NEW YORK – Former NBA star Kenny Smith and his wife, Gwendolyn, who works as a model on “The Price is Right,” are the latest heads of a reality TV family. “Meet the Smiths,” which premieres at 7 p.m. Friday on TBS, invites cameras into their Encino, California, home where they’re raising five kids, ages 2 to 21.
“A lot of times you guys let me into your living room, and now I get an opportunity to let you into my living room with my lovely wife, Gwendolyn, and our five, yes, five, cinco, kids,” said Smith, who currently is working as an analyst on CBS during their NCAA men’s basketball tournament coverage. “We’re a blended family.”
Two of the Smiths’ older children are girls, a special challenge for their 50-year-old father.
“It’s difficult to see my daughters on television and in music videos, and then I get tweets or comments about crushes and, ‘Hey, can I date? And, hey, I’d be a good son-in-law type,”’ he said. “I don’t need a gun to protect them, because they’re smart young ladies. But I have one.”
Gwendolyn, laughing, is quick to point out that her husband really doesn’t own a firearm.
