India has reason to be proud of Shilpa Shetty once again. The bad press that her ‘kiss-episode’ with Hollywood’s Richard Gere generated has only made the Bollywood hottie a force to reckon with on the international marquee. Shilpa has beaten international celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie, Eva Longoria, and back home even Aishwarya Rai, to become the uncrowned queen of the cyber universe.
As of today, she’s the number one actor on a leading international search engine while she ranks number two in the overall search, second only to American Idol. On the IMDB website, the actress is at number 21, having moved up 23,261 per cent within a week. While the actress was unavailable for comment, her spokesperson and publicist Dale Bhagwagar says, “It’s thrilling to know she’s leading on the web search the world over. Shilpa is not very net savvy, but ever since she opened an e-mail ID (shilpashettyonline@gmail .com) two months ago, she has been flooded with millions of fan mail.” This news ought to cheer the actor who’s public display of affection with Gere during an AIDS awareness rally didn’t go down well with many and led to protests with posters of the Big Brother winner and the American actor being burned across the country.
Totally harmless kiss. I kiss my child everyday like this. Gere probably considered Shilpa his kid.