Interview with Kardashian sisters and Piers Morgan:

 

MORGAN: To me, you're kind of like the new Brady Bunch.

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: Yes. We get that a lot.

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: We're a wild Brady Bunch.

 

 MORGAN: You know what I mean? Yes.

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: We're a modern day Brady Bunch.

 

 (CROSSTALK)

 

 MORGAN: -- version of the Brady Bunch. Yes

 

 Is there anything you wouldn't do for the cameras?

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: Absolutely. There's a lot that we wouldn't do.

 

 MORGAN: Well, we've seen you giving birth. I mean, would you -- would you record your own death?

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: Yes. No.

 

 MORGAN: Would you?

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: Absolutely not.

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: How would you know when you're --

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: Yes, how would you know? Are you getting killed?

 

 MORGAN: Well, really, who's going to care? You're going to die anyway.

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: Yes.

 

 MORGAN: Why not?

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: There's a lot that we wouldn't show. I mean, I'm really particular on what I show about, you know, any relationship that I may have. Or there are so many personal things. And what's so cool is our relationship with the show is from the start, they've always said we have, you know, the right to edit and to approve all the footage. And so far, there hasn't been anything that we've taken out.

 

 MORGAN: Really?

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: Like, I know in our New York season, I didn't feel comfortable having my son on the show. And I said -- and I don't know why. Like -- like you said, it's like I show giving birth. It's just, like, a personal thing. And I --

 

 MORGAN: Because that poor little mate, when he grows up, he may want to be private.

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: Right. That's what I said. He doesn't have the option.

 

 MORGAN: Mummy -- Mummy stuck him on national TV --

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: Right.

 

 MORGAN: -- from the -- from the second he's alive.

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: Exactly. And so, that's what -- how I felt. For the New York show, I said, he doesn't have the decision to -- you know, he can't make the decision if he wants to be on it or not.

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: It was a very, you know, different atmosphere than what he -- you know, it wasn't his home.

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: New York was crazy, a lot of paparazzi, a lot of madness. So, I'm glad we made that decision. I think it was better for him.

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: And you never know. If you change your mind or, you know, on the Kardashian Show, it might be better in his home family environment.

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: Like, when we're at home filming --

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: She picks and chooses.

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: -- we're in our house, and it's a safe, comfortable environment. So, in the past, I've been OK with it. But now, sometimes, when I even see old episodes, it kind of weirds me out.

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: But --

 

 MORGAN: OK, look. We're going to -- we're going to come back after the break. We're going to talk to you both about love, romance and sex.

 

 (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

 

 MORGAN: So, Kim, let me cut to the quick here. There are reports that you have now moved in with Chris Humphries, who is the Jersey Nets player. Is that true?

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: I would never move in with anyone unless I was engaged or married. I think Kourtney and I --

 

 MORGAN: Have I stumbled upon a bigger scoop?

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: No.

 

 MORGAN: You're not engaged?

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: No, I'm not.

 

 MORGAN: So, you're not moving in with him?

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: No. Kourtney and I are definitely looking around. Kourtney's boyfriend is from New York, so he's here and they split time. So, we think it would be a good decision for our store and everything to look for a more permanent residence here in New York City and split the time between the two.

 

 MORGAN: You, just together?

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: Well, Scott has his -- our place here, so --

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: Kourtney's here more than I am and I think it would be better, probably, to help out with the store more and, hopefully, start filming again -- to possibly have a place here in New York.

 

 MORGAN: So, what do you want to say about this chap, Chris? This lucky boy.

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: I'm having a good time and he's a really good person. And I think this time around, you know, I've learned to be a little bit more low key and private.

 

 MORGAN: Can you trust men, given what's happened to you?

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: I think that the way that I am -- I'm such a hopeless romantic --

 

 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN: I was just going to say that.

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: I like to believe and trust in anybody. And sometimes I think that's been my downfall. And that has been my issue, but yes. I think that I can still trust men.

 

 MORGAN: I mean, you were -- I know you don't want to talk about this and I'm not going to labor the point, but the only interesting parts of it is -- obviously a very intimate part of your life was splattered all over the Internet. I mean, 20 years ago, that wouldn't have happened.

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: Exactly.

 

 MORGAN: So you were the victim of this modern kind of curse of the Internet, which can be very useful, and a terrible enemy when it wants to be, like it was with you. And I sort of think, if I had been in that position that you found yourself in, apart from being appallingly invasive, also very hard to then go out on the dating scene.

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: Yes.

 

 MORGAN: Partly thinking, "Has this guy watched it? Has that guy watched it?" I mean, not a place I'd want to find myself.

 

 KIM KARDASHIAN: Absolutely. No, absolutely. I mean, there's this, you know, embarrassment and shame and so much that comes along with it. And I think that I was so lucky to find a boyfriend at that time in Reggie -- that we were together for four years -- and that was something that he really helped me through. He picked me up when I couldn't pick myself up. And he, you know, and that's what my family was for as well.

 

 So, I feel like I've dealt with it and now, I move on from it, and I don't really go there.

 

Script from Outnumbered:

 

1. EXT. HOUSE. DAY – D1

BEN (starts OOV)

I could be handcuffed and suspended from a crane, in a block of ice.

2. INT. KITCHEN. DAY – D1

Dad is clearing up breakfast stuff with a phone tucked under his chin.

DAD

That feels like a lot of work for a school talent competition

(He speaks into the phone with exaggerated pronunciation

you use when you are speaking to a machine) Y-e-s. But it’s

great you’re taking part, y-e-s…..(mutters) stupid machine.

BEN

I could do the magic trick I did with, Gran. Her face when

she thought I’d smashed her watch with that hammer.

DAD

Well….you had.

BEN

Yeh…..I still don’t know what went wrong there.

DAD (into phone)

Y-e-s

BEN

I think it was the wrong kind of hammer

DAD

No, I said y-e-s.

BEN

Still, Gran likes her new watch.

MUM enters shouting behind her.

Outnumbered IV – Episode 5 – Shooting Script – 17th March 2011 2

MUM

Look Karen, if both socks have got holes in, they match, just

put them on! (She starts tidying up)

DAD

I didn’t say No….

JAKE

Yeh, just now. You said ‘No I said ‘Yes’.

2A. INT LIVING ROOM. DAY – D1

KAREN for some reason, has a washing-up bowl full of water and is cutting a shape

out of some cardboard.

2B. INT KITCHEN DAY – D1

As before

BEN

I could always sing… (sings in his deep voice)

‘And I said to myself…..’

DAD (still to phone)

‘Go back’

BEN

‘What a wonderful world’

DAD

‘Go back’

JAKE

Yeh, the only disadvantage to singing is….that you can’t.

BEN

OK I’ve got loads more ideas here.

(He hands a list to DAD)

DAD

Er… impractical… illegal… suicidal, Ben, you don’t even

know what the ‘Wall of Death’ is…

 

Broadsheet where they use experts: winter olympics:

 

Winter Olympics 2014: Eve Muirhead out to win curling gold for GB

 

Great Britain's women skip is heading for Sochi fired by the example of Jesica Ennis at London 2012

 

Owen Gibson 

 

The Observer, Saturday 1 February 2014 23.00 GMT          

 

Eve Muirhead

Eve Muirhead, the skip of Great Britain's women's curling team, is heading for Sochi in determined mood. Photograph: Janerik Henrikkson/AFP/Getty Images

 

You get the impression Eve Muirhead, world champion curler and part-time piper, does not suffer fools gladly. While she will happily, and enthusiastically, talk up her sport and her bold ambitions, her steely blue eyes are liable to fall on anyone who asks a daft question.

 

Ask her to run through the roles of her team-mates and she looks less than impressed. Ask her what makes a good curler and she will tell you, with a mildly exasperated air: "I have no idea."

 

No wonder Rhona Howie, who most will recall as the skip of the 2002 team (when she was called Rhona Martin)that kept more than six million viewers gripped beyond midnight in winning curling gold, Britain's solitary Olympic title in Salt Lake City, describes her as perfect leadership material. "She's focused, she's determined, she always wants to be better and wants to improve. She calls a really good game. She's definitely what we're looking for in skip material," says Howie, now the head coach of the women's curling team, who has worked closely with them for the past three years.

 

Muirhead, about to head to her second Winter Olympics as skip of the British women's curling rink despite being only 23, lights up when she talks about leading her young team to Sochi. Of the quartet – the rink (or team) is completed by Vicki Adams, Claire Hamilton and Anna Sloan – only Muirhead has been to an Olympics.

 

"It's huge that we get on. We are with each other all the time. We eat together, we share rooms with each other, we travel with each other," says Muirhead. "We know each other inside out, know how people deal with different things, which is really good, and it is great that we are such great friends as well."

 

Having just returned from a tournament in Las Vegas, where Muirhead piped them on to the ice in front of thousands before they beat all of their most likely challengers in Sochi, she believes they are well set. The dramatic finale to their world championship victory in Riga last year, when they defeated Sweden 6-5 with Muirhead sealing the dramatic last-stone victory, had echoes of Howie's Salt Lake City triumph.

 

If there is a repeat in Sochi, Muirhead is convinced she will not be fazed. At its most competitive, curling is as much an exercise in handling mental pressure as anything else. "I love playing under pressure. That is the part of the game I love doing well at. So many people have asked what were you thinking before that stone – I have no real idea, it was just like another shot to me. I guess that is why we practise four hours every day – for that one key shot," she says.

 

Ask Howie to recall once more her gold medal-winning "stone of destiny" in Salt Lake City and you get a remarkably similar answer. "I don't remember the crowd or what people were shouting. I don't remember any of that because I was really focused," she says. She remained unaware of the huge story she had become until their return to Scotland, whereupon she opened a mountain of mail. "One woman jumped out of bed and landed on the cat and killed it. Stories like that. You read it thinking: 'Oh wow.' I had loads of them," says Howie.

 

For all the pre-Sochi hoopla, Muirhead, who turned her back on a potential career as a professional golfer to dedicate herself to curling, was at a low ebb in 2012 when the sport had its funding cut by 50% after "only" claiming silver at that year's European Championship.

 

It was watching Jessica Ennis compete in London and seeing the "face of the Games" deal with pressure with such aplomb that redoubled her resolve to carry on with the early starts and gruelling gym sessions that curling now requires. "It was the bit of a boost I needed. When I went there and watched all these athletes and saw the amount of work they put in it really did open my eyes. So I went back and I really busted a gut – after seeing that, you want to do what these guys are doing," she says.

 

"You want to win medals. The Olympic medal is the one medal I am missing right now. London was definitely a huge inspiration for me and to watch Jessica in that stadium – the pressure she was under was unbelievable."

 

In Scotland, where they have had little to shout about in international football for some time, the comparison is not too far wide of the mark. When Muirhead's team won the World Championship, she featured on the front page of eight out of 10 national newspapers. Expect Alex Salmond to take an interest should they make the podium in Sochi.

 

A "gutted" Muirhead collapsed in tears when her team fell short in Vancouver four years ago but believes she is much better equipped to deal with the demands of the Games this time. "You train hard for a lot of years leading up to that and when your dreams are crushed in the Olympic Games it is tough. But you know what? It is a lesson learned. I learned a lot. I went back and thought about a lot. I changed a lot," she says. "We know how to win major tournaments. We're looking forward to it."

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