Padma to Rushdie: Pack Your Knives and Go

Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie"Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi and "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie are getting divorced. Holy shiite!

A rep for Rushdie released a statement saying, "Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife, Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage." A reason why was not given. Hmmm.

The gorgeous former model (Lakshmi), who was born in 1970, married the 60-year-old writer/professor in 2004. They have no children together. This will be Rushdie's fourth divorce.

After "The Satanic Verses" was published, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Rushdie in 1989. Rushdie was recently knighted by Queen Elizabeth. Lakshmi, on the other hand, is gorgeous. Did we say that already?

Tags: Padma Lakshmi, PadmaLakshmi, Salman Rushdie, SalmanRushdie

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31. What an attractive young couple. I wonder what went wrong?

Posted at 6:16PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by wisegirl

32. OMG touche, please at least go to amazon and LOOK at the book before you start spewing the jesus crap. the books is NOT about satan!!!! and are you serious with the jesus/marriage stuff??? i know a lot of very happily married non-religious folks and we credit ourselves for our respectful, loving marriages

Posted at 6:29PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by kim

33. She thought his name was Salmon and figured she could eat him. Does she not have a mirror to see that you can see her nipples through that gown?

Posted at 6:37PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by s

34. THANK YOU, KIM 6:29 - I was about to say the same thing to touche. Maybe READ IT FIRST BEFORE you start spewing about stuff you know nothing about. Yeesh.

Posted at 6:55PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by jenner

35. Did he pay her to be his wife? What's wrong with that picture? She's gorgeous and he looks like a troll.

Posted at 7:06PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by TBA

36. what she see in this troll.ah money .of course.

Posted at 7:26PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by rock hard

37. Touche, we all know you're a trailer park retard with a 9th grade education. "Satanic Verses" has nothing to do with Satan. Oh, wait, how would you know that? It's hard to read post-modernist literature from cover to cover when you're illiterate and working at Pep Boys.

Posted at 7:23PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by Nicole

38. Christians have the highest divorce rate in the country. It's not at all a book about Satan, read something other than your bible.

Posted at 7:31PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by kris

39. 12. uhhhhh.....earth to CA girl #1

unless Padma has a sex change operation.....Tom ain't havin it

nice nipples though Padma

Posted at 4:47PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by WTF!!

Actually, Tom is married and has a child.

Posted at 7:50PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by hello, it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

40. looks like whatever padma wants padma gets. they made a strange couple that is for sure, and she definitely plays up her sex appeal on top chef, but that doesn't mean she's a bimbo. brains and beauty aren't mutually exclusive you know.

Posted at 8:18PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by glee

41. have you guys seen her arms on TV? she's got the nastiest scars.

but then again, she's gettin old. time for rushdie to get an upgrade. money talks.

Posted at 8:31PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by Y'ALL STUPID

42. "Holy shiite!" I almost spit my beer all over my monitor - he he he!!!

Posted at 9:37PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by Jbo

43. #42 I have same question, what is with her arms????? Could not believe these two were married, made no sense, oh well I wouldn't want to be with a guy that has a major death threat hanging over his head........another one bites the dust

Posted at 10:04PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by MALIBU BARBIE

44. Lakshmi is indeed gorgeous. As to the fatwa over Salman Rushdie's head, free speech doesn't exist in the Middle East because he'd be killed if he were to go back to his country of origin. He told the truth as it is, something his fellow Islam-practicing Muslims, did not want to heear. Lakshmi obviously had her reasons.....maybe his way of life and the eternal threat hanging over him was too much for her.

Posted at 6:28PM on Jul 3rd 2007 by Carol Mariane

45. Padma is a goldigger with enough money of her own but,never enough for some..takes a lot to support a nation

Posted at 10:45PM on Jul 2nd 2007 by brrydebbie

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