14 DAY TRIAL // Khloe Kardashian and her two famous sisters Kim and Kourtney have recently launched their own kiddie fashion line and, to promote it, Khloe agreed to do an interview with Australia’s Sunrise morning show via satellite. As you can see in the video below, it really didn’t turn out as expected.
In fact, it led to a very bitter war of words from Khloe on one side and the producers of the morning show on the other. The former says the interview was cut short because the call “dropped,” the latter argue that they were shut down for asking a question her minders didn’t appreciate.
And that question was all about North West, Kim’s daughter with fiancé rapper Kanye West, who is credited as one of the three sources of inspiration for the new line of clothes. It made sense for the Sunrise anchors to ask about Nori considering how much credit she’s given for inspiring the collection.
Khloe too seemed to agree, answering the question about Nori with a smile on her face – but her eyes constantly darted back to someone out of the camera range, presumably her publicist telling her the interview would be cut short right after she was done with what she was saying. And this is precisely what happened.
After the segment aired, the official Twitter feed of the Australian network displayed a message informing followers that, though the chat seemed at first to have been cut short by technical issues, at a closer look, they had established that it had, in fact, been interrupted on purpose.
Khloe didn’t take too kindly to that, saying on her own Twitter that Sunrise producers must be “[expletive]-ing desperate” to be fishing for a story were none was to be had, because the call had just “dropped,” she didn’t ask for the interview to be cut short.
In response, in a statement to E! News, Sunrise Executive Producer Michael Pell says that, while she might not have been personally offended by a harmless question, her people definitely deemed it too much.
“What happened with Khloe Kardashian on the show is a good lesson for publicists everywhere. Don't try to censor natural conversation. You would think coming on to promote a range of clothes that includes a baby line, it would be fair enough to ask about the inspiration,” Pell explains.
“When you watch the interview you see Khloe had no problem with the questions. It's obvious someone on her team did, and pulled the plug. Khloe shouldn't declare war on us, she should declare war on her own publicists,” the exec adds.