendy mentioned, ‘No!'” he mentioned, including, “Wendy hasn’t spoken to Suzanne in months.” (Our supply says she and Bass final spoke in June).
“She was completely blindsided and solely discovered about this challenge when folks began contacting her saying, ‘Peacock is making a documentary about her profession/life and Suzanne is the EP,'” he continued.
“Two weeks later, the challenge was introduced on-line. She had no concept about something,” Tacopina claimed.
Netflix is reportedly engaged on one other documentary about Williams. She wouldn’t have been conscious of this challenge both. “Clap If You Care” is scheduled for launch in 2027. Former “Wendy” common Chris Witherspoon can also be listed as an EP, alongside Bass.
Bass couldn’t be reached for remark and a Peacock consultant didn’t reply to us.