Wendy Williams under fire for \u201cdisrespectful\u201d Swavy tribute after TikToker\u2019s death Instagram: oneway.swavy \/ YouTube: The Wendy Williams ShowTalk show host Wendy Williams is under fire for her \u201cdisrespectful\u201d coverage of TikToker Swavy\u2019s death, with many calling her out for treating the tragedy as if it were \u201cfunny gossip.\u201d On July 5, Matima Miller, also known as Swavy, passed away in what his family described as a \u201csenseless act of gun violence.\u201d They explained that \u201cdue to legality\u201d they are unable to share the exact circumstances of his death, but said they are working diligently to get justice for him. Swavy had a substantial following on TikTok, and many were hugely saddened to hear the news of his passing, sharing tributes and messages of love across social media. View this post on Instagram Talk show host Wendy Williams has now come under fire after she reported on the TikToker\u2019s passing in a segment of her show, with many calling her coverage of the news \u201cdisrespectful.\u201d In a clip that now has over 60,000 likes on Twitter, Williams began the segment by saying: \u201cI have no idea who this is, neither does Norman. Neither does one person in this building.\u201d She went on to say: \u201cWell, he\u2019s a TikTok star. He\u2019s got more followers than me. 2.5 million.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexTMcNair\/status\/1412945070802841607 The audience laughed as she looked his picture up and down on the screen, before she abruptly informed them that the 19-year-old was murdered on Monday morning. Viewers immediately took to social media to call out the host for the way the segment was handled. \u201cShe is so hateful,\u201d one tweet with over 10,000 likes read. \u201cLike, she basically treated the announcement of his death like it was funny gossip. Why disparage him? Why even talk about him at all if you and your audience are that removed from even knowing who he is?\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/Robert_Leon_90\/status\/1413259437238751234 Others slammed the host for approaching the news that way when she was the only one who knew where the segment was going. Did she really need to look him up and down like that before breaking the news that he was murdered? Like she\u2019s the only one who knew where this was going and she still chose to sprinkle a little nasty on it first \u2014 Keli (@ClassActKelz) July 8, 2021 Many pointed out that this is not the first time Williams has handled a segment this way, linking a clip that shows her announcing the death of her mother. Both Twitter and YouTube have been flooded with comments condemning the host, but she has not yet addressed the backlash at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wendy Williams under fire for \u201cdisrespectful\u201d Swavy tribute after TikToker\u2019s death Instagram: oneway.swavy \/ YouTube: The Wendy Williams ShowTalk show host Wendy Williams is under fire for her \u201cdisrespectful\u201d coverage of TikToker Swavy\u2019s death, with many calling her out for treating the tragedy as if it were \u201cfunny gossip.\u201d On July 5, Matima Miller, also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}