Wendy Williams Won’t Return to Her Show This Season After Months-Long Delay

A chronic break. Wendy Williams is not going to return to host her speak present in any respect this season, Us Weekly can affirm.

The New Jersey native, 57, initially delayed the season 13 premiere of The Wendy Williams Present final 12 months after testing optimistic for COVID-19. The host later pushed again the premiere date a second time as a result of she was nonetheless coping with “ongoing well being points.” The season lastly premiered on October 18, 2021, with a roster of rotating visitor hosts.

After the present’s return, an insider advised Us that Williams wouldn’t come again to her signature purple chair till she was completely sure she was prepared.

“Wendy is making her personal selections as she sees suits,” the supply defined in November 2021. “She’s getting higher. She’s not getting worse. That’s encouraging.”

Following the second delay of the season 13 premiere, the present confirmed that the Maintain Me in Contempt creator was not battling a coronavirus an infection, noting solely that she was nonetheless “underneath a physician’s care” and was “not able to return to work.”

The Dancing With the Stars alum addressed hypothesis about her well being after one other spherical of visitor hosts was introduced in November 2021. “As everybody is aware of, my well being has been a sizzling subject,” she mentioned in a press release shared by way of Instagram. “I’m making progress however it’s simply a kind of issues that’s taking longer than we anticipated. I’m a girl of a sure age, and I do know sufficient to hearken to my medical doctors and can return to my purple chair as quickly as all of us agree I’m prepared.”

The radio character additionally thanked her visitor hosts “for stepping up and stepping in” whereas she was away from the present. Celebs who’ve subbed in thus far embrace Whitney Cummings, Jerry Springer, Michael Rapaport, Sherri Shepherd and Leah Remini.

“I’ve heard your prayers and feedback and really feel all of the love!” Williams continued, thanking her followers for her assist. “You might be every part to me. I really like spending my mornings with you all and I’m doing every part I can to get again to work, however proper now Wendy has to deal with Wendy.”

The Wendy’s Received the Warmth creator has beforehand taken hiatuses from her present to cope with well being points. In 2018, Williams delayed the sequence three separate instances after being recognized with Graves’ illness.

“My physician has prescribed — are you prepared? — three weeks of trip,” she advised her studio viewers on the time. “I used to be pissed. Encore performances, actually?” She took one other break in Could 2020 due to fatigue associated to the sickness.

A consultant for the Masked Singer alum has not but responded to Us’ request for remark.

With reporting by Andy Tillett