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