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Savannah responded, “She’s a doll,” before continuing, “She was on, there had been these stories circulating in the press that her father Robert Kardashian wasn’t really her father. Who knows. I can’t even remember the details but, I know the producers at the time, none of whom are here today, really wanted me to ask and I was very embarrassed to ask such a question.”

The rumors suggested that US football star OJ Simpson, famously acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994, was Khloé’s biological father.

Robert Kardashian, married to Khloé’s mother, Kris Jenner, at the time, was part of Simpson’s defense team for the court case, later dubbed the “trial of the century.”

At the time, Khloé, 40, was on the show to promote her new reality series, Khloé and Lamar, which featured herself and her then-husband, Lamar Odom, 45. The series ran for two seasons from 2011 to 2012.

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However, NBC host Savannah confessed that she reluctantly followed orders and “did what any naive green anchor would do, which is leave it to last.”

She explained, “At the Today show, we have a thing called the ‘hard out’ – and the ‘hard out’ means you have to be done. The show is going to black at such and such time.”

So, to try and avoid having to ask the awkward question, she left it to the last 10 seconds to do the deed.

Recalling the cringeworthy moment, Savannah told listeners, “I said Khloé, just real quickly, in the seconds we have, there have been some stories that Robert Kardashian is not your father. Is he?”

And to her relief, Khloé was nice about it and in Savannah’s words “saved my b–t”. Khloé replied, “Yep, I know. Nothing to it.”

Simpson, who also denied rumors he was the Kardashians star’s father, died in 2024.

When rumors began circulating again in 2017, Khloé hit out at those spreading the false claims as she wrote on X, formerly called Twitter, “People are a-holes but I don’t care lol I focus on the good.”

Back in 2022, Simpson appeared on the Full Send podcast where he was also asked about the rumors, and said, “The rumor ain’t true. It’s not even anywhere close to being true.”