Shilpa and Gere - No fooling and smooching!
22 September 2007 | Actors, Actress | No Comments
As Gere offered Shilpa his hand as she stepped off the stage at the Awards Nite in Toronto, guests held their collective breath. Would there be a kiss? Or even a peck? Fans awaited a repeat of the incident when Gere kissed Shetty at an AIDS awareness event a few months ago in New Delhi. But there was no smooch at the Awards to honour Gere for his Indian AIDS foundation work. Mention of the kiss was studiously avoided until Gere himself brought it up, noting that in introducing Shetty, host Ajay Virmani “left out an important part of her career which happened this year. A certain slow dance movement with a certain American movie star.”
Shilpa Shetty presented Richard Gere with the prestigious ‘ONE X ONE Difference Award’ at a charity gala organized by the world famous ‘ONE X ONE Foundation’ to raise funds for awareness in welfare of children, at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, in Toronto, Canada, recently.
The foundation honoured the 57-year-old Gere; a practicing Buddhist, in appreciation of his charity work. In the past, Gere has campaigned for ecological causes, AIDS awareness, to promote peace, justice and understanding, and for the rights and lands of tribal people throughout the world. He helped to establish the ‘AIDS Care Home’ - a residential facility in India for women and children with AIDS, and also created the ‘Gere Foundation India Trust’ to support a variety of humanitarian programs in India.
“Since the award was presented in recognition of individuals around the world, who have dedicated their lives to fighting child poverty and suffering, it was a matter of great prestige for Shilpa to be a part of this event,” commented the actress’s spokesperson Dale Bhagwagar. ….read more
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