Savannah Guthrie is wanting again on probably the most awkward moments of her At the moment 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 considered one of her “most embarrassing” moments on dwell tv.
“I requested Khloe Kardashian like, 10 seconds earlier than we had been going to interrupt in regards to the rumors that her father wasn’t her father,” Savannah confessed to her At the moment co-hosts and Andy Cohen throughout the October 20 broadcast. “I used to be so embarrassed as a result of I felt like all this stress — I’d simply began and I felt just like the producers needed me to ask this dishy query, however I didn’t wish to.”
On the time, Savannah had simply joined At the moment and was nonetheless discovering her footing as a number. Feeling the stress 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 wish 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, really, I believe we’re out of time, nothing extra to say about what folks mentioned about who your father, your organic father?”
Khloe dealt with it with grace — and humor — replying with amusing, “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 probably not 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 evenly. That very same day, she took to Twitter to slam the hypothesis, writing, “The audacity you must point out my father’s title like this! Needs to be ashamed of urself! I let lots of issues slide however this one is basically low… YOU ARE DISGUSTING! (sure who YOU are).”
Over time, rumors surrounding who Khloe’s actual father is —which had been addressed on Preserving Up With Kardashians—really spurred a response from a key individual connected to them: Robert’s pal and former consumer, O.J. Simpson.
“Khloe, like all the women, I’m very happy with, identical to I do know Bob could 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 dying. “The easy details of the matter is she isn’t mine.”
