Never mess with the fans: this would be the lesson talk show host Wendy Williams could take from the way Ariana Grande fans are dragging her name through the mud on social media right now, over comments they deem an act of “body shaming.”
Ironically, the comments were made in an episode of the Wendy Williams Show that aired in April, but the fans are only now picking up on them. They’re so outraged that they made the hashtag #CancelWendyWilliamsShow trending over the weekend.
Wendy doesn’t see Ariana as a woman and it’s not ok with the stans
In April, as she was commenting on the Ariana Grande split from Big Sean, on the Hot Topics segment of her show, Wendy commented that she found it hard to take anything the pop star did seriously because she saw her as a kid.
Ariana is petite and she has the face of a child, and apparently, to Wendy, the fact that she always wore impossibly high heels and skimpy clothes didn’t make her see her as older.
“She's 21. She'll forever look 12,” she said, as the 2 videos below can confirm. “And I don't mean that in a good way. It's nice to look younger than you are, but when you look too young and then you're short - she's only like 4'11. I don't look at her as, like, a woman.”
As it happens, Williams isn’t the only one to see Ariana as a petulant child-diva, especially after her donut-licking America-hating incident, which turned her into the second most hated celebrity in America after Bill Cosby.
However, Wendy is one of the few talk show hosts to say so outright, but that’s because this is the type of show that she does: she has a platform to share her thoughts with her audience and she doesn’t care if the celebrities or the fans don’t agree with what she has to say.
The Ariana Grande fans are furious, needless to say.
Stop body shaming, cancel Wendy Williams
That’s the message that the stans are trying to spread on Twitter.
Some of them are using the aforementioned hashtag to spread a message of love and acceptance: Williams shouldn’t put someone else down for entertainment, beauty or womanhood has nothing to do with height or weight, Williams should stop focusing on appearances and talk about something with more substance, that kind of thing.
Of course, most fans are trying to argue that Williams is body shaming their idol by doing the exact same thing. Who is Williams to say Ariana looks like a child, when she’s most likely a man in drag? Williams is just jealous of Ariana, and that’s why she’s trying to bring her down. How dare a piece of “trash” pick on Ariana?, etc.
You can see some samples from Twitter below. As of the time of writing, neither Williams nor Grande has said anything on the latest Twitter controversy. The fans expect Ariana to go online on Monday and “slay” Wendy in 140 characters or less, but chances are Williams will discuss the issue first.
@ArianaGrande at age 12 & age 22 - someone get @WendyWilliams new pair of eyes like ASAP! #CancelWendyWilliamsShow pic.twitter.com/nsZxDtygOA
— Stella Johnson (@StellaJohnson98) August 14, 2015
sorry @WendyWilliams @ArianaGrande can't hear you over her 31.6M 😌#CancelWendyWilliamsShow pic.twitter.com/9IYsql3gQF
— tinyelephant. (@ZoneGrande) August 14, 2015
#CancelWendyWilliamsShow RT for @ArianaGrande FAV for @WendyWilliams ( the witch) pic.twitter.com/omJlHtAwU3
— Esha ♡ (@Esha_Pishaa) August 14, 2015
#CancelWendyWilliamsShow waiting for @ArianaGrande to come online and slay @WendyWilliams
— ✨ (@rallison28) August 14, 2015
Body Shaming, Judging. @WendyWilliams What if I said something about u. You just wish u had @ArianaGrande's body. #CancelWendyWilliamsShow
— Hanna (@arianasluvily) August 14, 2015
lol @WendyWilliams is talking about @ArianaGrande looking like a little girl, while forgetting she looks like a man.
— chey (@kindamilfy1) August 14, 2015
The way Ariana Grande's fans dragged Wendy Williams on social media...
— Hi. It's me. (@AndreLowrenso) August 14, 2015
This is why I stopped watching @WendyWilliams! Sometimes she picks on the wrong stars! @ArianaGrande is 1 of them! #CancelWendyWilliamsShow
— Rocky Jeter-Webb (@RockyJeterWebb) August 14, 2015
"She looks 12" well shes the hottest 12 year old I've ever seen #CancelWendyWilliamsShow @ArianaGrande @WendyWilliams pic.twitter.com/8zjKSMqxS0
— kaylah (@fvckbiebgrande) August 14, 2015
"she looks 12" - Wendy Williams on Ariana grande #CancelWendyWilliamsShow pic.twitter.com/9LxkrVMh0A
— jean (@ahmedjean_) August 14, 2015
#CancelWendyWilliamsShow you mess with her -> @ArianaGrande you mess with us! @WendyWilliams .. 💁
— alantis|44 days (@aribslayin) August 14, 2015