Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentBy now, the entire world knows who Kim Kardashian kissed when she hosted “Saturday Night Live” — and it wasn’t her ex-husband Kanye West.However, even though the couple was in the midst of their divorce when Kardashian took the “SNL” stage in October 2021, it turns out that she actually considered having West as her musical guest that night.On the first episode of “The Kardashians” — the famous family’s new show that launched April 14 on Hulu — one of the major storylines focuses around Kardashian preparing for “Saturday Night Live.”“I’m kind of going back and forth, since Kanye’s album is out,” Kardashian says in the episode, after she tells her family that Lorne Michaels invited her to host the show. “That would be epic if he was my musical guest.
But then, do I want my own moment?” Ultimately, Kardashian explains why she opted to not have West appear as her musical guest.“This is my first time, and I kind of want this to be about me and not about, ‘How are they gonna act to each other?'” she says.
But, as she’s pondering, she tells her stylist, “It would be so cool for the kids to see mom and dad together on ‘SNL.'”In the episode, as she’s nervously getting ready for “Saturday Night Live,” Kardashian admits she was upset by a tweet from Debra Messing — who Kardashian simply calls “a girl from ‘Will & Grace'” — that was critical of Kardashian hosting the iconic show. (When NBC announced Kardashian as host last year, Messing had tweeted: “Why Kim Kardashian?
I mean, I know she is a cultural icon, but ‘SNL’ has hosts, generally, who are performers who are there to promote a film, TV show or album launch.
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