--- description: Who's the Pretty Woman with the actor these days? title: Richard Gere, Padma Lakshmi Dating: Video image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07862ca65af90347/69868bd613c79fdddc191bb0/padma-gere-1280x720.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Richard Gere and Padma Lakshmi Are Dating by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 22, 2014 3:41 PM CUT  Richard Gere And Padma Lakshmi Are Dating Richard Gere And Padma Lakshmi Are DatingJim Spellman – Getty Images and David Moir \_ Bravo by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 22, 2014 3:41 PM CUT The _Pretty Woman_ star and the Top Chef host are quietly dating, [PEOPLE reports.](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20809053,00.html "undefined") Gere is currently shooting his latest movie _Time Out of Mind_ in New York, where the TV personality lives. “They’re just getting to know each other,” a source told PEOPLE. “They’re not sure where it’s going yet.” The alleged relationship comes eight months after the actor, 64, and his wife of 11 years, Carey Lowell, [announced their split](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20738745,00.html "undefined"). The couple have a 14-year-old son named Homer James Jigme Gere. Lakshmi was also married before, to the renowned novelist Salman Rushdie. More recently, Lakshmi dated billionaire Teddy Forstmann before he [died of brain cancer](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20547296,00.html "undefined") in 2011\. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/71918/richard-gere-padma-lakshmi-dating/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/71918/richard-gere-padma-lakshmi-dating/"},"headline":"Richard Gere and Padma Lakshmi Are Dating","datePublished":"2014-04-22T15:41:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:25:55.357Z","description":"Who's the Pretty Woman with the actor these days?","url":"https://time.com/71918/richard-gere-padma-lakshmi-dating/","keywords":["celebrities","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07862ca65af90347/69868bd613c79fdddc191bb0/padma-gere-1280x720.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07862ca65af90347/69868bd613c79fdddc191bb0/padma-gere-1280x720.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Richard Gere And Padma Lakshmi Are Dating","caption":"Richard Gere And Padma Lakshmi Are Dating","creditText":"Jim Spellman – Getty Images and David Moir _ Bravo","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/71918/richard-gere-padma-lakshmi-dating/","name":"Richard Gere and Padma Lakshmi Are Dating"}}]}] ```