This week’s Top Chef, taped before Padma Lakshmi got preggers, guest star this week Natalie Portman. They competing chefs are told that they’ll be cooking dinner for the judges at Tom Colicchio’s CraftSteak at the MGM Grand. They go nuts pulling out cuts of meat. Then and only then, they’re told that Portman’s a vegetarian and that’s what they have to cook.

This is not a show known for sex or double entendres, with only the very odd exception here and there.

Padma (whom I consider one of the most delectable women on American TV) is trying to describe the taste of something she’s eating, it’s a little bit spicy and she says, “It’s like a little prick at the tip of my tongue.” Portman starts laughing, “Don’t say that! That’s awesome!” Right after, Padma says that the garlic blossoms are “tiny in size but big in your mouth.” Tom chimes in, “You went from a little prick to big in your mouth.” And one of Portman’s friends adds, “That’s what usually happens.”

Well, it’s been a slow day ….

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