Actress Ciera Payton to Play Wendy Williams in Biopic on Lifetime Movie Network

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It’s official! The Wendy Williams biopic is coming to Lifetime Network, and the cast has officially been announced! Deadline announced that actress Ciera Payton and Morocco Omari will be playing the couple in the biopic. The movie will be called Wendy Williams: The Hot Topic will talk about Williams’s journey to becoming one of the known names in radio and television. Williams will be the executive producer of the film alongside Will Packer and Sheila Ducksworth. Darren Grant from The Chi and God Befriended Me will be directing.  

If you are wondering why Payton’s face looks familiar, it’s because she has had her taste in fame in films such as Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral and The Oval. The film has not set a release date yet.

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