Kris Jenner sent a critic a Tiffany pen & cupcakes, claims it wasn’t a bribe


Kris Jenner’s eponymous talk show premiered last week – and was promptly trashed by critics. The NY Posts’ Linda Stassi wrote a particularly scathing review. It was filled with gems like “so horrible it should come with a hazard warning” and the observation that Kris “comes across as a spoiled, vacuous woman with nothing to say of any interest, importance or humor.” I guess Stassi hasn’t seen Keeping up with The Kardashians.

Well Kris wasn’t going to take that lying down, and she wasn’t going to strike out at Stassi, either. Kris sent the poison pen journalist a sterling silver Tiffany pen worth $325 and a dozen Magnolia’s cupcakes, which retail for about $50. In response, Stassi wrote another column mocking Kris for trying to bribe her:

On Tuesday, I wrote a review of “Kris,” a horrible new talk show by the mother of all self-promoters, Kris Jenner.

A few hours later, a messenger arrived at The Post bearing a dozen Magnolia cupcakes (see the need for Spanx, above) and one $325 sterling silver Tiffany pen. With a note.

At first I thought maybe a grateful reader wanted to reward me for saying that Kris came across like a demented Norma Desmond, or that she had as much right to have a talk show as her talentless daughter had for hosting a talent show.

But nooo.

It was from Norma herself — Kris Jenner — who somehow thought it would be a great idea to send a journalist a hugely expensive pen with a note saying that I could use it to write her a better review next time.

And you thought the fake wedding was bad form.

I was concerned. Had Jenner’s publicist fallen into a debilitating coma and wasn’t able to tell her that reporters aren’t allowed to accept bribes — and that, in real life, people don’t get expensive free stuff for media whoring? Well, not all the time, anyway.

So, Kris, let’s get something straight right here, right now. I cannot be bought — for a pen. A pen and pencil set, maybe — but just a pen?

To improve your rating, Mrs. Kardashian-Jenner, either you somehow become interesting, which given the data seems as likely as the pope turning Jewish, or you do better with the bribes.

[From The NY Post]

The NY Daily News also trashed Kris’ talkshow – did she bribe them too? That would get expensive fast. Alternately, she could just put her time and effort into creating a better show, but you know that’s not going to happen. In response to Stassi mocking her gift, a source close to Kris told EntertainmentWise that it’s a shame Stassi wasn’t in on the joke.

Kris jenner isn’t stupid … She doesn’t need to bribe anyone.”

She sent it as a joke and clearly Linda can’t take a joke. Kris sees things positively and when people send negative energy her way she responds with positivity and humour.”

It’s not the worst way to respond to a critic, with sugar instead of vinegar, but it did come across as a bribe, not some kind of cheeky response.

In related news, Naught But Nice Rob is reporting that Keeping Up With the Kardashians is ending. Before you break out the champagne, the show is under contract until 2015, so it will be on the air for two more years at least before anyone pulls the plug. In contrast, I give Kris’ talk show about 5 more weeks, tops. That’s hardly worth trying to placate a journalist over.

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  1. Cam S says:

    The women in that family wear THE most hideous shoes! Those heels have got to be terribly uncomfortable. How do they keep from getting corns and bunions?

    • gogoGorilla says:

      OMG, that was totally going to be my comment! They all wear those particularly ugly shoes–do they come from their line? Because they are the shoes that look like you’re wearing a felon’s ankle bracelet, LOL.

      Kris is an idiot, end of story.

      I hope this means the Kartrashian empire is returning to the dust from whence it came.

      • Cam S says:

        That’s it! That’s what the shoes remind me of, a house arrest ankle bracelet. But the heel is so skinny, and that type of heel is just asinine to stand on for more that 5 minutes. Varicose vein city.

    • Lucy2 says:

      I’m pretty sure their deal with the devil covers foot care.

    • emmie_a says:

      ha! Can’t stand the woman or the family, but I was going to say I like those shoes… They look uncomfortable but I can’t wear pumps without some sort of strap or my heel slips out.

    • Joanna says:

      I really them and her outfit!!

  2. Elisabeth says:

    #1 ugliest shoes ever
    #2 I just chuckle to know that all this fame basically started with an ‘accidentially released’ sex tape of her daughter
    #3 she’s a pimp

  3. blue marie says:

    Kris, you’re disgusting.. (please make sure my cupcakes are chocolate)

  4. Ekemezie MaryJane says:

    U just said my mind. This woman wunt let go…….. everything about them hillarios n hideos.. OMG…

  5. brin says:

    Adios, Pimp Mama!

  6. choppersann 13 says:

    loved that review!

  7. ALG says:

    She is pathetic.

  8. DanaG says:

    Kris is going to go broke if she is going to bribe everyone who hates her show. She has dropped Kim’s name and Kanyes every chance she gets. The show sucks, Kris is too self important and can’t relate to us normal folk who don’t buy 325 dollar pens for a “joke”. Sure it was.

  9. dorothy says:

    I think their 15 mins. are winding down. People aren’t even talking about Kim’s baby. Now with Kate in labor, Kim will all but be forgotten.

  10. RHONYC says:

    funny ’cause i immediately thought that it was Kris’ way of throwing shade.

    ya know, like when life throws you rotten lemons, you make lemonshade…
    or some such shyte like that. 😆

  11. Rux says:

    I am a Fox5 – NYC watcher, I begin at 6 AM and I leave it on all day as mostly background noise except for Wendy Williams; I love her show. Anyway, my husband works from home one day a week to be able to help me out with groceries, carrying sheet etc. Anyway last week or the week before, Kris premiered and he was working from home and all I heard was “Who is the f’ing idiot and how many people did she blow to get this gig? Our dog is a better Talk Show Hostess”.

  12. Dawn says:

    Yawn…who cares about her and her stupid show? And two years is too long to keep KUWTK on. I mean how much lower can they go in their show as they have with the smelling of each other’s undies and the Kourt running around with a strap-on to show Scott just how much anal sex could hurt? The fact that these people became so wealthy from acting so low brow makes me want to hurl.

  13. Nicolette says:

    Watch and see. Kim’s baby will conveniently make it’s debut to the world now in a pathetic attempt to steal some thunder from the royal baby.

    To read that there is an end in sight to ‘Keeping Up’ is wonderful news! Maybe after that these dreadful people will go away finally. Kris can spend the rest of her days drooling over the piles of cash she’s earned pimping out her family.

  14. Shelly says:

    I caught half of the first episode and then half of the episode where Khloe was co-host. The first episode was painfully boring, and yes, she did name drop Kim a lot. The episode with Khloe was better, but that’s because Khloe is somewhat entertaining and she obviously has a decent rapport with her mother. I think Kris is funny a lot on KUWTK, but she sucks as a talk show host.

  15. cbreader says:

    I like Kris. She’s not perfect, just like everyone else. But she is a positive person and good for her that she’s lucky. That critic needs to get over herself and lay off the bitch flakes.

    • Shelly says:

      I actually like Kris, too. She’s a “momager” for sure, but I still like her. I find her funny. *hiding head before I get egged by other CB readers*

      • kc says:

        I won’t egg you. I have been an in the Kloset Kardashain watcher. I have since stopped watching, ya me!

        I sometimes found Kris entertaining but I wouldn’t say that I liked her. I did find her a little less disgusting than Kim though.

      • springingforward says:

        There is nothing of value to anything Kris or her family brings to the collective consciousness of America.
        They are self-interested, self-involved and the ultimate lowest form of “entertainer” in the media today.
        I loved that critic’s review; she speaks for the vast majority of us who are disgusted by this vapid and narcissistic family.
        My only hope is that they are circling the drain at the end of their 15 minutes…

    • Cece says:

      I guess I would be positive too if I found a way to make millions for doing nothing beyond exploiting my kids. Do you seriously think those people have any value? Not one of them has a decent relationship, or does anything for anyone beyond themselves. They are also willing to humiliate themselves and sell any private moment for gain, regardless of the impact on those around them.

      I don’t find that positive at all – I find it sickening and mostly just horribly sad.

      • cbreader says:

        Yes, she’s a very lucky person. They don’t take themselves seriously and are enjoying their lives. That’s better than most people can say. She’s lucky as HELL, as is her entire family. Are we supposed to hate them for it? I just don’t.

        As for the exploitation, I do think its wrong for the younger ones (the grown adults are making their own choices). It seems like she just wants them to experience the good that can come from it and isn’t thinking of the bad. Idk, I think she means well.

      • Cece says:

        cbreader – I think you’re confusing money with happiness. Her girls all have awful relationships with men who don’t respect them (nor do they respect their men). Her son seems terribly unhappy. Shopping and constant plastic surgery does not a person make. She may appear happy go lucky, but it’s gotta stink to obsess over your looks and your “brand” and think of constantly more humiliating things to do to stay relevant. I doubt those kids feel loved or valued – they are commodities and they know it.

    • Bridget says:

      Maybe you should attend Kris’s church then. You know, her tax shelter?

  16. Jane says:

    I wouldn’t call it a bribe, I’d call it a b**** slap in Kris’s unique way.

  17. irishserra says:

    I can’t stand any of the Kardashians and I would never patronize them by watching any of their shows or purchasing any of their clothes, but in Kris Jenner’s defense, I can see how a Tiffany pen and cupcakes might be a snarky move as opposed to a bribe.

    That being said, I have no doubt that the journalist’s review was probably spot on. The Kardashian/Jenner clan seem like a bunch of morons and it’s scares the hell out of me that so many of our future adults idolize these twits.

    • Cece says:

      Maybe I’m dense but I don’t see the snark in that – who doesn’t like getting cupcakes??!! I think it was a tactic to get herself more attention, as always.

  18. NeNe says:

    I’m not shocked at all. They all prostitute themselves out!

  19. Leek says:

    I can’t even hate-watch these people anymore. They really do ruin everything.

  20. Kemper says:

    CUPCAKES COST $50. Nobody tell Betty Crocker.

  21. SezSays says:

    Despite my aversion to designer branding and the consumerist culture we live in, I’ll admit to a soft spot for Tiffany silver, so with that in mind:

    The entire Kardashian/Jenner spawn have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt they are among the most vacuous, tacky and talentless swarm of oxygen wasters ever to have walked the earth. For this they can hardly be blamed, having been ejected from the fetid womb of Kris Jenner. The woman who took Faust’s deal to an unimaginably tawdry low, who has now been given a talk show by TV executives who presumably had a similar deal with Beelzebub. If you are a masochist who has run out of rail spikes to drive trough your genitals you may get some use from the latest Kardashian fame whoring televisual extravaganza. No-one else will.

    PS I prefer a nice cheese platter to cupcakes.

  22. Hope Harvey says:

    “Demented Norma Desmond” is redundant. That being said, Kris Jenner is most definitely “a spoiled, vacuous woman with nothing to say of any interest, importance or humor.” The way they all stare blankly at one another after someone says something, like they’re searching for the cartoon bubble above the other person’s head, makes my hair hurt. Even the people on that show who aren’t genetically related have perfected that same empty idiotic stare, after speaking a few monosyllabic words (which is all they seem to be able to handle at one time) in their annoying monotone voices. I don’t know who’s dumber, them or the people watching them.