{"id":257569,"date":"2026-01-22T07:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257569\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:41:11","slug":"kim-kardashian-reveals-reason-she-does-not-see-friend-jonathan-cheban-as-much-after-meeting-20-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257569\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian reveals reason she does not see friend Jonathan Cheban as much&#8230; after meeting 20 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/kim_kardashian\/index.html\" id=\"mol-d45e68a0-f71b-11f0-8891-fb465afd99f4\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kim Kardashian<\/a> has no issues with Jonathan Cheban, her pal of almost 20 years, she said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When appearing on her sister&#8217;s podcast <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLLaJJDcQq2Umsv4wniz7h4NqJQwiCwXPH\">Khloe in Wonder Land<\/a>, the raven-haired star she said she loves FoodGod, a name he goes by as he reviews restaurants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I love Jonathan. We should call him,&#8217; said the 45-year-old SKIMS founder.\u00a0&#8216;Jonathan and I are good. Here&#8217;s the thing, I had kids,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The star shares kids North, 12, Saint, 9, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/chicago\/index.html\" id=\"mol-d49a1210-f71b-11f0-8891-fb465afd99f4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago<\/a>, 7, and Psalm, 6, with ex-husband <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/kanye_west\/index.html\" id=\"mol-d457b1e0-f71b-11f0-8891-fb465afd99f4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kanye West<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It&#8217;s really hard to maintain friendships when you have kids and you&#8217;re like in it,&#8217; said the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tv\/reality-tv\/index.html\" id=\"mol-d495f360-f71b-11f0-8891-fb465afd99f4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reality TV<\/a> icon.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-c2c2afbc7e9085c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/96116625-15486261-Kim_Kardashian_has_no_issues_with_Jonathan_Cheban_her_pal_of_alm-a-29_176904285295.jpeg\" height=\"943\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Kim Kardashian has no issues with Jonathan Cheban, her pal of almost 20 years, she said on Wednesday. Seen in 2019\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Kim Kardashian has no issues with Jonathan Cheban, her pal of almost 20 years, she said on Wednesday. Seen in 2019<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-678095a5c2934117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/96116693-15486261-Foodgod_posted_a_photo_with_his_bestie_in_April_2023_captioning_-a-36_176903602668.jpeg\" height=\"873\" width=\"634\" alt=\"When appearing on her sister's podcast Khloe in Wonder Land, the raven-haired star she said she loves FoodGod, a name he goes by as he reviews restaurants. Seen in 2023\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">When appearing on her sister&#8217;s podcast Khloe in Wonder Land, the raven-haired star she said she loves FoodGod, a name he goes by as he reviews restaurants. Seen in 2023<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She continued: &#8216;Jonathan is not going to come and sit around Calabasas all day. He&#8217;s like always on the move.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Khlo\u00e9, 41, then said: &#8216;Especially when someone else doesn&#8217;t have kids. It&#8217;s not like you can do play dates with your kids. I get that \u2014 and we love Jonathan. There&#8217;s so much history there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cheban said in March: &#8216;People post me in things and people say that Kim and I aren&#8217;t friends anymore and it&#8217;s so funny to <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-5848351\/Kim-Kardashian-Jonathan-Cheban-best-friends-hang-NYC.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">watch this stuff<\/a> &#8217;cause we are friends and we talk all the time,&#8217; he told Us Weekly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I see all these things that pop up and that&#8217;s how I know if I&#8217;m on [episodes of The Kardashians] or not.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cheban said he and Kim are &#8216;absolutely&#8217; still close even if they keep their bond out of the public eye. &#8216;We&#8217;re going to be friends forever \u2014 and it&#8217;s fun,&#8217; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I mean, she&#8217;s got so many kids and so many things to do and I&#8217;m all the way on this coast, so it&#8217;s like, yeah, we don&#8217;t see each other as much, but we talk all the time and anything happens that I feel like we should discuss, we just send it right away.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-af1c00d652f5ff01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/96116271-15486261-_I_love_Jonathan_We_should_call_him_said_the_45_year_old_SKIMS_f-a-30_176904285297.jpeg\" height=\"986\" width=\"634\" alt=\"'I love Jonathan. We should call him,' said the 45-year-old SKIMS founder.' Jonathan and I are good. Here's the thing, I had kids,' she said. Seen in 2022\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">&#8216;I love Jonathan. We should call him,&#8217; said the 45-year-old SKIMS founder.&#8217; Jonathan and I are good. Here&#8217;s the thing, I had kids,&#8217; she said. Seen in 2022<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-83f80a2ce929f65\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/96115303-15486261-Jonathan_used_to_make_regular_appearances_with_Kim_on_Keeping_Up-a-31_176904285301.jpeg\" height=\"360\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Jonathan used to make regular appearances with Kim on Keeping Up With the Kardashians\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Jonathan used to make regular appearances with Kim on Keeping Up With the Kardashians<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-30fbc282a09f4034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/105717207-15486261-Cheban_at_the_Mercy_New_York_premiere_held_at_AMC_Lincoln_Square-a-32_17690428530.jpeg\" height=\"953\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Cheban at the Mercy New York premiere held at AMC Lincoln Square on January 20\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Cheban at the Mercy New York premiere held at AMC Lincoln Square on January 20<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cheban grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey and attended Fort Lee High School before graduating from Hofstra University with a communications degree in 1995.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After graduation, Cheban began working for publicist Peggy Siegal at her firm in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But then Cheban left Siegal and formed his own public-relations firm with two other publicists. He left that company in 2001, and went on to found his own firm, CommandPR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Then he popped up in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, appearing as a friend of the Kardashian sisters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He subsequently appeared in several episodes of the show&#8217;s spin-offs, Kourtney and Kim Take New York, Kourtney and Kim Take Miami and Kourtney and Khlo\u00e9 Take The Hamptons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In 2010, Cheban starred in his own reality show, The Spin Crowd, chronicling the lives of Cheban, Simon Huck and their employees at his firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In January 2016, Cheban entered the Celebrity Big Brother 17 house in the U.K., to compete as a housemate on its 17th season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian has no issues with Jonathan Cheban, her pal of almost 20 years, she said on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,539,93,61,60,128110,25333,1489],"class_list":["post-257569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jonathan-cheban","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-tvshowbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}