Kanye West and Kim Kardashian a couple
Kim Kardashian is technically still a married woman, but it looks as if she’s rebounding from her 72-day fling with wedded bliss by spending some time with the one and only Kanye West.
A report Thursday at www.tmz.com revealed that the ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ star and spotlight-craving hip-hop artist spent Wednesday evening together in New York City and saw ‘The Hunger Games.’ The news came just hours after new West single ‘Theraflu’ was leaked online. On the track, West opens up about falling in love with the reality TV queen at the same time she was falling for New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries.
As of Thursday afternoon, Humphries hadn’t responded to the heartbreaking news. Also as of Thursday afternoon, cable network E! hadn’t yet revealed any plans for a TV special to mark the Kim-Kanye love connection.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
Kim and Kanye were the talk of the city Thursday after a series of very public dates — and even a sleepover at the rapper’s pad.
The budding couple took in a movie and then a play Wednesday. They watched a show and shared lunch the next day. They even went shopping at FAO Schwarz.
The duo continued their tour of the town Thursday night when they dined at posh Cafeteria in Chelsea. They were mobbed by paparazzi as they left the Seventh Ave. restaurant in a chauffeured car, heading on to other late-night activities.
And they didn’t seem to care that everybody was watching at each of their stops.
“When they spoke, they leaned in toward one another” – said an observer who spotted them lunching at Serafina on E. 61st St. “There was a lot of close eye contact.”
Done dining, Kanye West showed chivalry.
“He put her coat on for her and adjusted her collar” – the observer said. “It was sweet. He was a real gentleman.”
Kim Kardashian, who is trying to end her 72-day marriage to NBA star Kris Humphries, recently vowed to become more of a ‘private’ person.
So much for that.
The superstars’ afternoon tete-a-tete at Serafina came after a night on the town that included a showing of ‘The Hunger Games’ followed by a visit to the W. 27th St. building where the hot new play ‘Sleep No More,’ is being staged.
Later, they were spotted at the nearby Manderley Bar, where they saw a set by the band Stella St. Clair.
No sooner did Kanye West’s latest single, ‘Theraflu,’ surface late Wednesday night, in which the Chicago-native rapper says: “I admit I fell in love with Kim,” than gossip sites reported Thursday morning that West and reality TV star Kim Kardashian are indeed a couple.
“Kim and Kanye have now just started dating” – a source told People magazine, adding that the two high-profile celebs are keeping things “light” and “seeing where it goes.”
Where it went Wednesday night was to dinner and a movie (‘The Hunger Games’) in New York. Thursday morning, TMZ.com published photos of Kardashian “leaving from the building where Kanye lives … wearing the same clothes she rocked to the movies last night.” Kardashian is scheduled to host NBC’s ‘Today’ show Friday morning.
West (34) has appeared with Kardashian (31) on ‘Kourtney & Kim Take New York,’ one of several Kardashian family-brand reality TV series.
“We’ve been friends for years” – Kardashian told Ryan Seacrest in a radio interview last month. “We just support each other. That’s what friends do.”
In fact, their relationship goes back at least as far as West’s previous romance.
West split up with former girlfriend Amber Rose in 2010, and Rose later claimed that Kardashian was the cause. But Kardashian last year wed NBA player Kris Humphries — the marriage that infamously lasted 72 days. Meanwhile, just last month, Rose married another rapper, Wiz Khalifa.