It’s curtains for Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom — at least as the stars of their own reality show. The couple has decided to take a break from “Khloe and Lamar” after two seasons on E! so he can focus on his basketball career in the wake of his disastrous trade to the Dallas Mavericks.
“Lamar and I have just chosen to take a break this summer,” Kardashian told Entertainment Tonight. “I feel like we’ve been on a whirlwind and doing back-to-back shows. We just want to take a little time off for Lamar to be with family time, kids, basketball, Olympics, you never know. We have a lot on our plate right now.”
Odom said that he’ll use the time off to train and try to make the U.S. Olympic basketball team, which will play in London this summer, then return to the NBA in the fall.
He was traded from the L.A. Lakers to the Mavericks in December and moved to the team’s inactive list after a 50-game stretch that produced the worst numbers of his career.
“We just want to be happy,” Odom said. “We’ll take our time and we’ll get back to [the show] when it’s time.”
The couple will continue to participate in filming episodes of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” and gossip site TMZ.com has reported that Khloe is in discussions with E! about starting a new reality show without Odom.
