"Top Chef" host's custody fight just got sadder

Tsk, tsk, Ms. Lakshmi.

January 27, 2011 at 4:07PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Can AP describe a nasty interpersonal train-wreck in terms of a cooking show? Of course they can:

There is some airing going on, it's true:

She's 40. Dell, 41, is the brother of the computer Dell guy - not the stoner in the ads! Michael Dell, the founder. He's a tech investor. The other guy she wants the baby to call "Papa" is the CEO of a big sports & marketing film, IMG, and he's 70 years old. Also worth about $1.5 billion.

By the way, here's what the Daily News was reporting in 2007:

But not in the actual marriage sense. Maybe Dell was just a vacation break from Mr. Moneybags; who knows? Wouldn't matter except there's a child involved. More here - People manages a sympathetic story, which I'm sure has nothing to do with the fact that she's pretty and on TV, and he isn't. It's one of those stories in which a "pal" just calls the magazine and tells us how "devastated" her friend really is, poor dear.

The people in the comments sections are not, shall we say, burdened with a surplus amount of sympathy.

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