KUWTK Producer: Kim Kardashian’s Televised Marriage Was Real
This inspires an eye roll. But it’s noteworthy, if only because it has taken seven months for someone senior at Keeping Up With The Kardashians to defend Kim’s Fairy Tale Wedding: A Kardashian Event aside from pimp momager/ executive producer Kris Jenner (who’s been caught in several lies, so her credibility is shot).
Missing the point that not having a script doesn’t make a show “real” when producers have been caught manufacturing conversations, and leads have been caught faking pivotal scenes to smear a former cast member, Jonathan Murray, chairman of Bunim/Murray Productions, tells MediaBistro.com the show is authentic.
Asked whether the Kardashian-Humphries marriage was faked for cameras, Murray replied: “No, of course not. Kim did not seek us out as to who she should marry, nor should she.” Seemingly also referring to rumours that E! auditioned husbands.
Murray distances himself from the divorce scandal a little, by adding: “All we’re doing as producers is saying, ‘Kim, we want to cover it.’ We want to shoot the marriage, hell, if they’d let us we’d go on the honeymoon with them. (They didn’t let us.) We’re just the people who document what happens. I would not want the responsibility of telling Kim what to do in her life.”
And, again, despite it being evidently untrue, the Murray concludes: “I think that’s why the show works. It’s not just a bunch of phony set-up stuff. It’s really stuff that happens in this family’s lives and they let us shoot it.”
Included is a KUWTK teaser showing the subsequent Kimye relationship, the premiere is Sunday.