{"id":93415,"date":"2025-01-05T22:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T06:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93415"},"modified":"2025-01-05T22:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T06:20:28","slug":"wendy-takes-a-whirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/01\/05\/wendy-takes-a-whirl\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Takes a Whirl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wendy Williams <\/strong>rang out the new year by landing back in the news.  On the positive side, she was celebrating her son Kevin<\/strong>\u2019s college graduation in Miami.  Paparazzi spotted her outside a restaurant on a scooter \u2013 yes, a scooter.  She was overheard yelling to someone, \u201cAnd then both of you walked away leaving my shit in the street?  Just get the car, please \u2013 and make sure it\u2019s the right car!\u201d  When asked if everything was OK, she explained that her caretakers called the wrong car.  While they went to find the right car, they left her scooter unattended and she was not having it.  \u201cThis cost a fucking mint, and they just left my shit out here.\u201d  At least she sounds feisty.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s only the first week of January and we\u2019ve already got a story that we\u2019re filing under Strange But True<\/em> \u2013 and, no, it\u2019s not about Blake Lively!  This is about someone I hold in almost equal esteem \u2013 Keanu Reeves<\/strong>.  Sidebar: a few months ago, I told you that he\u2019s reuniting with his Bill and Ted<\/em><\/strong> co-star, Alex Winter<\/strong>, for a Broadway <\/em>revival of Waiting for Godot<\/em><\/strong> by Samuel Beckett<\/strong>.  Didya know that production will be staged by Jamie Lloyd<\/strong>, who directed the hit revival of Sunset Blvd<\/em>?  And, no, none of this has anything to do with the current story.  Last year, Keanu\u2019s LA home was burgled.  Fast forward to final days of 2024, and police in Santiago, Chile seized loads of stolen property.  And what do they find?  A Rolex <\/em>inscribed, \u201cKeanu Thank you JW4 2021\u201d.  It was a thank you gift he received at the wrap party of one of those John Wick<\/em><\/strong> movies that I\u2019ve never seen.<\/p>\n

Before we filed this column, I saw this headline: \u201cJosh Duhamel<\/strong>, Dylan Sprouse <\/strong>& Til Schweiger <\/strong>To Topline Action Thriller The Neglected<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.  OMG, have I fallen into a time warp?  Is it 1995 all over again???<\/p>\n

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Just before 2024 closed, a couple of deaths crept in.  The first was the beloved Linda Lavin<\/strong>, who died on December 29th<\/sup>.  Her representative stated, Linda passed \u201cunexpectedly due to complications from recently discovered lung cancer\u201d.  Days earlier, she wrapped filming on the seventh episode of Mid-Century Modern<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a sitcom for Hulu <\/em>already being called a gay Golden Girls<\/em><\/strong>.  It concerns three gay men who live together in Palm Springs, one of whom (Nathan Lane<\/strong>) is accompanied by his mother (Linda Lavin).  When Linda learned of her diagnosis, we hear she told producers she wanted \u201ceverything out there on the show\u201d.  There are already plans to write her character\u2019s passing into the penultimate episode of the first season.  What will happen during season two?  Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Hours before midnight, Jocelyn Wildenstein <\/strong>died on New Year\u2019s Eve.  Affectionately known as The Catwoman<\/em>, Jocelyn was the face of bad plastic surgery \u2013 the epitome of the word \u201cbotched\u201d.  She was also a very wealthy lady, receiving a $2.5 billion divorce settlement and alimony of roughly $100 million per year!  Her longtime companion, Lloyd Klein<\/strong>, said she died while taking a nap prior to heading out for the festivities \u2013 \u201cjust to look good before getting dressed\u201d.  How\u2019d that work out?  By the by, the 84 year-old never admitted to any of her \u201cprocedures\u201d.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wendy Williams rang out the new year by landing back in the news.  On the positive side, she was celebrating her son Kevin\u2019s college graduation in Miami.  Paparazzi spotted her outside a restaurant on a scooter \u2013 yes, a scooter.  She was overheard yelling to someone, \u201cAnd then both of you walked away leaving my<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93415","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\/93415","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=93415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93417,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93415\/revisions\/93417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}