‘The Wendy Williams Show’ to Air Final Episode This Week (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentAfter 13 seasons, “The Wendy Williams Show” will officially come to an end this Friday, Variety has learned exclusively.The daytime talk show has been airing all season without its host, Wendy Williams, who will not be present for the final episode, which will include a video montage celebrating her groundbreaking television run.“The final original episode of ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ will air on Friday, June 17th with a video tribute to the iconic host.

The series comes to an end after 13 successful years in syndication,” a spokesperson for the show says in a statement to Variety.Williams has been absent from her show all throughout the 2021-2022 season, due to health-related issues. (Williams suffers from Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disorder.) Without Williams in her purple chair, the show has been airing with a slew of guest hosts and panelists, including Sherri Shepherd, who is hosting this final week and the final episode.

This fall, Shepherd will be launching her own nationally-syndicated talk show, titled “Sherri,” which will takeover the time slots currently occupied by “The Wendy Williams Show” on the Fox owned-and-operated stations.“The Wendy Williams Show” is one of the biggest hits in talk show history.

Hailing from Debmar-Mercury, the show began as a summer test-run in 2008, before launching into national syndication in 2009.