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Speaker 1: It's Lauren Rosa and this is the Latest with Lauren
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Speaker 1: we got we got a lot in the Latest Today,
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Speaker 2: So in the Latest Today.
Speaker 1: The last I talked to you guys, we talked about
Speaker 1: Wendy Williams, and people are always I'm shoot, when we
Speaker 1: did this story at the Breakfast Club, when Wendy Williams
Speaker 1: came on and she talked about, you know, her conservativeship
Speaker 1: battle and everything that was happening there, it's like, ever
Speaker 1: since that day, people always ask me, how is Wendy
Speaker 1: Williams doing?
Speaker 2: What's up with our girls? What's happened our girl?
Speaker 1: What's happening all the things I told you guys on
Speaker 1: a previous episode.
Speaker 2: Make sure you guys gonna check out that episode that I've.
Speaker 1: Been told by the legal team in the A and
Speaker 1: HE lawsuit against Wendy Williams. But this is the this
Speaker 1: is the attorney that is representing the guardian that Wendy
Speaker 1: Williams had begun some of the testing, some of the
Speaker 1: cognitive testing to free her of her guardianship.
Speaker 2: But things are, you know, moving, but they're they're taking
Speaker 2: their time.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's been times with the guardianship and
Speaker 1: you know, the people involved in US side have come
Speaker 1: out and said things and Wendy Williams have been like
Speaker 1: completely not true.
Speaker 2: But that is what I was told from the attorneys there.
Speaker 1: I did reach out to Wendy's attorney to get anything
Speaker 1: on what I was told, and they did not.
Speaker 2: Respond to me. I reached out to Joe Tacopina to
Speaker 2: be exact.
Speaker 1: Now, Joe Tecopina is not representing Wendy Williams in that
Speaker 1: any suit at all, because Wendy is technically represented by
Speaker 1: the same attorney for the conservativeship because the conservator filed.
Speaker 2: On Wendy Williams behalf.
Speaker 1: But he is working closely with her just as a
Speaker 1: personal attorney, and it seems like almost like a consultant,
Speaker 1: helping her navigate through attorneys and steps and processes that
Speaker 1: should it should not be happy and while trying to
Speaker 1: get her free from this guardianship in New York, now
Speaker 1: TMZ caught Wendy Williams out in New York, still celebrating
Speaker 1: her birthday, but this time she was out with Joe Techapina.
Speaker 1: She was out and we talked about this. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: is it really a happy birthday? Because she still wakes
Speaker 1: up in that room where she can't even receive phone calls.
Speaker 1: She has to call out. But Whitney did actually end
Speaker 1: up going out for her birthday. She went out for
Speaker 1: dinner and it had been established. I told you guys,
Speaker 1: the guardianship said, look, her family can come and see her.
Speaker 1: She was out to dinner with her attorneys and her
Speaker 1: niece Alex. Finney shot out to Alex, who's been by
Speaker 1: Wendy side throughout this whole thing, loves her aunt. But
Speaker 1: they caught Wendy out with Joe Techapoina and talked about
Speaker 1: the conservativeship and just kind of update.
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3: What's next is hopefully justice. I mean, it's been so
Speaker 3: long and I'm not a guardianship attorney. I'm when this
Speaker 3: personal attorney but this process is really despicably slow because
Speaker 3: she's in a facility.
Speaker 2: I'm when this.
Speaker 3: Wendy, this is We've had conversations yeah over of course
Speaker 3: for six months. She's the saying Wendy Williams that you
Speaker 3: know from PVA. Yeah right, and so person who is
Speaker 3: control of her faculties and is a great human being.
Speaker 3: And it sickens me. Honestly. This is not even about
Speaker 3: a case for me. It's about a cause. And I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do everything.
Speaker 2: I just had a birthday and I'm still in guardianship.
Speaker 2: If that doesn't say enough, I don't know what does.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I have a question.
Speaker 1: How many other people have reached out to you asking
Speaker 1: for your help?
Speaker 2: Have you gotten phone calls?
Speaker 3: Some people? Oh so many? Right now might focus to
Speaker 3: some Mondy and I'm happy to get her through this, right,
Speaker 3: I'll deal with that later. But I will tell you this,
Speaker 3: it is scary, this guardianship process. Once you get in
Speaker 3: the vortext of the guardianship proceeding, it's hard to get out.
Speaker 1: Yo joll tag of Peanut talking about he get calls
Speaker 1: and support of her. Let me tell you all the
Speaker 1: people will want they will run you down about it.
Speaker 1: Wendy Williams okay, and can we say in the videos
Speaker 1: photos from her birthday dinners and this video here that's
Speaker 1: on TMZ's website, Wendy looks amazing. Okay, she's keeping up
Speaker 1: with conversation. She's very like fluid in conversation. She because
Speaker 1: I won't I remember when we did we're doing the
Speaker 1: interviews with her. Her guardianship tried to say that basically
Speaker 1: she was like almost coached, like there was basically like
Speaker 1: a script that Wendy was sticking to and that's the
Speaker 1: only reason why she'd been able to speak out. I'm
Speaker 1: watching this video right here, Wendy is just there, chilling,
Speaker 1: tracking conversation and jumping in as she needs to. She
Speaker 1: looks good, she sounds good. What are we talking about
Speaker 1: here now? Wendy talking about getting back to work.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that.
Speaker 1: Looks like for Wendy in twenty twenty five. I'm thinking definitely,
Speaker 1: like you know, podcasts. I don't know if it could
Speaker 1: be something daily, just because I feel like that grind
Speaker 1: might be a bit much for her.
Speaker 2: Now. You know, she's still you know.
Speaker 1: An older woman dealing and you know all the things
Speaker 1: with graves to disease, but definitely something from her home
Speaker 1: where she's comfortable and she can just kind of go
Speaker 1: through her things and talk as she talks, being do
Speaker 1: the Wendy Williams thing that she does. I do think
Speaker 1: that the world is missing her, though, I think when
Speaker 1: you are able also too. Wait, let me just say this.
Speaker 1: I also don't know when we talk about Wendy Williams
Speaker 1: getting back to work, what Wendy Williams's voice is now,
Speaker 1: because me and Charlemagne went to dinner with Wendy Williams
Speaker 1: and her niece Alex Finnie, and when we were there,
Speaker 1: we were having a conversation and she she randomly came
Speaker 1: out to us and said she felt like she was
Speaker 1: going through everything she was going through because of the
Speaker 1: way that she had talked about people and dealt with
Speaker 1: people throughout her career. She felt like this was her karma.
Speaker 1: She felt like she was being made to sit down
Speaker 1: and experience these things so that her empathy for people
Speaker 1: in the situations that they find themselves in will be different.
Speaker 2: Because y'all know Wendy Williams.
Speaker 1: I Wndy Williams was cutthroat, okay, cut down, all right,
Speaker 1: And I think her just delivering the news and telling
Speaker 1: the stories and the things that she has so much
Speaker 1: connections to, so many things that are topical right now,
Speaker 1: right like you know, Diddy, and there's so much nostalgia
Speaker 1: that is coming back around because you know, people were
Speaker 1: having an answer to certain things or you know, just
Speaker 1: things of that nature. I think there's definitely space there.
Speaker 1: But it didn't seem like at that dinner Wendy Williams
Speaker 1: wanted to be the same cut through, drag you for filth,
Speaker 1: don't care about nothing near you nor your mother. Okay,
Speaker 1: it didn't seem like that. It's who she wanted to
Speaker 1: return back to work being. She actually said it like
Speaker 1: her niece was saying, you know, you know, I think
Speaker 1: the difference is you've experienced life. And Wendy thought about
Speaker 1: it in a bit and she said, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I just think things are different now. She said, if
Speaker 1: I get a chance to do it all again, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it a little bit different. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what that looks like. What does Wendy Williams with
Speaker 1: a bit of empathy look like. I think she's still
Speaker 1: gonna be very honest. I think it's still gonna be like, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: did she just say that? But I do think that
Speaker 1: there was a part of Wendy's audience that tuned in
Speaker 1: for the reading to filth the taken down through the
Speaker 1: mincing of her or non mincing of her words, and
Speaker 1: it don't seem like that's what she about to be given.
Speaker 1: So that's you know what I mean, That's something to
Speaker 1: think about. But yes, there's still very much interest there,
Speaker 1: which of course speaks to the work into her career
Speaker 1: as far as a lawsuit. The only thing that I
Speaker 1: would say, and I would have followed up shout out
Speaker 1: to Celia from TMZ that's who conducted this interview. The
Speaker 1: only thing that I would have followed up with question
Speaker 1: wise for Jio tech Opina is it's like, okay, when
Speaker 1: Wendy is free of this conservativeship, it is clear.
Speaker 2: And Wendy has said she.
Speaker 1: Signed into this conservativeship back in May of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: so it's been some years now that this has been
Speaker 1: going on, because she knew that she did need some
Speaker 1: guardrails and she did need some help of some sorts
Speaker 1: when it came to like business and organizing her life
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. If those things are still
Speaker 1: needed today. And a judge deems that and releases her
Speaker 1: from certain constraints on the conservativeship, but does it fully
Speaker 1: release her?
Speaker 2: Are you able to then still file suit?
Speaker 1: Because it's like even though Sabrina Morrissey, right, like Sabrina Morrisey,
Speaker 1: we move along, you know, hypothetically speaking, is not Wendy
Speaker 1: Williams conservator anymore, right, But there are still things in
Speaker 1: place that need to stay in place as deemed by
Speaker 1: a judge hypothetically speaking.
Speaker 2: And we don't know if this is going to happen yet.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking I'm just being Devil's advocate, right, But
Speaker 1: if this does happen, how does Wendy Williams legal team
Speaker 1: then come and say we are suing you because ABC
Speaker 1: and D were set into place when a judge is
Speaker 1: deemed that it was needed now whether it was supposed
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: Extreme, as extreme as it was or not.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's where they lean in lawsuit wise, you know,
Speaker 1: and they talk about, you know, the stress and anxiety
Speaker 1: and loneliness and and all these things healthwise, that that
Speaker 1: feeling of having to go through what Wendy is alleging,
Speaker 1: these extreme circumstances being in this conservativeship and living in
Speaker 1: the facility in when she lives is a conversation. But
Speaker 1: if a judge is saying, well, no, you know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't that she was mistreated or neglected.
Speaker 2: She needed the help.
Speaker 1: We're just now willing to back up the restraints or
Speaker 1: constraints a bit because she's so and proving she's showing
Speaker 1: that she doesn't need now what she needed then, because
Speaker 1: he has also openly talked about dealing with the alcohol
Speaker 1: abuse and different things, which is a lot of what
Speaker 1: you know, the conservatorship is arguing calls the restraints that
Speaker 1: she has. If you guys remember they talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: why Wendy Williams ended up on the floor that she's on,
Speaker 1: which is like a no memory floor. You can't open
Speaker 1: doors yourself, You can't you know, receive calls in you
Speaker 1: got to call out.
Speaker 2: They allege that Wendy Williams went to.
Speaker 1: The rooftop restaurant in the facility on or around her
Speaker 1: birthday and got drunk, knowing that you know, she wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to be having alcohol. This is what they allege
Speaker 1: and because of that, they put her in a situation
Speaker 1: where her actions could be monitored more tightly. So I'm
Speaker 1: just wondering what Joe Takapina's argument is in between all
Speaker 1: of these things, because yes, these things happen, but does
Speaker 1: a person then it is it fair for a person
Speaker 1: then to be placed in a position where they're made
Speaker 1: to feel like the prisoner And maybe that is it?
Speaker 1: Not for sure, but we'll have to wait see because
Speaker 1: they said the lawsuit is coming. They said it's coming,
Speaker 1: but I think first she has to get out of
Speaker 1: the conservativeship thing. We gotta figure that out. And I
Speaker 1: have not yet gotten an update anymore in anywhere I've yet.
Speaker 1: I've yet to get an additional update from Wendy side
Speaker 1: of things or anywhere. So I'll keep you guys supposed
Speaker 1: to if something comes up, But as of now, this
Speaker 1: is all we got. Our girl got out the house
Speaker 1: on her birthday. She was able to go out, eat
Speaker 1: fellowship with family, smile lass, she looked amazing while doing it.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, she still returns
Speaker 1: back to that room.
Speaker 2: And that is that. That's the issue. Now.
Speaker 1: At other show news, as we take a swing on
Speaker 1: into some other things, y'all, South Park is going to
Speaker 1: be releasing ten new episodes a year. I am not
Speaker 1: the biggest South Park fan, but I know people are
Speaker 1: super excited about this because they have a one point
Speaker 1: five billion dollars streaming deal that they are almost to
Speaker 1: the finish line with and this deal. A part of
Speaker 1: this deal means that they have to drop ten new
Speaker 1: episodes per year. So according to reports, according to the
Speaker 1: La Times, Paramount has reached an agreement to buy the
Speaker 1: global streaming rights for South Park. Now, this deal would
Speaker 1: bring the show to Paramount Plus for the first time
Speaker 1: in the US ever.
Speaker 2: And this has all been put on sources.
Speaker 1: They could have revealed who they talked to in this
Speaker 1: article because they said the deal still going through, but
Speaker 1: there were three sources that the LA Time said that
Speaker 1: they spoke to to confirm this information. So it's a
Speaker 1: production company called Park County Production, and this company is
Speaker 1: owned by Trey Parker and Metstone, who are the owners
Speaker 1: of South Park, and that is who made the deal. Now,
Speaker 1: this deal is a five year deal and it totals
Speaker 1: to one point five billion dollars. That's three hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars a year to stream South Park on Paramount. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, creators, father, I have seen what you've done
Speaker 1: for others.
Speaker 2: I am a creator.
Speaker 1: I can figure this out, I can write, I could
Speaker 1: do all the things. Dear Lord, I've seen what you've
Speaker 1: done for others, Please bless me.
Speaker 2: Three hundred million dollars a year.
Speaker 1: It's a five year deal, So one point five million
Speaker 1: dollars just on streaming alone, because I'm sure there's gonna
Speaker 1: be other licensing situations that come come come into play
Speaker 1: because people walk around with south Park t shirts. People
Speaker 1: want to license this outside of where it's currently living.
Speaker 1: It was living on HBO Max for some time, but
Speaker 1: that deal ended back in June.
Speaker 2: But this is just like I'm sorry, and I know
Speaker 2: this is a TV.
Speaker 1: Showing, not a movie, but people always have the conversations
Speaker 1: about whether movie theaters are back or like traditional forms
Speaker 1: of digesting content or back, so like actual cable television
Speaker 1: and you know, movie theaters. And if I'm a creator
Speaker 1: and I'm seeing deals like this, but you gotta have
Speaker 1: the quality work right, like you got to have a
Speaker 1: product right. But if you got that, and I'm seeing
Speaker 1: deals like this, one point five billion dollars, three hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. And don't get me wrong, south
Speaker 1: Park has been out for decades. They have built an audience,
Speaker 1: they have built a brand that people love, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot to it. It's not just like you roll
Speaker 1: over write something and boom one point five billion dollars.
Speaker 1: But if I'm a creator and I'm saying this, and
Speaker 1: I am a creator and it's inspiring to see, I'm
Speaker 1: not really tripping off a traditional nothing coming back or not.
Speaker 1: Like these deals are not happening because the audience isn't
Speaker 1: there anymore. The advertisers are barely there because everybody on streaming.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy how everything has like reverted, Like even
Speaker 1: the shows that we used to love, like on television,
Speaker 1: we're celebrating them coming over to streaming. It's happened a
Speaker 1: while ago, but I remember being so excited when Girlfriends
Speaker 1: came to Netflix, and I've literally watched.
Speaker 2: It in full all of the seasons so many times.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Sex and the City, same thing with
Speaker 1: Eastern Rays Insecure when it came to Netflix, I was.
Speaker 2: Like, God, yes, you heard my call.
Speaker 1: But if I'm a creator, and I say that because
Speaker 1: y'all are probably like, well, dug, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because most creators are going to lean into streaming. But
Speaker 1: you would be so surprised, like you'd be so surprised.
Speaker 1: How many creators have issues with streaming because they feel
Speaker 1: like the barrier entry is a lot lower and a
Speaker 1: lot easier, and it's just so much content out there.
Speaker 1: It's harder to really throw spotlight or focus on content
Speaker 1: that should be highlighted.
Speaker 2: But if I'm a creator, I'm not worried.
Speaker 1: About that because if you get something good and you
Speaker 1: break through to the point where you got the audience
Speaker 1: in a Choco Baby listen one point five billion dollars.
Speaker 2: I'm going where they're streaming, period. And that's that is,
Speaker 2: and that is all now.
Speaker 1: Last up in the latest congratulations to Pete Davidson talking
Speaker 1: about creators and streaming and television. Pet Davison is all
Speaker 1: over the place and his newest job though, he is
Speaker 1: going to be a dad. So it was announced it
Speaker 1: was about a week ago. By the week ago, we
Speaker 1: found out that Pete Davison was going to be a dad.
Speaker 1: But he recently spoke out finally on the news that
Speaker 1: he is going to be a dad, and he is
Speaker 1: super excited.
Speaker 2: He says that he is look he says that he's looking.
Speaker 1: He spoke to E News He was at the New
Speaker 1: York premiere of the Home on July twenty second, and
Speaker 1: he spoke to E News and he said he's very
Speaker 1: very lucky, and he's very very happy. He's expecting his
Speaker 1: baby with his girlfriend, Elsie Hewitt, and he says that
Speaker 1: he's looking forward to being able to take care of
Speaker 1: something and show it the childhood that he did not have.
Speaker 1: He says, I assume you just try to give them
Speaker 1: what you didn't have and what you didn't like.
Speaker 2: Not to do it now.
Speaker 1: Y' also says because he talked about, like, you know,
Speaker 1: all the great advice he got from friends like Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler Colin Jost, and he says that everybody has been
Speaker 1: super excited for him because they know that it's been
Speaker 1: his dream to be a dad. He says that they've
Speaker 1: all just been like, you're going to be great at this.
Speaker 1: It's the best you'll ever do in your life. That's
Speaker 1: the advice that Adam Sandler gave him. And he says
Speaker 1: that it's been really nice that you know that everybody's
Speaker 1: super excited and everybody's super happy for him.
Speaker 2: He says, when we do anything, you want everyone.
Speaker 1: To be excited, especially if you have a child, and
Speaker 1: that is the feeling that he is feeling. So congratulations
Speaker 1: to him. I'm happy for him. I remember when Pete
Speaker 1: Davison decided that he was going to step away and
Speaker 1: not return back to SNL, and he was dating Kim
Speaker 1: Kardashian at the time, and there were photos of him
Speaker 1: all on the golf carts with Kim Kardashian's kids, and
Speaker 1: there was back and forth with Kanye, and Kanye was
Speaker 1: mad at.
Speaker 2: His penis size, and just all these things were going on.
Speaker 2: People were really trying to have.
Speaker 1: A conversation about, like what Pete Davison's life would be
Speaker 1: like because he was leaving us in L and he
Speaker 1: was dating Kim and then that stopped, and him and
Speaker 1: Ariana Grande didn't work out, and like all of these
Speaker 1: things right, And for some reason, I feel like people
Speaker 1: love to fixate themselves on the negative or the unfinished
Speaker 1: or what didn't work with Pete Davison. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's because he's very self deprecating himself in
Speaker 1: his comedy in the way that he goes about comedy,
Speaker 1: but he's also been very very vocal just about like
Speaker 1: his mental health struggles, and you know his struggles when
Speaker 1: it comes to partners and relationship and all these things.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's where, like you know,
Speaker 1: that cloud of conversation over him comes from. But I
Speaker 1: love seeing happy and positive news when it comes to
Speaker 1: him because oftentimes, like I feel like, the last report
Speaker 1: I saw before this was something about him entering into
Speaker 1: a rehab facility.
Speaker 2: It was like toward the end of last year.
Speaker 1: I believe I saw those reports in let me double check, Yeah,
Speaker 1: October twenty four, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Because other than that, it's been low. It's kind of
Speaker 2: been like who he's dating and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But Pete Davison had checked himself into a rehab facility
Speaker 1: a few months prior to October, so it was in
Speaker 1: the It was earlier in the year of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and then he popped out in LA in October and
Speaker 1: people were just happy to see him out. He was
Speaker 1: out with MGK, just having a good time. It was
Speaker 1: months prior to that. It wasn't a rehab facility. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I want to correct myself. It was a mental health
Speaker 1: treatment facility that he had checked hisself into. And he's
Speaker 1: also been vocal about that like knowing when he needs
Speaker 1: help and knowing when he wants to check in to
Speaker 1: things and check on things, and doing that for himself
Speaker 1: and so that he can be a good partner to
Speaker 1: you know, the people that he chooses to date, and
Speaker 1: just the people in his life as well. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm just I'm always happy to hear good
Speaker 1: news about Pete Davison, whether you think he's funny or not,
Speaker 1: whether you think he has the biggest penis in the
Speaker 1: world or not. If you don't know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: please look it up. I'm just always happy to hear
Speaker 1: good news with him. I think that he's young, I
Speaker 1: think he's very successful, rightfully so, and I think he
Speaker 1: has a lot of life to live and a lot
Speaker 1: to put out into the world. So to hear him
Speaker 1: doing well always a plus for me. So, Pete Davison
Speaker 1: here at the last with Laura n Rosa. We're excited
Speaker 1: for you, We're happy. Congratulations on your first child. Guys,
Speaker 1: congratulations on your first child. We know we're gonna be
Speaker 1: all up in your business when the baby comes, so
Speaker 1: please keep us updated. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: there's always so much to talk about and I tell you,
Speaker 1: guys every episode.
Speaker 2: You could be.
Speaker 1: Anywhere with anybody talking about it, but you choose to
Speaker 1: be right here with me, my Lowriders.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys so much.
Speaker 1: I will see you guys in my next episode.