Padma & the King

As someone who has a long track record of loving both food shows, Top Chef and Padma Lakshmi, I feel like this gossip cycle was made specifically for me. Like, do I think former Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi and former Top Chef winner Melissa King are dating? No. Do I think they definitely know what they’re doing? Yes. Do I love it anyway and will I consume every last drop of delicious drop of sapphic teasing? You’d better believe it.

Yes, yes, – I like I know just last summer I had posted about Melissa hard launching with fellow chef Nini Nguyen. Like, are we misinterpreting everyone’s couple launch Insta posts or do people need to stop being being so intentionally vague?

Anyway, rumors started to swirl after Padma and Melissa won Halloween after dressing up as Morticia and Gomez Addams. Like, name a better looking couple? You can’t.

And then this weekend they kept the rumors rumoring by posting about Padma’s “gay nails.” Melissa is not wrong. That is a very lesbian nail situation Padma has going on.

Look, in the end it doesn’t matter if these two are just friends or very good friends or roommates or whatever. What matters is two hot people are making food and taking sexy pictures together. And, during these dark times, I’ll take any light we can get. Carry on, ladies, with your whatever.