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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 23: Wendy Williams attends SiriusXM Town Hall with Wendy Williams hosted by SiriusXM host Karen Hunter at SiriusXM Studios on July 23, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

Wendy Williams’ ex-husband sues for wrongful termination from job, marriage

Kevin Hunter sues The Wendy Williams Show, claiming he was fired as retaliation for their divorce resulting from his having a child with his mistress.

Ex-Wendy Williams husband Kevin Hunter has sued Debmar-Mercury, the production company behind The Wendy Williams Show, for wrongful termination after he was fired as a producer on the talk show following his divorce from the host. Williams split from Hunter after learning that he’d had a daughter with a woman he was seeing behind her back, telling the New York Times Magazine in an interview, “Kevin had a major indiscretion that he will have to deal with for the rest of his life. An indiscretion that I will not deal with.”

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If The Wendy Williams Show sees any more behind-the-scenes drama, it will have to be reclassified as a soap opera.

Already, this year has seen retract her own statement of of Debmar-Mercury for the move.

In a complaint filed with California courts, Hunter claims that he was given the pink slip in 2019 days after divorce papers were filed, and that his work and concepts created as a creative producer will be used for Shepherd’s new show. The complaint states, “Even though The Wendy Williams Show will be over, Defendants will continue to be unjustly enriched by Plaintiff’s initial work including his initial concepts created for the Show and Plaintiff’s product integration agreements.”

Kevin Hunter’s career as a producer began on the Wendy Williams Experience radio show on New York City’s WBLS. He ed the creative team of The Wendy Williams Show in 2011, and his other credits include The Wendy Williams Project, and Death by Gossip with Wendy Williams.


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