Kim Kardashian’s secret new man! Reality star caught texting mystery guy ‘Fred’… after fearing no one would want to date her following failed romances with Pete Davidson and Kanye West
Kim Kardashian may be getting back into the dating life, with the reality star teasing a new man only known by the pseudonym ‘Fred’ in the preview for next week’s episode of The Kardashians.
The new episode – enтιтled Don’t Want It, Don’t Need It, I’m Done – features a preview for the third episode where Kim teases her potentially new man.
The preview begins with Kim, 42, – whose $600 gift basket to L.A. mayor Karen Bᴀss was SENT BACK to her – having dinner with Scott Disick, where she tells him, ‘My friends wanted me to meet someone.’
Disick then kept up the air of mystery, adding, ‘Let’s call this guy “Fred.” Does he meet the standards?’ ‘Oh he so meets the standards,’ Kim says as she’s seen in confession texting with someone who she confirms is, ‘Fred.’
A producer adds, ‘Two years my a**,’ likely a reference to Kim’s comments on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Podcast in late December where she said, ‘I’m taking my time. I really do want to be single for a few years.’
Still, while nothing further was revealed about ‘Fred’ in the preview, it remains to be seen how much more is revealed in the third episode next week.
The episode begins where the Season 3 premiere left off – with Kim Kardashian crying while talking to her mother Kris about her divorce from Kanye West.
‘I don’t want to be part of this narrative and it’s like when is this ever gonna end? Like it never will and I’m stuck with this for the rest of my life,’ Kim says, adding she was, ‘so overwhelmed.’
Kris adds that she can’t, ‘control somebody else’ adding that Kanye is, ‘doing this to himself,’ but Kim says this is affecting their four children too – North, Chicago, Saint and Psalm.
‘Of course it does. That’s the tragic part of the whole story,’ Kris insists, while Kim says through tears in confession that she still feels the need to ‘not talk about it and protect it from my kids and I always will feel that way… but like God, if people knew… I just would never do that to my kids. It just is really crazy.’
Kim tells Kris that if Kanye were to hit ‘rock bottom, that’s his journey that he needs to figure out on his own.’
‘I used to run around and call everyone behind his back and be like, “It’s gonna be OK, don’t worry, just give him another chance.” I used to spend hours and hours and hours of my days as the clean-up crew,’ Kim says.
The episode cuts to Kim arriving to her office to work on the Dolce & Gabbana show that Kim will serve as creative director for.
‘So the Dolce & Gabbana team said they’re going to propose 60 looks from the archives that we pick, and then 20 new looks, so it’s 80 looks total, and it’s me-inspired,’ Kim tells her team.
She adds in confession that she is ‘creative directing the Spring 2023 Fashion Show in Milan,’ adding she’s coming up with the looks and the accessories, adding they will ‘reproduce the entire archives, what I pick, to resell again, and we can pick anything we want.’
Kim adds in confession that Domenico Dolce will be there next week and she wants to ‘really be prepared’ with her team, including Tracy Romulus and SKIMS creative director Kim Schraub.
Kim tells Schraub that silver is her ‘thing’ right now and she picked things she looked from the 1990s to the 2010s, adding in confession it’s a ‘big deal’ to her.
‘I do SKIMS and I’m very confident in that, but I never thought I’d have an opportunity like this, and I love challenging myself, like when I did SNL. I stepped out of my comfort zone and I wanted to prove that I could do it, and do it well,’ Kim said in confession.
She tells her team that they will have ‘less than a month’ after Domenico visits, as her team marvels at how D&G can get everything done so quickly.
One of Kim’s team members said they whipped up the looks for Kourtney’s wedding, ‘so quick,’ as Kim adds in confession that she did talk with Kourtney.
‘At first it was going to be a SKIMS and Dolce deal, but we couldn’t get the product in time. I did call her and say, “Hey, the SKIMS factor is out. I’m still gonna creative direct the show.” I don’t think she knew how big of a deal this was and how big of a production this is.’
Kim tells her team that she likes this will be quick and over and Tracy mentions she does her best work under pressure. The episode transitions to Scott Disick arriving at Khloe’s house… but Khloe calls him a ‘hacker’ because of his violent cough.
Kim is there too as Scott says he’s ‘stressed out,’ as Khloe mentions, ‘I pray you don’t do this on dates. It is what it is with me, but it’s disgusting.’
Scott mentions, ‘Why don’t we go on a date so you can see what it’s like? You get that practice and when you meet somebody…’ when Khloe interrupts him.
‘Scott, I’m just gonna be honest with you, if I went on a date with anyone that hacked the way you did, I would leave during the date, like I can’t handle that, if I’m dating someone.’
Scott points to the tea he’s drinking and says, ‘I’m trying to get rid of it for you,’ while Kim pulls up a Variety article about the show’s second season on her phone.
‘Listen to this article. It says, “This season’s first episode was set closer to the present, as Khloe reveals to the camera that she is to have a baby via surrogate, a state of affairs she had been unwilling to discuss throughout the process… re-emphasizes that what we see is what we are allowed to see.’
Kim tells Khloe and Scott that when she’s dating someone and she sees a story about them, she starts to believe the hype herself.
‘It’s hard when you start dating someone and you live your life on a reality show, so Pete and I had that conversation right away so you know what you’re getting yourself into,’ Kim said.
‘But the fans are like, “Pete’s not on the show,” and I was like, “We said that from the start. It’s not what he does,”’ Kim said. Khloe admitted that if she was, ‘newly dating someone, I’m not gonna have them on the show though, that’s weird.’
Scott joked, ‘What else do they want? Can they see us in bed together?’ Kim adds in confession, ‘I’m not gonna meet someone and be like, pause, before we really get to a place, will you be on my show? No. And he was still on, guys. He was on at what level he was comfortable with.’
Khloe says she has, ‘no guilt’ and she shows, ‘so much about my life’ and she is an, ‘open book and I do it in a very vulnerable and good way.’
Kim adds in confession that when they started their E! series Keeping Up With the Kardashians, they were all in their 20s and it was their ‘only job’ and they didn’t have kids yet.
‘There wasn’t even social media. So for anyone to even want the same thing, now I know what it’s like when people would be like, “I want the old artist back.” No, people grow and evolve,’ Kim says.
