Can Someone Cook up a Personality for Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi?
We'll admit that Padma Lakshmi, host of Bravo TV's Top Chef is nice to look at, and she may have brains, too, but the model-actress-author does seem to lack a key ingredient in TV hosting: A little fire in the kitchen...salt'n'pepa in her stew...in other words -- a personality.
But Salman Rushdie's ex isn't alone in this department. Blandness and the monotone delivery almost seem to be a prerequisite for female reality TV hosts. Other examples include:
Brooke Burke's work on Rockstar: Supernova.
Or Julie Chen on Big Brother:
Now if only Ann Curry (The Today Show, Dateline) could host a show like America's Got Talent...then we'd have a superfecta!
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