My Wendy Williams Show Visit- What to Expect, Her Boobs, Her Skin & More!

Let me start off by giving you a little history. I am a huge Wendy Williams fan! When I was in high school, I’d listen to the Wendy Williams Experience on Philadelphia’s Power 99 radio station, everyday after school. I swear I wished the Wendy Williams Show into existence. lol

Back then, Wendy was vulgar and provocative, but certainly entertaining. I’m not a big celebrity follower, but there are a few celebs that I feel close to. Not in a weird stalkerish way, but more of a “We have a lot in common, I’ve watched you grow and I admire you” kinda way. Does that make sense?

My grandmothers BFF (pink shirt), my grandmother (yellow), me and my aunt, waiting in line to enter the Wendy Williams Show.

(I hope so :))

Anywho, over the years, Wendy has grown on me and has become one of those celebs that I feel close to. Wendy became, not only a “friend in my head”, but an “aunt in my head.” LOL!

About a month ago, I went online to Aunt Wendy’s site to order tickets to the show. I attended yesterday’s taping and it wasn’t at all what I expected, although it was a cool experience.  I’ve never been to a talk show, let alone a live show, so many of these surprises may be common “tv magic” customs. Below I want to share with you what to expect if you plan to attend the show, what surprised me about the show and a few pictures and videos from my time at Wendy’s studio.

What To Expect at the Wendy Williams Show

1. Once you arrive, you’ll stand in line and the staff members will ask you to fill out a waiver. You basically just have to sign your name stating that you don’t mind being filmed for the show. You must arrive before 8:00am or it decreases your chances of getting a seat.

2. After you sign your name, you’ll have to wait until around 8:00am and then, they’ll open the doors and slowly let everyone in. In the meantime Wendy’s staff will come around to check names and distribute tickets. They’ll also put a number and a letter on the front of your ticket.

3. You’ll have to go through a metal detector and after that, everyone enters a lounge -like waiting room.

4. The waiting room has a restroom of course, a cool life-size Wendy poster on a wall, Wendy merchandise area, plenty of mirrors and auditorium style seating for the audience.

5. In the waiting room, everyone will fill out their “Ask Wendy” surveys and once all of the surveys are collected, the staff will decide on who they want to use for the show.

6.  When it’s time to go upstairs to the studio, the staff members call the audience members in groups. Depending on what letter they put on your ticket, determines when you get called to get seated. The people who were called first sat closer to the floor of the show.

7. When they call your letter everyone lines up and goes single file down a hall way. After that, everyone from your section (those with the same letter as you) slowly enters one of the hugest elevators I’ve ever seen in my life! There had to be more than 80 women on the elevator. If you’re claustrophobic, you should probably let a staff member know while you’re in the waiting room! There were about 7 lines of, I can’t even say how many, women on the elevator.

8. Once you get off the elevator, they’ll walk you to the side entrance of the stage and BAM. You get seated for the show.

What Surprised Me about the Wendy Williams Show

1. Wendy has body guards escorting her as she interacts with the audience. Nothing too serious, but there were maybe 2 guys in very close proximity to her when she was near the audience.

2. Wendy is pretty and her boobs aren’t that big. I always thought Wendy was pretty, but once I attended the show, this was the most asked question of me by my friends. “How does she look in person?” Wendy is gorgeous. She didn’t have a ton of make-up on and her skin looked flawless. I was surprised that her boobs didn’t look as big as they do on tv. They’re actually  proportionate to her body in person.

3. During commercial breaks, Wendy’s hype man was…….hype. And he got us hype too. They had good music blasting and he encouraged everyone to dance and get pumped up for when we went live. Every time we returned from a commercial break, we had to stand up, cheer, and do the infamous “woooot wooot” chant.

4. The audience makes the show! I’m a frequent Wendy Show watcher (obviously, right? lol) and I always found it interesting that the audience “ooohhhhs” and “ahhhhhs” throughout the show. Well, this is all staged. Wendy’s producer “coached” us on responding to Wendy’s comments especially during Hot Topics. Anytime Wendy makes a statement we’re encouraged to applaud, “ooohh” or “ahhhh.”  I totally understand why they do this but nevertheless it surprised me.

5. Ask Wendy isn’t as “on the spot” as I thought. Once we got to the studio, the interns and staff members had everyone fill out an “Ask Wendy” survey which gave us the chance to ask personal questions or questions relating to the prompts that the survey provided. Once the staff scurries through the pile of surveys they choose their “Ask Wendy” candidates and invite the “asker” and their party to the VIP room where they prep and practice and get seated for the show before the other audience members.

6. The show is extremely fast-paced. I’m sure this is because the show is live, but it went by so fast. We didn’t get to see Wendy much although she did try to engage us as much as she could with the time allotted. During “Ask Wendy” and guest interviews one of the producers held up a time card letting Wendy know that she had to wrap up soon.

7. The staff is very organized. They did a great job of keeping us in the know and taking us through the proper chain of commands from the time we entered the studio until we exited. They had to rearrange the seating a little bit to ensure that the color coordination was visually appealing. I had on a bluish color top and was asked to move to the aisle seat. I’m guessing there were too many people with blue on in the area I was originally seated in.

8.  Front row seats aren’t given to those who arrive first. I’m not positive if this is correct but I noticed that the ladies who were directly in front of me in the line to get in, were in the front row of the audience and the women behind me, were in the back of the audience. I was in the middle of the audience so I have no clue how this happened.

9. The studio is tiny. Compared to how big the studio appears to be from home, the studio is very small. Everything to the purple couch to the Hot Topics chair is small. I’m surprised that the guest who visit the show aren’t sitting on Wendy’s lap. It’s amazing how tv magic works.

10. Sometimes guests are pre-recorded. The woman who was supposed to be interviewed during our show, Trisha Yearwood, wasn’t there. Right after the producer announced “Stay tuned for Trisha Yearwood” to the audience at home, Wendy got on the mic ( at the commercial break) and said “Hey everybody, ok so, how many of you know what I’m about to say? How many of you have been here before? Trisha isn’t here. Sometimes on talk shows you have to pre-record. Everybody does it, even the View. I try to accommodate guests and Trisha was here last week so we recorded her segment last week. I sure hope my polish is the same.”  After that, Wendy left to stage and we ( the audience) were told to watch the big screen to see the interview that Wendy had done with Trisha. All the while, the at home viewers saw a seamless transition into a “live” interview. I knew people did this on tv but it was still interesting! She had to put on the same outfit and make herself look close to what she looked like when she did Trisha’s interview.

Ultimately, I learned that the show ( and probably every other talk show out there) is really created for the viewer at home. Attending the show was a great experience! Especially considering that I had the opportunity to meet Aunt Wendy, but I’d much rather watch the show from home. But you know me, I’d visit the show again 🙂

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