{"id":1002842,"date":"2022-02-24T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/24\/watch-sherri-shepherd-reflects-on-wendy-williams-legacy-in-tv\/"},"modified":"2022-02-24T15:25:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:25:09","slug":"watch-sherri-shepherd-reflects-on-wendy-williams-legacy-in-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/24\/watch-sherri-shepherd-reflects-on-wendy-williams-legacy-in-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Sherri Shepherd reflects on Wendy Williams&#8217; legacy in TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\" onclick=\"st_ss_sh1();\">\n<p>1\/5<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"975\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Sherri-Shepherd-praises-Wendy-Williams-She-made-her-own-path.jpg\" title=\"Sherri Shepherd praises Wendy Williams: 'She made her own path'\" alt=\"Sherri Shepherd praises Wendy Williams: 'She made her own path'\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stph_caption\">Sherri Shepherd reflected on Wendy Williams&#8217; legacy following news her talk show &#8220;Sherri&#8221; will replace &#8220;The Wendy Williams Show.&#8221; File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 24 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Sherri Shepherd has nothing but praise for fellow television personality Wendy Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd, 54, reflected on Williams&#8217; legacy in daytime television on Wednesday&#8217;s episode of <i>Watch What Happens Live<\/i> following news her talk show<i> Sherri<\/i> will replace <i>The Wendy Williams Show<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>Shepherd said Williams was a trailblazer with a signature style of hosting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She made her own path. Like, what Wendy does, nobody can recreate &#8212; none of the guest hosts &#8212; that is specific, Wendy created that. They spill the tea, you know? And she&#8217;d sit there and be like, &#8216;You know what I&#8217;m talking about,'&#8221; Shepherd said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love that, and I love her fearlessness. And that is something that I want to emulate and keep going,&#8221; she added. &#8220;She did, she opened up a lot of doors, and she&#8217;s up there with the greats.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><emb><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"dlioH0o6o-k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Sherri Shepherd Admires about Wendy Williams | WWHL\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dlioH0o6o-k?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/emb>\n<\/p>\n<p>News broke Tuesday that <i>The Wendy Williams Show<\/i> will end after 13 seasons. Shepherd has been a frequent guest host on the show in the past few months as Williams deals with health issues.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd, who was previously a co-host on <i>The View<\/i>, will host the new talk show <i>Sherri<\/i>, which will take over <i>The Wendy Williams Show<\/i> time slot.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OMG! I am so excited to have my dream come true and debut my very own talk show <i>Sherri<\/i> in the fall. I can&#8217;t wait until I return to NY to host the show and merge everything I love&#8230; pop culture, talk, entertainment and comedy,&#8221; she said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd also co-hosts the Fox series <i>Dish Nation<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/5 Sherri Shepherd reflected on Wendy Williams&#8217; legacy following news her talk show &#8220;Sherri&#8221; will replace &#8220;The Wendy Williams Show.&#8221; File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo Feb. 24 (UPI) &#8212; Sherri Shepherd has nothing but praise for fellow television personality Wendy Williams. Shepherd, 54, reflected on Williams&#8217; legacy in daytime television on Wednesday&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1002844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}