The Breakfast Club - The Entertainment Never Stops ( Wendy Williams Update, and Loren Prepares for the BET Awards)

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

Today on the show Loren is getting ready to pack her bags and head to the BET awards this weekend, so get ready for the latest interviews with your favorite celebs. But first Loren gives an update on Wendy Williams and her ex husband doing a sit down interview with Gail King!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, my low riders, and welcome back to another episode. Today I am feeling excited. We are headed over to LA. I say we, I mean me and a lot of the producers and the digital staff here at the Breakfast Club in Power 105.1, which is a 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 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 a reminder of how grateful to God I should be.

And you know, it's just, you know, like, you know how they say, like, don't just praise God, 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, I was just like going, didn't know nobody,

didn't know what was going on, didn't know the lay of the land, just trying to find my way into whatever I could figure out, to be honest with you. And now I'm going and the latest with Lauren LaRosa and the Breakfast Club will be there. I'll be broadcasting live from LA during 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. It's not it's 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 and 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 that 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 where things are with her right now. But the Jasmine brand, shout out to the Jasmine brand, broke an exclusive that Wendy Williams' ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, will be planning, that Wendy Williams' ex-husband, Kevin Hunter 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's going to have a lot to talk about because he's been going through financial battle or legal roles as well as Wendy Williams when it comes to this 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 up in 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,

just a few miles down from the house to him and Wendy Williams lived in Jersey. And 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 him leaving the show,

him and Wendy Williams splitting, they went through a divorce. 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 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 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 a 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 sponsor 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 order guardianship

in May of 2022 that oversees her finances and her health. Now both parties agreed that, you know, they're 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. That 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 Morsi actually brought the issue to court because she's trying to figure out what the 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 Gail 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 seniors 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 the money. 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 say 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 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 going to 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 addictions that she's talked about when it comes to drinking and things of that nature

and, 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 a 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 it,

it was like such a tumble down 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 going gonna go down on Monday,

June 9th at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Now you can see tons of performances. Lil Wayne, Teyana Taylor, Glorilla, Playboy Cardi, Leon Thomas. It's gonna be hosted by Kevin Hart, which I'm really excited for, because you know it's gonna be funny. It's gonna be a little crazy. And this is his first time hosting a BET Awards

so, you know I think he gonna do his little one-two with the wardrobe changes and it you just never know what Kevin Hart like he is such a He is such a character. You just never know what Kevin Hart When we talk about the awards you have, you know best best female and male hip hop artists to album of the year. You have Dr. Bobby Jones Best Gospel Inspiration Award. The category spans such a big spectrum of so many things in black excellence. So there's a ton of nominees, but the big nominees this year include Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Glorilla, Drake, Dochi, Chris Brown, Jamie Foxx, Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Kirk

Franklin will all be honored as ultimate icons. This is going to be a great year. Y'all, this is going to be a great year to be at ETA Awards. And I think we say this every year about the ETA Awards because it's ours and that's all we have. But this is going to 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 have like a big day 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 and 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 got to be on your A game. Like you just got to know what's going on. You got to 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 the Rose on the podcast. And latest with Lauren the Rose 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. Cause some of the stuff I might mention on there But like can't really show you too much because I got it, 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 on the Rosa TV I can so make sure you follow me there too to get those insights and those you know, but I want know, who are you guys excited to see at this year's BET Awards? Let me know, cause if y'all excited to see them, I'm excited to see them, and I'll try making 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 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's 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 iHeart podcast.