Parminder Nagra PREGNANT!

Also several days late is a report from The National Enquirer that Parminder Nagra is PREGNANT.

Apparently Parminder Nagra's boyfriend and baby daddy is a photographer named James Stenson.

The National Enquirer article describes Parminder's family as "Orthodox Sikh" and I'm counting on the Malaysian Indian contingent to leave comments on this entry to explain precisely how upset her family might be by this turn of events.

Of course by American standards this is hardly even news.

The story goes on to report that the pregnancy will not be passed on to Parminder Nagra's ER character, Dr. Neela Rasgotra. Apparently the DP is going to be using techniques first mastered during The Cosby Show when Phylicia Rashad's pregnancy was hidden from the camera so as to - I presume - prevent the Huxtable family from taking on a formation significantly different from the real-life family of Bill Cosby.

Not mentioned in this article is when Parminder Nagra's baby is due nor any mention if The Dean of Cincinnati will be petitioning the media about not referring to the baby as Punjabi, British, or anything else of ethnic IMPORT ...

UPDATE: A Daily Mail article reports Parminder Nagra is four months pregnant, and plans to marry baby daddy James Stenson before the baby is born.

That would make the baby due - what? - tail end of April? Guess poor Minder is going to miss some of the ER series-end festivities.

Related:
James Stenson Photography
ER Star Parminder Nagra Pregnant With First Child - US Magazine

Esther Mira To Play Parminder Nagra Body Double

I tell you Google Alerts is a fascinating thing.

Today's truly fascinating bit of info is some apparently aspiring actress named Esther Mira posted a quite authentic sounding blog that she has a gig starting tomorrow playing Parminder Nagra's body double for an episode of E.R.

Wait a minute ...

This is MAJOR news.

This means:

1) E.R. is filming again.

2) The character is Neela Rasgotra is going to do something where she NEEDS a body double.

Crankshaft will be so excited by this news she may actually soil herself.

Yes, a cursory examination would tend to indicate, depending on the lighting, that Esther Mira could do a body double for Parminder Nagra - although Esther looks quite a bit lighter and taller than Minder.

Yes ... hopefully Esther will be able to tell us when this episode is airing she is filming tomorrow ...

Remember ... you heard it here first, folks! :)

Parminder Nagra Is 32 Today

Now I think they said last week Neela Rasgotra is only 29 ...

How'd that happen???

Parminder Nagra Back - And Under Duress

For the maybe two or three of you who might not know, the season premiere of ER is on tonight at 10pm - on WLWT, Channel 5 here in Cincinnati.

Some of us will actually get to watch it in HD.

Apparently "Access Hollywood" did an interview with Parminder Nagra that is running on the MSNBC site.

The main piece of plot for tonight involves Parminder Nagra's character, Dr. Neela Rasgotra, getting hauled into the E.R. with very critical injuries after having been trampled at an anti-war rally.

Access Hollywood is also running a really great set of Parminder Nagra photos.

Ah, yes, now that first-run episodes of ER are back on the year we may begin to follow Minder's career much more closely again ... :)

Oh, and speaking of NBC, if you can stay awake through the whole thing, a relatively high quality feed of the first episode of the new Bionic Woman show is available on NBC's web site ...

Related:
Q & A: Parminder Nagra Talks 'ER,' 'Bionic' Brits & Beckham! - Access Hollywood
ER Live Blog - NBC
Bastardly Breaking News! Indian Parminder Nagra has a White Boyfriend!! - Bastardly