Kanye West Once Explained Why He Tried to Avoid ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Some of the most popular episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians featured Kanye West. However, the fashion mogul wasn’t keen on appearing in the reality TV series. It wasn’t until overtime he started warming up to the idea.
Kanye West didn’t like doing ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ for a meticulous reason
West didn’t appear in many episodes of his wife’s hit series at the beginning of their relationship. It wasn’t until later on that his presence in the series expanded. But it turned out that West didn’t avoid the show because he was camera shy. Instead, the “Jesus Walks” artist asserted his qualms with how production shot the show on camera. It was something he and Kardashian had in common. Kardashian was so conscious of her presentation on camera that she once refused to be shot from the waist down.
“I don’t really do her show just because I don’t particularly like the way the producers shoot some of the shots,” he said in a 2019 interview with Hot 97. “I’m very meticulous to that, right? I like to get a different DP [director of photography] or whatever.”
But in the beginning, West made certain exceptions to appearing on the show if only to make his ex-wife happy. He wanted his engagement to feel just as special as his wedding to Kardashian.
“When we got engaged, I made sure the show was there because I felt like that was something that would make her happy,” he said. “Regardless of how it was shot, I felt like this is a moment she would like to have and would like to share and just have that documented. And we could decide later or not to air it.”
West later decided to do the show more often because of The Incredibles.
“It was so funny because he loves The Incredibles and we were watching and they were opening it in a confessional, and so he was like, ‘OK, I think I can do that,'” Kardashian said in an interview with ET.
But Kardashian had to explain to her ex-husband what filming a confessional would be like.
“He can be a long talker … I just said, ‘We can edit out the length and, you know, just say whatever you want to say,’ and he was like, ‘What is this, like, an interview?’ And I was like, ‘No, well, just, like, you have to kind of retell what had happened and, like, set the tone so that, you know, the story can make sense to some people if they didn’t catch everything that we were filming’. He was like, ‘OK, I got it,'” he said.
Kim Kardashian commented on doing a reality spin-off show with Kanye West before their divorce
When she was still with West, Kardashian received a question about a possible spin-off reality series focused on just her and her ex-husband. Kardashian didn’t rule out the possibility, especially after doing a brief spin-off of sorts with her sister Kourtney Kardashian. But she wasn’t sure if West would be interested in the opportunity.
“I don’t know. I don’t know if that’s something he would do,” she said in an interview with ET. “But, you know, I was in Miami recently, and it did make me really miss Kourtney and Kim Take Miami. So I don’t know, that would be really fun to revisit that.”
The Kardashian sisters were no stranger to spin-offs. Khloé Kardashian, for instance, had a spin-off with her ex-husband Lamar Odom called Khloé & Lamar. But the possibility of a Kanye and Kim-centric show died after the two called it quits for good. After the conclusion of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the sisters would star in the continuation spin-off The Kardashians.
The show picked up where its predecessor left off and also featured small appearances from West. There were also once talks of West and his current wife, Bianca Censori, doing a reality TV series. However, it remains to be seen if West’s alleged plans for the show are still in the works.
