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Chili Pepper warms up Heidi

Just days after announcing her separation from hairdresser hubby Ric Pipino, hardbodied Heidi Klum sought solace in the tattooed arms of Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis.

The Victoria's Secret stunner jetted to Australia last week to rendezvous with Kiedis, whose band was on tour there. Klum spent Friday riding on the back of Kiedis' brand-new silver Harley-Davidson around Sydney and Bondi Beach. In Bondi, the couple were spotted cuddling and kissing in a cafe.

"They weren't looking at the view, that's for sure," one source clucked to Sydney's Daily Telegraph.

After their canoodle session, Klum and Kiedis jumped on his Harley and sped back to their hotel when it started to rain. On Thanksgiving night, Klum, 29, and Kiedis, 40, ditched the rest of the band to take a romantic twilight bridge climb.

An Aussie paparazzo snapped pictures of the touchy-feely twosome, and the photos have been snapped up by Us Weekly and People for big bucks.

When we called Pipino, 43, at his salon at the Shore Club Hotel in Miami Beach, the cuckolded clipper referred us to Klum's New York publicist Desiree Gruber, who declined comment.

On Nov. 25, Gruber announced that Klum and her hubby of five years had undergone a "mutual and amicable" split and had not divorced.

Kiedis has a reputation of plowing through models like party snacks. He was once hot and heavy with Revlon stunner Jaime Rishar. And last July, a PAGE SIX spy spotted 18-year-old model Ardasha Benjamin leaving the Mercer Hotel on Kiedis' arm the morning after the Chili Peppers played Ellis Island.

At the time, Kiedis was still reeling from the collape of his four-year relationship with girlfriend Yohanna Logan. The breakup inspired some of the melancholy melodies on the band's latest album, "By the Way." Kiedis has blamed the bust-up on his desire to have kids and Logan's wanting to wait.

"As much as I was in love with my girlfriend," he told reporters while promoting the album, "I was kind of dissatisfied that it [the marriage] wasn't moving to the place where a family could come out of it."

But even if Kiedis gets serious with Klum, we wonder if the lingerie lovely would want to jeopardize her perfect figure. Nicknamed "The Body" for her ample curves, the German juggernaut earned $4.5 million in modeling fees last year alone.