Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie to Divorce
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Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi by Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.com
Top Chef
host
Padma Lakshmi and British author
Salman Rushdie will divorce, Reuters reports. Lakshmi, a model, actress and cookbook author, is currently hosting the third season of Bravo's reality series
Top Chef. Rushdie is best known for his controversial novel
The Satanic Verses. The pair wed in 2004 and have no children.
Rushdie's agent, Jin Auh, released a statement saying, "Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife, Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage. He asks that the media respect his privacy at this difficult time."
- Reporting by Marissa Klein
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