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The Kardashian-Jenner household in 2016. From left to proper: Khloe, Lamar Odom, Kris, Kendall, Kourtney, Kanye, Kim, Caitlin and Kylie
The long-running TV actuality present concerning the Kardashian household is coming to an finish, Kim Kardashian West has introduced.
“It’s with heavy hearts that we have made the troublesome determination as a household to say goodbye to Maintaining Up With The Kardashians,” she mentioned in an announcement posted on Twitter.
The present has run for 14 years, and made international mega-stars of Kim, her siblings, their mother and father, companions and youngsters.
The ultimate season, its twenty first, will air in early 2021.
Expressing her because of the “hundreds of people and companies” concerned within the programme, Kim additionally added: “I’m so extremely grateful to everybody who has watched and supported me and my household these previous 14 unimaginable years.”
“This present made us who we’re and I can be perpetually in debt to everybody who performed a job in shaping our careers and altering our lives perpetually,” she went on.
After information of the present’s demise grew to become identified, her sister and co-star Khloe Kardashian tweeted: “The feelings are overflowing at this time… change is hard however generally wanted.”
Who’re the Kardashians?
Many of the household had been unknown when the present began in 2007. Kim had appeared in some episodes of her buddy Paris Hilton’s actuality present and her lawyer father, Robert, was identified for defending OJ Simpson at his notorious homicide trial. Robert Kardashian died in 2003.
Early reveals centered on the lives of Kim and her sisters Kourtney and Khloe and their companions, together with Kourtney’s ex-boyfriend Scott Disick, Kim’s ex-husband Kris Humphries and Khloe’s ex-husband Lamar Odom.
It will definitely introduced in “momager” Kris Jenner, her now ex-husband Caitlyn Jenner – then the one well-known determine within the present, as Bruce Jenner the Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete – and half sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner.
Regardless of being heavily-panned by critics and accused of constructing individuals well-known for being well-known, the present has loved large rankings, gained awards and been one among E! channel’s most profitable reveals.
Kim, 39, has since change into one of many world’s most celebrated ladies, with lots of of tens of millions of social media followers and a thriving magnificence enterprise. She married rapper Kanye West in 2014, with whom she has three kids and a reputed joint web value of greater than a billion {dollars}. She recently spoke about her husband’s mental health issues following a sequence of erratic statements from him as he started a run for the US presidency.
Kendall and Kylie Jenner had been kids when the present first started in 2007, however grew to become stars in their very own proper, and at the moment are – on the ages of 24 and 23 – among the many world’s most necessary influencers.
In 2019, the latter was named by Forbes magazine as the youngest self-made billionaire of all time because of her massively fashionable cosmetics enterprise. However in Might, the journal accused her household of inflating the worth of her the enterprise, and struck her from its list of billionaires.
Sport changer or trash TV?
A spokesperson for E! mentioned in an announcement to CNN: “Whereas it has been an absolute privilege and we’ll miss them wholeheartedly, we respect the household’s determination to dwell their lives with out our cameras.”
Reacting to the information, actress and singer Kat McPhee posted on Twitter: “Congrats on an important run guys. Will at all times be a recreation changer.”
However one Twitter consumer referred to as Jennifer mentioned she can be glad to see the again of the well-known household.
“That could be a miracle,” she wrote. “It has been wealthy trash on tv because it began. Some issues actually must be saved personal.”