I'm sorry, but what an idiot. She looks good, but prancing around in spaghetti straps in 26 degree weather looks beyond desperate.

It looks like she has a gash down her right arm...?

It's kind of insane how attractive this woman is. I think she needs to top Jolie on the straight girl chick crush list!

Does she only eat when they are shooting Top Chef?

@LonelySock: She does - was in a car accident years ago.

loving the dress and the shoes

I want that dress.

she is tooooo cute

Hose and open toes.

Sooooooooo pretty....

I can't believe she was married to Salman Rushdie.

I love that dress! Yayyyyy new Top Chef approaching.....(can't be worse than last season)!

Padma looks HOTTTT! Love the hair and the detail at the top of the dress.

She isn't a total bitch on that show which is nice...Though her voice is kinda nasaly which grates on ones nerves after a time...

I'd love to wear a dress like that, but I'd also like to be able to eat. I don't think I could in that.

@hamburgerhotdog: yeah - SO not feeling that. tights and open toes I can do - but not nylons. ew.

Ew sheer black hose.

Anyone else PUMPED for the next installment of Top Chef?

@hamburgerhotdog: Thank you. And WTF is with all the black sheer hose going around?

@the.bleach: Wha -wha -what?!? SHE was married to Rushdie? ewwww i have to change my opinion...

I want to like her, but I can't. She's such a snotty little beeyotch on Top Chef. She treats the chefs like "the help" that are only there to prepare her spa meals. Which she daintily barfs up, I'm sure.

is she outside in that getup? brrrr....

@hamburgerhotdog: My first thought, too. NO STOCKINGS WITH OPEN TOE SHOES!

Meh, if she's got a couple glasses of wine in her I doubt she's really feeling the slight chill (update: -45 here today, nobody knows the trouble I've seen).

So when did sheer black hose become the no no? I need to reevaluate my wardrobe choices.

What does one wear in winter with a cocktailly black suit?

...and I think Padma is hot, but man, she's sort of a doofus on Top Chef.

Of course, I've just discovered I am a doofus about black hose. eh.

@BiscuitDoughJones: She's kinda not very nice: [nymag.com]

@petuniacat: Someone with gorgeous non-pasty white skin don't need to be wearing black pantyhose. You worried your big toe might freeze or something?

I like hose and open toes...if only because they rhyme!

@BiscuitDoughJones: I still can't figure out why she's the host of a cooking show. They couldn't find someone who actually eats?

@spielarama: Ah, never knew. Car accident survivors reprazent.

she may not be the best host of any show ever but she's eons better than katie joel ever was. oof.

@theskyisfalling: I wouldn't say no as a total rule, however they are EVERYWHERE lately! Either way, not acceptable with open toes. That's my rule!

@theskyisfalling: Seriously! When did sheer black hose become the devil? I wore them this weekend with a cute LBD and now I'm all paranoid that I broke some sort of cardinal fashion rule I didn't know existed...

@BiscuitDoughJones: Word from some contestants is that she is quite cool actually and would hang out after the show was wrapped. Colichio is apparently really awesome too. And she has a personality, the thing Katie Joel was missing out on.

@BiscuitDoughJones: I agree. Also while she is quite pretty, and clearly has a kick-ass stylist I don't think she is breath-takingly gorgeous.

@blondegrlz: At least she actually seems to know something about food....*cough*KatieJoel*cough*

Wait, now that she's no longer a trophy wife, do we have to get a new host?

@blondegrlz: Because she's slightly more personable that Katie Lee Joel and because she (allegedly) kicked it with Tom Collichio.

it's too bad she's so annoying. "better than katie joel"? well sure. who wouldn't be?

Hooo yeah. Katie Joel was a trainwreck. Sad and boring. Funny in season one's finale.... she nearly cried when she had to off the red headed chick in the finale.

@hamburgerhotdog: ooo for real? interesting...I hadn't heard that one...but thought I remembered reading some blind item re: her and a 'celebrity chef'(which I assumed was Bobby Flay).

she is one of those people who should be seen and not heard.

She strikes me as the type of woman who has very classy looking labia. Very much like what Princess Diana had.

@hamburgerhotdog: I heard she was all up in Anthony Bourdain.

Pretty, but I'm thinking she married Rushdie to get a bit of fame for herself.
Also, the hose with peeptoes? No. If you can leave your shoulders bare, then your legs need to suck it up, too. Dress for the damn weather, people.

@stacyinbean: Was just in New York and all the ladies were wearing sheer black hose. Stop it, ladies. It looks stupid.

@BiscuitDoughJones: OH NO SHE DIDN'T. If that's true I'm gonna slap the pretty right off her for stepping to my fake boyfriend.

@notaclevername: @hamburgerhotdog: I am personable AND I eat a lot of food. Can I have a job?
I missed the Katie Lee season, and they never seem to play the repeats. I can only imagine how bad it was.

fashion "rules" were meant to be broke, but only if you can carry it off with flair---and she does! she knocks the sheer black tights with open toes shoes thang out of the park! cant tell shes cold either--whe looks smashing.

was this taken at waverly inn? i can't help but notice the green in the background.

anyway, as hot as padma is i don't get the dress in the dead middle of winter. we know you're hot but please dress appropriately.

Pantyhose tend to come out in winter. Such as.

@bicsharpie: Okay, you just became my new favorite person on the world.

@lisas: Wow, where are you?? I thought I was the coldest Jezzie, but it's only a balmy -25 here today.

@BiscuitDoughJones: It was either him or Eric Ripert. Rumor was she was schtopping a NYC chef known for his food and his many appearances on Top Chef

i don't know anything about this chick other than her rad scar and i love her for that. i refuse to watch a program called top chef.

I don't like the outfit but she is pretty.

@BiscuitDoughJones: I'm with you. She's just another socialite.

She's pretty, but the dress is v. Crying Ricky from Project Runway, I think. However, something about the setting reminds me of Supper. Mm, Supper. Le sigh. I miss NYC.

She's hot, smart, and potty mouthed; she's my hero.

She does NOT knock the black hose out of the park. She does, however, ruin a great dress by wearing said hose. Dark hose + open toed shoes? Takes some warming up to but ok. Sheer hose and open toed shoes? Noooooooo (insert screaming and running away here). Sheer hose with closed-toed shoes are just fine, imho. Also? write the word "toed" for awhile and it hurts to look at it.

@M.Wyeth: Totally. I love her. She's gorgeous. Also, I hate all this "she's skinny so she must not eat, why's she on the show, waahwaah," crap. Come on. She eats and then likely exercises afterwards. Also, she's a former supermodel. It's not like she has the genes of the average bear.