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Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is giving nothing away about the sex of her baby but said it will have an Indian name.

The 39-year-old is expecting a baby in the spring and recently spoke about the name of her baby at a dinner in New York to celebrate Indian women in the culinary arts.

She said: “I am going to name the child an Indian name – I’m Indian.”

Lakshmi said that she does have something in mind that is ‘not a fancy name, but a name that is close to my family. It will be after someone in my family’.

She added: “So don’t expect to see an Anglicised name – it will be a classically Indian Sanskrit name.”