NEW YORK – Kim Kardashian’s lightning-quick marriage shouldn’t have any impact on the E! Entertainment network’s relationship with the reality TV family despite some shuffling this week, E!’s chief said on Wednesday.
E! moved up, and then moved back, a rerun of Kardashian’s lavish wedding to pro basketball player Kris Humphries after Kardashian announced this week that the marriage was kaput. The network, feeling its reputation sullied, put out a statement calling rumors that it had orchestrated the wedding for TV to be “completely false.”
“I don’t even know if Kim has had a chance to emotionally process this the way that she needs to,” said Suzanne Kolb, president of E! Entertainment. “I don’t have any indication that this is going to change her career path.”
Kardashian’s wedding to Humphries, televised on E! to huge ratings last month, was the highlight of the 72-day marriage. The wedding took place on Aug. 20; it was televised Oct. 9 and 10. The first day scored the highest ratings in E!’s history.
Before the marriage went sour, E! had planned to rerun the wedding in prime time Wednesday and Thursday this week. With Kardashian’s announcement, E! moved the first part up to Monday and was set to
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