NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Padma Lakshmi and Richard Gere have broken up.
The 44-year-old Top Chef host and 65-year-old actor started dating amid Gere's divorce from wife Carey Lowell, and were together for six months. Lakshmi and Gere kept their relationship extremely private, and never confirmed their status nor were photographed as a couple.