The Kardashians just can’t help themselves in Las Vegas

To the surprise of almost no one, Radar Online reports that officials at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where Lamar Odom is being treated, have had to remove camera crews who were there filming "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."

This is, after all, a family you've heard of solely because one of its members has well-publicized troubles determining which private events should be filmed.

But, if true, bringing a production crew to a hospital to capture footage of a family member grieving just may be the show's most stomach-churning moment yet.

From Radar Online: "According to a family friend, 'The hospital is shutting down the cameras for filming of "KUWTK" because they were getting complaints and it was just getting out of hand.

"'Patients at the hospital have been complaining about the excess of people and cameras because they are all trying to heal and it is causing everyone way too much stress.'"

According to another source, the gossip site says, "Everyone has been told that there is absolutely no filming or video allowed anywhere on the floor — including with cellphones." But, the source added, "Khloe feels that she should be able to film inside because it is her right to do so." (Khloe Kardashian and Odom's divorce, for which they filed in July, isn't yet official.)

Adding insult to Odom's injuries, multiple sites report the former NBA star became enraged and began spiraling out of control after the negative way he was portrayed in Sunday's episode of the reality series.

But, honestly, what's the point of further invading his privacy?

"Keeping Up With the Kardashians" lags so far behind the "news" that's splashed all over tabloids, gossip sites and, sadly, even traditional news outlets, Joel McHale of E!'s "The Soup" has started referring to the series as "Keeping Up With What the Kardashians Were Doing Six Months Ago."

The Oct. 4 episode, for example, focused on the fallout from Caitlyn Jenner's historic Vanity Fair cover story — which hit newsstands in June.

Given that the series has exploited seemingly everything and everyone in its stars' lives, there's absolutely zero chance Odom's hospitalization doesn't end up on TV. Heck, it'll probably get its own spinoff. ("Khloe and Lamar Take the ICU"?)

Given recent trends, it probably won't hit the air until long after everyone's stopped talking about it.

But that should give the show's producers, who've famously made "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" one of reality TV's least real shows, plenty of time to get Khloe to a hospital set somewhere in L.A. so she can re-create that grief.

Contact Christopher Lawrence at clawrence@reviewjournal.com. On Twitter: @life_onthecouch.