Everything the Kardashian-Jenner Family Has Said About Editing Their Reality Show, Theories About Fake Scenes

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Everything the Kardashian-Jenner Family Has Said About Editing Their Reality Show, Theories About Fake Scenes

Putting the real in reality TV? The Kardashian-Jenner family members are certainly reality TV royalty, but some fans have questioned the story lines — and editing — over their decades on the small screen. “We’ve never really edited out crazy content,” Kim Kardashian claimed on the “Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham” podcast in 2018. “When you watch [certain scenes], you get heated all over again. We literally start fighting all over again over the same thing. Even if we, like, are so crazy mad at each other, it won’t be long before we’re all good. The fact that so many people text me even now if a rerun comes on, they’re like, ‘Are you and Kourtney [Kardashian] OK?’ And I’m like, ‘We went on vacation together. This has been months since we filmed that.’” E! viewers know that Keeping Up With the Kardashians ran for 20 seasons from 2007 to 2021. Kim, Kourtney, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner subsequently made the move to Hulu and rebranded the series as The Kardashians. Season 1, which debuted in April 2022, included Khloé learning that her then-boyfriend, Tristan Thompson, cheated on her again and fathered a child with another woman. “That definitely isn’t fun, but when things are so public, there’s no way around it. I mean, it’s something that I feel viewers would feel slighted or maybe [say], ‘This isn’t a docuseries, it’s not reality, because you’re not talking about this or showing this,'” Khloé said at Disney’s FYC Fest in June 2022. “And the truth is, Kim was filming something else when this story came out on the media. It’s not easy, but it’s also, I think, a form of therapy for me at the same time. I like to see how the rest of my family responds to things, like those little things mean a lot to me.” [sendtonews type="float" key="8K5OzKUQcj-2830760-14453"] The new show also broke the fourth wall, with Kourtney complaining that she didn’t feel her engagement party to Travis Barker looked accurate on the series. “I liked the fact that we put that in there. We’ve almost given her her voice of the cut that she didn’t like, and we put it on air and I think that’s fair to her,” executive producer Ben Winston said of the moment. “I think when they don’t like the show, I like the fact that they say it, even if that means there are articles saying, ‘Hey, you’re doing stuff they don’t like.’ I think that’s a really fascinating bit, and they deserve huge credit for allowing that.” Season 1 of The Kardashians is currently streaming on Hulu. Scroll through for more:

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Everything the Kardashian-Jenner Family Has Said About Editing Their Reality Show, Theories About Fake Scenes

Putting the real in reality TV? The Kardashian-Jenner family members are certainly reality TV royalty, but some fans have questioned the story lines — and editing — over their decades on the small screen. “We’ve never really edited out crazy content,” Kim Kardashian claimed on the “Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham” podcast in 2018. “When you watch [certain scenes], you get heated all over again. We literally start fighting all over again over the same thing. Even if we, like, are so crazy mad at each other, it won’t be long before we’re all good. The fact that so many people text me even now if a rerun comes on, they’re like, ‘Are you and Kourtney [Kardashian] OK?’ And I’m like, ‘We went on vacation together. This has been months since we filmed that.’” E! viewers know that Keeping Up With the Kardashians ran for 20 seasons from 2007 to 2021. Kim, Kourtney, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner subsequently made the move to Hulu and rebranded the series as The Kardashians. Season 1, which debuted in April 2022, included Khloé learning that her then-boyfriend, Tristan Thompson, cheated on her again and fathered a child with another woman. “That definitely isn’t fun, but when things are so public, there’s no way around it. I mean, it’s something that I feel viewers would feel slighted or maybe [say], ‘This isn’t a docuseries, it’s not reality, because you’re not talking about this or showing this,'” Khloé said at Disney’s FYC Fest in June 2022. “And the truth is, Kim was filming something else when this story came out on the media. It’s not easy, but it’s also, I think, a form of therapy for me at the same time. I like to see how the rest of my family responds to things, like those little things mean a lot to me.” [sendtonews type="float" key="8K5OzKUQcj-2830760-14453"] The new show also broke the fourth wall, with Kourtney complaining that she didn’t feel her engagement party to Travis Barker looked accurate on the series. “I liked the fact that we put that in there. We’ve almost given her her voice of the cut that she didn’t like, and we put it on air and I think that’s fair to her,” executive producer Ben Winston said of the moment. “I think when they don’t like the show, I like the fact that they say it, even if that means there are articles saying, ‘Hey, you’re doing stuff they don’t like.’ I think that’s a really fascinating bit, and they deserve huge credit for allowing that.” Season 1 of The Kardashians is currently streaming on Hulu. Scroll through for more:

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Becoming Executive Producers

The family hasn’t denied that Kris, Kourtney, Kim and Khloé have served as executive producers for years.

“I’m not in the actual editing room but I watch every cut and every edit,” Kim told Ashley Graham in 2018. “And that, I think, has always been the magic to being ourselves and showing everything, because we know that we could really have a say in it. [It’s] really rare for them to give us that from the start.”

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Kourtney Was a ‘Character’ on ‘KUWTK’

“I felt like I was being almost a character. ‘This is Kourtney, and she’s in a bad mood, so even though she was laughing really at lunch, we’re going to cut out the laughing and let’s only use the annoying comment that she said,’” Kourtney told Bustle about the E! show in March 2022. “Like, say we were shooting at Khloé’s house. I’d be like, ‘It’s going to be a good day. Let’s have a good mood. Let’s put a smile on our face.’ I see the growth that comes from those unhappy places which make it all worth it. I’m like, ‘If we didn’t go through these roller-coasters, you wouldn’t get to the good part.’”

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The Kravis Engagement Episode

Going from E! to Hulu didn’t necessarily fix Kourtney’s complaints. “When I saw my engagement episode, editors or whoever is, like, taking it as like, ‘Let’s take Kourtney, she’s the chosen one to be the drama while shooting our show,’” she said during the June 9 episode of The Kardashians, referring to her romance with Barker being overshadowed by concerns for her ex Scott Disick. “I didn’t even remember it until I, like, saw the cut of the episode. It wasn’t, like, 50 percent of the night like it’s made to be made to be on, like, an episode.”

In a confessional, she added: “It’s enabling this old narrative and buying into something that just doesn’t really exist. It should be an empowering episode about me getting out of toxic relationships and really having this, like, fairy tale love story. That is my reality.”

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The ‘Roblox’ Scene

During the premiere of The Kardashians, Kim’s son Saint discovers a joke about his mother’s sex tape on his iPad via Roblox. While an independent Roblox developer claimed to BBC News that the “chances of 'accidentally' stumbling upon a game like that are astronomically small,” the outlet also reported a denial that the family faked the scene.

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The ‘Sex Tape’ Narrative

Kim’s ex Ray J alleged that the story line of Kanye West retrieving a second sex tape from the “Sexy Can I” rapper in October 2021 wasn’t accurate on the show.

“I gave it to him in a private terminal at the back of Los Angeles airport, in a private room where we talked for four hours. I gave him everything I had, I showed him everything I had — he sat on the floor and he watched everything I gave him. I was showing him these timelines and letting him know that everything that’s been said to him is not true,” Ray J claimed to Daily Mail in May 2022. “It wasn’t a sex tape — it was a lot of pictures, a lot of little mini videos and a lot of proof we’ve been talking over the years [since our split]. If you send me an email in 2008, the computer doesn’t change the date on it.”

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The Khloe Intervention

The season finale made waves when viewers alleged — based on Kourtney’s outfit — that the family filmed a scene on January 31, 2022, that was set in early December 2021 when Khloé learned about Thompson’s cheating scandal. The family has yet to comment on the claims.

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Denying Editing Out Big Moments

While many viewers pointed out that season 1 of The Kardashians skipped over Kylie’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Travis Scott’s Astroworld tragedy — with some fans suggesting Kendall's trip to Miami with Hailey Bieber aired out of order to fill time — Khloé denied taking scenes out to “protect” the family.

“Personally, I don’t like to take stuff out. I’m like, ‘This is what happened, this is just how it played,'” she said at Disney’s FYC Fest in June 2022, without specifically referencing Scott. “Even if you might not like yourself in a certain way, or might not like your tone or something you did or said, it’s a mirror and sometimes you have to take those moments and reflect and learn and get better. There’s been so much growth from me watching myself and certain things or scenarios.”

She continued: “It’s not so much of us taking things out to protect ourselves or anything like that. It’s more so just to make the show hopefully better, along with the whole production team.”

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A Special Filter?

TikTokers have alleged that the Hulu series puts a filter on the cast during scenes. While one user claimed Kris' phone was warped because of a filter in one clip, another suggested Kim's nose was tweaked in some scenes from an episode. 

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The Exterior of Their Homes

Back in 2014, Kim admitted that the family uses fake houses for b-roll.

“My old home in Beverly Hills was really my home [and] I would get people showing up at all hours ringing my gate [and] had to call the police on several occasions,” she explained at the time. “People hopping the gate [and] scaring me. It was so unsafe. The Hollywood star tours would stop by, too, [because] they recognized my home from our show. After that, we realized how unsafe it is to show the exterior of our homes. So now we use different homes for the outside for security purposes.”

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Kris Humphries’ Allegations

According to Life & Style, former KUWTK producer Russell Jay alleged in court documents in 2013 that Kim and Humphries’ proposal scene was reshot.

Kim’s second husband, whom she was married to for 72 days in 2011, also implied that things may have been tweaked. "Look, I should have known what I was getting into. I was definitely naive about how much my life was going to change. But the one thing that really bothers me is whenever people say that my marriage was fake,” the former NBA player wrote for the Player’s Tribute. "There’s definitely a lot about that world that is not entirely real. But our actual relationship was 100 percent real.”