Kardashian fans SLAM Kourtney’s husband Travis Barker for using ‘disgusting’ racial slur in resurfaced MTV show clip
KARDASHIAN fans are slamming Kourtney’s husband Travis Barker after they accused him of using a nasty slur in a resurfaced clip from MTV’s Punk’d.
The Blink-182 drummer appeared on the show with ex-wife Shanna Moakler.
On Tuesday, a Reddit user uncovered old footage of Travis, 46, on Punk’d with his ex-wife.
During the episode, he and Shanna were out to dinner together.
She and host Ashton Kutcher had teamed up behind the scenes to prank Travis, pretending she had dated the waiter at the restaurant they were at.
The server repeatedly flirted with Shanna during the meal, reminiscing on fake rendezvous they’d had in the past.
Travis appears visibly uncomfortable throughout Shanna and the waiter’s flirtation.
At one point, while their server is reflecting on a trip to Palm Springs with the blink-182 drummer’s then-girlfriend, Travis cuts in: “Hey, can I get more water?”
The waiter responds: “When did you get that haircut, bro?” referring to Travis’ mohawk.
The rocker replied: “I’ve had it since I was, like, probably, like, 16. I don’t know.”
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The restaurant worker then quips to Shanna: “I didn’t know that was your type.”
Travis, now irritated, says: “Yeah, she usually dates [unintelligible].”
The couple’s server is clearly not amused by the comment and makes that known, hitting back calmly with: “I really don’t appreciate you calling me a [unintelligible] and I think it’s kind of rude that you treat your girlfriend like that. You know ’cause she’s a nice girl.”
MTV bleeped the word and muzzed Travis’ mouth, making it unclear what exactly he’s saying.
THE BACKLASH
Online, Reddit users speculated that he used a racial slur, calling the waiter a “sand n*****”, or called him a “f****t.”
Despite the debate about exactly which slur Travis may have used, Kardashian fans were in agreement that it was unacceptable.
“Hella trash,” one user wrote.
Another commented: “Ummm he just married a half-Armenian woman?! I guess this is two sides of the prejudice coin: hate the men, fetishize the women.”
“The more I hear about him the worse it gets. I was all for kravis in the beginning of their relationship and thought he was a good guy,” a third commenter wrote, adding, “Now seeing him be completely racist I really think it was last nail in the coffin for me, Travis is such a gross person.”
TRAVIS EXPLAINS
While Travis hasn’t addressed the resurfaced clip, he has spoken about the incident in the past.
In his book, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums, he wrote about the prank.
Reddit users quoted the memoir on the site, writing: “I got home from Australia after a nineteen-hour plane ride, out of my mind on pills — totally Xanaxed out. It was November 14, 2004, my twenty-ninth birthday.
“Shanna picked me up at LAX and said she was taking me out to dinner, which was cool. I was always looking for fun after a long plane ride.
“There were times when I would arrive on another continent and Chris and I would head out for some fun, burning the candle at both ends.”
Travis went on: “Shanna took me to this restaurant that I had never heard of. I wasn’t sure why she hadn’t just taken me to Matsuhisa, which was our favorite place, but she told me that it was a super-cool spot and she had wanted to surprise me with it.
“The first thing I noticed was that the restaurant was weirdly lit: it looked bright and awkward.
“I asked Shanna if she wanted some Vicodin or some Ecstasy (I had started experimenting with E as well). She said no, but I figured it was my birthday: I took a hit of E at the table.”
He continued: “The waiter came out and started hitting on Shanna. She was calling him honey and he was calling me the guy with the interesting haircut. (I had a Mohawk.) Apparently, he and Shanna used to date: he was flirting with her and he kept insulting my haircut.
“I told Shanna that if the waiter came at me sideways one more time, I was going to say something. She went to the bathroom, and the waiter sat down at the table with me and started giving me a hard time. Finally, I said, “You wanna go outside?”
“I got up, ready to flip over the table. And then Ashton Kutcher came out and said, “I think we need to bring it down a notch.” The whole thing was a practical joke, being filmed by hidden cameras for Punk’d, and Shanna’s “’x-boyfriend’ was Ahmed Ahmed, a stand-up comedian.”
The rock star concluded: “My gut was still saying “f**k this dude”—not because he had been hitting on Shanna, but because he had ruined my buzz.”
Travis and Shanna called it quits in 2008 – three years after the episode of Punk’d was filmed.
He married Kourtney, 43, on Sunday.
The pair got engaged in October 2021 after roughly a year of dating.
WEDDED BLISS
TMZ was first to report that Kourtney and Travis tied the knot.
On Sunday, the pair were spotted in Santa Barbara, California, exchanging vows at the downtown courthouse steps there.
They wore traditional bride and groom attire as they were seen outside the building.
Travis wore an all-black tuxedo, while Kourtney donned a short white dress, with long white sleeves that reached her hands – and a veil.
The couple rode off in a black Chevrolet convertible with a sign on the back that read: “JUST MARRIED.”
According to Page Six, along with a few bodyguards as witnesses, there were some family members in tow.
Travis’ father, Randy, was in the mix, as was Kourtney’s grandmother Mary Jo Campbell.
Sources close to the couple told TMZ: “Yes, they got the legal paperwork in order Sunday — so they are, in fact, married now.
“They’re going to be having an actual wedding ceremony in Italy in the near future.”
An insider also shared to PEOPLE: “They had to legally get married first ahead of their big Italian wedding, which is happening very soon.
“All the details are set and the whole family, including all the kids, are very excited.”
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