Tuesday, July 17, 2007

The Unbearable Rightness of Padma



(image via farm1.com)

Diane von Furstenberg -- overheard -- was clearly right. Salman Rushdie, in what can only be properly construed as the punk-assest move EVER is breaking up with Padma Lakshmi, who is astonishingly -- achingly -- beautiful. Padma Lakshmi's dad must be Hezbollah, 'cause she is THA BOMB.

Come on Salman, you don't just give up on a woman like that. If you can take on The Ayatollah's fatwa, surely you can reconnoiter enough rib-busting ox strength necessary to resuscitate a marriage in steep Buddenbrooksian decline.

Anyhoo -- there's a new man in the picture. No surprise he is a hyper-competitive billionaire on the hunt for lo ultimo trophy wife. Teddy Forstmann, International Man of Mystery, last seen pitching-woo to Princess Di, is back on the Manhattan stage. According to our favorite superhero gossip duo Rush and Molloy:

"Billionaire Ted Forstmann has trained his gaze on another world-class beauty.

"The financier, whose consorts have included Elizabeth Hurley and Princess Diana, has become a fast friend of model, chef and actress Padma Lakshmi.

"Their mouthpieces maintain that the two are not dating. But that hasn't stopped some from noticing that Forstmann has appeared in Lakshmi's life just as her husband, author Salman Rushdie, is leaving it."

Okay: Padma Lakshmi, Princess Diana and ... Elizabeth Hurley?! (One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong ..)

...Call me Padma?

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