07.20.09 PADMA’S FOR LOOKIN’, NOT LAUGHIN’
Oh man, that turns me on. I just LOVE antique furniture.
“Top Chef” hostess Padma Lakshmi has signed a development deal with NBC that will reportedly make the inhumanly beautiful goddess the star of a sitcom.
Building on her “Top Chef” credentials, the show will star Lakshmi as a woman working in the culinary world. (One possible title being mulled: “Single Serving.”) …
Lakshmi’s acting credits include ABC miniseries “The Ten Commandments,” as well as the features “The Mistress of Spices” and “Boom.” She also played the singer Sylk in “Glitter.”
Oh, she played Sylk in Glitter, you say? Well if she was in Glitter then she MUST be a good actress.
Padma needs to just go back to her gig on “Top Chef Masters” (they replaced her with some Asian woman who’s merely very attractive instead of eye-searingly perfect). That’s where she belongs — not on some second-rate comedy. Don’t get me wrong, I want to wear her skin as a robe just as much as the next guy, but I don’t think she’s a gifted comedienne. She does a lot of things well, and being good-looking is most of them.







I think she was only replaced on Top Chef Masters. Not the original series.