Prude across the country have reason to worry. The 'peck-on-the-neck' duo are coming face to face again in Toronto tomorrow.

Bollywood sultry siren Shilpa Shetty and Hollywood star Richard Gere will be together in Toronto where the leggy lass will be handing a prize to the 58-year-old actor for his work in a function organised by 'One X One Foundation', a charity organisation, and this once again is giving the prigs in India sleepless nights.

To a query whether the duo would do an encore when they meet in Toronto and whether Gere and she would be greeting each other as warmly as they did earlier, Shilpa, who was in town on Thursday to strut the catwalk during the ongoing Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, laughing off all speculation regarding the event told that '' Even if I breathe deeply these days, the media makes news out of it''.

Gere had raised the hackles of a bogey of puritans and sparked protests in India when he embraced Shilpa and repeatedly planted kisses on her cheeks in front of 4,000 truckers during an AIDS awareness programme in the national capital in April this year.

He later described the incident as a failed parody of a move from his film 'Shall We Dance', and ''a naive misread of Indian customs''.

Many had seen the act as an outrage against Shetty's modesty and Indian culture, though she herself had angrily dismissed the protests as an ''over-reaction'' that made India look silly.

Gere's 'not-in-time' apology had failed to pacify hard-line groups in whose memory the incident is still fresh and who are still smarting from what they called a total violation of obscenity laws of the country.

Under Indian law, a person convicted of public obscenity faces up to three months in prison, a fine, or both. Shilpa won international fame when she won the British reality show 'Celebrity Big Brother' this year.

Besides the duo, pop singers Shakira, Wyclef Jean and academy award winner Matt Damon will also participate in the event.

Shilpa is also reportedly coming up with a video in which she is seen to be promoting yoga, but the video might not find favour in Britain as two churches in London have already banned the ancient practice branding it as ''un-Christian and a sham''.

Regarding the potential controversy, the damsel said,'' I don't find anything wrong with yoga, and I don't think the matter will stretch any further than it already has.''