Sherri Shepherd Shares Her Dream Guest List for New Talk Show at AAFCA Awards

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Angelique Jackson Sherri Shepherd wasn’t a nominee at the 13th AAFCA Awards on Wednesday night, but she certainly had the look of a winner.Shepherd was on hand at the annual awards show — which celebrates the best in film each year — to present the best actress award to her “Chi-town sister” Jennifer Hudson, who the organization’s near-100 members honored for playing Aretha Franklin in “Respect.”“I’m so in awe of her, that she has reinvented herself but she’s still singing those soulful gospel songs, then she’s pop, then she can get in there and act her butt off and did an amazing job in ‘Respect,’” Shepherd told Variety about Hudson on the red carpet outside the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. “Now the girl’s got her own talk show — welcome to the block, sis! — so, it’s very, very exciting to support her in this manner.” Of course, Hudson isn’t the only one with a new show.

Shepherd was also basking in the glow of her own big news — that she’s launching “Sherri” this fall. And, as Hudson and Shepherd’s join “The Tamron Hall Show,” she noted, Black women are dominating that sector of the industry.Shepherd’s new syndicated series from Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury will take over the Fox O&O time slots that are currently held by “Wendy Williams Show.” When Shepherd made the emotional announcement last week, while guest hosting on “Wendy Williams,” she shared with audiences that she’d long dreamed of hosting her own show, but the opportunity never came.

Her message to other women going for their dreams in entertainment: “If you’re a spiritual person like me, you’ve really got to trust His timing.”“I’m not going to say it’s not going to be without hurts,” she explained. “Because, for 18 years, I heard people tell me I couldn’t sit.