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  • Richard Gere, Padma Lakshmi Call It Quits

    Richard Gere, Padma Lakshmi Call It Quits

    Richard Gere and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi have reportedly called it quits after dating for about six months. They two started dating following Gere’s split from wife Carey Lowell.

    “It started very recently and quietly. It’s very new,” a source told Us Weekly back in April. “I wouldn’t even go as far as calling them a couple. They are dating. It’s the first time Padma has dated anyone since Teddy [Forstmann, who died in 2011], and it’s something she’s been approaching very, very delicately.”

    “They’re just getting to know each other. They’re just having fun,” the source added.

    Apparently that fun is over.

    Richard Gere and Carey Lowell are parents to teenage son Homer. Lakshmi has a daughter, four-year-old Kristina. Richard Gere was once married to supermodel Cindy Crawford.

    The Pretty Woman actor recently touted his latest film, Time Out of Mind, in which he plays a homeless man.

    “What probably really helped was I was right in the middle of a divorce [from Carey Lowell], so the emotions were right on the surface,” he joked during his speech at he Film Society of Lincoln Center last week. No mention was made of his split from Padma Lakshmi.

    Lakshmi also shied away from mentioning her split from Richard Gere. She didn’t say anything while a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Friday and she failed to mention it while she was on The Today Show on Tuesday. E! reports she did mention recently–while on TV–that she is single.

    It will be interesting to learn if anything is divulged about the reasons behind Richard Gere and Padma Lakshmi’s split. Certainly after just six months–and the very low profile the two kept–people didn’t expect a ‘happily ever after.’ Inquiring minds always like to learn the details, however.

  • Richard Gere and Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi Call It Quits

    Richard Gere and his girlfriend of six months, Bravo’s Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, have ended their romance.

    The New York Post‘s Page Six first reported the breakup, with a source explaining that Gere and Lakshmi “decided they would be better as friends.”

    The couple have been very private about their relationship and they were rarely photographed.

    In a recent television appearance, Lakshmi announced that she was single. She also didn’t mention the split during Friday’s appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show nor on NBC’s Today Tuesday.

    Last week, while speaking at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Gere said he’s very proud of his new movie, Time Out of Mind, in which he plays a homeless man.

    “What probably really helped was I was right in the middle of a divorce [from Carey Lowell], so the emotions were right on the surface,” the 64-year-oldstar quipped.

    Lakshmi, 44, was married to author Salman Rushdie from 2004 to 2007. She later dated billionaire Teddy Forstmann until he died of brain cancer in 2011. Lakshmi also has a three-year-old daughter, Krishna Thea Lakshmi-Dell, with venture capitalist ex-boyfriend Adam Dell, the brother of computer maker Michael Dell.

    Gere is set to begin work on a new film, Oppenheimer, by award-winning Israeli director Joseph Cedar. Meanwhile, Lakshmi has been traveling quite a bit after filming in Boston wrapped for a new season of Top Chef.

    Gere and Lowell have a son together, 14-year-old Homer.

    Time Out of Mind is in limited release and Top Chef airs 10 p.m. ET each Wednesday on Bravo.

  • Richard Gere Survived Homelessness, But Can’t Find A Buyer For Hampton Home

    Richard Gere is just wrapping up his movie, Time Out of Mind, in which he plays a homeless man. He’s been doing such a good job, that people have mistaken his homelessness as genuine. They’ve done things like giving him cold leftover pizza.

    He is now apparently so much an expert on homelessness, that other stars will call him up to ask his advice. According to Confidenti@l, Susan Sarandon was meeting with Time Out New York magazine’s editor in chief, Terri White, to figure out how to cover homelessness in New York for the magazine. Sarandon immediately thought of Gere and his movie Time Out of Mind.

    “She said, ‘I’ll just text him and see if I can interview him for the issue,’” White recalled. “So she just texted him in the room in front of everybody, which was kind of awesome unto itself, and then her people called me a few days later and said, ‘Susan interviewed Richard.’ It’s truly the power of having friends like that. And being Susan Sarandon.”

    The interview is scheduled to be published next Wednesday, August 13th.

    While he’s coping with pretending to be homeless, Gere has other personal problems. The New York Daily News recently described him as “desperate” to sell his house in the Hamptons. The asking price is now 47.5 million dollars, down from the 65 million dollar price he was asking for last year. The six acre estate is known as Strongheart Manor, and includes a gym, basketball courts, an outdoor fireplace pavilion, a 60-foot heated pool, 12 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, and a lovely view of Peconic Bay. It was built in 1902 on 26 Actors Colony Road. Gere bought it in 2006 for the low price of 6.9 million dollars.

    It’s hard to imagine going back to that kind of luxury after eating from the garbage.

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Richard Gere Reportedly Dating Padma Lakshmi

    Richard Gere Reportedly Dating Padma Lakshmi

    Richard Gere has recently begun dating Padma Lakshmi, according to Page Six.

    “They have been quietly spending some time together. It is all very new and recent, and happened while he has been filming in New York,” a source told the publication.

    “It’s the first time Padma has dated anyone since Teddy [Forstmann], and it’s something she’s been approaching very, very delicately. They’re just getting to know each other. They’re just having fun,” a source told Us Weekly.

    Gere, 64, is in the process of divorcing Carey Lowell, a former actress and model whom he married in 2002. They were together for seven years prior to marrying. The two have a 14-year-old son, Homer.

    News of the separation broke in September 2013 and according to sources, Gere and Lowell had “been spending time apart for quite some time.”

    “They have a place in Bedford [NY], and he likes it because it’s quiet and he likes the solitude,” said the source. “She likes being in North Haven in the limelight. They live next door to Jimmy Buffett and his family, and they’re good friends.”

    Gere was married to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995. Lowell was married twice prior to her marriage to Gere and has a 24-year-old daughter from her second marriage.

    Lakshmi, 43, is known for her role as host of the Emmy Award-winning reality show Top Chef. Besides hosting the show since 2006, Lakshmi has written several cookbooks in addition to stints as a model and actress.

    In 2004 she famously married the well-known and often controversial novelist Salman Rushdie. Like Lakshmi, Rushie was born in India. The two divorced three years later.

    Lakshmi has a three-year-old daughter, Krishna, with ex Adam Dell, brother of computer icon Michael Dell.

    Lakshmi dated billionaire Teddy Forstmann for several years until his death in November 2011 and the two were together when her daughter was born.

    Gere is currently filming Time Out of Mind in New York City. He plays a homeless man who attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Jena Malone.)

    Gere has said he’s been fascinated with the project for years:

    “It is a profoundly human story that we are determined to make into a powerful film that speaks to everyone.”

    Prior to filming Time Out of Mind, Gere was busy with Franny, Henry & Me, and the sequel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

    Image via Wikimedia Commons