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Khloe Kardashian has starred on a series of E! reality shows about her family, and now, she's co-hosting "X Factor."

After months of rumors, the new hosts of "The X Factor" were officially announced two weeks ago. Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian will be introducing the vocal hopefuls and keeping things moving when the judges drone on when the live rounds of the competition kick off on Wednesday night.

But just moments after The Clicker shared the big news, our readers chimed in with some strong opinions on our Facebook page.

"What qualifications does Khloe Kardashian have? She is nothing a nobody. Famous for being what.. Nothing," wrote Becky Killion.

"Get rid of Khloe! Give Slater another co-host!" Felix Brown added.

And frankly, those were some of the nicer comments.

The question is: Why all the criticism for Khloe? This is a hosting gig, not the role of judge, coach or mentor. Given the sheer number of boob-tube hours Khloe's logged between "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," "Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami" and "Khloe and Lamar," surely she can handle being a co-host.

But there seems to be something else at play in the reactions some have had to the news -- sort of a general Kardashian overload.

Those who keep up with the Kardashians only when the clan hits the gossip pages are no doubt at least a little familiar with the most famous members of the family -- the trio of brunette sisters who share the spotlight on more than one E! show. But those same folks often don't really know the gals as individuals. Kim, Kourtney, Khloe ... "What's the difference?" they think.

That means each Kardashian gets painted with the same broad-brush reputation. But alas, despite the family resemblance, the sisters are far from the same.

Kim is, without a doubt, the primary headline-grabber of the bunch. Relationships, marriages, diets, designer duds -- she's been through them all.

Kourtney's the family girl who occasionally makes magazine covers too. Of course, the devoted mother of two has what some may consider questionable taste when it comes to the father of those little ones. Thus the magazine covers -- and a hefty amount of comments from her siblings.

And then there's Khloe. Sure, she's been in the tabloid spotlight as well. First -- and most notably -- for her whirlwind relationship and subsequent marriage (after just a month) to NBA player Lamar Odom. The general consensus among gossip rags (and the general public) at the time was that the union wouldn't last as long as ... well, the marriage big sister Kim swept through with now ex-husband Kris Humphries. But three years later? Khloe and Lamar are still going strong.

The next most frequent Khloe-related topic to hit headlines is her struggle to start a family. Hardly a salacious topic, Khloe's shared some of her fertility troubles on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" and discussed it further in interviews.

Oh, and there's one more thing about Khloe that makes celebrity news -- her waistline. She looks great, but she's not a sample-size model or TV tiny, and it seems in Tinseltown, that's practically a crime. But she doesn't apologize for it (even when mom Kris Jenner is the one doing the insulting) and she doesn't go on drastic diets to turn it around for the pleasure of the press.

Khloe's no "bad girl." She's no gossip queen. She's just ... Khloe. Fans of the Kardashian franchise of reality shows often consider her the most relatable twig on the family tree. She's the one you'd want to hang out with, go shopping with, talk about guys with and snark about frienemies with.

So for those who are only peripherally familiar with Khloe, don't judge her before you get to know her. She might bring something special to "The X Factor" and provide an entertaining balance between the onstage performances and the comments from Simon Cowell and the rest of the panel. Or she might flop. Who knows?

Either way, she deserves a chance to show what she can do on a different sort of reality TV show than the ones she's so used to.

Viewers will get to see just how Khloe handles her new job when she joins "The X Factor" on Oct. 31 at 8 p.m. on Fox.

Will you give Khloe Kardashian -- and her co-host Mario Lopez -- a shot on "The X Factor"? Or has the casting news turned you off the singing competition? Share your thoughts on our Facebook page.

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The Kardashian family.

Oh, baby! Sunday's "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" season finale featured the arrival of Kourtney Kardashian's daughter, Penelope Scotland Disick, and while Kourtney celebrated her birth, sister Khloe continued to struggle with fertility woes.

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Following her visit to a fertility clinic on the September 9 episode with sister, Kim, Khloe learned that she has not been ovulating, thus delaying a possible pregnancy for her and husband of three years Lamar Odom. "What I'm trying to figure out with my body is very frustrating and it doesn't feel good," Khloe, 28, reasoned after undergoing another round of ultrasounds and beginning a series of hormone injections.

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Kim was sympathetic to her sister's struggles, but Khloe wasn't entirely up for discussing her situation with her, Kourtney or their mother, Kris Jenner. "I really appreciate Kim trying to be so positive, but what is this medicine going to do to my body? It's a lot of stress and pressure -- nothing is (expletive) happening!" she lamented on Sunday's show. "What I'm going through, it's not something I have fun talking about over and over and over again and I don't think my family knows how hard it is for me to talk about it too," Khloe admitted. "It's hard for me to be the one of the sisters not to have babies."

VIDEO: Lamar Odom gripes about having to "schedule" sex

As Khloe continued to struggle, Kim. 31, decided to be proactive in her own family planning and chose to freeze her eggs. Admittedly scared of the procedure -- which including giving herself hormone injections -- Kanye West's girlfriend later realized it was for the best. "I'm glad that I'm freezing my eggs. I can be proactive and I can be prepared when the time comes," said Kim. "I want to be safe."

Jenner, 56, remained supportive to all three of her daughters, including Kourtney, who welcomed Penelope, on July 9.

"Looking at Penelope and watching my daughter give birth reminds me it doesn't get any better than this," said the Kardashian-Jenner family matriarch. "All I really want at the end of the day is for all my daughters to experience that joy in life."

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Khloe Kardashian.

TV reality star Khloe Kardashian is in the running to become a host of "The X Factor," the singing contest's creator Simon Cowell said on Tuesday.

Cowell told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres that Kardashian, 28, one of the three adult sisters of the wealthy California socialite family, was one of many people who had auditioned for the role, and had impressed him.

"It could be a Kardashian. I think that would work," he said, adding that "we have to find people who have a great chemistry, but Khloe is definitely up there in running." Cowell spoke on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Tuesday.

Khloe Kardashian rose to fame in reality show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and its spin-offs, but is often overshadowed by her more outgoing sister, Kim. She is married to basketball player Lamar Odom and was recently in the news over the couple's efforts to have a baby.

Cowell fired the original host of "The X Factor" -- British TV personality Steve Jones -- in January, along with judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger, after a disappointing first season on U.S. television.

Britney Spears and former Disney Channel singer Demi Loavto make their debut as new judges on Wednesday when the show returns with early audition rounds filmed in the summer.

Cowell has said he would like two hosts -- preferably with little experience -- to take the helm when the singing contest starts its live broadcasts in October.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Gary Hill.)

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Season seven of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" is coming to an end, and as is often the case for the tell-all reality show, it's doing so with an up close, personal look at some of the stars.

Last week's penultimate episode for the season showcased Kardashian family matriarch Kris Jenner as she shared her plans to get her breast implants replaced. Cameras even followed her into the hospital.

"I thought it was such a great idea to film that," Jenner told TODAY's Savannah Guthrie Tuesday morning. "The reason I went in and did that was because I had had my implants in for 152 years -- you know, a long time, way longer than their shelf life."

Rather than looking at it the decision to air the pre-surgery footage as TMI, she considers it more of a PSA.

"You know, take them out and change them after 10 years," Jenner urged all woman with implants. "That was a big message and important for me to sort of put out there in a comical way. You know, I made fun of myself. Because at my age, you're over 50 -- like, when do you stop? But it was so important, health-wise, to remind women to check your expiration date because it's a health risk."

So that footage was for the greater good. But what about all of the other times the family shared it all for the boob tube, such as those recent family therapy sessions?

"Sometimes I watch back, and I think, 'Wow, that's kind of crazy' or 'Hard to watch.'"

But ultimately, she just thinks that it's all worthwhile. After all, her job lets her work with her family, and according to the "momager," that's all that really matters.

As for the family's latest reveals, which in addition to Jenner's breast augmentation surgery, included Khloe Kardashian's concerns about her starting a family and a trip to a fertility specialist, viewers will learn how everything worked out in the upcoming season-ender.

The season finale of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" airs Sunday night at 9 p.m. on E!

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Kristi Yamaguchi, Johnny Weir and Bruce Jenner all went from the Olympics to reality TV.

They spent countless hours training, made it through tough qualifying trials, and competed in the ultimate competition. They are, in short, the very best of the best. They’re ... reality TV stars?!

Well, they didn’t start out that way, but more than a few memorable Olympians traded their medal-worthy accomplishments for small-screen fun once the games were over.

As the 2012 Olympic hopefuls go for the glory in London and move on to their own reality TV efforts, let’s take a look at some of the athletes who’ve already paved the primetime way and the shows that gave them a shot.

'Dancing With the Stars'
No reality show can boast as big a list of Olympic participants as the ballroom bash. Gold, silver and bronze medalists, "DWTS" has had them all, and several have even moved on to mirror-ball trophy glory. Speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno was the season-four champ, figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi dominated season six and gymnast Shawn Johnson triumphed in season eight. (Both Apolo and Shawn will be competing in the "All Stars" edition this fall.) Other Olympians who have shown off their fancy (and sometimes not so fancy) footwork include Misty May-Treanor, Maurice Greene, Natalie Coughlin, Evan Lysacek, Sugar Ray Leonard and Hope Solo.

'Keeping Up With the Kardashians'
When thinking about Olympic athletes on reality TV, the "world's greatest athlete," Bruce Jenner, immediately springs to mind. The man not only won a gold medal for the U.S. at the 1976 Olympics in the decathlon, he also set a world record with his 8,634 points. Since 2007, Bruce -- married to Kardashian matriarch Kris -- has been featured on the E! network's popular reality show as well as its spin-offs. He's shown mostly playing dad, but from time to time, offers tales and words of wisdom from his days as an Olympian. But Bruce isn't the only person on the show and its spin-offs who's competed in the games. His son-in-law/basketball star Lamar Odom -- Khloe's husband -- played at the 2004 games and helped the team win bronze.

'Biggest Loser'
A lot of hard work goes into getting ready for an event like the Olympics -- then again, there is no other event like the Olympics. That’s why when the world’s premier athletes take the field, they’re usually in the finest physical form of their lives. After the games? Things can change. That’s a fact Rulon Gardner, the man who took the gold for the U.S. in Greco-Roman wrestling in 2000 and the bronze for the same event in 2004, knows well. In 2011, after weighing in at 442 pounds, he found himself in need of the sort of training that he could get on "The Biggest Loser" ranch. While there, he lost more than 140 pounds before distinguishing himself as the very first player to quit the competition. Another past Olympian starred on the show too. Former "Loser" trainer and retired pro tennis player Anna Kournikova competed in the 1996 games on the Russian tennis team.

'Be Good, Johnny Weir'
Sure, some Olympians sign on to appear in established reality shows when the competition wraps, but then there’s figure skater Johnny Weir, who followed up his 2010 Winter Olympics performances with his very own show. The Sundance Channel’s eight-part docuseries "Be Good, Johnny Weir" followed the life of the charismatic ice star. But that’s far from Weir’s only reality TV experience. In fact, he’s just as much of a workaholic on the small screen as he is in the rink. He gave comedian Kathy Griffin skating lessons on "My Life on The D-List," was as a regular pro panelist on ABC’s short-lived "Skating With the Stars," served as a guest judge on "RuPaul’s Drag Race," and appeared on "The Rachel Zoe Project" and "Say Yes to the Dress." Whew!

'Celebrity Apprentice'
Summer Sanders, who won several medals for swimming at the 1992 Summer Games, like Johnny, didn't limit herself to just one reality show. Since her Olympic days, the swimmer has participated in three reality programs. Of her stints competing on TV, she lasted the longest on season three of "Celebrity Apprentice." Going up against the likes of Bret Michaels, Sharon Osbourne and Rod Blagojevich, she ended up lasting eight weeks on the show and raised $45,000 for her charity. She also cooked on Team Rachael for Food Network's "Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off," and was eliminated in episode four of six.  Summer also hosted Fox's "Skating With Celebrities" in 2006.

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They may be in the spotlight, but Kim Kardashian insists her relationship with Kanye West isn't about publicity.

Now hear this, naysayers: Kimye is the real deal!

On part two of the Kardashian family's extensive sit-down with Oprah Winfrey on "Oprah's Next Chapter" on OWN Sunday, Kim Kardashian once again defended her surprisingly intense romance with Kanye West.

Winfrey -- familiar with the 31-year-old's penchant for lightning fast romances that often fizzle out -- asked the reality star, "Is Kanye West your new fairy tale?"

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Explained Kim: "We met almost a decade ago, we've known each other for a very long time, we've been friends for six or seven years," she said of the Grammy-winning rapper, 35. "I don't know why it took us so long to get together. I think we've always had an attraction to each other, but we've always been in other relationships or it wasn't the right timing."

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Kardashian's most talked-about relationship was with Kris Humphries, from whom she filed for divorce last October after just 72 days.

"One day it (the relationship with West) just happened," she offered. "It took me by surprise."

And it's anything but a publicity stunt, she insisted to Winfrey. "It's your heart you're playing with," she said. "I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt."

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Although she denied talk of an imminent wedding or plans to move in together, she admitted, "To have him in my life this way, says a lot about us."

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For the second time since taking office, President Barack Obama sat down for a chat with the ladies of “The View,” and The Clicker got a live look at the taping (the episode itself airs Tuesday).

Squeezing in the appearance between giving the commencement speech at Barnard College and delivering remarks at Ricky Martin's fundraiser in New York, the president dove right into campaign issues such as gay marriage and the current JP Morgan Chase debacle. But later in the show, Obama switched gears and gamely took part in a pop-culture quiz, proving that even the president stays a little dialed in to what people are buzzing about.

Asked which Kardashian recently got married, Obama answered correctly, saying it was Kim, but qualifying that he only knew “because it was to a ball player.”

As for what sexy book was sweeping the nation, he wasn’t aware of “50 Shades of Grey,” and said he’d have to check with wife Michelle about that one. Although the president doesn't have a lot of free time on his hands, he's able to catch a movie now and again: “Avengers” was recently on the viewing schedule, he revealed.

And if you thought Obama’s brief rendition of “Let’s Stay Together” last January was forgotten, not to worry. It got some play during the broadcast too. While the first family appreciates his singing (Obama said his daughter Malia referred to him as “just the right amount of embarrassing,”) he assured the audience that the clip is not anyone’s ringtone, at least in his family.

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West

Kim Kardashian’s blossoming romance with Kanye West has captured fans’ attention, but don’t expect it to be fully documented on the new season of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

“I think that I’ve learned, maybe the hard way, that when you open yourself up, and you’re in love and it’s happening so fast and to involve someone else in that is a little tough,” Kim told AccessHollywood.com’s Laura Saltman on Monday, as she promoted the return of her E! reality show alongside sister Khloe Kardashian.

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“I have known Kanye for a really long time so… when you have that trust and you know someone, that, for sure, makes it easier,” Kim continued. “I don’t think he’ll really be on, but it’s my real life still, so if he comes to pick me up or something, and the cameras are there, obviously they just… show my real life. But, if there’s gonna be like intimate things and stuff like that, no.”

“No bubble baths and champagne,” Khloe chimed in. “I do bubble baths, sex swings – Lamar [Odom] and I do it all.”

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Kim said that although her personal moments with Kanye won’t be on camera, he has been supportive of her endeavors for a long time.

“He was on [our show]. He came to see our store in New York when we were opening it, so as a friend he’s been so supportive,” she said.

“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” returns this Sunday 9/8c on E!

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On "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," Khloe Kardashian revealed that she knew her sister's marriage to Kris Humphries was doomed before it began.

When Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries went bust after just 72 days, it might have come as a surprise to some. But it was no shocker to sister Khloe Kardashian.

During a visit to "The Tonight Show," Khloe confessed that she suspected problems from the very first time she met her would-be (and later wouldn't-be) brother-in-law.

“They'd just started dating, and one of the first things that came out of his mouth -- like within the first five minutes -- was, 'So, how much you getting paid to fake your marriage? Like how long are you going to keep this up for?'" Khloe said.

She took the dig at her marriage to Lamar Odom as a bad sign.

“It just rubbed me the wrong way," she explained. "So, ever since then, I had a very defensive wall brought up. But I'm a very good judge of character, if I do say so myself."

Which is why she was certain that her sister's wedding wouldn't end well.

"I said it before they got married," Khloe admitted. "I said how I felt. I love my sister and will support her no matter what. But I'm also going to be a good sister, and say this is how I feel: 'I'll still come to your wedding and do whatever you want me to do,' but I can’t lie and say 'Oh this is perfect' if I feel in my heart I just didn’t agree with it." 

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After 72 days of reality-TV-worthy wedded bliss, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries called it quits (for now). But that doesn’t mean Kardashian fans can’t get one last look at the duo on-screen — or at least a reasonable facsimile.

In a refreshingly brief, parody sequel to the 4-hour E! special “Kim Kardashian’s Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event,” “Saturday Night Live” aired “Kim Kardashian’s Fairytale Divorce” this weekend.

Nasim Pedrad played the part of the former bride, while a not-so-vocal Andy Samberg stole the skit as Humphries. But the best line of the send-up came from Kristen Wiig, who took on the role of momma Kris Jenner.

“I know a lot of people think that Kim got married just to earn over $17 million from the wedding. But that’s not true!” she told the camera. “She also got married for attention.”

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