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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
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 Shilpa Shetty :Nervous Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has had it with kissing on stage in front of Indians — a peck on the cheek is about as far as she will go.
The last time she did it, during an AIDS awareness event in New Delhi with Hollywood star Richard Gere in April last year, furious Indian Hindu nationalists burnt her effigies and slapped court cases against her and Gere. Tellingly, Shilpa invoked memories of the Indian intolerance during a dinner held Tuesday night to celebrate and encourage diversity in Britain. Stepping in to help galvanise a charity auction — the item under hammer was dinner with British prime minister Gordon Brown at Wembley — Shilpa climbed up to the stage, took the mike and told the audience, “Come on people, this is for charity. The winner will get a kiss from me!” With memories of the Indian protests yet to be erased, she then added quickly, “But it will be on the cheek. I don’t want my effigies burnt again.” Starting off on a low £100, the prospects of dining with Brown and British sporting celebrities was moving at a slow canter before Shilpa stepped in with her incentive for the worthy cause of helping diabetes testing in Britain. After being stuck on the £5,000-mark for some time, the bid was won by a young man who pledged £12,500 for the dinner — and also picked up three kisses on the cheek as a bargain
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