{"id":90123,"date":"2022-02-13T18:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T02:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90123"},"modified":"2022-02-13T18:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T02:56:05","slug":"sherris-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/02\/13\/sherris-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherri&#8217;s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a good week for <em>FoB <\/em>\u2013 <em>Friends of Billy<\/em>.&nbsp; Just before I left LA, I got word that <strong>Sherri Shepherd <\/strong>entered into final negotiations to formally take over the show formerly known as <strong><em>The Wendy Williams Show<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; There are details I\u2019m not at liberty to discuss.&nbsp; The producers had hoped Wendy would be able to return to her show at some point this season \u2013 a hope which seems to have flickered out.&nbsp; While Sherri was always everyone\u2019s first choice to take over, she\u2019s under contract to <strong><em>Dish Nation<\/em><\/strong> through the end of this season \u2013 so just getting a week off here and there to fill in has been challenging.&nbsp; Also, Sherri and her son <strong>Jeffrey <\/strong>live in LA, and <em>Wendy<\/em> films in NYC.&nbsp; There are lots of details to work out\u2026but I believe we\u2019ll all know more very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, Wendy ain\u2019t doing well on the personal front, either.&nbsp; According to reports, her former financial advisor has told <em>Wells Fargo Bank <\/em>that Williams is \u201cnot of sound mind\u201d.&nbsp; As a result, Wendy has been restricted access to any of her money or financial records.&nbsp; Shades of <strong>Britney<\/strong>.&nbsp; Her attorney has filed an emergency petition to try to turn things around, but the bank is fighting back and wants a court to decide.&nbsp; I hear the word \u201cconservatorship\u201d has been bandied about.&nbsp; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a good week for FoB \u2013 Friends of Billy.&nbsp; Just before I left LA, I got word that Sherri Shepherd entered into final negotiations to formally take over the show formerly known as The Wendy Williams Show.&nbsp; There are details I\u2019m not at liberty to discuss.&nbsp; The producers had hoped Wendy would be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90124,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90123\/revisions\/90124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}