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The Entertainment Never Stops ( Wendy Williams Update, and Loren Prepares for the BET Awards)
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Lauren LaRosa
This is an I Heart podcast. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody Exclusive. You know she don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y' all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa. And this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. I'm your homegirl that knows a bit about everything and everybody. And this show, of course, is your daily digit on all things pop culture, entertainment news, exclusives, and y' all know we get into those conversations that shake the room, honey. I'm your host, Lauren Therosa, and we always do our behind the scenes of the grind. Check in back on the grinding. Hello, my lowriders. And welcome back to another episode. Today, I am feeling excited. We are headed over to la, and when I say we, I mean me and a lot of the producers and the digital staff here at the Breakfast Club and Power 151, which is the station that the Breakfast Club is on in New York, are headed over to LA for the BET Awards. And I'm gonna get into that, actually in the actual latest, like, in our news today, we gonna talk about the BET Awards and, you know, how exciting all that is gonna be for us. But I'm excited. I've done the BET Awards probably every year of my career, except for maybe one or two. So a good seven, eight years, I've been going to LA for the BET Awards. And every single year that I do it, it's always amazing. It's always like, a testament to God and the thing and a reminder of how grateful to God I should be in. You know, it's just, you know, like. You know how they say, like, don't just praise God and. Or don't go to God in the bad times, praise him in the good times as well. Every year with BET Awards, I look back on the year before and I look back on what I was doing when I was there. Like, when I first started going to the BET Awards, y' all, I was just, like, going know nobody, didn't know what was going on, didn't know the lay of Lane. Just trying to find my way into whatever I could figure out, to be honest with you. And now I'm going in the Latest with Lauren LaRosa, and the breakfast Club will be there. I'll be broadcasting live from la, doing the Breakfast Club from there, doing some interviews, and it's gonna be a good time. So I'm gonna let y' all know all the information of where you guys can listen. Of course, right Here on the podcast is where we're bringing the content to. But I mean, if you want to watch the actual show, I'll let you guys know that in a second. So I'm feeling really good. I'm feeling really excited and grateful and yeah, it's just about to be a really great weekend. So my content will might sound a little different. The sound is still gonna be good, but you know, it's. I'm not gonna be there by myself all the time because I'll be talking to people. But let's get on into the latest. So you guys have been asking me for a Wendy Williams update and I know the last time we talked about Wendy Williams here on the podcast, I was giving you guys a Mother's Day update. And I let you know that Wendy Williams spent Mother's Day alone in, you know, what she alleges and calls her luxury prison, which is the room that she lives in and the facility that she is currently housed in where, you know, she can't even let herself down in the elevator if she chooses to. There has to be a person to escort her to do that. She has to have permission to do everything from, you know, as small as just going out to dinner with friends and family. She only has a phone in her room which she can call out on. You are not able to call her. There is no computer. Her life is very, very different than what we have ever known Wendy's life to be. But you guys, you know, if you've been following, you know that if not, that's a brief little synopsis of, you know, where things are with her right now. But the Jasmine Brand shout out to the Jasmine Brand broke and exclusive that Wendy Williams ex husband Kevin Hunter will be planning that Wendy Williams ex husband Kevin Hunter will be doing a sit down tell all interview with Gayle King. Now they say this sit down interview that he's going to be doing with Gayle King, he's currently prepping for it. Now the details of like what exactly he'll be talking about haven't been disclosed. But Kevin Hunter has been very vocal and he has gone a lot. He's going to have a lot to talk about because he's been going through financial battle or legal woes as well as Wendy Williams when it comes to this conservation conservatorship battle because the conservatorship controls Wendy Williams money. Kevin Hunter is currently involved in a lawsuit against the Wendy Williams show former production company Deborah Mercury claiming that he was wrongfully terminated after he split from Wendy WILLIAMS Back in 2019, if you guys remember, he was working kind of like as her, like, manager. He was helping her run the show a bit. He was very involved. But after they split, he was fired. Their divorce followed a highly publicized cheating scandal during which Kevin fathered a child with a woman. And when that scandal came out, when reports of that scandal came out, it was reported that the woman lived like, you know, just a few miles down from the house that him and Wendy Williams lived in in Jersey. And, you know, that this had been something that was ongoing for some time. And Wendy Williams herself, she didn't have a choice. She had to talk about it on her show. That's how big this scandal was. But since the following of, you know, him leaving the show, him and Wendy Williams splitting, they went through a divorce. It was, she was. Wendy Williams was ordered to pay him money. He's been going through the media and making headlines for some of the troubles that he's having with money. He recently sold his Florida mansion. There's, you know, been headlines that he was being sued for credit card debt. There's been a ton of different things. But he's currently going to battle with the conservatorship as well too, because, because he, I mean, he's fighting over the alimony money. So according to a lawsuit that was filed back In April of 2024, Wendy Williams Guardianship or guardian Sabrina Morrissey is demanding, or was demanding, still demanding, because nothing has been paid. Over $100,000 in alimony to be paid back by Kevin Hunter. Now, Wendy Williams guardian Sabrina Morrissey says that Kevin Hunter was overpaid for three months of his alimony and was justly enriched by Wendy Williams bank account. This is the Wells Fargo account that the conservatorship claimed that they had to come in and take over because it was being misused and mishandled properly. But in a separate court response, Kevin Hunter actually demanded that the former talk show host Wendy Williams pay him 23 months in back payments for spousal support from their divorce. Now, what Kevin Hunter is claiming, or was claiming back in April 2024, is that Wendy Williams allegedly stopped paying him alimony before she was placed under a court ordered guardianship in May of 2022 that oversees her finances and her health. Now, both parties agreed that, you know, their out of court mediation at the time. So this is Wendy Williams and this is Kevin Hunter. So for Wendy Williams, the conservatorship, they both agreed that the out of court mediation that they did failed. I guess, you know, they were Trying to have a conversation about what's old, what's not. And it didn't work out. So Sabrina Morrissey actually brought the issue to court because she's trying to figure out what an answer is. Now, Kevin Hunter and his attorney at the time, you know, had no further comment about this. But again, there's been so many headlines since this about just different things he's allegedly experienced financially. So I'm assuming that, you know, that's something they hold touch on in Gayle King. But also too, I mean they do share a son together. Right. And although their son recently graduated from college and is an adult in the world now, we have not heard Kevin Hunter Sr's take on just any of the things thus far. Right. Like not in a real way. There's been, you know, he's posted things here and there on social media. There's been little statements here and there as well to media, but not a full sit down interview. So I think yes, he's going to talk about. There's no way he cannot. Especially because Wendy Williams herself is claiming her money is under control by someone that is not. She has no, no say so. And someone that she is alleging she doesn't want to be under the control of and ultimately doesn't trust. Right. But in addition to that, they share a kid together. All of this stuff is happening publicly. Their son at one point was even involved. You guys remember when Wendy Williams spoke to us here at the Breakfast Club, she said that a part of this whole thing was her son mismanaging, you know, money. And we, and we talked to her about that and she also spoke to, you know, the TMZ team on their to be doc about this as well too. So it's gonna be very interesting to hear. And also too, I think what a lot of us or I know myself would love to hear from Kevin Hunter is if you could go back and do this all differently, would you? Because yes, Wendy Williams, you know, there were the, the addictions that she's talked about when it comes to drinking and things of that n, you know, not taking care of her health the way she should have been taking care of her health. But man, does it seem like such a spiral of things since the baby that Kevin Hunter had and the divorce and her having to get public about the divorce and you know, and I don't know if one plus one equals two. I'm not saying that I've spoken to her and that's what she said to me and you know, any of those things. But as A woman. I just know, you know what that strain is like when you got man problems, you got cheating problems and you got health. Like, it's a lot to deal with. So I would love to and I hope and I kind of know that Gayle King as the journalist she is, will dive into. Let's take a step back. Like, let's really pull back the curtain here because if we really think about was like such a tumbledown effect. It's like we heard about the cheating, we heard about the baby, and then everything just tumbled from there. And I would want to know if any, like, if they have any conversations at all. Him and his son, him and Wendy's family, him and Wendy Williams. What have those been? What have they been? Now in other news, I told you guys that we are headed to the 2025 BET Awards. The BET Awards are actually gonna go down on Monday, June 9th at 8:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Now you can see tons of performances. Lil Wayne, Teyana Taylor, Glorilla, Playboi Cardi, Leon Thomas. It's gonna be hosted by Kevin Hart, which I'm really excited for. Cause you know, it's gonna be funny. It's gonna be a little crazy hosting a BET Award. So, you know, I think he gonna do his little one, two with the wardrobe changes. And you just never know with Kevin Hart. Like, he is such a, he is such a character. You just never know with Kevin Hart. When we talk about the awards, you have, you know, best female and male hip hop artists to album of the year. You have Dr. Bobby Jones best gospel inspiration award. The category span such a big spectrum of so many things and black excellence. So the, there's a ton of nominees, but the big nominees this year, Kendrick Lamar, sza, Glorilla, Drake, Dochi, Chris Brown, Jamie Foxx, Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Kirk Franklin will all be honored as ultimate icons. It's gonna be a great year, y' all. This is gonna be a great year to BET Awards. And I think we say this every year about the BET Awards because it's ours and that's, you know, that's all we have. But this is gonna be a great year. They're also doing the 25 year reunion or anniversary of 106 and park. So that will take place on stage. And I know the 106 and park crew, they party that's happening out there in la, which I'll be attending as well. But I am excited. For the first time ever in Breakfast Club history, the Breakfast Club will be in the radio room at the BET Awards. The radio room is where you sit down with artists and you have interview conversations with them live right there at the show. And then we take that and we feed it into social and then I'm able to bring it here on the podcast and you know, to the Breakfast Club. But it's like one big cafeteria in like all the biggest names in music and entertainment come through and they sit down and they have a conversation with you. So you just gotta be on your A game. Like you just gotta know what's going on. You gotta know who you talking to. And y' all know I love this type of stuff. So I am so excited because I'll be there. I'll be the person doing the sit down conversations, you know, bringing it back to the latest with Lauren Therose of the podcast and latest with Lauren Therose on the Breakfast Club. So, you know, we gonna get busy. I am super excited and I'll also be doing like recaps of my days because some of the stuff I might mention on there but like really show you too much because I gotta, you know, stick with the news, right? So some of the stuff like, you know, the 106 and Park Day party I mentioned and you know, the any after parties for the BET Awards because I will be attending the BET Awards as well and doing a like a pre carpet stage for them, doing some interviews there. I might not be able to show y' all all that. Okay. I might not be able to. Not on the podcast and not on the Breakfast Club, but on my social media, on my YouTube channel, Lauren Therosa TV. I can so make sure you're following me there too to get those insights and those, you know. But I want to know who are you guys excited to see at this year's BET Awards? Let me know because if y' all excited to see them, I'm excited to see them and I'll try making my. My, my business to run into them. Y' all are asking for interviews and I told you guys at the beginning of this, like, you know, give the podcast some time. Let us, let us get the kinks out and it'll happen. And man, has it been happening. So we'll have a ton of interviews for you guys. A ton of great moments from culture's biggest night, Black culture's biggest night right here on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. So make sure y' all tune in. You might catch me in the audience. It's Lauren LaRosa. At the end of the day, there is always a lot to talk about. But, y' all, you know, you choose to be right here with me every single time to talk about it, and I am so appreciative of that. I'll see you guys in my next episode. This is an I Heart podcast.