Nick Cannon to Guest Host 'Wendy Williams'

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Nick Cannon will be guest-hosting Debmar-Mercury’s daytime talker, The Wendy Williams Show, on Feb. 4, 5 and 6, the show said Wednesday. Cannon also hosts Fox's The Masked Singer, which was just renewed for season two, and MTV's Wild n' Out.

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Williams is out on indefinite medical leave after breaking her shoulder and aggravating her Graves’ disease, for which she needed to be hospitalized.

Starting Jan. 14, the show has been airing originals with panels of rotating “hot talkers,” including Elizabeth Wagmeister and Bevy Smith from Twentieth’s Page Six TV as well as CNN’s Don Lemon.

The names of more guest hosts are forthcoming, said a show spokeswoman.

The Wendy Williams Show is produced and distributed by Lionsgate-owned Debmar-Mercury. It airs in first-run syndication on TV stations across the country and on diginet Bounce. In the week ended Jan. 20, it averaged a 1.2 live plus same day national household rating, according to Nielsen Media Research, up 9% and tying NBCUniversal’s Steve Wilkos and CBS Television Distribution’s Rachael Ray.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.