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"Yes, The Wrist Reduction Surgery Went Swimmingly"
[Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi outside the Waverly Inn in New York last night; image via WENN] More »
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Are There Two Salman Rushdies Running Around Sadly?
Back when Salman Rushdie had a Padma Lakshmi to go home to and a fatwa hanging over his smooshed-up genius head, he wasn't out very often. But now since Padma's fled and Islamic fundamentalism is on the wane, he is, as The Observer's Doree Shafrir notes, omnipresent. Since October he's attended, spoken at, or slept through no less than 11 events in wildly different locales. And at some of these, he's been accompanied by toothsome lasses, including one toothsome lass named Patrice Jorden who "resembles nothing less than a younger, African-American version of Ms. Lakshmi." Hey, we all have a 'type'! More »
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Inside the Roomy Mind of Padma Lakshmi
In the most recent edition of Vanity Fair (the one with an airbrushed-to-oblivion Julia Roberts clutching a red rose between her teeth on the cover) Top Chef hostess and HBIC Padma Lakshmi bares her soul and mind to Nancy Jo Sales. What's in there? A lot of fucking and not much else! More »
Last night at Bungalow 8, at an afterparty for some do-goody thing involving Bono, Top Chef judge, model and sinewy forest nymph Padma Lakshmi ran into her soon-to-be ex and author Salman Rushdie: She "threw her arms around him as everyone watched. She held on as if for dear life. He held on too. Lakshmi walked away minutes later, sobbing, as a few friends consoled her. She then returned to Rushdie and they began kissing. They separated again. 'They are not back together,' said one person who knows both of them. 'But she misses him.'" Sad but also upsetting! Mostly sad though. [WWD]
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To What Song Does Padma Lakshmi Work Out?
From the mailbag:Just saw Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi at Boom Fitness on the Upper East Side. Wasn't sure it was her until I saw the scar. She was singing along with her iPod as she worked out. Very pretty.But with what, for the love of God, was she singing along? More »
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Why Is Andrea Strong Such A Hater?
Last night's episode of Top Chef was perhaps the least satisfying and most miserable episode yet. It's like we had been reading Stendhal's Le Rouge et Le Noir, a novel full of tender moments and human weakness, and all of a sudden we're in the middle of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi plays, a profane, syphilitic cesspool of misery. This had a lot to with the challenge: the eight contestants were asked to create a restaurant in 24 hours, a mission that all but ensures failure. But it also had to do with the fact that one of the "secret" judges was food blogger Andrea Strong whose rambling Sex-And-The-City-ish newsletter, The Strong Buzz, coagulates daily in our inbox. It is a mess. And she was just mean. More »
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Is Padma Lakshmi Evil?
Last night Padma Lakshmi, in her slow and also slightly mentally-slow way, informed the "Top Chef" contestants that they'd have the night off to enjoy Miami nightlife. Predictable but disproportionate rejoicing followed. First of all, Miami nightlife ranks somewhere between standing in a Jersey Turnpike tollbooth all day and waterboarding as things that are fun to do. Second of all, this is reality T.V. More »
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Peggy Siegal Is Not A Caterer
When unaging (at least around the face!) PR doyenne Peggy Siegal throws a movie party in the Hamptons, she bizarrely expects you to see whatever movie she's working on. On Sunday, it was some Jaime Foxx action flick called The Kingdom. When we rolled up for her party at Savannah's in Southampton about ten minutes before the movie ended, no one was in the restaurant yet. Peggy approached: Jackie Onassis meets Nan Talese meets Allison Janney. "Sorry, we're early!" said Deb Schoeneman, the editor in chief of Hamptons Style. Peggy's eyes were burning embers of annoyance in their deep sockets. "It's O.K. this time but not again. I'm in the movie business. Not the catering business," she said. Awkward! People arrived. Jeff Zucker, the short bald president of NBC Universal, worked the tables like a croupier. More »
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Has 'Top Chef' Gotten Too Ugly?
For the third week straight, some cute girl has been kicked off Top Chef. It started with the annoyingly hippieish Micah. The following week the incredibly cute Camille was axed—and last night Lia packed her knives and went. Is newly-single Padma feeling particularly territorial of her role as Queen Kitchen Bee? More »
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Andy Dick Gets The Beat-Down We've All Craved
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Fragments from 'Salman! The Musical'
From time to time the news cycle offers up an event of such import and complexity that it can only be comprehended through the medium of musical theater. This week resident composer Ben Greenman examines the tragic unraveling of a famous author's marriage.
[SALMAN RUSHDIE is at a table in an Atlanta chophouse. He is sitting alone and talking to himself.]
SALMAN
Perhaps I'll start off with a salad
Then maybe a bowl of soup
For dessert, a hot fudge sundae
Or pecan pie or melon coupe
In between those two endpoints
Comes the entrée or main dish
From the looks of this very large menu
I can have anything that I wish
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Chelsea-Bound Padma Means Doom For All Fugly Writers
The full effect of the Padma-Salman split perhaps may not be felt for years. A few things thus far can be said with confidence. Salman Rushdie may be the greatest Indian writer since Rabindranath Tagore but Padma Lakshmi is perhaps the most beautiful woman ever. Sadly for him, his genius mind was obscured by his scrunchy face and pudgy Salman body. The situation left Padma full of desire; the desire to end their marriage. During the years of their togetherness, pudgy scrunchy-faced authors worldwide could look toward Rushdie and say, "Well, if HE can do it..." before approaching some gaspingly beautiful woman during BookExpo. Well turns out he couldn't—which is heartbreaking to the geeks and a relief for beautiful women tired of hearing the line, "Hey baby, wanna see my PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Fiction?" The more immediate and less depressing fallout is that Padma Lakshmi is moving out of the apartment the two shared. More »
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Anthony Bourdain Totally Not Dating Padma Lakshmi
Well, it was hot in our minds. But apparently Anthony Bourdain has like a real live wife and a new baby girl or something. (Mazel tov!) And therefore he is out of the running to be the next Padma-paramour. It's too bad. We do however stand by our comments about totally wanting to make out with the man most likely to be photographed with a half-smile, a great scarf and a cigarette. Though maybe now we won't put out.
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Padma-Salman Split Official At Long Last
Potheaded and alluringly cicatricial television personality Padma Lakshmi has finally ended things with her hubby, the apparently very famous author Salman Rushdie. "Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife, Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage," spokeswoman Jin Auh said in a statement issued to Reuters. Weirdly put, right? As if it's so big of him to condescend to divorce her! As you've decided by means of this scientific poll, she is now purportedly dating Anthony Bourdain. Ooh good call, we'd bone him in a heartbeat. More »
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Which Married Chef Tops Padma?
Padma Lakshmi—Top Chef hostess, pot head, wife of Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, and possessor of the hottest arm scar since Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted—was recently spotted at the Rose Bar, says Page Six.While Rushdie was being knighted by the Queen of England last week [Ed. note: Mazel!], Lakshmi was spotted hanging out into the wee hours at the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel with a well-known chef who was there without his spouse. "They seemed to be quite interested in what each other had to say," said a witness. "They were oblivious to the people around them."Two people talking? In public? Clearly if this chef is acting like he's interested in what she had to say, his intentions are less than honorable. We have a hunch who it might be but take our poll and decide for yourself. The truth is what you make it! More »
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Padma Lakshmi And Her Octopussies
Top Chef starts tonight in Miami. Yay! if this well-circulated and composed photo of Padma Lakshmi (or this bizarrely revealing shot of Food and Wine's Gail Simmons) is any indication, the move to Miami is just an excuse to put Padma in strange locations wearing 10% less than what would be appropriate or functional elsewhere while fondling encephalopods that match her Salman-colored plunging top. Also, we hear, the weed is better down there, so you know girlfriend is stoked.
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