How Wendy Williams quickly gets Kevin Hunter out of his life after filing for divorce

Everything must not be complicated.

One week after the divorce petition Kevin Hunter after 21 years of marriage, Wendy Williams seems to be quickly tracking her excision from her daily life. His last act: to recognize the well-formed objections of his staff to his presence on the set of his eponymous talk show.

"Kevin Hunter is no longer an executive producer on Wendy Williams's show"A spokesman for the show confirmed to E! News Thursday morning." Debmar-Mercury wishes him good luck in his future endeavors. "

Hunter, who recently welcomed a child with his longtime mistress, has been executive producer of the series since its debut in 2008 – and has been irritating the people who have been working for them for almost as long.

"Having Kevin on the set was stressful and creating a tense work environment," said a source at the announcement of his release. "Wendy is relieved."

And she is barely alone, given the growing concern over Williams' well-being in the days leading up to her difficult decision and, for some, long-awaited to leave her husband.

"Several weeks ago, Wendy and Kevin had a confrontation about her alleged mistress, Kevin admitted to having had this affair and fathering the child," said a source to E! New.

The news sent to Williams, who revealed in March that she was living in a sober house, "in the extreme and she has relapsed," continued the insider. "After recovering from the relapse, Wendy made Kevin's difficult decision to divorce.It was a very difficult choice for her, but she finally realized that she had to put her health and well-being in the foreground. . "

After weeks of presenting her regular show, but not appearing to be very energetic herself in front of the audience when the cameras were not shooting, she is in top form these days.

Almost as if a weight had been removed from his shoulders, or something like that.

"Wendy was incredibly unbelievable today," said a member of the public at Monday's registration. "She came out and explained what was happening to sober house and Kevin in a way that you can say that she is, like, return"Added another," she did not say Kevin's name, but it could be said that there were times when she talked about him and made small strokes.

Williams did not mention Hunter by name, as she tended not to do so while addressing their alleged marital problems on other occasions, but without saying that her name was bearing any bearing. extra symbolism this time. As in, Kevin who?

According to the rules and regulations of the "Hot Topics Bureau," Williams said, "now, my business is your business." She laughed, adding, "It's a bit funny!"

"I can tell you this, I had a very good weekend," she continued. "I ended up with my daughters – I told you, I have my sober friends, six of them, they are really good, and two of them are my sponsors." She explained their food situation for a minute, revealing that she had left peanut noodles left behind by a three-hour dinner with her sister. Wandawho had come from Miami to New York to be there for her.

"It's nice to spend time with your sister, they fix some of the things you do wrong and they help you when you're not doing enough," said Williams, "and they tell you how do it."

She planned to leave the sober house in a few days, she said, and she had "a whole new life" planned for herself and her 18-year-old son. Kevin Hunter Jr.

"Addressing my sobriety, my frontal addiction, really helped me sort out every compartment of my life," Williams told her audience, who cheered enthusiastically as she took a sip of tea. "I'm engaging with my son to get out of here harder, stronger and faster than ever – and besides, I'll hire me anyway – because you forget my stuff at any time – I am committed to what the motto of this show will always be "their business is our business!"

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"I have security and no disrespect, guys," she said jokingly, "… but nobody looks like that." (TMZ said it hired three full-time security guards about a week before filing its divorce papers on April 10.)

Williams also talked about having babies, saying, "The women who went through menopause, the only thing we should never worry about again, is this, "as she pointed her belly.

"Because I do not know about you but my diaper change days are more than"Followed by another sip of tea." Let's move on … "she added, pretending innocence.

Another grateful audience member told E! News that "Wendy's energy was amazing.After the recording, she spent some time thanking the audience, saying that she would not be there without us". (In the weeks leading up to the divorce, Williams had not had as much interaction with the public.) "She took a bunch of selfies and seemed really happy to be here."

A bodyguard was at hand.

Tuesday, guest Christie Brinkley, divorced four times, offered Williams help to find a good lawyer if she needed it.

"I'm going to whisper to you during the break," Williams replied. "I have one, but I want to hear what you say."

We also learned that Williams was looking for an apartment in Manhattan, which is certainly his plan for a new start. We saw her going back and forth to the gym, Pilates being her favorite training these days.

After taking her vacation leave planned for last year, Williams ended up not returning to her show until March 4, when she revealed with emotion that she was living in the sober house. His first guest, Nick Cannon, assured the audience, in early February, that he had spoken to Wendy, that she had her family around her and that she would be back soon, but that the fans could not help worrying about her kinds and maybe out of the wagon (she was frank about her past struggles with drugs and addiction) piled up.

Meanwhile, rumors of discontent behind the scenes of Wendy Williams's show started to appear as well, including a Daily mail point out that the staff would be happy if Cannon replaced his boss full time. The former host of America's Got Talent quickly reacted, but rumor has it that the show's team hoped Williams would return without her husband.

"Remember, the show is calling Wendy so she needs to come back, but when she comes back, she'd better not bring Kevin back with her because we're fed up with him," a source said. the show at Mail Online: February.

Incidentally, Wendy Williams's show had already been renewed during the 2019-2020 season and Williams' current contract with Lionsgate goes until 2022.

His reluctance to leave Hunter, or even to be more open about their problems, had left his fans (and possibly those who paid close attention to the news), since his seemingly genuine franchise has always been a part of important part of his call. .

Of course, such issues, especially when they relate to the business world and money, Hunter having been her director and partner of Wendy Williams Productions in addition to her husband and father to her son, are much more complicated than the simple desire to appease public opinion.

Hunter and Williams "will have to deal with unique legal issues for divorced couples who work or own a business together, such as exit packages and business retention," Rebecca Provder, a lawyer specializing in divorce and mediator at a New York-based law firm Moses & Singer LLP, tells E! New. "With an 18-year-old son, another important topic to consider is the variation in age thresholds for child support in different states."

The age limit for child support is 21 in New York and 19 in New Jersey. And The Blast reported yesterday that the two men were negotiating what could prove to be very lucrative Wendy show the exit package for Hunter, who was no longer welcome on the set. (As of Thursday's show, the credits on the screen still had Hunter as executive producer.)

Williams would cost about $ 60 million and financial planner David Rae predicted to E! Last week, we learned that this divorce between celebrities would be "juicy".

"It will depend on the state in which they are, the extent of their desire to fight and Wendy's desire to keep her money," he said, stating that it was a fault or not. divorce would matter. "Her husband would have cheated, would have had a baby with another woman, which would give him the advantage in this divorce to keep a lot of those 60 million," observed Rae. "And when there is money like that on the line, she will fight to keep it and he will fight to get it." (Neither Rae nor Provder are involved in this procedure.)

Until now, Hunter has publicly shown that he was lenient and contrite.

"28 years ago, I met an extraordinary woman: Wendy Williams.At the time, I did not know that she would not only become my wife, but that she would change also the face of entertainment and the world, "Hunter said in a statement. E! News Tuesday. "I have spent most of my life in the business empire of Wendy Williams Hunter, a person I love and absolutely respect."

"I am not proud of my recent actions, I am totally responsible and apologize to my wife, family and fans, I am going through a period of personal reflection and trying to repair some wrongs. "

And Williams is always cautious about toppling this tea, no matter how much it literally drinks in front of the camera.

But give him time. In his 2001 memoir Wendy's heatshe described in detail that she found out that Hunter was cheating on her about a month after the birth of their son.

"I wanted to kill him, I mean really kill him, actually, I wanted to kill him more because I was breaking my number one rule: do not cheat," she said. written.

In turn, she was sincere about choosing to forgive him, recognizing to Vlad TV in 2013: "If you'd told me at the age of 25 or 30 that I would stay for a cheater, I Would have been like, "you're a liah, you're lying, I have too much to offer to a man who stays so that he's cheating on me." But I did it and I do not regret it I think it's a double standard when it comes to cheating, I think you guys are so insignificant at times that you could never stand your cheating wife, a man who puts his paws on your meat But women have to to face this fact, many of us, at some point in our lives. "

As she also wrote in her book: "What I've learned is that if you make mistakes, learn from them and move forward and above all stay true to yourself – do not try to nest in the mold of what others think you should be. "

However, she also told Vlad TV that an open relationship was "a recipe for disaster," mainly because it's usually only one person who actually lives this life.

"For my life, I would never do that – but you know what I've noticed? Open relationships seemed cute and worked for those couples … and I enjoyed it a little bit to be friends with them … but guess what happened "As women have grown older, because we are now all around fifty, they have slowed down on this notion, and husbands still want it."

Williams insisted in 2017, following the Daily mailHunter's explosive report basically lived a double life, married to Wendy but dating Sharina Hudson these last 10 years, that "all [was] well in Hunterville. "

But she had also written in her book that she would go away if her husband was lying to her about the nature of her relationship with another woman, such as "if he was in love, if she was just as successful at that." She does. " as I am in my career, if she had her baby. "Unfortunately, she had the chance to walk.

And, true to itself, since she unplugged her marriage, she is walking with her head held high.

On Wednesday, the photographer caught up with her on her way to Pilates, a photographer told her that her fans were happy for her, and Williams said, "I'm happy for me too!"