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Robin Givens' Queen of Media Movie About Wendy Williams is Sure to Bring the Heat

Robin Givens Snags the Lead Role in Wendy Williams' Queen of Media Movie

Paula Neal Mooney
Look out, Perez Hilton, there's a new Queen of Media set to blow up even bigger than you on the big screen.

According to SOHH.com, controversial screen siren Robin Givens is set to play a just-as-controversial "Queen of Media" in the starring role in a forthcoming movie about a well-known black female New York disc jockey.

This newly dubbed "Queen of Media" is Wendy Williams, an African-American blonde, be-weaved, be-implanted and over-the-top syndicated radio personality heard daily on the hella-popular number one radio show on 107.5 WBLS called The Wendy Williams Experience.

The 43-year-old's bold and honest persona even garnered her a VH1 show called Wendy Williams is on Fire, a vehicle that displayed the personality buzzing about the latest goings-on in the world of hip-hop, unafraid to ask shocking questions like when she inquired of rap mogul Russell Simmons whether or not he was still sleeping with his estranged wife, Kimora Lee Simmons.

Wendy Williams doesn't reserve her in-your-face honesty strictly for others, however. During an appearance on her King-of-All-Media counterpart Howard Stern's radio show, Wendy Williams confessed to vamping up her small chest with breast implants. She's also admitted to having had liposuction.

Robin Givens will certainly have her acting chops stretched in the Queen of Media movie, playing the shock-jock who also told listeners of the time that she discovered her husband's infidelity: Reportedly, Wendy Williams found out about her manager-husband's cheating ways when she eavesdropped on him talking to the other woman on the phone.

Wendy chronicled all the drama and more in her book called "Wendy's Got the Heat," the basis for the upcoming Queen of Media movie. No doubt a meaty role for Givens, one that will encompass the bouts with drug addiction, divorce, miscarriages and more that Wendy Williams has endured.

Perhaps Robin Givens -- who was scorned in the black community and labeled a "gold digger" and nicknamed "Robin Give Me" due to her short-lived marriage to troubled and one-time rich boxer Mike Tyson - will find a soul mate of sorts in playing the misunderstood, isolated and alienated Wendy Williams.

"I was the black girl in a practically all-white school. And among the handful of blacks, I was the 'white girl,' the outcast," Williams wrote, concluding, "I knew that one day my being different would pay off."

Rumors abound as to why Wendy Williams did not choose statuesque Queen Latifah to play her - if the Academy Award-nominee would've even considered the Queen of Media lead role in the first place - chief among them whether or not Williams felt Latifah was "girly" enough for the part.

About finally deciding on Robin Givens to immortalize her on-screen, Wendy Williams said in a short video interview on SOHH.com: "I can't think of who could play me...who actually looks it...therefore go with somebody who speaks well and can make the look."

"Robin did a really good job," Wendy surmised, saying viewers can expect the Queen of Media movie release date to be set for some time in 2008.

Will the legion of fans who have made the brash radio personality a star follow Wendy Williams-as-portrayed-by-Robin-Givens into movie theaters and grant the Queen of Media film as much success as its subject?

As another popular Book that brings even more heat than Wendy Williams says: "We shall know as we are known..."

Published by Paula Neal Mooney

Paula Neal Mooney has been published in various national magazines, such as Writer's Digest and other parenting publications. She has been writing online since 2005, and focuses on the areas of Christiani...   View profile

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  • Anonymous 5/9/2008

    All i have to say is get ready for Greg Lynch

  • Luke M. 1/10/2008

    Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

  • A.M. Morgan 10/4/2007

    This is going to be interesting indeed. Wonder how Robin Givens is going to pull off Wendy Williams.

  • yvette jones 9/30/2007

    terrence is a cutie what and why is he fighting for some one who does not care.there is an old saying you tend to want badly what you can,t have.It appears to me after reading you,re story she only married you in the first place because she was pregnant .The one she really wanted is her high school sweetheart.
    stop dwelling move on when she knows you,ve finally gotten over her she might realize she wants you.BUT i would,nt work been there done that.

  • Zac Wassink 8/31/2007

    this should be interesting indeed.

  • Saba,Ink 8/31/2007

    Wendy Williams....what an interesting concept for a movie!
    Robin & Wendy both have the DIVA-ESQUE....tude so It should be one to watch.....

  • Ms. Nicole A. 8/31/2007

    Alyce makes a good point. Why would someone as young (and still living) have a movie made about them? Lorraine also brings up a good point to think about when it comes to having box office draw. The subject may interest movie fans more than the cast. There still may be fans who are surprised to see Robin Givens back on the scene and will be attracted to the film out of curiosity. Queen Latifah would have been a good choice, but maybe Robin Givens will be able to pull it off. This will definitely be an interesting movie.

  • Alyce Rocco 8/30/2007

    Judging from the photo Robin Givens seems perfectly cast to play the part. It seems odd that a 43 year old would already have a movie being made about her, but she sounds like real interesting subject matter. Another book to add to the reading list. Great article.

  • Carol Bengle Gilbert 8/30/2007

    well written

  • Lorraine Hayden 8/30/2007

    Interesting, I think Latifah would of been a better choice, but with a Oscar nomination and all I bet she would be very expensive to cast. I do not think Ms. Givens would be a big box office draw but the project does seem like its worth while checking out:) Good report Paula

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