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Wendy Williams breaks down just how she made the transition from radio personality to talk show host.
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00:00Thank you so much. I'm doing fine. How are you doing? I've been practicing. I'm getting my
00:07technique down. That was a good one. Was it good? Uh-huh. Do you still do the hands? Does the hands
00:11still make it? The hands were added when I got on TV and I just kind of added them because if
00:18you have your TV on mute then you know you could still do it and also when I see people from across
00:24the store as opposed to screaming to one another. When I get a I'm like. You know what's up. Yes.
00:30Yeah. And speaking of TV congratulations on all of your success. Thank you. Is it 54 countries now?
00:35Yeah. And you're wrapping up season six heading into seven. Yes. If someone would have told you
00:39in your radio days that you would be in this place right now on TV what would you have said?
00:44You know the first time getting the call I think was maybe back in 1994 and I would have done
00:48anything to be on TV and was ready to. They wanted me to wear sensible shoes and you know flat front
00:53khakis and. Not the khakis. And guess what? I was like okay. Stupid Wendy. But nobody really knew
01:01what to do with me and the more they didn't know what to do with me once they got me in the office
01:08and I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean that in a you know corporate people wanting to make a buck.
01:14How to package. Trying to package me and put me in a box and like they do. They do that with a lot
01:20of people. I just happen to be oh I am a stallion. I'm wild and I'm a mustang. You can't harness
01:27me and I should have and I knew that about myself going in. I can't believe I almost messed
01:32it up by being packaged in slacks no less. I can't even picture. Okay. I can't even picture
01:38that. Okay. And now looking back you probably can't picture that either. No. Right.
01:42No. Right.
01:50No. Right.
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