Jeff Jenkins, former co-president of Bunim-Murray and govt producer of 2016 actuality sequence “Rob & Chyna,” testified in court docket Friday that the couple by no means secured a second season for the sequence.
Throughout his testimony, Jenkins claimed that networks together with BET, VH1, Lifetime and MTV had been tired of selecting up a present that includes Blac Chyna alone, and that he wouldn’t again a second season because of the pair’s volatility.
“I might not decide up this present,” he admitted through Zoom from his house in San Pedro, Calif. “There was no extra Rob and Chyna.”
Jenkins mentioned he inexperienced lit their first season after a gathering with the couple the place Chyna got here off as “witty” and Rob Kardashian seemed to be very completely happy in his relationship.
“That was actually thrilling,” Jenkins mentioned. “That was the primary and the final time I noticed the couple completely happy.”
By the point the present started filming, the pair had been at odds.
“She was livid with him… and he was livid together with her. It was very damaging. It was very troublesome to shoot a present ‘Rob & Chyna In Love’ after they weren’t even speaking to one another.”
Even after “gently encouraging” the couple to hunt each {couples} and particular person remedy, it proved too troublesome to movie them collectively, as they “couldn’t even be in the identical room” and had been “disgusted” with each other.
Jenkins additionally recalled a gathering at Kris Jenner’s house shortly after Rob and Chyna’s December 2016 struggle, the place some voiced their issues over the incident. Chyna was not at mentioned assembly, Jenkins testified.
The producer’s testimony rebuttals Chyna’s declare that the Kardashians used their affect to kill the present, which the household has beforehand denied.
Following testimony from Jenkins and Kris Jenner Friday, proceedings ended two and a half hours early after Chyna’s lawyer, Lynne Ciani, informed the choose in his chambers that she wasn’t feeling properly.
Earlier within the day, Kris acquired emotional on the stand as she recounted being “traumatized” by Chyna pulling a gun on Rob.
She additionally addressed a letter that Rob allegedly wrote asking her to not cancel Season 2 of his present. “I don’t imagine these are Rob’s phrases. I feel somebody wrote it for him,” she mentioned, including that the present merely wasn’t picked up for a second season.
The listening to will resume on Monday.
