{"id":90923,"date":"2025-10-20T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90923\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:29:07","slug":"savannah-guthrie-regrets-asking-khloe-kardashian-about-fathers-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90923\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Guthrie Regrets Asking Khloe Kardashian About Father’s Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Savannah Guthrie<\/a> is looking back on her broadcasting career and revealing her most regretful on-air moment.<\/p>\n

During the Monday, October 20, episode of the Today show<\/a>, the journalist, 53, was asked if she had any regrets from any of her past interviews.<\/p>\n

Guthrie recalled asking former guest Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian<\/a> about the rumors that the late Robert Kardashian was not her biological father back in 2012, revealing she put the Good American founder, 41, on the spot just before a commercial because it was such an uncomfortable question.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian, like, 10 seconds before we were going to break about the rumors that her father wasn\u2019t her father,\u201d Guthrie shared in hindsight. (At the time, there were several reports questioning if Kardashian\u2019s biological father was the late O.J. Simpson<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOriginal Keeping Up With the Kardashians viewers are no stranger to speculation about Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian\u2019s paternity. For years, rumors swirled that the reality star was actually the daughter of the late O.J. Simpson. The theories first took hold after Kris Jenner published her Kris Jenner and All Things Kardashian memoir in November 2011. In the [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

Guthrie said she felt uneasy over the ordeal, explaining that she was facing \u201call this pressure\u201d from producers who were eager for her to ask the \u201cdishy question.\u201d<\/p>\n

The TV personality praised Kardashian for brushing off the speculation without getting flustered or taking the question to heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo at the very end we were like, \u2018And Khlo\u00e9, like, what about this rumor that Robert Kardashian\u2019s not really your father?\u2019 And they were like, \u201810, nine, eight\u2026\u2019 and I was so embarrassed,\u201d Guthrie explained. \u201cAnd she was such a class act. She was like, \u2018Ah, nothing to it.\u2019 We made the break. I asked the question, Khlo\u00e9 was a total class act.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The mom of two \u2014 who now shares daughter True and son Tatum with ex Tristan Thompson \u2014 previously shut down the theories during a May 2012 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, on which she was encouraged to take a paternity test to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

Khlo\u00e9 ultimately refused, stating clearly that her \u201cdad is Robert Kardashian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her siblings include older sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Kim Kardashian as well as younger brother Rob Kardashian, plus Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner.<\/p>\n

Simpson had ties to the Kardashian family as he was close with Robert Sr., who served on his now-infamous legal team<\/a> when he was accused of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, in 1994. Simpson was ultimately found not guilty in October 1995 following a criminal trial, but liable in a civil trial nearly two years later, in February 1997.<\/p>\n

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\n Related: Kardashian Family’s Most Heart-Wrenching Quotes About Robert Kardashian<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMourning the family patriarch. The Kardashian family has opened up over the years about the painful loss of Robert Kardashian. The late attorney, who shared Kourtney, Kim, Khlo\u00e9 and Rob with ex-wife Kris Jenner, died of esophageal cancer in 2003 \u2014 a devastating loss for all four of his children and his ex-wife. (Robert and [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cKhloe, like all the girls, I\u2019m very proud of, just like I know Bob would be if he was here,\u201d Simpson tweeted in response to the hearsay in 2019. \u201cThe simple facts of the matter is she is not mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The former NFL star addressed the paternity theories again during a 2022 episode of the \u201cFull Send<\/a>\u201d podcast, saying, \u201cThe rumor ain\u2019t true. It\u2019s not even anywhere close to being true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have their types, right? I always thought Kris [Jenner] was a cute girl,\u201d he said, doubling down on his previous remarks. \u201cShe was really nice. But I was dating supermodels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simpson died in April 2024 at the age of 76 after battling prostate cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Savannah Guthrie is looking back on her broadcasting career and revealing her most regretful on-air moment. During the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5123,156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-90923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}