Inqlings: Real life shakes up a reality show

"People think reality TV is fake and staged," says Kevin Burns, the man who put Kendra Wilkinson on television.

"This is real reality."

Burns is referring to the bombshell twist in the E! series Kendra, which follows the life of the Playmate, who lives in Philly with her football-player husband, Hank Baskett, and their 10-month-old son, Hank IV.

The third season of Kendra was running smoothly before last week, when the Eagles cut Baskett, and the Minnesota Vikings signed him. The wide receiver will now trade the couple's Center City high-rise for a Twin Cities hotel for the NFL season.

Burns, who created and executive-produces Kendra, says the Basketts are tackling what he calls "issues anyone in America can relate to": Unemployment and involuntary separation.

"We're at the mercy of the Basketts. We follow them," Burns says, acknowledging that Baskett had survived a roster cut earlier this month. "But this threw everybody."

Burns is sending a camera crew to Minneapolis while Wilkinson stays at Two Liberty Place. There's only a small chance she will follow him, Burns says.

Baskett is hanging on to his home life as long as he can while Wilkinson is commiserating with other football wives. The three on Wednesday visited the Please Touch Museum in Fairmount Park before he ships out.

If this experience has taught the two anything, it's that "they need to find a home," says Burns, tallying the couple's moves from L.A. to New Jersey (for a brief stint last season with the Eagles) to Indianapolis (his time with the Colts, during which the baby was born), back to L.A. in the off-season, and back to Philly. Burns, who has worked with Wilkinson since The Girls Next Door, says she was "born to be a reality star - she's funny, clever, [has a] lot of heart, and is very accessible."

Season premiere is Nov. 7.

Chef Georges Perrier stars on the debut episode of the Saturday morning A&E Network series Fix This Kitchen, in which people conspire with celeb chefs to surprise family members with a kitchen makeover. Brian and Shawna Clark of Northeast Philly get the full Le Bec-Fin treatment at 10 a.m. Oct. 16.

CBS3/CW Philly traffic reporter Bob Kelly has not been heard on the Ross Brittain Breakfast Club show on WOGL (98.1) this week. Station manager Jim Loftus says listener surveys show that people turn to WOGL for entertainment. Kelly is expected to return to radio, but as a "personality" rather than a "reporter."

Thursday's block party on the 1200 block of Walnut Street to welcome the musical Jersey Boys to Philly has been postponed to Tuesday, from 4 to 7 p.m., because of the threat of foul weather.

Actress Kim Delaney joined builder Jeff Orleans at Tuesday's open house for the new offices of law firm Offit Kurman at Ten Penn Center.

Highland Regional High sophomore Nick Martino, 15, of Blackwood, bows Sunday as crime family member Pius D'Allessio on HBO's Boardwalk Empire. Perhaps Martino will become a star, if only because of this coincidence: Highland vice principal Ron Strauss' father, Richard, was vice principal at Penns Grove High back in the 1970s, when a kid named Bruce Willis attended.

The city will be awash in pink light starting Friday to mark the month-long Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Lights for the Cure campaign. Buildings going pink for the first time include Independence Seaport Museum, 777 South Broad, and Oxford Valley Mall.

WXTU's Christy Springfield will be a celeb bartender at a Susan G. Komen for the Cure benefit starting at 9 p.m. Saturday at Benny the Bum's (9921 Bustleton Ave.).

South Philly's Jenny Cross, who stunk it up on Food Network's Worst Cooks in America, will guest-bartend at Le Meridien's Amuse bar (1421 Arch St.) from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. One-quarter of the take will go to InLiquid.org. She's developed a specialty martini called the Ginny Cross.