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    Fast food burgers never had it so good. Check out Top Chef hot host Padma Lakshmi devouring a Hardee's Western Bacon Thickburger quite ravenously in the new ad. Way to lick Padma!
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Top Chef is so tantalizing it would probably be a hit even without sexy host Padma Lakshmi.
But fast-food burgers never had it so good. Talk about a lucky Hardee's Western Bacon Thickburger!

    

Check out Padma Lakshmi devouring it quite ravenously in the new clip:
 
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'Top Chef's' Padma Lakshmi Makes Eating a Burger Hotter than Sex!

Fast food burgers never had it so good. Check out Top Chef hot host Padma Lakshmi devouring a Hardee's Western Bacon Thickburger quite ravenously in the new ad. Way to lick Padma!

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