Yes, Kim Kardashian faked the Dubai car ride with mother Kris Jenner on Kourtney & Kim Take New York season two episode seven, Kim Takes Dubai.
Watch this video as a reminder. Supposedly this entire car scene took place in Dubai, in October, before Kardashian filed for divorce from Kris Humphries. However, there were several clues that the scene had been staged afterward: the blacked out car windows, the dubbed audio at 00:30, the changes in vocal inflection/ intonation, and, most importantly, mother and daughter were caught by paparazzi right after they shot additional photography.
The Dubai trip was mid-October 2011. Kardashian filed for divorce October 31. The additional scene was filmed December 6, in Los Angeles. In fact, mother and daughter were caught by paparazzi outside a Los Angeles studio, right after shooting the car scene. In the photos, Kardashian wore the exact same outfit, a black jacket and white t-shirt, and still had the same hair and make-up. Jenner had the same hair and earrings and an assistant carried the purple dress in plain sight immediately behind.
Right after this aired Sunday January 8, two body-language experts rubbished the scene as a badly-acted fake with incongruous audio/visual cues. Dr. Lillian Glass said: “[This seems] completely phony, staged and emotionless for someone who is not happy about a marriage.” Body language expert and author Patti Wood added: “[Kim's] words don’t match her body language or her [vocal inflection]. Kim’s body language is not normal with regard to what she is saying.”
In short, the scene wasn’t necessarily, literally scripted. E! denied those allegations, claiming: “The Kardashians have authentically lived their lives on camera.” However, it’s still fake. Paranormal Activity 1 didn’t have a script. Instead, actors had guided conversations where they were fed scenarios and discussion topics to fit a pre-written narrative. An example of a guided conversation on reality television would be E! producers feeding a scene to Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick for the wedding special.
Moreover, in lieu of the desired footage, reality producers can STILL just edit audio/ video to fabricate whatever remaining footage they need.
Time.com notes, in an archive piece on reality shows, 1) producers create “Frankenbites” of audio 2) they’ll edit video shot on different days, doing this kind of re-shoot if there’s still a plot hole, manipulating reaction shots or whatever’s needed to create the scene.
If you read Cracked.com this weekend, you’ll know a Frankenbite is a composite of spoken words and phrases from disparate conversations/ contexts, perhaps weeks apart; literally pasting words to make new sentences, thus fabricating dialogue. It’s routine to paste together multiple conversations that took place weeks apart. Producers can, and do, literally, make someone appear to have said anything. The clue, notes Cracked, any edits away from a person’s mouth and it’s probably a Frankenbite. Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette elaborate in their book, Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, “Frankenbite describe[s]… the art of switching around… sound bites recorded at different times and patched together to create what appears to be a seamless narrative.”
A source tells New York Daily News, all reality shows are filmed like this. Additional photography (re-shoots), re-recording audio, etc.. “This is what is called a pickup scene [it's] done all of the time,” the source told NYDN. “There was a hole in the [Duabi] storyline. [Filming the] a scripted scene [fixed the problem]. All reality shows are staged.”
An example, from the excellent Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe: Reality TV Editing, is below. It illustrates how reaction shots and dialogue from only hours apart can be edited together to create the desired narrative.
Humphries told the truth about the family using him, manipulating him, provoking him, smearing him, and staging scenes to make him look bad. Humphries even hinted as much, again, on Twitter (hinted, because he’s still bound by his confidentiality agreement). “I can’t wait for the truth to come out! People will be surprised or maybe they won’t. #FCC,” Humphries tweeted January 9.
At 1:14 into the video you can see a door closing on the left side. This proves this is a set. Also in the interview they showed in their show it makes it appear she froze when asked if she wanted to bring her husband back to Dubai and then her only response was that he was so jealous he couldn’t come. In the interview you can pull up on the internet on one of her fan websides and on You Tube this is not the response shown. It shows her responding yes and then gives an explanation of why he didn’t come and said she wanted him with her on these trips but she had to respect his work because he respected hers. They spent very little time together after they were married. It seemed she spent more time with her friend Johathan then with Kris when she was in NY. I can understand why Kris didn’t want to go with this in this last episode. Kim was treating him awful and not talking to him like she does when she preceived someone has wronged her. Just as she did her sister and Johnathan. She never gave her marriage a chance. Kris didn’t behave like a fan which seems to be how Kim sees love. In her appreances she always says how much she feels loved by whoever is at the event. She didn’t tell Kris she changed her mind about staring a family and just started taking her birth control pills again. She didn’t talk to him seriously about her feelings about the marriage before making her decision to split yet she yelled at him that a married couples have to be totally honest with each other and tell each other everything. I guess that only applies to Kris and not to Kim. I hope she takes time to really figure out what she wants out of life and if her current way of thinking makes her happy then she is not ready for a committment to antoher person. I feel for Kris. He was emotionally invested in this relationship and it is devistating when someone hurts you like Kim did. Not only is he having to deal with that but he’s having to deal with everyone watching. I don’t think the show has made him look bad. Sure he has some man traits but nothing that really calls for a divorce if you got married for love. I think he was putting up with more crap from Kim and her family. I’m surprised he wasn’t the one to walk out. They edited the show to try to make him look bad and I think they did just the opposite and made Kim look bad. This proves that Kim’s preception of herself is a bit twisted.
I absolutely agree! Kris is a little immature but he’s a nice guy and nothing he does is that bad to warrant divorce so soon. Kim on the other hand is a lying manipulative drama queen. She prompted the birth control thing, pressured him to say he was ready for kids when u could tell he wasn’t even considering it so soon, gets mad at her mom for telling her it’s not such a great idea but when he “BFF” LaLa tells her to wait she changes her whole opinion on it in seconds. Then tells LaLa that Kris h. Will prob be upset. Um no. She pressured him w the scenario and then just took it back. They weren’t talking about a puppy. She’s talking about bringing kids into the world when she doesn’t know how to act like a real partner to her new husband. I liked Kim
Till all of this. And I agree that they tried but failed at making Kris look like a bad guy. Can’t wait for him to be able to talk and tell!