03:24 AM EDT 10/15/2009
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Top Chef Judges Offer High Praise for New Dad Tom Colicchio
Originally posted 08/08/2009 08:30AM
The results are in: Top Chef judges Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons have nothing but praise for fellow judge – and proud new papa – Tom Colicchio.
"I think he's a great dad," Lakshmi tells PEOPLE of Colicchio, who welcomed his second son Luka Bodhi Aug. 1.
As for Simmons, their friendship – which extends beyond the hit show – has allowed her to witness Colicchio's parenting skills. In fact, she was on hand at the hospital with Colicchio and wife Lori Silverbush the day of baby Luka's arrival.
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Tom Colicchio and Lori Silverbush Are Expecting!
Originally posted 07/17/2009 11:15AM
Tom Colicchio was obviously thrilled to hear that his hit TV show Top Chef garnered two Emmy nominations Thursday morning – "It feels great!" – but the award-winning chef admits he's a bit preoccupied these days: his wife is expecting a baby!
"We're having a boy," he told PEOPLE, adding that the baby is due in early August. "That's [my] real news!"
Colicchio, who has a 16-year-old son from a previous relationship, says that he and his writer/director wife, Lori Silverbush, are so prepared that they even have a name picked out, though he won't reveal what it is.
"We're keeping it under wraps," he demurs. "Our parents don't know the name yet."
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Padma Lakshmi Poses Nude, Exposes Scar
Originally posted 04/13/2009 09:30AM
Padma Lakshmi's favorite part of her body may be surprising – it's the seven-inch scar on her forearm from a car accident at the age of 14.
"I love it because it makes me a person who has an interesting past, and it reminds me that I can survive any pain," the Top Chef host admits in May's annual nude issue of Allure magazine, on sale April 21.
Lakshmi, 38, and four other Hollywood personalities stripped down for the feature. The cookbook-author and model says she has no problem being photographed in such a way. "I didn't feel any more naked without my robe. I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on," says. Lakshmi.
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Top Chef's Nikki Cascone Engaged
Originally posted 01/05/2009 09:10AM
One of Top Chef's most spirited contestants, Nikki Cascone, got engaged to her long time boyfriend and partner, Brad Grossman, over the holidays.
"I'm beyond happy," Cascone, 36, tells PEOPLE exclusively. "My only issue is that I can't cook with my engagement ring on!"
Grossman, 31, proposed while Cascone was, appropriately, cooking him dinner. "I tied the ring around one of the dogs' necks and tried to get him to run over to Nikki ... but that wasn't happening ... so in the end I told Nikki to go see the dog," he says.
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A Top Chef Thanksgiving
Originally posted 11/06/2008 01:00PM
PEOPLE asked the judges and some past competitors of Bravo's Top Chef (season 5 premieres on Nov. 12) to lay down their knives and create a fresh take on the holiday menu. Here are their recipes:
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Arrest Made in Top Chef Contestant Attack Case
Originally posted 09/14/2007 08:00AM
A homeless man was charged with participating in an anti-gay attack on former Top Chef TV contestant Josie Smith-Malave over the Labor Day weekend, reports the Associated Press.
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Former Top Chef Contestant Victim of Anti-Gay Attack
Originally posted 09/12/2007 01:45PM
A former contestant on Top Chef was beaten by a group of about 10 young people screaming anti-gay slurs, her attorney tells the Associated Press.
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