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Wendy Williams Show Will Be Coming To An End After 13 Years Run

Talk show host host Wendy Williams will be taking a bow from her show after nearly 14 years.

“The final original episode of The Wendy Williams Show will air on Friday, June 17th, with a video tribute to the iconic host,” a spokesperson for the show told PEOPLE told after first exclusively sharing the news with Variety. “The series comes to an end after 13 successful years in syndication.”

Wendy Williams Show Will Be Coming To An End After 13 Years Run
Wendy Williams

Williams, 57, has been fighting for her health for quite some time. This has impacted the workflow of her eponymous talk show.

A source told PEOPLE in February: “Wendy won’t be returning to the show for the rest of this season” though one month later, William told Good Morning America about her plan to return.

“I’m going to be back on the Wendy show,” she said in March. “Bigger and brighter than ever.”

In October 2021 ahead of the talk show’s 13th season premiere, Williams’ breakthrough COVID-19 case and her ongoing health issues tied to Graves’ disease delayed its initial return, the premiere episode was delayed once more to October 18 despite Williams’ recovery from COVID-19.

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“Her healing is going slower than everyone had hoped. She continues to deal with a number of medical issues, including Graves’ disease, and she and her team are taking it one day at a time,” the source said.

Williams previously went on hiatus from the show in March 2018 and again in May 2020, due to complications with her Graves’ disease and hyperthyroidism.

“It came from me neglecting my six month endocrinology appointment,” she told PEOPLE in 2018. “I have Graves’ disease and hyperthyroid. If you have one you don’t necessarily have to have the other. But I have both, and I was diagnosed with both 19 years ago.

Williams’ show was one of the first to return to production in September 2020, after Hollywood went into lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic

The TV personality was recently the subject of a self-titled Lifetime biopic and the network’s documentary Wendy Williams: What a Mess!

 

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