Poised to be a big star?

If you want to get to know Wendy Williams, talk show glamazon, you don’t exactly have to pry. “Coy” isn’t part of Williams’ repertoire.

Just consider her office at the mid-Manhattan studio where she tapes her syndicated weekday “The Wendy Williams Show,” which starts Monday (8 and 11 p.m., BET, cable channel 56 in Spokane).

She is nearly 6 feet tall, silkily bewigged, voluptuous and a big talker. Her chosen surroundings: fuchsia color scheme, leopard-skin design and, for good measure, a sparkling chandelier.

Williams, who turns 45 on Saturday, says she hasn’t changed much from her childhood, when her schoolteacher parents used to caution her with the code “TMTLTF” (too much, too loud, too fast) – “but now, I’m doing something useful with it.”

She’s a veteran radio DJ and talk-show host whose “Wendy Williams Experience” is heard by some 12 million listeners nationwide. She has published several books, including a memoir and her latest novel, released in May.

Now, after a bygone fling on VH1, she’s taking on TV, big-time.

“The Wendy Williams Show” promises a party with guests, celebrity and otherwise (“Ugly Betty” star Vanessa Williams on Monday), fashion and cooking segments, gossip and other “Hot Topics,” and lots of interaction with her studio audience.

“I like to entertain people, give them information, make them smile – and laugh!” Williams says. “This is not a heavyweight show. I’m not here to talk political, or split the atom.”

She adds that her appeal stretches far beyond what’s termed “the urban audience.”

Her show, says Williams, “is not a black thing. It’s a THING thing! And it’s a positive show. I’m not a shock jock, and I’m not a shocking person.

“ ‘Shock’ to me goes along with nasty and mean-spirited. I’m a lovely woman from New Jersey,” she says, without a trace of irony, “and I’m sensitive.”

Away from work, Williams has a busy home life with her husband of 11 years, Kevin Hunter (who is also her manager), and their 8-year-old son, Kevin Jr.

“I like living in the suburbs,” she says, “and I want to make a nice home. Omigosh, that sounds so corny!

“I am conservative. I am a girl from the Jersey shore. But I have more work to do. … I hope to be America’s new sweetheart.”

The birthday bunch

Pianist Van Cliburn is 75. Actor-comedian Bill Cosby is 72. Singer Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac) is 66. Fitness guru Richard Simmons is 61. Actress Cheryl Ladd is 58. Actress Mel Harris (“thirtysomething”) is 53. Actress Anna Friel (“Pushing Daisies”) is 33. Actor Topher Grace is 31. Actress Michelle Rodriguez is 31. Actor Erik Per Sullivan (“Malcolm in the Middle”) is 18.