Slumdog Millionaire co-stars dated for around 6 years.
By The American Bazaar Staff
WASHINGTON, DC: Whether it was that late night party on her 30th birthday with Siddharth ‘Sid’ Mallya, the scion of liquor baron Vijay Mallya, where she enacted an energetic pole dance on a parking meter outside a strip club in Los Angeles for him, or frayed relations over a period of time, one will not come to know, at least for some time: but for now, Freida Pinto and Dev Patel are not a couple anymore.
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The Slumdog Millionaire costars Pinto and Patel have called it quits on their relationship, multiple sources confirmed to Us Weekly. The now-exes, who met on set of the Oscar-winning movie in 2008, were together for almost six years.
“Dev and Freida have broken up,” one source said. “They have been done for a while.”
“Freida is single and happy,” another source told Us. “Friends are setting her up.”
Wonder though if she needs ‘setting up’, if Sid Mallya’s able shoulders are there to support her in this time of grief. Pinto had stated that she was not dating Mallya, however, in recent reports.
During happier times, the Pinto and Patel considered themselves “soul mates” — in Patel’s case, even before they were dating. “We’re soul mates because we’re both in this surreal situation. She is very beautiful… I haven’t got a girlfriend but Freida, my costar, is gorgeous,” the Newsroom star, 24, told Contact Music in 2008. Years later, during a chat with Interview mag, Pinto agreed: “I guess he was right in a way; we are soul mates.”
The couple were so in love, in fact, that last year, they told Us Weekly they don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day because “every day should be a celebration of love.”
Prior to dating Patel, Pinto was engaged to her former publicist Rohan Antao until January 2009.