Las Vegas Weekly

January 20, 2009 · 8:45 AM

Exclusive: Kardashians keep up for Season 4 and land a big Las Vegas contract

By Robin Leach

Kourtney Kardashian, matriarch Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian at Pure.

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Even though the Las Vegas-themed Season 3 of Keeping Up With the Kardashians doesn’t start airing until March 8, E! network officials have already given the green light for a fourth season! At the same time, the Kardashian clan of Kim, Khloe, Kourtney and mom Kris Jenner has signed an exclusive Vegas deal with Pure Management Group for a series of continuing yearlong appearances at Caesars Palace and Luxor in addition to Pure and LAX events!

Vegas DeLuxe is the first to break both these news exclusives, and we also can reveal that following on Kim’s solo successes, now Khloe is on her way to stardom, too. She’s just completed her Celebrity Apprentice TV shoots with mogul Donald Trump, has landed her own After Dark syndicated radio show she’ll host and has partnered with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest to produce a new show for the E! Entertainment cable giant.

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Actress and poker dealer Mimi Rogers.

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Tennis ace John McEnroe and Joey Pants.

I was with Kris Jenner and her Olympic gold medal-winning husband Bruce Jenner the past few days up in Lake Louise, north of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where she was on assignment shooting celebrity interviews both for The Insider and for a TV special being produced of all the celebrities up there on the ski slopes. They included recent Golden Globe winner Alec Baldwin, Emmy and Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Haden, plus a slew of my old friends including Mimi Rogers, Al Joyner, Mark Feuerstein, Chad Lowe, Stephanie Kramer, Ian Ziering, Ed Begley Jr., Alan Thicke, Marla Maples and Tiffany Trump, Joe Pantoliano, Robert Davi and tennis great John McEnroe.

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Alec Baldwin, Robert Davi and friends.

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Kris Jenner interviews Alec Baldwin.

Our Vegas-based Patron tequila company and its head honchos J.P. DeJoria and Ed Brown sponsored the celebrity sports invitational to benefit Robert Kennedy’s Water Keepers organization. Mimi played “Duchess of Dealing” for the poker tournament for which Patron had put up the $25,000 purse. Alec Baldwin KO’d McEnroe -- and then promptly turned round and donated the entire winnings to the charity!

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Robin Leach, Melissa Rivers and Bruce Jenner at Chateau Lake Louise in Canada.

It also was the first time that Melissa Rivers, Bruce Jenner and I had gotten together as a group since our 15-day adventure and escapades in the Australian jungle for the ABC show I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here we filmed Down Under in 2003. It was a wonderful reunion as we reminisced over all the trials and tribulations we’d faced in the thunderous, nonstop downpours of the rainforest there. Incidentally, a newer version of the tough man survivor show is returning to network television this fall but will be on NBC this time around!

I asked Bruce how it was having three and sometimes four TV reality crews simultaneously shooting his family for all their projects. “It’s highly chaotic. We sometimes wonder which crew is from which show,” he laughed. “We have to move to a new house just to have our personal lives kept intact. We’ll leave the other house just for the TV shoots!”

Kris added: “As a family, we are just thrilled that all of the shows and projects are working so well -- and so smoothly given the incredible timetables of everybody involved. We’re managing to keep sane about it, too! But we are very pleased about the news of the Season 4 renewal of Keeping Up With the Kardashians even before Season 3 starts airing.

“With our new exclusive Vegas deal with Pure Management, you can be assured that Vegas will be all over the screen again for the new shows. All of us will be back and forth to Vegas -- singly and all together -- many times regularly this summer and fall. We all love Vegas and always have a great time there.”

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Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian at LAX on New Year's Eve 2008.

How could I resist asking Kim’s mom for the inside scoop of Kim’s romance with New Orleans Saints star Reggie Bush.

Said Kris: “I even want to know! But I don’t. She keeps that all private and personal. They’re not yet engaged, so there’s no marriage date. She hasn’t breathed a word about anything official, although, of course, we’ve all talked about it. Knowing you, Robin, you’ll have it before I even know!”

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