Padma Lakshmi's custody fight with Adam Dell heats up

Things are heating up between "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi and old flame Adam Dell over custody of her daughter Krishna.

Baby daddy Dell, who has some visitation rights, has decided to fight for more. Meanwhile, Lakshmi is telling little Krishna to consider Mom's current beau, 70-year-old Ted Forstmann, as her papa.

Dell, 41, a venture capitalist, filed a lawsuit in New York on Wednesday claiming that a paternity test proved he is the 11-month-old's biological father and that he and Lakshmi should work out a co-parenting agreement. He also pointed to the former model’s jet-setting lifestyle being less than ideal for taking care of the infant.

Dell said that the Lakshmi, 40, of "please pack your knives and go" fame, who proudly bore her baby bump during the show, isn't willing to prioritize Krishna before her Emmy-winning career.

Dell "is the parent who can be relied upon to put Krishna's needs before his own," the lawsuit said.

But Lakshmi's "career as a television personality and her commitment to celebrity status involve a hectic, irregular schedule and requires frequent and distant travel."

Dell, whose brother is Michael Dell -- you know, of personal computer fame -- is allowed to see the child nine days each month under the terms of an earlier agreement.

The couple dated for two years before they split in September 2009. Lakshmi claimed he was "unambitious" and his career as a technology firms investor was "uninteresting," according to his lawsuit. She then told him she was pregnant and Dell said a paternity test dubbed him the child's father.

Chelsea Clinton's wedding a no-fly zone — and other details [poll]

Nothing says "romance" like restricting airspace.

Chelsea Clinton will marry Marc Mezvinsky on Saturday in a wedding ceremony and reception set for Rhinebeck, N.Y., where a no-fly zone has been declared from 3 p.m. EDT until 3:30 a.m. the next day over Astor Courts. (Yes, it was built for those Astors.)

That's just what happens when Dad is former President Bill Clinton, Mom's the current secretary of State, and they insist on inviting a few of their friends from work. Even if the current head honcho isn't on the guest list.

Expect to see the bride wearing Vera Wang, unless you think Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter hit the designer's bridal shop for grins on Tuesday; money's on Oscar de la Renta ...

Report: Lindsay Lohan's alcohol-monitoring bracelet went off on MTV Movie Awards night -- now what?

Our crime-chasing brethren over at L.A. Now are reporting that Lindsay Lohan's alcohol-monitoring bracelet -- not pictured at left -- went off Sunday night, alerting authorities, according to a source familiar with the case. 

What this means for Lohan is still unclear; the monitoring company's report will go to the probation folks involved and also to the judge in the case.

Now, we're not referring to any blinking red lights folks might have seen, or thought they saw, while the actress was hitting an MTV Movie Awards after-party. A Ministry source noted Lohan's ankle device blinking furiously through her black boots at Hollywood's Las Palmas nightclub, but a call to the SCRAM folks confirmed that the blinking merely meant data was transmitting to Alcohol Monitoring Services.

Does an alert automatically mean the person wearing the bracelet has been boozing? Nope. Spilling alcohol on the device or tampering with it will also trigger a report. The SCRAM folks have an oddly hypnotic video (click where it says "watch the video") showing a person sliding a playing card between the bracelet and the leg as an example of a tampering technique. 

The video also shows how different incidents appear to those monitoring a person's results. Because the device monitors alcohol levels in perspiration over time, downing a few mojitos looks different than what happens after a spill or after, say, a person stows any spare playing cards that might not fit into an evening bag.

The SCRAM bracelet was popped onto LiLo's ankle shortly after an eagerly anticipated May 24 hearing; her outfit for the award show Sunday covered it up on the red carpet.

-- Christie D'Zurilla and Matt Donnelly

Photos: So, yeah, when people said they were hoping for a picture of Lindsay Lohan's "bracelet" on the MTV Movie Awards red carpet Sunday night, this isn't exactly the one they meant. Credits: Jason Merritt/Getty Images.

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Jon Gosselin's apartment is burglarized -- and we feel kinda bad for him

Jon Gosselin returned home to his Manhattan apartment Saturday afternoon after spending Christmas in Pennsylvania with his eight kids only to discover the place had been ransacked, People reports. 

~~ Shoot, the Ministry returned home Saturday to a serious mess, and we *thought* the place had been ransacked, until we realized we had been just *that* much of a tornado wrapping gifts before leaving for Christmas Eve at the folks' place. Embarrassing. ~~ 

Seriously, though -- normally we have little or no sympathy for Jon minus Kate plus eight, but in this case, we do. His furniture, clothing and bedding had been slashed with a knife. Electronics and more had been stolen, and stuff was broken -- stuff that included a Ming vase, which, sorry, we totally didn't expect Jon Gosselin to own.

Not cool, no matter who you are or what you've done -- even if what you've done is reality TV.

Someone involved apparently thought it would be cute to leave a behind note signed "Hailey Glassman," TMZ reports. Oh yeah, the note was reportedly spiked onto Jon's bedroom dresser with a butcher knife.

Stay classy, creepy unoriginal burglary people ... 

Morgan Freeman's hand still not fake -- chill, people, OK?

So last year after a serious car accident, Morgan Freeman had surgery on his left arm, elbow and shoulder -- and now while he's out doing press for "Invictus," people aren't seeing the hand on that arm do very much at all.

And he's wearing one glove.  Which nobody's ever done before. 

Especially after surgery.

So that must mean it's a fake hand?

Funny -- in January, he told Access Hollywood that his hand was still paralyzed "until the nerves get down there" after all that damage.

Then people ran this drill again in February after the Grammy Awards. And the rumor keeps popping up on discussion boards Internet-wide, mostly accompanied by words we can't repeat and astute observations about human nature.

Patience, people, patience.

And don't believe everything you read on the Interwebs, OK? Though most of this next part is true:

Hugh Laurie's hand was following the Ministry's personal Twitter feed for a stretch earlier this year, but it seems to have lost interest and hasn't tweeted much lately.

We were crushed, but perhaps Hugh's hand is hanging out with Morgan's now, and the two just want some privacy?

-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Morgan Freeman with both his hands at a salute to Clint Eastwood on Tuesday in New York. Credit: Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images.