Kim Kardashian appears on US-Armenia TV

The Armenian Reporter

April 4, 2009
 

BURBANK, Calif.  – Celebrity and fourth generation Armenian-American Kim Kardashian gave an exclusive interview to US-Armenia TV on April 1, telling her Armenian and non-Armenian fans that she was proudest of her Armenian genes and her Armenian vor (derriere in Armenian). Noting that her late father, O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Kardashian, had dreamed of visiting Armenia, she announced that she plans to fulfill her father’s dream.

Casual, gracious, funny, flirtatious, and always mesmerizing, the drop-dead gorgeous 20-something reached out to some 7 million US-Armenia TV viewers over-the-air on digital channel 18.5 in Southern California, via cable and the Globecast satellite to the United States and North America, to Europe, the Middle East and Africa on the global Hotbird satellite, and via terrestrial antennas all over the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Kim spoke to Armenia TV personalities Hovo and Rafo, telling them that she wanted to learn to speak Armenian. For now, she said, she can say “inchbes es?” (how are you) and “vor (derriere) .”

Kim began the interview by talking about her hit series on the E! network, Keeping Up with the Kardashians. The reality show is also licensed by CS Media, which owns US-Armenia TV and with which this newspaper is affiliated. 

The Kardashian family, to most fans, has an addictive appeal, luring people to Kim’s personal website, to the weekly airings and repeats of the series, and to magazines, print and TV reports about this Armenian family. Keeping Up with the Kardashians began its third season with a bang and with a promise to show even the most personal conversations between family members and their love interests.

In addition to her reality series, Kim talked about her new online enterprise called shoedazzle.com, where she and her team of style experts can help find the perfect shoes for any woman. “And you know how much woman love their shoes,” said the fashion guru.

Kim also shared her beauty secrets and teased her new exercise dvd series called Fit in Your Jeans by Friday, now available at the Kardashian’s clothing stores in Calabasas and via the Internet.

US-Armenia TV talk show host Paul Chaderjian – who sat next to Kim on the Armenia TV set in Burbank – shared Hovo and Rafo’s questions and comments with Kim.

Kim said one of her dreams is to learn how to make Armenian food.

She said she often goes to a restaurant in Glendale to celebrate her love for Armenian cuisine and to honor her father’s memory.

Chaderjian, a seven-year English-language newscaster and talk-show host on Armenia TV’s satellite services, said one of his colleagues would gladly teach Kim how to make Armenian food. “I would love that,” said Kim, “but I’d like to bring my brother and sisters.”

Hovo and Rafo said they would gladly be the superstar’s tour guides in Armenia, and Kim quickly accepted their off er, telling the comedy duo that she loved them.

Hovo, in his quick-witted, comedic voice, asked Kim if she would marry him, and Kim’s comeback was “only if we can have a big, lavish, Armenian wedding.” Rafo then broke the news that Hovo was already married.

Speaking of her father, Kim said, “He always regretted not sending us to Armenian school. My mom always says, ‘I wish I knew Armenian so I could teach you.’”

This need to learn about her ethnic heritage and to be able to communicate with her own grandfather, whom she said she visits every week, are two of the reasons Kim Kardashian may soon be landing at Zvartnots Airport, with Hovo and Rafo and thousands of fans ready to greet her. 

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