Live from New York City, it's the Wendy Williams Show.
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Now, here's Wendy.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
Thank you for watching our show.
Say hello to my co-host,
my studio audience.
How you doin'?
How you doin'?
I'm doin' okay.
Let's get started.
It's time for Hot Topics.
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Well, the weather outside is frightful.
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Thank you, crew and stuff.
You've surprised me with the fire.
Oh, I feel so cozy.
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But we need to clear that for the Hot Topics, okay?
So fireplace, you're cute,
but ooh, now we have two fireplaces.
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Ooh.
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The deluxe version.
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Okay, now everyone settle down.
Co-host at home watching.
Co-host in the studio audience.
I've got an announcement to make.
Ooh.
Well, you're not gonna like it, nor do I.
Oh.
But the weather is inclement
and Ray J is not here.
Oh.
Anyone who wants to leave,
just raise your hands during commercial
and you will be escorted out.
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But if you wanna stay, let's play.
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Okay, okay. (laughs)
Well, here's what happened.
Here's what happened.
Ray J was at the airport.
He was at the LAX, coming to the Wendy Show.
You know he was supposed to be our guest today.
Now I know it's bad weather all over the country.
Here in New York, it's bad as well.
People are skidding and being shut in
and all kinds of stuff goin' on.
But because of the bad weather in New York,
Ray J couldn't get outta LA
because he couldn't land here in New York
without skiddin' off a runway,
and we don't want that.
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So he showed up at the,
but by the way, we moved his visit to tomorrow,
to be safe.
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Yeah, yeah.
By then, the plows and the salt and everything like that,
but guess what?
What?
While he was at the airport comin' to Wendy,
he was spotted by TMZ without his wedding ring.
Oh.
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Now look here,
I don't know what any of this means
but he'll be here tomorrow.
Ray J, we look forward to grilling you.
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We've got love for Ray J and so we'll see ya tomorrow.
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Yeah.
So now Howard Stern says that Simon Cowell
is the one to blame for the firing of Gabrielle Union
and Julianna Hough.
Oh.
From America's Got Talent.
Now you recall, I mean even Nick Cannon has talked shady
about the show, you know what I'm saying?
I don't know whether it was a race thing or a sexism thing
or a thing-thing or whatever,
but Howard was a judge on this show for four years,
from 2012 to 2015.
And here's what he had to say on his radio show yesterday.
He has set it up that the men stay,
no matter how old they are, no matter how fat they are,
no matter how ugly they are,
or no matter how talentless they are,
but what he manages to do on all his shows
is he constantly replaces the hot chicks with hotter chicks
and younger chicks, which is so obvious.
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Well, I mean I agree.
Howie Mandel has been there all along.
I like Howie.
And by the way, Howard likes Howie as well.
And yeah, it's only the girls who get replaced.
And they do get replaced with
equally as attractive women and things like,
it's almost like I don't think that Simon is a racist
because Simon has had relations with black women,
romantical and everything before.
This is not, I don't think, a black thing.
I just think that this is a sexism thing, girls.
And this is us all against them.
And sometimes, that's how it is.
It's not always a black or white thing.
Howard is big enough of a person to really go after it
and say it like he means it.
Simon can't hurt Howard.
Howard is that guy.
But I also believe that somewhere in Howard's psyche,
Howard might be a little bit jealous of Simon.
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Only because Howard is big on radio
and in my mind, I think that my king of all media
wanted to truly be that international star,
owning shows and doing things and bein' on the radio
but also flippin' shows.
Simon came outta nowhere
years ago, when we first met him,
and just took over.
I mean he smoked cigarettes inside.
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Howard also said what we said yesterday,
which is that Julianna Hough is staying quiet
because after they fired her,
she's got other projects to work on with NBC.
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I don't think that she needs to comment on this
because her money is not as secure
as Gabrielle Union's money.
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Okay?
Okay, okay.
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I mean Gabrielle is a beautiful, accomplished actress.
She's got her own on her own.
Plus she married Dwyane and he's got hundreds
of millions of dollars.
They're good, you know what I mean?
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In the meantime,
Julianna Hough, she's dating a hockey player
but he's no Wayne Gretzky.
Do you know what I mean?
He's some sorta hockey player.
One bad puck to the nut
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and he's out.
Oh, oh, oh no, she's married to him, Brooks.
All right, well, I don't know who that is.
I don't really follow hockey like that
but I do remember the Wayne Gretzky era, right?
Yep.
Do you know who Brooks is?
Never heard of this man.
I'm sorry to this man. (laughs)
I don't--
Right?
Right, if I saw him on the street,
I wouldn't know a thing.
No, no, no.
Does he have a hockey jersey in the arena?
Maybe.
I don't know.
Well, Gretzky does.
Yep, exactly.
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So this is what has transpired as of late.
Gabrielle Union is meeting with the NBC execs this week
to discuss how to improve the atmosphere on the show.
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I think that this is terrific.
You wanna know what?
Gabrielle, if they offer you your job back,
I wouldn't even take it.
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But you know what I would take?
I would take a low key, high-paying job as a consultant
in the background for the show.
Okay?
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In the meantime,
Simon is also a judge on British's X Factor.
See, yeah, no, no, not what.
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You know Simon is big.
My cameraman chiming in.
No, it's a group effort here at Wendy.
They said "What?"
I think that was Caillou.
His real name's not Caillou but do you know that character
from the kids thing?
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Oh.
Caillou.
Caillou recently got his citizenship
and we made a party here and everything.
Uh-huh, yep.
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Yeah.
He's been here forever,
it was like a big deal, right, Suzanne?
He's from Romania.
He's from Romania.
He's Romanian and now he's a US citizen.
Yep, yep.
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Legit.
Legit.
Anyway, so back to Simon. (laughs)
So Simon has this X Factor in Britain
and The Pussycat Dolls had their reunion on the show.
Okay.
Well, that's what they were.
But let's show them what they are now, okay?
Don't cha, okay, okay.
They are twisting and turning and rubbing that booty.
And they perform.
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So here's the deal.
They performed for the first time.
Exactly, exactly.
Yes.
Go Scherschingberger and girls.
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Do that thing, do that thing, do it.
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So they performed for the first time in 10 years
on X Factor in Britain, the season finale.
This is them.
Uh-huh, right.
Everyone's in their late 30s, mid-40s,
somethin' or another.
People have children, people are poppin' and droppin'.
And many of the viewers were appalled.
Oh.
Oh, yes.
The skimpy outfits, the sexual dances.
Oh.
At eight o'clock at night during family hour.
Oh.
Well, listen,
the world is on...
Everything has changed.
And I think that eight o'clock at night,
your kids have seen worse than this, number one.
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Number one.
Number two,
the first syllable of the name of the show,
or the group,
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says it all.
Just saying.
It says it all.
I love this right here
and it's not even about women's empowerment.
It's not even about that.
It's about these girls have kept it tight and right
all these years.
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And if you've got an eight-year-old and a 10-year-old
and you don't want them to see that
but you see in your cable guide that The Pussycat Dolls
are gonna be on,
then you quickly change the channel to something innocent
like the cartoon Caillou or somethin'.
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Do something different with your families.
The Pussycat Dolls are making new music.
Well, I don't care about that part.
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And by the way, the song "Don't Cha",
just when you think that's hot enough,
if you listen to that smoldering song "Push the Buttons".
Oh.
DJ Boof, okay.
Can you please play "Buttons" during commercial break
so we can all zip it and zoo it in here?
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Thank you.
So they have a reunion tour.
It kicks off in the UK in April of 2020.
I don't know when they're comin' to New York
but I do know two people that wanna be front and center.
Yes.
Me and him.
Totally.
Ooh, don't cha.
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Uh-huh.
Just sayin'.
And I think that a lot of the people who are mad
at The Pussycat Dolls are people who don't watch their diet.
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Sorry, sorry.
Or you watch your diet but you're not,
like you're letting the sands of the hourglass
grow under your feet,
as opposed to keeping up.
They're hot.
Uh-huh, they're hot. (laughs)
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'Cause I don't care
so this is for you.
So Pete Davidson, you know that thing about asking fans
to sign a $1 million non-disclosure agreement
before goin' to his show?
Even if you're Eddie Murphy
and the funniest people on earth,
Chris Rock,
a million dollars?
Do your fans even have that to pay you back?
So what if they leak it online,
you're gonna sue your fans and they don't have that money?
How funny are you?
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And I don't really know him but doesn't he look scared?
Uh-huh.
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And not funny.
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Anyway, he's saying that you can't give any reviews,
you can't critique his show,
you gotta lock up your phone at the door,
you can't post it on social media,
and if he finds out any of this,
then he's gonna sue you for a million dollars.
Oh.
I don't care if it's $20,000.
So he informed his fans of this
just a few hours before this show that he did.
So he gave them the right of refusal.
If you don't wanna sign it,
then just don't show up at the show.
But in the meantime, you've gotten your babysitter,
you've taken off from work.
You've got your crowd with you.
You're on your way to the show.
And to me, excuse me, I don't care how big you are,
signing a non-disclosure,
I don't even like the idea of locking up phones
not for nothing.
It's horrible that people are so immature these days
that they have to pull out their phones for everything
and nothing could be just kept to the room.
But I don't think that as a performer,
you can do that.
Here at Wendy, we tell you guys don't bring your phones out
but that's 'cause we've got the lights
and we don't want you to mess with the lighting
and stuff like that.
Also, when we swing to the audience,
we want you to be paying attention.
We don't want you to be down like,
'cause you come to be a co-host.
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Right?
You come to be seen on TV and help out with this messy show.
But there is a certain point of the show at the very end,
where you pull out your phones
and you take pictures of junk and whatever you wanna do
and stuff like that.
I don't even care about him like that.
I think they only keep him on that show
to make fun of Ariana Grande and the people he dates.
I think he's the dating puppet.
Right. (laughs)
Nobody on that show is dating high.
He dates high.
He's dating that 18-year-old Gerber girl.
Yeah.
How old is she?
She's 18, she's Cindy Crawford's daughter.
Right?
Looks just like her.
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She forgot to hold her stomach in.
They catch us all in a bad frame sometimes
but she's a beautiful girl.
She looks just like her mother.
But she's 18 and he's 25.
And do I care?
No.
Will they get married and get pregnant?
No.
Are her parents pissed?
Probably.
But can they control an 18-year-old model?
No.
Look, they're walkin' and havin' a good time
and there she is with her parents and stuff.
Anyway, let's talk about Drake.
Ooh.
Otherwise known as Wheelchair Jimmy.
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From Degrassi High, this was his big role.
This is when nobody cared about Drake.
I know for a lotta people,
it took some time for Drake to become hot to you.
And now he's the most googled, most richest,
the most, the most, the most.
He made it.
Drake is that guy.
You can't deny that.
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And I don't even like facial hair
but he's worn me down too.
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From Wheelchair Jimmy to that.
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So he's being called out for texting a 17-year-old.
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You know the singer Billie Eilish?
She's 17.
His fans think it's really creepy.
Drake is 33.
There is a 16-year age gap.
So what do you think about this?
I think about this that Drake has been a child star
all of his life
and even though he's become this Drake right here,
he probably still has a lot of arrested development
in terms of communicating with the ladies.
He likes a stripper
or he likes a 17-year-old.
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There's nobody of cerebral challenge going on here.
The thing is is that Drake has been texting this girl
and emailing her and stuff, I like you,
and she's like I like you too.
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We don't know whether it's romantic.
We don't know the inflection of an email or a text
or something like that.
But if you're gonna be a 33-year-old man
and you wanna give guidance 'cause maybe Wheelchair Jimmy,
you know what I'm saying,
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maybe his thought is that showbiz is a tough life
and I could be a mentor to some of these young girls.
Look, I'm tryin' to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Now you all be quiet.
I'm trying to, today is Giving Tuesday,
I'm trying to give.
I'm trying to be giving.
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I'm tryin' to be giving.
But my thing is is that if you're a Drake and you're 33
and you wanna be in contact with a 16/17
or 18-year-old girl, whatever,
you need a buffer.
That's why you have a manager.
You have your manager get in contact with her
and say my client, Drake, really likes you
and he sees a lot of you in him.
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Or vice versa.
But then they go out for lunch or next time you're in Canada
or LA or wherever, then let's go out and chit-chat
and so on and so,
but like Drake needs a buffer
and that's why I think a lot of people are hating on Drake
for getting in contact with this girl.
They're insinuating that it's romantic.
I'm not insinuating that it's romantic
but I am saying it does look inappropriate.
And he has a team of people who could get in the way of this
and just bring them together in solidarity
but in a room full of people,
never to be left alone with a 17-year-old.
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So today everybody is Giving Tuesday.
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Yeah.
And I've teamed up with the SNAX-Sational brand
to give back.
Their snacks are so delicious,
especially if you put hot sauce on.
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The Candy Pop, TWIX and all this stuff,
all this stuff is proper, right?
You bust open this TWIX popcorn, right,
and you pull out your hot sauce.
But do it by yourself when you don't have to touch anything
'cause it gets sloppy.
And you get to eatin'.
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So now, through January 2020,
for every bag that you buy online,
100% of the profits go to this organization
that I really like.
I'm actually doing something with them tonight
at the Dylan's Candy Bar where I can multitask
'cause I can be giving back but at the same time,
I and the now and laters, Dylan's Candy Bar,
they're a candy bar.
Anyway, Operation Backpack is a community service
of volunteers, I'm part of this,
of the American Greater New York Area, America,
and what we do is we stuff backpacks for children in need
so that they have all the proper things
to go to school and get smart.
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So to find out more, go to WendyShow.com
and studio audience,
because it's Giving Tuesday and I know you love a snack,
I'm sendin' you all home with this big bag of snacks.
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Uh-huh.
And right now, we've got more great show for you everybody.
Up next, the Inside Scoop
on my girl Remy Ma's assault charges.
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So grab a snack
and come on back.
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