Confirmed! Richard Gere and Padma Lakshmi are dating
Well, she is a pretty woman!
Richard Gere and Padma Lakshmi are quietly dating, a friend of the Top Chef host confirmed to People.
“They’re just getting to know each other,” the source said. “They’re not sure where it’s going yet.”
Padma, who began her career as a model, was previously married to novelist Salman Rushdie. She then welcomed daughter Krishna Thea Lakshmi-Dell with venture capitalist Adam Dell. Most recently, she was dating billionaire businessman Teddy Frostmann at the time of his death in 2011 from brain cancer.
“This is the first person she’s dated since Teddy passed away and she’s just putting a toe in the water of the dating world again,” Padma’s friend said.
This is also Richard’s first relationship following his 2013 split from model Carey Lowell. They were married for 11 years and welcomed son Homer together in 2000. Before that, he was married to Cindy Crawford from 1991 until 2005… So models are clearly his type.
