Speaker 1: George.
Speaker 2: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 2: and everybody.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
Speaker 1: Lauren came in. Hey, y'all, what's up.
Speaker 2: It's Laura l Rosa and this is the Latest with
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Speaker 1: Honey.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Laura la Rosa, and we always do
Speaker 2: are behind the scenes of the Grind checking. Hello, my Lowriders,
Speaker 2: and welcome back to another episode today.
Speaker 1: I am feeling excited.
Speaker 2: We are headed over to LA and I say we,
Speaker 2: I mean me and a lot of the producers and
Speaker 2: the digital staff here at the Breakfast Club in Power
Speaker 2: one O five one, which is a station at the
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club is on in New York. Are headed over
Speaker 2: to LA for the BET Awards and I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: into that actually in the actual latest, like in our
Speaker 2: news today, were gonna talk about the BT Awards and
Speaker 2: you know how exciting all that is going to be
Speaker 2: for us, but I'm excited. I've done the BT Awards
Speaker 2: probably every year of my career except for maybe one
Speaker 2: or two, so a good seven eight years I've been
Speaker 2: going to LA for the BT Awards, and every single
Speaker 2: year that I do it, it's always amazing. It's always
Speaker 2: like a testament to God and the thing and a
Speaker 2: reminder of how grateful to God I should be. And
Speaker 2: you know, it's just you know, like you know how
Speaker 2: they say, like don't just praise God and or don't
Speaker 2: go to God in the bad times, praise them in
Speaker 2: the good times as well.
Speaker 1: Every year with BT Awards.
Speaker 2: I look back on the year before, and I look
Speaker 2: back on what I was doing when I was there.
Speaker 2: Like when I first started going to the BT Awards, y'all,
Speaker 2: I was just like going, didn't know nobodyn't know what
Speaker 2: was going on, didn't know the Layla Lande is trying
Speaker 2: to find my way into whatever I could figure out,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, And now I'm going in
Speaker 2: the latest with Lorna Rosa in the Breakfast Club be there.
Speaker 2: I'll be broadcasting live from LA during the Breakfast Club
Speaker 2: from there, doing some interviews and it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: good time. So I'm gonna let yall know all the
Speaker 2: information of where you guys can listen. Of course, right
Speaker 2: here on the podcast is where we're bringing the content too,
Speaker 2: But I mean, if you want to watch the actual show,
Speaker 2: I'll let you guys know that in a second.
Speaker 1: So I'm feeling really good.
Speaker 2: I'm feeling really excited and grateful, and yeah, it's just
Speaker 2: about to be a really great weekend. So my content
Speaker 2: will might sound a little different to sound is still
Speaker 2: gonna be good, but you know it's I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: be there by myself all the time because I'll be
Speaker 2: talking to people. But let's get on into the latest.
Speaker 2: So you guys have been asking me for a Wendy
Speaker 2: Williams update, and I know the last time we talked
Speaker 2: about Wendy Williams here on the podcast, I was giving
Speaker 2: you guys a Mother's Day update, and I let you
Speaker 2: know that Wendy Williams spent Mother's Day alone in you
Speaker 2: know what she alleges and calls her luxury prison, which
Speaker 2: is the room that she lives in and the facility
Speaker 2: that she is currently housed in where you know, she
Speaker 2: can't even let herself down in the elevator. If she
Speaker 2: chooses to u there has to be a person to
Speaker 2: escort her to do that. She has that permission to
Speaker 2: do everything. It's from you know, as as small as
Speaker 2: just going out to dinner with friends and family. She
Speaker 2: only has a phone in her room which she can
Speaker 2: call out on. You are not able to call her.
Speaker 2: There is no computer. Her life is very, very different
Speaker 2: than what we have ever known Wendy's life to be.
Speaker 1: But you guys, you know, if you've been following, you
Speaker 1: know that.
Speaker 2: If not, that's a brief little synopsis of you know,
Speaker 2: where things are with her right now. But the Jasmine
Speaker 2: Brand shout out to the Jasmine Brand broken exclusive that
Speaker 2: Wendy Williams ex husband Kevin Hunter will be planning that
Speaker 2: Wendy Williams x husband Kevin Hunter will be doing a
Speaker 2: sit down tail all interview with Gail King. Now they
Speaker 2: say this sit down interview that he's going to be
Speaker 2: doing with Gail King he's currently prepping for now. The
Speaker 2: details of like what exactly he'll be talking about haven't
Speaker 2: been disclosed. But Kevin Hunter has been very vocal and
Speaker 2: he has gone a lot. He's gone a lot to
Speaker 2: talk about because he's been going through financial battle or
Speaker 2: legal roles as well as Wendy Williams when it comes
Speaker 2: to this conservatship conservativeship battle because the conservatorship controls Wendy
Speaker 2: Williams money. Kevin Hunter is currently involved in a lawsuit
Speaker 2: against the Wendy Williams Show former production company Debor Mercury,
Speaker 2: claiming that he was wrongfully terminated after he split from
Speaker 2: Windy Williams back in twenty nineteen. If you guys remember,
Speaker 2: he was working kind of like as her like manager.
Speaker 2: He was helping her run the show a bit. He
Speaker 2: was very involved, but after they split, he was fired.
Speaker 2: Their divorce followed a highly publicized cheating scandal during which
Speaker 2: Kevin fathered a child with a woman. And when that
Speaker 2: scandal came out, when reports of that scandal came out,
Speaker 2: it was reported that the woman lived, like, you know,
Speaker 2: just a few miles down from the house to him
Speaker 2: and Wendy Williams lived in in Jersey, And you know
Speaker 2: that this had been something that was ongoing for some time.
Speaker 2: And Wendy Williams herself, she had a choice, she had
Speaker 2: to talk about it on her show.
Speaker 1: That's how big this scandal was.
Speaker 2: But since the following of You Know Him leaving the show,
Speaker 2: him and Wendy Williams splitting. They went through a divorce.
Speaker 2: She was Wendy Williams was ordered to pay him money.
Speaker 2: He's been going through the media and making headlines for
Speaker 2: some of the troubles that he's having with the money.
Speaker 2: He recently sold his Florida mansion. There's you know, been
Speaker 2: headlines that he was being sued for credit card debt.
Speaker 2: There's been a ton of different things. But he's currently
Speaker 2: going to battle with the conservatorship as well too because
Speaker 2: because he I mean, he's fighting over to alimony money. So,
Speaker 2: according to a lawsuit that was filed back in April
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four, Wendy Williams Guardianship or guardian Sabrina
Speaker 2: Morrisey is demanding or was demanding still demanding because nothing
Speaker 2: has been paid over one hundred thousand dollars in alimony
Speaker 2: to be paid back by Kevin Hunter. Now Wendy Williams
Speaker 2: Guardian Sabrina Morrisey says that Kevin Hunter was overpaid for
Speaker 2: three months of his alimony and was justly enriched by
Speaker 2: Wendy Williams bank account. This is the Wells Fargo account
Speaker 2: that the Conservativeship claimed that they had to come in
Speaker 2: and take over because it was being misused and mishandled properly.
Speaker 2: But in a separate court response, Kevin Hunter actually demanded
Speaker 2: that the former talk show host Wendy Williams paid him
Speaker 2: twenty three months and back payments for spossible support from
Speaker 2: their divorce. Now, what Kevin Hunter is claiming or was
Speaker 2: claiming back in April twenty twenty four, is that Wendy
Speaker 2: Williams allegedly stopped paying him alimony before she was placed
Speaker 2: under a court ordered guardianship in May of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two that oversees her finances and her health. Now, both
Speaker 2: parties agreed that, you know, their out of court mediation
Speaker 2: at the time. So this is Wendy Williams and this
Speaker 2: is Kevin Hunter. So for Wendy Williams the Conservativeship, they
Speaker 2: both agreed that the out of court mediation that they
Speaker 2: did failed. I guess you know, they were trying to
Speaker 2: have a conversation about what's old what's not and it
Speaker 2: didn't work out. So Sabrina Morrissey actually brought the issue
Speaker 2: to court because she's trying to figure out what the
Speaker 2: answer is now Kevin Hunter and his attorney at the time,
Speaker 2: you know, had no further comment about this. But again,
Speaker 2: there's been so many headlines since this about just different
Speaker 2: things he's allegedly experienced financially, so I'm assuming that you know,
Speaker 2: that's something they hold touch on in Gael King, but
Speaker 2: also too, I mean, they do share a son together, right,
Speaker 2: and although their son recently graduated from college and is
Speaker 2: an adult in the world now, we have not heard
Speaker 2: Kevin Hunter Senior's take on just any of the things
Speaker 2: thus far, right, like, not in a real way. There's
Speaker 2: been you know, he's supposed things here and there on
Speaker 2: social media. There's been little statements here and there as
Speaker 2: well to media, but not a full sit down interview.
Speaker 2: So I think, yes, he's going to talk about the money.
Speaker 2: There's no way he cannot, especially because Whndy Williams herself
Speaker 2: is claiming her money is under control by someone that
Speaker 2: is not she has no say so, and someone that
Speaker 2: she is alleging she doesn't want to be under the
Speaker 2: control of and ultimately doesn't trust.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: But in addition to that they share a kid together.
Speaker 2: All of this stuff is happening publicly. Their son at
Speaker 2: one point was even involved. You guys, remember when Wendy
Speaker 2: william spoke to us here at the Breakfast Club. She
Speaker 2: said that a part of this whole thing was her
Speaker 2: son mismanaging you know, money, and we talked to her
Speaker 2: about that, and she also spoke to you know, the
Speaker 2: TMZ team on their Tooby doc about this as well too,
Speaker 2: So it's going to be very interesting to hear. And
Speaker 2: also too, I think what a lot of us or
Speaker 2: I know myself, would love to hear from Kevin Hunter
Speaker 2: is if you could go back and do this all differently,
Speaker 2: would you, Because yes, Wendy Williams, you know, there were
Speaker 2: the addictions that she's talked about when it comes to
Speaker 2: drinking and things of that nature, and you know, not
Speaker 2: taking care of her health the way she should have
Speaker 2: been taking care of her health. But man, doesn't seem
Speaker 2: like such a spiral of things since the baby that
Speaker 2: Kevin Hunter had and the divorce and her having to
Speaker 2: get public about the divorce and.
Speaker 1: You know, and I don't know if one plus one
Speaker 1: equals too.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that I've spoken to her and that's
Speaker 2: what she said to me, and you know, any of
Speaker 2: those things.
Speaker 1: But as a woman.
Speaker 2: I just know you know what that strain is like
Speaker 2: when you got man problems, you got cheating problems.
Speaker 1: And you got health like it's a lot to deal with.
Speaker 2: So I would love to and I hope and I
Speaker 2: kind of know that Gail King, as a journal that
Speaker 2: she is, will dive into let's take a step back,
Speaker 2: like let's really pull back the curtain here, because if
Speaker 2: we really think about it, it was like such a
Speaker 2: tumble down effect. It's like we heard about the cheating,
Speaker 2: we heard about the baby, and then everything just tumbled
Speaker 2: from there. And I would want to know if any
Speaker 2: like if they have any conversations at all, him and
Speaker 2: his son, him and Wendy's family, him and Wendy Williams,
Speaker 2: what have those been?
Speaker 1: What have they been? Now?
Speaker 2: In other news, I told you guys that we are
Speaker 2: headed to the twenty twenty five be Et Awards.
Speaker 1: The BT Awards.
Speaker 2: Actually gonna go down on Monday, June ninth at eight
Speaker 2: pm Eastern Standard time. Now you can you know, see
Speaker 2: tons of performances, Lil Wayne, Tianna Taylor, Glorilla, Playboy Carti,
Speaker 2: Leon Thomas. It's gonna be hosted by Kevin Heart, which
Speaker 2: I'm really excited for because you know, it's gonna be funny,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a little crazy, and this is his
Speaker 2: first time hosting a BT Awards, so you know, I
Speaker 2: think he gonna do his little one too with the
Speaker 2: wardrobe changes. And you just never know what Kevin Hart like.
Speaker 2: He is such a he is such a character. You
Speaker 2: just never know what Kevin Hart. When we talk about
Speaker 2: the awards, you have, you know, best Female and Male
Speaker 2: Hip Hop Artists, to Album of the Year, you have
Speaker 2: Doctor Bobby Jones, Best Gospel Inspiration Award. The category spends
Speaker 2: such a big spectrum of so many things in black excellence.
Speaker 2: So there's a ton of nominees, but the big nominees
Speaker 2: this year include Kendrick Lamar, Sizza, Glorilla, Drake Dochi, Chris Brown,
Speaker 2: Jamie Fox, Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Kirk Franklin. Will all
Speaker 2: be honored as Ultimate Icons. It's gonna be a great year, y'all.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a great year to BET Awards. And
Speaker 2: I think we say this every year about the BT
Speaker 2: Awards because it's ours and that's you know, that's all
Speaker 2: we have.
Speaker 1: But this is gonna be a great year.
Speaker 2: They're also doing the twenty five year reunion or anniversary
Speaker 2: of one oh six in Park, so that will take
Speaker 2: place on stage, and I know the one O six
Speaker 2: and Park crew. They have like a big day party
Speaker 2: that's happening out there in LA which I'll be attending
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: But I am excited. For the first time ever.
Speaker 2: In Breakfast Club history, the Breakfast Club will be in
Speaker 2: the Radio Room at the BET Awards. The Radio room
Speaker 2: is where you sit down with artists and you have
Speaker 2: interview conversations with them live right there at the show,
Speaker 2: and then we take that and we feed it into
Speaker 2: social and then I'm able to bring it here on
Speaker 2: the podcast and you know, to the Breakfast Club. But
Speaker 2: it's like one big cafeteria and like all the biggest
Speaker 2: names in music and entertainment come through and they sit
Speaker 2: down and they have a conversation with you. So you
Speaker 2: just got to be on your a game, Like you
Speaker 2: just gotta know what's going on. You gotta know who
Speaker 2: are you talking to. And y'all know I love this
Speaker 2: type of stuff. So I am so excited because I'll
Speaker 2: be there. I'll be the person doing the sit down conversations,
Speaker 2: you know, bringing it back to the Latest with Lauren
Speaker 2: the Rows of the podcast and Latest with Laurna Rows
Speaker 2: on the Breakfast Club. So you know we're gonna get busy.
Speaker 2: I am super excited. And I'll also be doing like
Speaker 2: recaps of my days because some of the stuff I
Speaker 2: might mention on air but like can't really show you
Speaker 2: too much because I gotta, you know, stick with the news, right,
Speaker 2: So some of the stuff like you know the one
Speaker 2: O six and Park Day party I mentioned, and you
Speaker 2: know the any after parties for the BT Awards. Because
Speaker 2: I will be attending the BT Awards as well and
Speaker 2: doing a like a pre carpet stage for them, doing
Speaker 2: some interviews there. I might not be able to show
Speaker 2: y'all all that, Okay, I might not be able to
Speaker 2: not on the podcast and not on the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 2: but on my social media on my YouTube channel la
Speaker 2: on the Roads the TV I can so make sure
Speaker 2: you're following me there too to get those insights and
Speaker 2: those you know. But I want to know, who are
Speaker 2: you guys to see at this year's be T Awards.
Speaker 2: Let me know because if y'all excited to see them,
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see them, and I'll try to make
Speaker 2: my business to run into them. Y'all are asking for interviews,
Speaker 2: and I told you guys in the beginning of this, like,
Speaker 2: you know, give the podcast some time, let us let
Speaker 2: us get the kinks out, and it'll happen.
Speaker 1: And man, hasn't been happening.
Speaker 2: So we'll have a ton of interviews for you guys,
Speaker 2: a ton of great moments from Culture's Biggest night, Black
Speaker 2: Culture's biggest night. Right here, I'm the latest with Laura Rosa,
Speaker 2: So make sure y'all tune in. You might catch me
Speaker 2: in the audience. It's Laura Rosa. At the end of
Speaker 2: the day, there's always a lot to talk about, but y'all,
Speaker 2: you know, you choose to be right here with me
Speaker 2: every single time to talk about it, and I am
Speaker 2: so appreciative of that. I'll see you guys in my
Speaker 2: next episode.