Savannah Guthrie is wanting again on one of the awkward moments of her Right now present profession — and it includes none aside from Khloe Kardashian.
The longtime morning present anchor admitted that she nonetheless cringes over a query she requested the Kardashians star greater than a decade in the past, calling it certainly one of her “most embarrassing” moments on stay tv.
“I requested Khloe Kardashian like, 10 seconds earlier than we had been going to interrupt concerning the rumors that her father wasn’t her father,” Savannah confessed to her Right now co-hosts and Andy Cohen through the October 20 broadcast. “I used to be so embarrassed as a result of I felt like all this strain — I’d simply began and I felt just like the producers needed me to ask this dishy query, however I didn’t need to.”
On the time, Savannah had simply joined Right now and was nonetheless discovering her footing as a number. Feeling the strain to ship a buzzy interview second, she determined to squeeze within the uncomfortable query on the final second.
“I requested the query. I didn’t need to,” she reiterated. “Khloe was a complete class act.”
Throughout the 2012 interview, Savannah awkwardly tried to slot in the rumor mill query earlier than a industrial break, saying, “In a short time, talking of rumors, truly, I feel we’re out of time, nothing extra to say about what individuals stated about who your father, your organic father?”
Khloe dealt with it with grace — and humor — replying with fun, “I don’t know who my daddy is.”
The rumor Savannah referenced had been swirling for months after Star journal quoted Robert Kardashian Sr.’s ex-wife Jan Ashley, who claimed Robert as soon as informed her that “Khloe’s not likely a Kardashian.” His third spouse, Ellen Pearson Kardashian, echoed the sentiment in the identical interview, saying Robert “did query the truth that Khloe was his.”
Khloe didn’t take the gossip frivolously. That very same day, she took to Twitter to slam the hypothesis, writing, “The audacity it’s a must to point out my father’s title like this! Ought to be ashamed of urself! I let a number of issues slide however this one is de facto low… YOU ARE DISGUSTING! (sure you recognize who YOU are).”
Over time, rumors surrounding who Khloe’s actual father is —which had been addressed on Protecting Up With Kardashians—truly spurred a response from a key individual connected to them: Robert’s pal and former consumer, O.J. Simpson.
“Khloe, like all the ladies, I’m very pleased with, similar to I do know Bob can be if he was right here,” the NFL star, who was acquitted in a 1995 trial of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, tweeted in 2019, virtually 5 years earlier than his loss of life. “The easy details of the matter is she isn’t mine.”
