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Famous Chef Invincible to Veggies ... and Bullets!

Posted Mar 25th 2008 7:20PM by TMZ Staff

Paul Prudomme Famed Cajun chef Paul Prudhomme was shot today but amazingly the bullet did no damage. All that extra padding finally paid off!

According to reports, Prudhomme was cooking (of course) at a golf course in Louisiana when he felt something hit his arm. That something was a .22 caliber bullet! It didn't even penetrate his skin.

Police had originally classified the incident as a shooting, but then deemed it a simple complaint. They say a .22 caliber bullet can travel almost two miles, so they may never know who fired the shot. Who needs a bulletproof vest, when you got excess skin!

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16. He lost all that weight tru surgery. That is old picture. He is very thin now.

Posted at 7:50PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Dedy

17. Please update his picture to show the new him. He is cute now.

Posted at 7:52PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Dedy

18. Oh my word; bless his heart. I'm so happy he wasn't seriously injured. He is a great chef in New Orleans, and world renowned. And, yes, he certainly is Dom's doppleganger!

Posted at 7:56PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Jennie

19. Double-edged sword, fat, you can absorb and not penetrate, skinny, you are less of a target.....

Posted at 8:15PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Cajun

20. YOUR POLL IS JUST DOWN RIGHT RUDE!

Posted at 8:55PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Me in DC

21. I seriously doubt the bullet did NO damage. Fat doesnt make you bullet proof.

Posted at 10:37PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Karmacidal

22. This is an old photo of the chef...he's had a gastric bypass and is quite thin these days.

Posted at 9:15PM on Mar 25th 2008 by anonymous

23. I always get him confused with Dom DeLuise

Posted at 9:31PM on Mar 25th 2008 by :(

24. One slug hitting another. Did he pick it up and eat it?

Posted at 9:42PM on Mar 25th 2008 by jFp

25. I wonder how many people are not so thick-skinned and not so fortunate in Los Angeles when at all hours of every day and night bullets come down from all the guns fired into the air? And most especially at midnight on New Years Eve! It's been said that there is more damage from falling bullets on New Years Eve in Los Angeles than damage in Los Angeles from hail for a entire year. I would say that city versus city in the falling bullets category, New Orleans does not even rank close to Los Angeles. So the question I would ask here is if it's safer to be skinny or fat in Los Angeles?

Posted at 9:51PM on Mar 25th 2008 by just me

26. Don Prudhomme has some killer sauce i love, it kicks paul newmans sauce all to HELL.

Posted at 9:55PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Cajun/you know who

27. Oh Harvey, Harvey, you know better than to let your staffers put up this BS. Chef Paul is thin now (and BTW everyone, he's from out near Opelousas, not New Orleans). Also, Avondale is in JEFFERSON PARISH, not New Orleans. JP has really gone downhill since Harry Lee died, hasn't it? Finally, that stupid poll question is idiotic and doesn't even make sense.

Quick everyone - to the Northshore!

Posted at 10:01PM on Mar 25th 2008 by LaSugarMama

28. Jefferson parish was one, if not the most hardest hit out of all of Louisiana parishes,(countys) for those that don't understand

Posted at 10:08PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Cajun/you know who

29. Junior Brown.....your wanted by the police, and my wife thinks your dead....song...

Posted at 10:14PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Cajun/you know who

30. 32. Jefferson parish was one, if not the most hardest hit out of all of Louisiana parishes,(countys) for those that don't understand

And Bush was dumbfounded, he blamed Saddam

Posted at 10:17PM on Mar 25th 2008 by CrabbyPantz

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