Extortion, Blackmail, an affair with a married man and Mafia connections.
Oh Brother, What A Sister!
The shocking story of the REAL Shilpa Shetty
Daily Mail by PAUL BRACCHI 16th February 2007
How many people does it take to make an outfit for Shilpa Shetty? The answer is 40.
A magnificent hand-embroidered tunic created by the Indian version of Stella McCartney is being painstakingly stitched by a team of helpers.
It will be ready in time for Shilpa's date with the Queen next month. Such occasions are becoming commonplace for her: last week, an audience with Tony Blair, now an invitation to celebrate Commonwealth Day with Her Majesty.
A service at Westminster Abbey will be followed by a reception for select dignitaries (of which the 31-year-old actress is one).
There are surely times when Shilpa must think she is starring in her own Bollywood blockbuster. Could there be a more unbelievable script - and fairy-tale finale - than the story of the Celebrity Big Brother winner?
She was called "Shilpa Poppadom" and the "Indian" in the Big Brother house. By the time she emerged, Jade Goody had become a pariah, pop star Jo O'Meara was on suicide watch, model Danielle Lloyd had been ditched by her soccer star boyfriend, and Shilpa, according to the Bombay Times, was the "most recognised Indian face in the world".
She has received more than 200 offers of work - commercials, modelling, presenting, book deals, film roles, even a part in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revival of West End musical Bombay Dreams - totalling £10 million.
During a shopping spree last week, in between appearing on breakfast TV and Richard & Judy - for which she was paid handsomely - she blew £30,000 on Boodles earrings, a Vivienne Westwood jacket and Gina shoes.
Days earlier, it was £4,000 in four hours on jewellery, a coat, six pairs of high heels, a designer handbag and Victoria Beckham jeans. But who would wish, or dare, to criticise Shilpa in the wake of her near beatification?
Today, her younger sister gives an interview to Weekend magazine, but there is another side to the family's life back home in Bombay they would prefer people not to know.
Read the full story in Mediterranean Living...
http://www.med-liv.com/A%20Shilpa.html
For the stories behind the news...The Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=436517&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490
