Live from New York City, it's the Wendy Williams Show.
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Now, here's Wendy.
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Well.
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Thank you for watching our show.
Say hello to my co-host, my staffers.
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How you doin'?
How you doin'?
This is the best day ever, guys.
Let's get started.
It's time for Hot Topics.
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Hey John, where's Doug?
All right, John, look, can you just,
we're stressed out.
Hey Doug?
Yes.
Come on, we're stressed out.
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Pass 'em around, pass 'em around, pass 'em around.
Okay, here we go.
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Go ahead, we're stressed.
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Okay, this is what's goin' on around here.
Yeah.
So I get the call yesterday afternoon
and they were calling like doom and gloom,
but in my mind,
I was like this is the show
I've been waiting to do for the last 11 years.
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Like honestly.
I love my co-hosts,
and we have had some major snowstorms
here in the Tri-state area,
and the show puts everybody up at the hotel down the street
so we can all get here in the morning and make it work.
And we always wonder will the audience have any people,
will the co-hosts be scared,
and every snowstorm, Suzanne,
everyone shows up.
Always.
Always.
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So the idea that this coronavirus has got every,
and they called me with this and I'm just like,
well, I was fine yesterday, doin' the show from over here.
By the way, you all,
I'm not comin' over there either, okay?
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But look, look, look.
And we've got Ask Wendy.
Yeah.
Okay?
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Getting to know you,
getting to know all the things about you.
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And we've got eye candy.
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Billy is here but he's not here live
because we taped his interview.
A lotta times when you do a live show,
I mean there he is.
From Mike & Molly.
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His interview was taped the other day.
Stop coughin', I heard that, Marco.
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Okay?
And what are you wearin', a dress?
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What are you wearin'?
It's a kurta, an Indian kurta,
it's the Holi Festival.
Oh right, well, he's Indian.
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Well, same thing.
Opraha.
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Anyhow.
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Marco, you're in charge of passing the microphone
around the audience.
Okay, absolutely.
Is Sunshine here?
Sunshine, hi.
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Sunshine was the one in our whole show family.
I call him Sunshine because he never smiles.
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Oh, look at those, he's smiling, he's smiling.
Kind of.
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Kind of.
He's very antisocial.
I figured if we put him up at the top,
he wouldn't have to be on camera all the time
like the rest of you show ponies.
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We don't have much goin' on around here
but we do have each other.
These are the people who support me
and this entire production every day.
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And the ones who aren't here,
it's only 'cause they're in the control room
pushin' buttons or answerin' the front phone,
as to what's going on.
Well, look, I've been told this is gonna be goin' on
for a few weeks, you all.
Oh.
That's right.
So I'm doin' the whole, yep.
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Yep.
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So Billy's on tape but I tried to affect the same look
just to fool ya.
There woulda been flashin' to the audience.
That's back when the audience
before they were coughin' as much,
and now we're all coughin' so much.
I can't take it.
Anyway, is everybody good?
Yeah.
Perfect.
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Wait, now hold on.
Oh-oh.
Boof didn't show up to work?
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Oh, okay, he's layin' way in the cut,
like I don't even wanna be involved.
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So Naomi Campbell is also caught up.
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That's what people do with ciggies.
I'll clean it up myself.
Look, we're all working together today.
Anyway, she's a germophobe,
I mean a germophobe.
Now I've always been a germophobe of sorts.
I think within reason.
But she wore a full Hazmat suit and gloves
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to the airport the other day.
Now she's one of those people,
she always wipes down everything
and uses a blanket to cover her seat.
This is her many moons ago.
She put it up on her social media
what she goes through to travel.
So she's not new to being,
she must be freaking out with this coronavirus thing.
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See,
if you saw somebody walkin' around like that at the airport,
clap if you'd be okay with it.
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Just a few people? (clears throat)
And we're in the middle of a virus,
just a few people.
I'm not sure I'm down with it.
Part of me says, look, the stats are going up,
but the other part of me says
they might be creating mass hysteria.
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Including telling me no audience.
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I mean even I didn't go there.
I'm very comfortable with my family here though.
You all, I gotta tell you somethin'.
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They're so happy.
I've never seen the staff happier.
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And they're fantastic.
They do.
They're doin' a great job.
I was worried how they might react.
And everybody still,
after we finish, the jobs will still get done.
This will all be cleaned up.
I'll pick up my cigarettes.
Yeah, oh yeah.
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Jasmine on wig over there'll come fight with me on
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push it back.
Show her.
Yep, there's Jasmine.
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And her Birkin bag, which is a whole 'nother topic.
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Swing down at the bag.
Jasmine got the Birkin bag.
Yeah.
She got the, oh, okay.
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So far so good, Jasmine?
So far so good.
Okay.
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Merrell on makeup.
Yeah.
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And Willie Sinclair, captain of wardrobe.
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Chanel next to Willie.
Chanel assists Willie.
And then
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their intern in their wardrobe department.
Yes.
Oh.
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So back to corona.
All right, so Howie Mandel's panicked also,
so he's wearing that full thing.
He had to go to The Voice the other day
and he had on the same thing.
Oh.
No.
And I'm just like,
and then Heidi Klum was sent home sick.
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I don't know what she has but she was sent home sick.
Then the annual South by Southwest Festival.
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All right, not just was it canceled.
Canceled with no refund.
Oh.
For anyone.
And they laid off a third of their employees.
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Well, this is what you all get for buyin' tickets
and not readin' that fine print.
Because this show has been goin' on for,
this festival, for 34 years.
This is the first year it's been canceled,
South by Southwest.
I've never been but I know about it.
It's legendary.
But down at the bottom when you buy your tickets,
it always says whether you get sick,
whether there's no flyin', whether it's an act of God,
whatever it is, you're not gettin' your money back.
So hmm, take that.
And they didn't even postpone it to another time,
like some of the other festivals.
They've canceled it.
And of course, laying off a third of the employees means
that the upper echelons,
the rest of them that are still there
probably'll get big bonuses,
you know what I'm sayin'?
Let's be
suspicious
and divide the money with just us.
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You known what I'm saying, Norntman.
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I'm here.
There's Patrick.
Yeah.
All right, show Patrick.
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Patrick has a full family,
including, as he says to me, more kids than he needs.
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But he wants more.
Patrick has worked here since day one
of our Six Week Sneak Peek.
Patrick is one of the people who has been
actually to my living space at home.
Patrick, you've been to Jersey.
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Yeah, yeah.
Well, no, well.
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Just like the real audience.
(laughs) They are.
All suspicious.
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No, but you know how we always give away stuff,
whether it's curling irons.
I could put that in my bag and take it home and stuff.
But sometimes we give away big stuff,
like those real good smoker grills.
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And Patrick and his department
will drive 'em over in the Wendy van.
Oh.
Well, we have...
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A piece of confetti just fell.
Fabulous.
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That's some of our dearly departed people.
Oh.
Yeah.
Oh.
Ben, Antoine.
Some of the people who used to work here.
Oh, that's them sayin' how you doin'.
How you doin'?
How you doin'?
Anyway, Patrick, mhm.
Who else?
There's Tristan, sitting next to Joelle.
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Joelle is a Senior Producer, been here since day one.
Tristan is in charge of my IT department.
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I see over his shoulder near Patrick,
there's John Jr.
That would be John Anderson's son from the Anderson dynasty.
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I still don't know that black man's name with the love,
Brendan, help me.
Turn around, what's his name again?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, but is he new like he works here now
or like he's filling in for somebody?
Fills in, he fills in.
He fills in?
All right, well, this is your day.
You're on TV.
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Anyway, so here's Joe Giudice weighin' in
on the coronavirus.
He's in Italy
and as you know, the whole country of Italy is on lockdown,
which is crazy to me.
By the way, do you know that here in New York today,
they're supposed to have a nationwide council meeting
with the top heads of state and what not about corona?
I saw it this morning on the news.
The meeting has been canceled.
Oh.
So if the corona officials are canceling meetings,
what are we still doin'?
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What are we doin'?
Here's what Joe says.
By the way, he looks good while he's sayin' it.
Go ahead.
I can't believe that there's literally nobody
out in these streets.
Look at this.
Ghost town.
Literally nobody out
because of this stupid coronavirus.
It's like ridiculous.
People are so scared.
Unbelievable.
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All the whores are in the house.
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I can't get a lap dance.
All right, well,
sorry about that, Joe.
The only thing that I've done differently,
'cause I was asked this morning in our meeting
"Well, what have you really done differently?"
And other than imposing exile to this chair while I work,
which is a dream come true.
The whole show I'll be booty in the chair.
So fabulous.
Other than that,
I got the sterilizer on my washing,
you know how washing machines say cold, warm,
hot, bulk, whatever,
I wash all my clothes in the sterilizer,
which is an hour and 47 minutes.
Yeah, yeah, I've been doing that.
The water is really hot and for an hour and 47 minutes,
get to washin'.
Yep.
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The unfortunate thing is I like to think of myself
as that housewife type of girl,
but a lotta those clothes have shrunken.
Oh.
Yeah, yeah.
(laughs) I mean okay.
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'Cause you put 'em in the sterilizer,
then you put 'em in the dryer,
and then I'm like wait a minute,
what happened to my T-shirt? (laughs)
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But yeah, and no more dry clean,
no more of that action, mm-mm.
And I wash like every other day
or get somebody to, every other, I get help,
but mhm, the sterilizer.
All right, so that Nicki Minaj thing.
Here's the thing.
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We're still gonna talk
but there's a bigger picture than Nicki and her husband
as a sex offender and her brother in jail for offending.
The bigger picture is what do we do about our kids?
So I called a friend of mine
and his name is Bill Stanton,
and what I like about Bill is that he's from New York,
he talks that talk.
He's a crime expert.
And this is the kinda expert you wanna talk to
to find out, it's not so much about Nicki,
it's about how do you keep your kids protected.
Because I remember, I'm not gonna say exactly where,
but I remember we had a fabulous realtor
and we bought a house.
This was back in old life, right?
I got the little goober and he's like this,
runnin' around, wantin' to go trick or treatin' and stuff.
It was the realtor who came to me.
She said, "Wendy, here's a map."
I said, "Thanks.
"I can figure out how to get around, it's not a big town."
So she said, "No, no, no, no,
"all the red dots are showin' you the sex offenders."
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Honey child, that map was lit up.
Lit.
And I was like, "You know what, I didn't even ask for this
"but thank you."
So that's just a little heads up tip
from parent to parent,
or if you're concerned as a grandparent or an aunt
and uncle or you're neighbors or whatever,
if you wanna know where the sex offenders live,
all you gotta do is get that map in your town.
If they don't have it, you need to start protesting.
You go right there to City Hall.
It just so happens that my realtor
was on the ball 'cause she's a mom too.
And those red dots were lit up.
I mean they were over there, they were over there,
they were round the corner.
I said, okay, so now we know where not to trick or treat.
Now we know what houses that my kid won't be playin' at.
'Cause just 'cause you register,
doesn't mean that you're not a parent yourself,
you know what I mean?
And unfortunately, their children have to suffer
because we don't want our children going over there
because dad or mom or grandpa
is a sex offender.
So that's just a little tip from me to you.
Bill will be out here later.
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Brandi Glanville is talkin' about
famous hook-ups.
Oh.
No, at first, I didn't wanna do this story
but then they ran down the names
and what it was all about.
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Plus it's a really good picture.
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I love red and leopard.
It's really loose.
You know what I mean?
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Willie has to work with my tacky tastes.
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But somehow, we always agree to something.
He hates my jewelry.
Oh.
Oh, he hates it, oh my,
oh, he hates it.
What?
Oh.
Yes.
And then Joanie hates it too
'cause she's tryin' to mic me.
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And I got necklaces clinkin' on the mic.
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I don't care.
I don't care.
Yep.
And I hate the sneakers but I have to wear them on account,
but you've adjusted very well, mhm.
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Now Jasmine sitting next to Jasmine
is one of my producers.
Yes.
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Mhm.
And we've been through thick and thin
since day one.
Uh-huh.
And thank you for my God T-shirt.
You got it, girl.
I did, yes.
She gives me nail polish.
She's one of those Instagram girls who goes on,
let me see your nails.
Let me see your nails today.
They're not done?
No, they're not.
You cut them off?
Oh, I got them short.
I'm tryin' to be classy and professional.
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We don't care about classy around here.
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Yeah.
A good switch-up is good.
She's an influencer.
What's your influence site?
So it's Jasalina on Instagram
and Polish Angels, where I do the nails for the seniors.
Oh.
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Yeah, yeah.
No, but you can pass it over to Dan Fitzpatrick.
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How you doin', Wendy?
Well, Dan is one of my day one-ers from 2008
and we're still a rocky boat here.
Dan was a single man
at that time.
Didn't have a girlfriend.
Single as the day was long.
And no children.
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And now Dan is the father of three.
Three, yep.
Been married for a few years.
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Got locked down.
Yeah.
Locked down now, Wendy.
And still here, no matter what.
That's right, you're not gettin' rid of me. (laughs)
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All right, pass it on to John Anderson.
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Good morning, Wendy.
How you doin', John?
All right, how are you?
I mean what is there to say.
John is in charge of everything out here,
with the crew.
I try.
And makin' sure my chair is steady.
I try.
And the table.
Pass it to Jason.
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Hi Wendy.
I can never figure out what Jason does
but you do a lot.
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When the clock needs to be changed up too high.
I got that done for you on Monday, of course.
Yeah, thank you.
Right before you walked in.
Yeah, or somebody spills a green tea on my floor.
Whatever you need help with, I'm here to help out.
What is your actual title?
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Thanks.
What's your title though?
Director of Operations.
There you go, that's him.
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Okay.
Wait a minute, they're cutting me off about Brandi.
I wanted to tell you.
Okay, so she messed around with David Schwimmer.
Oh.
Okay.
What?
Ben Stiller.
No.
Gary Butler.
Gerard Butler.
And Matt Le Blanc.
Oh.
What she said, she was specific about Matt Le Blanc
turning her off,
like they had a really good date.
They got back to his house
and she was open to havin' the sex.
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But he had an ice cream cone
and he was lickin' the ice cream cone
and let his dog lick off of it.
Oh.
And then went back to lickin'.
So she was turned off and left.
I don't know about you, I woulda left too.
Yeah.
Right.
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Anyway, and so now Hot Topics is over
but the show is still, excuse me,
excuse me, you all, you know how this show works. (laughs)
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We've got more great show for you.
Up next
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live in the studio,
and hopefully not coughin',
Bill Stanton is here.
He's the crime expert with the Inside Scoop on Nicki Minaj.
So grab a snack and a tissue
and come on back.
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