Shilpa Shetty - The Queen of Rajasthan Royals

She's a well known Bollywood actress.
She's the winner of Big Brother.
She's got a DVD in which she teaches Yoga.

And now...

She's the owner of the Rajasthan Royals, the IPL Champions.
She's got a perfume named after her.

Shilpa Shetty, along with her partner (read boy friend), Raj Kundra, has bought a 12% stake in the franchise from Emerging Media, who bought the franchise last year for US$ 67 million.

She and her partner dished out Us$ 15.4 million for the 12% stake. That's more than double what Emerging Media paid for it. Some valuation that. Big profit already.

More importantly, move over Priety Zinta, the IPL has a new beauty!


Shane Warne has a new boss; Indian actress Shilpa Shetty.

Great news for Rajasthan’s chances of back to back IPL titles as nothing motivates Shane like an impossible challenge.

Apparently, she has a boyfriend but once Shane pours on the charm, bowls a few flippers and flexs the text finger, the poor bloke will be spun out the door before you can say Howzat!

It is a cunning move by the owners of the Royals for Shane has little to prove to the world from a cricketing sense but with Shilpa in the sheds he’ll be at the top of his game in an all out effort to seduce the lovely lass from Mangalore.

Shane will be renewing his gym membership for the first time in years and that Shilpa will be getting half hour updates, via text naturally, of the Raja boys progress at training.

The other teams in the IPL should beware. Warnie has a new mission and as we all know, when motivated the man is a mystery, a magician, a libido on legs without inhibition, a proven matchwinning genius who also has an empty soft leather passenger seat in his flame red Maserati.