Wendy Williams has a net worth of $60 million, with an annual salary of $15 million. She is a media personality, author and actress.
How she made it
TV
Wendy is a renowned host of the popular show, "The Wendy Williams Show". It debuted in 2008, and had aired 835 episodes by early 2014. The show is watched in 54 countries all around the world. Wendy has a salary of $2 million from the show. She also gets bonuses and incentives based on the network’s ratings. Fox, Networks BET and CW have the rights to broadcasting the show. It began to air outside the US in 2010.
She won an Emmy Award in 2011 and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. Wendy was a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars", season 12. She received a Daytime Emmy…show more content… She also appeared in its sequel, "Think Like a Man Too". She has also appeared in TV series and films like "The Cookout", "Law and Order", "One Life to Live" (a soap opera) and "Martin".
Radio
Wendy started her career on radio. She once hosted a limited series, "The Wendy Williams Experience". It broadcast events that surrounded her radio show. She left in 2008 to pursue a career on TV.
Production
Wendy and her husband launched a TV production company, the Wendy Williams Production. They aimed at producing unscripted content, game shows and reality TV. Her show "Secret Celebrity" was green lighted by Oxygen. The show features stars in disguise. They surprise fans, family and friends. They have also filmed a docu-reality series, which follows Wendy’s 7 week run in Chicago’s Broadway play, "Wendy Williams: How You Doin’ Broadway?!"
Wendy signed into a production alliance with Suzanne de Pasee and Madison Jones. They aim at creating movies and TV shows aimed at multicultural audiences. She and her husband Kevin Hunter were executive producers of "Love Triangle", a game show for GSN, as well as "Celebrities Undercover". She was also the executive producer of "Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B", a biopic. She produced "Death by Gossip with Wendy