How Page Six helped Wendy Williams launch her radio career

Wendy Williams was hired full-time at 98.7 Kiss FM when she filled in for regular morning DJ Carole Ford — and took a risk by reading Page Six gossip items on the air, according to an upcoming Lifetime biopic.

A clip from the film shows Williams — as played by Ciera Payton — switching things up as a fill-in host by taking a break from just spinning tunes.

Instead, she sees a copy of the Post in the studio and dishes to listeners about a Page Six item at the time on the infamous Milli Vanilli lip-syncing scandal. The duo won a Grammy award for Best New Artist in 1990.

Luckily for Williams, the station loved the new direction. Her boss in the clip initially says, “We don’t do that here,” but then calls the move “revolutionary.” She then became a permanent fixture, and her career flourished by reporting industry gossip.  

“Wendy Williams: The Movie” debuts Saturday on Lifetime.