Kim Kardashian: FAKING Pregnancy Drama For Ratings?!

If you watched last night’s episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, then you know the show pivoted away from the storyline about Kim being robbed at gunpoint in Paris, and launched a new arc about Kim’s desire to have another kid.

Yes, we’ve been hearing about Kim’s uterus for weeks now, and if last night’s installment of KUWTK is any indication, there’s a lot more fertility talk to come.

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It’s enough to make some fans wonder if Kim’s desire to expand her family is legit, or if she’s simply doing what she can to boost the show’s slumping ratings.

Rumors about Keeping Up With the Kardashians being canceled certainly aren’t new.

In fact, they seem to surface about once a month.

But this time, the numbers support the speculation like never before.

E! execs are said to be troubled by the show’s sharp decline in the critical 18-49 demographic, and there are serious doubts as to whether or not the Kard clan will even be given the courtesy of a farewell season.

It would be a humiliating defeat for a family that prizes its public reputation above all else.

So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that Kim might be 

“Kim’s new baby storyline was developed by Kim, Kris and show producers very recently as a way to save the show,” 

If you thought the end of Kim’s PTSD storyline felt abrupt, you’re not alone.

And now it seems we know exactly why the show was so quick to abandon an approach that formerly felt rich with dramatic potential.

It seems fan interest simply didn’t meet producers’ expectations.

The apathy from potential viewers (as indicated by the show’s continued ratings dip) likely has something to do with the fact that the Paris robbery received a ton of press coverage when it happened back in October.

Six months is a millennium in tabloid news cycle time, and fans of the family likely felt they knew everything there was to know about the crime.

So Kris called an audible – and she put the responsibility of pulling it off squarely on Kim’s shoulders:

The pregnancy storyline was reportedly shoehorned into last night’s episode at the last minute, and Kim was well compensated for the unexpected increase in workload: 

“Kris offered Kim and Kanye several million dollars a week if they can get the ratings up,” says the production insider.

“She knows that Kim is the last hope of saving them from cancellation.”

Sadly, short of debuting a new sex tape on the air, at this point, there’s probably not much Kim can do to renew interest in her decade-old reality show.

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Shawn Marion has 2 words for the people attacking Lonzo Ball’s shooting motion — “F*ck ‘em.” The ex-NBA star can relate to Ball in the sense that people “sarcastically” poked fun at his unorthodox shooting style back when he was playing in the…

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Chimp Hurls Feces at Zoo Goers, Nails Grandma in the Face

You know what they say:

It"s all fun and games until someone gets clobbered in the face with a chunk of money feces.

Visitors to John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan now have a better understanding of this classic saying, following an incident on Sunday that has since gone viral.

As you can see below, a strong crowd had gathered around the second-story viewing area of the chimpanzee enclosure when one animal in particular got really excited to see everyone.

He made a lot of sounds. He jumped all around. He entertained everyone who had paid to see pretty much this exact thing.

Until he proceeded to wind up and hurl his own excrement at those gawking over his every utterance and gesture!

“It got Grandma!” a boy hilariously yells in the video below, as a woman sitting in an electric scooter turns to face her family in absolute horror, poop smeared across her nose.

She is NOT amused.

Erin Vargo, an employee of John Ball Zoo, captured the whole thing on camera.

“So Jake and I thought we were going to have an average day at the zoo… turns out it would be the day of the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” Vargo posted on Facebook Sunday afternoon, adding:

“I’m seriously dying of laughter. And I can’t believe I got it on video."

And now you can watch it all unfold on said video! Click PLAY!

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Paris Jackson: Coming Out as Bisexual?

Paris Jackson has been getting a lot of attention in recent weeks, and that’s no accident.

In the past month alone, Paris has covered Rolling Stone and Harper’s Bazaar.

She’s sat for dozens of interviews with outlets both big and small. (Ironically, the unique pressures seems to be her favorite topic of conversation.)

We seem to be in the midst of a full-blown Paris Jackson media blitz, and it doesn’t look like it’ll be letting up any time soon.

The only question is: why?

Paris doesn’t appear to have a project to promote; she’s not bringing attention to any particular cause, and she frequently gripes about only being known as Michael Jackson’s daughter despite the fact that she hasn’t done anything that would merit this level of attention for some other reason.

Like Kim, Kylie and the OG Paris, Ms. Jackson is famous for being famous, which can be enough to build a career on in 2017.

The curious thing is that her persistently insists that that’s not the type of career that she wants.

For now, at least, Paris’ personal and professional lives are inseparable, and she reportedly has a team of 20 full-time employees working round the clock to keep her in the spotlight.

The end game is unclear, but the strategy is apparent:

Tidbits about Paris’ “private” life have been surfacing at the rate of about one a day for the past week, and her team is going all in with today’s “leak.”

Apparently, Paris has been using a “celebrity dating app” called Raya (might as well score some product placement bucks out of your shameless self-promotion!) to hook up with “VERY hot American girls.”

We’re not sure why their nationality is important, but apparently Team Paris would like you to know that she’s both bisexual AND a patriot, dammit!

“Paris has made no secret of having crushes on girls in the past and wants to keep her options open,” a source tells Radar Online.

But don’t expect an official coming out any time soon.

It seems that on the topic of her sexuality, Paris is happy to let the anonymous “insiders” on her payroll do the talking for her:

“She’s not interested in making a big statement about her sexuality,” says the source.

“She thinks it’s unnecessary in 2017, but she’s having fun chatting to sexy women online.”

Paris broke up with Michael Snoddy back in February, and all of her public relationships have been with men, but she’s frequently hinted that she would be open to the idea of dating a woman.

Talking about her sexuality with Rolling Stone last month, Paris commented:

“My dad raised me in a very open-minded house,” she told Rolling Stone Magazine.

“I was eight years old, in love with this female on the cover of a magazine. Instead of yelling at me, like most homophobic parents, he was making fun of me, like, ‘Oh, you got yourself a girlfriend.’”

So currently, the plan is not to come out publicly, but based on the subtlety of Paris’ current media campaign, you can expect her to ask Miley Cyrus out on Instagram before the week is out.

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