Busnesswoman Maureen Wadia has slapped a show cause notice on Dimpy Ganguly for breaking an exclusive contract with Gladrags and taking part in a TV reality show. The Kolkata-based model is tipped to win the reality show on NDTV Imagine where the winner will get to marry Rahul Mahajan — son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan. The finale of the show airs tonight.
In a terse letter sent to the channel, Maureen has said that Dimpy had kept both her and the channel in the dark about her contract that prevented her from taking part in any TV show.
“She (Dimpy) has always been a problem child and had scant regard for discipline. We (the Gladrags Mega Model Hunt organisers) had a very tough time managing her. There were incidents where she would vanish at 3am and emerge a couple of hours later. Then she would say with a straight face that she had gone to meet a friend in Malad. Imagine a girl, who had come to Mumbai for the first time, going to Malad from Wadala at 3am just to meet friends! And now, I see the same girl turning coy, flirting with Rahul left, right and centre and promising to be a good wife,” says an irked Maureen.
The TV channel admitted that they have received the letter from Maureen. However, they expressed surprise. They said, “We were surprised to hear about this matter three weeks after our show was launched. The show was launched on February 1, 2010. We received the first communication from Gladrags on February 22, 2010, mentioning about their contract with Dimpy Ganguly.”
They also said that the beauty pageant in which Dimpy took part, was aired on the same channel.
“Gladrags and Imagine have had a long-standing relationship. So we are in touch with Gladrags on this matter and remain committed to resolving it amicably and expeditiously,” says an official statement from the TV channel.
But that hasn’t pacified Maureen a bit. She says, “I don’t know how someone who lies like this will make a good wife. I would have been happy to let her do anything had she asked me once. I am really pained to see girls like her suffer from what I call ‘fame amnesia’. Some people are so desperate for fame and publicity that they keep on lying like this. I gave her centrestage, groomed her and now she has turned her back and lied to me. I have also sent a letter to her father in Kolkata but I am yet to get a reply.”
