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Speaker 1 (00:01):
George.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
Lauren came in. Hey, y'all, what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's Laura l Rosa and this is the Latest with
Lauren l Rosa. I'm your homegirl that knows a bit
about everything and everybody. And this show, of course, is
your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news exclusives,
and y'all know, we get into those conversations that shake
the room.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Honey.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm your host, Laura la Rosa, and we always do
are behind the scenes of the Grind checking. Hello, my Lowriders,
and welcome back to another episode today.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I am feeling excited.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
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
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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
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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.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Every year with BT Awards.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
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
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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.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So I'm feeling really good.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
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
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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
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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
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than what we have ever known Wendy's life to be.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
But you guys, you know, if you've been following, you
know that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
That's how big this scandal was.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
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,
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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
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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.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You know, and I don't know if one plus one
equals too.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
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.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But as a woman.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I just know you know what that strain is like
when you got man problems, you got cheating problems.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And you got health like it's a lot to deal with.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
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
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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?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What have they been? Now?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
In other news, I told you guys that we are
headed to the twenty twenty five be Et Awards.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The BT Awards.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
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
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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
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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
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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.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
But this is gonna be a great year.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But I am excited. For the first time ever.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And man, hasn't been happening.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
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
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so appreciative of that. I'll see you guys in my
next episode.