Ya Heard: Gossip personality has her own issues

Dennis Winn/Columnist
Published: March 27, 2008

"Don't count the reps, make the reps count."

—Sean Taylor

WENDY HAS SOME ISSUES OF HER OWN!

What? Not Wendy! The glam-gossiping radio personality Wendy Williams may have aired out some her own dirty laundry this week when an employee filed a complaint with the Equal Em-ployment Opportunity Commission. The female shock jock's talent booker, Nicole Spencer, accused Williams' husband, Kevin Hunter, of making several sexual advances toward her while working for Williams.

Kate Webber, Spencer's attorney, stated, "We have clear evidence and other wit-nesses at the company who will back it up, that Mr. Hunter engaged in blatant and open sexual harassment. He did this in the office, in front of other people. The company was aware of this, the head of human resources was aware [and] all of this supports her claims strongly."

In addition to the sexual advances, Spence also claims Hunter physically abused Williams on the premises of New York radio station WBLS 107.5. In her complaint, Spence says "In one instance, Mr. Hunter stormed into the studio, demanded that other employees leave and openly physically abused Ms. Williams, pinning her against the wall with his hand around her neck, chok-ing her while repeatedly pounding his fist into the wall directly by her head."

To the allegations, Williams simply told the New York Post, "Her allegations are totally false. This [female dog] is out of her mind."

I guess what goes around, really does come back around. If these allegations are true, this would be a case of Williams' tasting her own medicine.

Williams has built a very successful and lucrative career on dishing the dirt on celebrities' personal lives. As a result she has had the highest rated weekday syndicated radio broadcast for the past 10 years.

For the moment, Spence has only filed a complaint, however this complaint is likely to turn into a lawsuit as her lawyer hinted when she told sohh.com, "This conduct went on for some time, the employer was aware of it and did nothing. So in situations like that punitive damages could be significant."

As for the accused Kevin Hunter, no comment has been made.

50 AND DRAMA, A PERFECT MATCH

50 Cent and conflict seem to attract one another, yet 50 is set to embark on his first project ever involving Drama—DJ that is. The king of southern mixtapes is getting together with the beast from the east to produce the first G-Unit "Gangsta Grillz mixtape."

Fresh off their latest releases, "Sabrina's Baby Boy," "Return of the Body Snatchers" and "Elephant in the Sand," the Unit's General is ready to set his attention on the dirty dirty.

"A couple of days after G-Unit dropped their 'Elephant in the Sand' mixtape, I got the call from 50 and he was like, 'Drama, what up? It's time to do this G-Unit/ Aphilliates Gangsta Grillz,'" Drama told MTV. "He's really going heavy on the ThisIs50.com Web site, and he was saying basically it's time to get G-Unit hot in the South. What better way to do that than to do a Gangsta Grillz? Not only from a South aspect but from a quality street-music aspect. We're gonna go in."

Drama also stated that T.I. would be getting in on the action by providing some vocals of his own. "I reached out to the King and told him it's a special project; I need him to get busy."

Keep your ears open for this one right here, it's shaping up to be one of the most cele-brated mixtapes in quite some time. And don't forget about those Joe Budden "Mood Musik" mixtapes either… . Incredible.

T.I. GETS OFF PUNISHMENT…TEMPORARILY

As for T.I., he is still under house arrest awaiting trial on gun charges in his native Atlanta. The proclaimed "King of the South" was granted permission to leave his home this past weekend to accept an invitation as a guest speaker at New Birth Missionary Church's Easter Sunday Service in A-T-L. In addition to his feelings on the Holy day, his three minute mes-sage reportedly brought awareness to HIV and AIDS. Following the service, he made his way back home and enjoyed Easter dinner with loved ones.

I love it, only in hip-hop can you have a man awaiting trial on gun charges invited to speak to a church congregation. Go ahead T.I.P.!

His upcoming album, "Paper Trail," is scheduled to be released in September of this year.

TRIVIA VERSE

"So one two, unbuckle my, um shoe

Yabba Doo, hippity-hoo, cracks a brew

So trick or treat, smell my feet, yup I drippedy-dropped a hit

So books get on your mark and spark that old censorshi

Drats and double drats, I smiggedy-smacked some whiz kid

The boogedy-woogedly Brooklyn boy's about to get his, dig

My waist bone's connected to my hip bone

My hip bone's connected to my thigh bone

My thigh bone's connected to my knee bone

My knee bone's connected to my hardy-har-har-har"

Whose verse is it?

Ha, ha, I'm sorry but this classic was too good to pass up. If you know the author and song title to this cut, be the fourth person to hit me with an e-mail stating such and receive two free AMC movie tickets courtesy of the Potomac News and Manassas Journal-Messenger. …Until next week, peace!

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