This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. The Kardashians Have Been Caught Up With What happens when the TV show that, for more than a decade, was proclaimed the death of culture, art, and civilized society as we know it…actually ends itself? Keeping Up With the Kardashians will end its run in 2021 after 14 years, 20 seasons, and the most insufferable discourse about television that I’ve had the displeasure of covering. Is […]
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I have never watched an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. I do not follow any of the five sisters on Instagram, where Kim, Kylie, Kendall, Kourtney, and Khloe have accrued over 550 million fans. I have never bought a product the sisters hawk online, not one box of Flat Tummy Tea or a tube of Kylie’s matte lipstick. Yet their influence is all around me. Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which Kim announced will end next year, premiered in 2007. It was the same time I was fumbling into adolescence, turning to celebrity magazines to teach me how to […]
Rapper Kanye West, as we all know, qualified for the presidential ballot in Oklahoma and submitted his entry just four minutes before the deadline earlier this week. The father of Yeezy shoes has set his sights on the upcoming presidency. Fans are concerned the pressure could flip Kanye out. Kanye recently took to Twitter to say his famous wife Kim Kardashian was “out of the line” for meeting up with rapper and activist Meek Mill at the Waldorf hotel back in 2018. Kanye’s tweet followed a previously unseen picture of Kim and Mill that went viral on social media, adding fuel […]
Kanye West was in tears. After pleading for George Soros to call him and questioning the legacy of Harriet Tubman, the musical maestro-turned-entrepreneur’s kick-off speech to his “presidential campaign” in South Carolina took a turn for the worrisome as West tackled the topic of abortion. He did so via a personal story about his famous wife, Kim Kardashian West—specifically, the time they learned she’d become pregnant. “She had the pills in her hand,” West said, presumably referring to mifepristone, a medication used to stop an unwanted pregnancy. He said he had a vision from God to keep the child, before drawing […]