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Bigg Boss

Bigg Boss 10 logo

Network

Channels

Sony TV
Colors

200607
2008
present
Presenters

Current presenters

Salman Khan

2010
present
Former presenters

Farah Khan
Sanjay Dutt
Amitabh Bachchan

2015
2011
2009

Shilpa Shetty
Arshad Warsi

2008
2006
Shows

Editions

Bigg Boss

2006
present
Current shows

Weekend Ka Vaar

2014
present
Former shows

Janta Ka Faisla
Aapka Faisla
Desh Ka Aadesh
Aakri Salaam
Aapka Farmaan
Jumme Ki Raat Salman Ke Saath /
Super Saturday with Salman
Weekend Ka Wow
Weeked Ka Halla Boll

200607
2008
2009
201011
201112
201213
2013
201415

Seasons

Current season

Bigg Boss 10 Housemates

In the House:

Gurbani Judge
Gaurav Chopra
Karan Mehra
Lokesh Kumari Sharma
Lopamudra Raut
Manoj Punjabi
Manveer Gurjar
Monalisa
Nitibha Kaul
Rahul Dev
Rohan Mehra

S Sadachari Saibaba Omji

Out of the House:

Housemates were evicted unless noted.

Navin Prakash (Day 28)

Akanksha Sharma (Day 14)

Priyanka Jagga (Day 7)

Previous season

Bigg Boss 9
Winner: Prince Narula
Runner-up: Rishabh Sinha
Others:Mandana Karimi, Rochelle Maria Rao, Keith Sequeira,
Priya Malik, Kishwar Merchant(walk), Suyyash Rai, Nora
Fatehi, Gizele Thakral, Kawaljit Singh, Digangana
Suryavanshi, Rimi Sen, Aman Yatin Verma, Puneet Vashishtha,
Yuvika Chaudhary, Vikas Bhalla, Arvind Vegda, Roopal Tyagi,
Ankit Gera

Bigg Boss Halla Bol

Winner: Gautam Gulati
Runner-up: Karishma Tanna
Others: Pritam Singh (walked), Ali Quli Mirza, Dimpy Mahajan,
Sambhavna Seth, Rahul Mahajan, Mahek Chahal, Sana Khan,
Ajaz Khan (ejected)

Bigg Boss 8
Champions: Ali Quli Mirza, Dimpy Mahajan,
Gautam Gulati, Karishma Tanna, Pritam Singh
Others: Puneet Issar, Sonali Raut, Upen Patel, Praneet Bhat,
Diandra Soares, Ranee Dhyani, Nigaar Khan, Arya Babbar,
Sushant Divgikar, Minissha Lamba, Soni Singh, Natasa
Stankovic, Deepshikha Sukirti Kandpal

Bigg Boss 7
Winner: Gauhar Khan
Runner-up: Tanisha Mukherjee
Others: Ajaz Khan, Sangram Singh, VJ Andy, Armaan Kohli,
Kushal Tandon, Kamya Punjabi, Sofia Hayat, Elli Avram,
Pratyusha Banerjee, Candy Brar, Apurva Agnihotri, Asif Azim,
Vivek Mishra Shilpa Saklani, Ratan Rajput, Anita Advani,
Rajat Rawail, Hazel Keech

Bigg Boss 6
Winner: Urvashi Dholakia
Runner-up: Imam Siddiqui
Others: Sana Khan , Niketan Madhok, Rajev Paul, Delnaaz
Irani , Sapna Bhavnani, Aashka Goradia, Karishma Kotak,
Vishal Karwal, Santosh Shukla, Dinesh Lal Yadav, Mink Brar,
Vrajesh Hirjee, Navjot Singh Sidhu (walked), Sampat Pal Devi,

Aseem Trivedi, Sayantani Ghosh, Kashif Qureshi

Bigg Boss 5
Winner: Juhi Parmar
Runner-up: Mahek Chahal
Others: Siddharth Bhardwaj , Akashdeep Saighal, Amar
Upadhyay, Sunny Leone , Pooja Misrra (ejected), Shonali
Nagrani, Shraddha Sharma, Pooja Bedi, Vida Samadzai, Laxmi
Narayan, Mandeep Bevli, Shakti Kapoor, Raageshwari, Gulabo
Sapera, Sonika Kaliraman, Nihita Biswas

Bigg Boss 4
Winner: Shweta Tiwari
Runner-up: Khali
Others: Ashmit Patel, Dolly Bindra, Samir Soni, Veena Malik,
Sara Khan, Seema Parihar, Manoj Tiwari, Hrishant Goswami,
Aanchal Kumar, Rahul Bhatt, Begum Nawazish, Sakshi
Pradhan, Abbas Kazmi, Devender (ejected)

Bigg Boss 3
Winner: Vindu Dara Singh
Runner-up: Pravesh Rana
Others: Poonam Dhillon, Bhakhtiyaar M Irani (walked), Aditi
Govitrikar, Claudia Ciesla, Raju Srivastav, Rohit Verma, Vinod
Kambli, Shamita Shetty (walked), Tanaaz Irani, Ismail Darbar,
Sherlyn Chopra, Kamal Rashid Khan (ejected), Jaya Sawant

Bigg Boss 2
Winner: Ashutosh Kaushik
Runner-up: Raja Choudhary
Others: Zulfi Syed, Rahul Mahajan (walked), Monica Bedi,
Diana Hayden, Debojit Saha, Ahsaan Qureshi, Payal Rohatgi,
Sambhavana Seth, Alina Wadiwala, Ketaki Dave, Rakhee
Tandon, Sanjay Nirupam, Jade Goody (walked)

Bigg Boss 1
Winner: Rahul Roy
Runner-up: Carol Gracias
Others: Ravi Kissen, Rakhi Sawant, Amit Sadh, Roopali
Ganguly, Baba Sehgal, Ragini Shetty, Deepak Tijori, Anupama
Verma, Aryan Vaid, Kashmira Shah, Deepak Parashar, Bobby
Darling, Salil Ankola (ejected)
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Bigg Boss is a television reality show broadcast on Colors channel in India. It follows
the Big Brother format, which was first developed by Endemol in the Netherlands.
Within a span of 10 years of telecast, Bigg Boss has rolled out 9 Seasons and one
spin-off version thus establishing itself as one of the most popular Reality TV Series
in India.

Contents

1 Concept
o 1.1 The house
o 1.2 Rules
2 Airing
3 Series details
4 Housemate pattern
5 Controversies
o 5.1 Season 4
o 5.2 Season 6
6 Guests appearances
7 References

Concept
Bigg Boss is a reality show based on the original Dutch Big Brother format developed
by John de Mol. A number of contestants (known as "housemates") live in a purposebuilt house and are isolated from the rest of the world. Each week, housemates
nominate two of their peers for eviction, and the housemates who receives the most
nominations would face a public vote. Of these, one would eventually leave, having
been "evicted" from the House. However, there were exceptions to this process as
dictated by Bigg Boss. In the final week, there were three housemates remaining, and
the public voted for who they wanted to win. The housemates in the Indian version
are primarily celebrities with the exception of one who is a non-celebrity selected via
auditions. Housemates are overseen by a mysterious person known as 'Bigg Boss',
whose only presence in the house is through his voice.[1]

The house
A Bigg Boss House is built for every season. The house was earlier located in the
tourist place of Lonavla, Pune district of Maharashtra, however the house for the fifth
season was located ND Studios in Karjat.[2][3] The house is well-furnished and
decorated. It has all kinds of modern amenities, but just one or two bedrooms and four
toilet bath rooms. There is a garden, pool, activity area and gym in the House. There
is also a Confession Room, where the housemates may be called in by Bigg Boss for
any kind of conversation, and for the nomination process.[4]
The House has no TV connection, no telephones, no Internet connection, clocks, pen
or paper.[1]

Rules

While all the rules have never been told to the audience, the most prominent ones are
clearly seen. The inmates are not permitted to talk in any other language than Hindi.
They are not supposed to tamper with any of the electronic equipment or any other
thing in the House. They cannot leave the House premises at any time except when
permitted to. They cannot discuss the nomination process with anyone.[5] They cannot
sleep in day time.
Sometimes, the housemates may be nominated for other reasons, such as nomination
by a person who has achieved special privileges (via tasks or other things), for
breaking rules or something else. If something is very serious, a contestant may be
evicted directly.[6]

Airing
The main television coverage takes the form of a daily highlights programme and the
weekly eviction show on Fridays that are aired on Colors TV, while the first season
was aired on Sony TV.[7] Everyday's episodes contain the main happenings of the
previous day. Every Saturday episode mainly focuses on an interview of the evicted
contestant by the host. The episode on Sunday, named differently across seasons,
contains extra footage of the week, which was not included in any episode.

Series details
TRP
Seaso Main Launch Finale Day Housema
Prize Winne
Laun Final Avera
n
host
date
date
s
tes
money
r
ch
e
ge
3
26
Arshad Novem
Rahul
1
January 86
2.36[8] 2.87 2.72
Warsi
ber
Roy
2007
2006
22
Ashuto
17
Shilpa
Novem
sh
2
August
98
15
2.42[9] 3.02 2.89
Shetty
ber
Kaushi
2008
2008
k
1 crore
Amitab
4
26
(US$150,0 Vindu
h
1.96[10
3
October Decemb 84
3.06
2.83
00)
Dara
]
Bachch
2009 er 2009
Singh
an
3
8
Salman
6.70[1
Shweta
4
October January 96
16
3.60[8] 1] 5.15[12]
Khan
Tiwari
2010
2011
2
7
Sanjay
4.30[13
Juhi
5
October
January
98
18
3.97 4.19[14]
]
Dutt[1]
Parmar
2011
2012
6 Salman
7
12
97
19
3.21[15 4.40[1 3.81[17] 50 lakh Urvash
]
6]
Khan October January
(US$74,00
i
2012
2013
0)
Dholak
ia

15
28
Septem
3.85[18 4.80[1
Gauaha
7
Decemb 105
20
4.32[20]
]
9]
ber
r Khan
er 2013
2013
21
Declar
3
Septem
3.74[2
ed on
8
January 105
19
3.80 1] 3.77[22]
ber
Halla
2015
2014
Bol[2]
3
31
Gauta
Halla Farah
3.74[21 2.82[2
[23]
January January 28
10
3.28
m
]
3]
Bol Khan
2015
2015
Gulati
11
23
Prince
9
October January 105
20
2.90
Narula
2016
Salman 2015
Khan
16
TB
10
October TBA
15
TBA
A
2016
Highest viewing figures.
Lowest viewing figures.
1. ^ Although Sanjay Dutt was the main host of season 5, Salman Khan also
hosted a few eviction episodes with him including the opening & finale
episodes.
2. ^ Bigg Boss 8 was merged with its spin-off series Bigg Boss Halla Bol! and
hence, there was no particular winner of this season. Although on the finale
day, the five finalists were declared as "The Champions", who continued
their journey as contestants in the spin-off series, against some ex-contestants
from previous seasons.

Housemate pattern
Seaso Season Season Seaso
Season Season Seaso Season Season
Season 5
n1
2
3
n4
6
7
n8
9
10
Politically
Sampa
Sanjay
Seema None
None
acclaimed
t
Siddhart
None
Reality None
Mink
Renee
VJ Bani
Ashutos
Sakshi
h
show
Ratan
Prince
h
P.
Alumni
Pooja M. Vishal
Dimpy
Sahil
Andy
Kanwalj
LGBT Bobby None
Rohit Begum Laxmi Imam
Vivek Sushan eet
t
Shonali
Pageant
Gauah
Rochell Lopamu
Aryan Diana Aditi None
None
winner
ar
e
dra Raut
Vida
Deven
On the
Monica
der
Wrong
Aseem
Aman
None
None
None
None
Side of
Rahul
Abbas
the Law
M.
Hazel Natasa
Rakhi Sambha
Item girl
Sherlyn Veena Mahek Sana Gauah
Nora
S.
vna
ar
Internati None
Jade Claudia Veena Sunny
Elli
Mandan
None
onal star
a
Begum
Sofia
Clique

Anupa
Zulfi
Seasoned ma
model
Carol Payal

Amit

Ketaki

None

Aanch
Niketa
Diandr
al
n
a
Shraddha
Asif
Hrisha
Karish
Sonali
nt
ma K.

Bakhtiy Shwet
aar
a

Juhi

Aashk
Gauta
Shilpa
a
m

Sayant
Kamya
ani
Urvash
Kushal
i
Roopal
Rakhi T. Tanaaz Sara
Amar
i
Pratyu
Rajev
sha
Raagesh
Singer Baba Debojit Ismail Manoj
None
wari
Sportsper
Sangra
Salil
Vinod Khali Sonika Sidhu
None
son
m
Soap
actor

Karish
Roopal Karan
ma T.
Suyyash Rohan
Sukirti
Vikas
Pranee
Kishwar
t
Ali
Arvind
Quli
None

Ashmi Akashde
Tanish Sonali
Dinesh
t
ep
aa
Arya
Deepa
Delnaa Armaa
Film star
Raja Poonam Samir Shakti
Upen
k T.
z
n
Apurv Miniss
Kashm Sambha
Sayant
a
ha
Vindu Dolly Pooja B.
ira
vna
ani
Ajaz Puneet
Comedia
Vrajes
Ahsaan Raju Veena
Rajat Pritam
None
None
n
h
Ravi

Payal Shamita

NonRagini Alina Pravesh

celebrity

None

Nihita Kashif Anita

Diganga
na
Gaurav
Ankit

None

Aman

Rahul
Dev

Rimi
Yuvika
Vikas
Keith
None

Swami
Om,
Nitibha
Kaul,
Manu
Punjabi,
Priyank
a Jagga,
Priya
Manvee
Malik
r Gujjar,
Lokesh
Kumari,
Naveen
Prakash,
Akanks
ha
Sharma

Controversies
Season 4

During the fourth season, TV actress Sara Khan, openly objected to the Bigg
Boss' behaviour towards fellow-housemate Dolly Bindra. Ever since Dolly

Bindra re-entered the house, there had been quite a bit of a change in her
stance and attitude towards the inmates of the house. Dolly became quite
polite and got some benefits like she was made the queen immediately after
she re-entered, thereby enabling her to get certain benefits that the others
couldn't even dream of. Thus, with almost everyone quite flabbergasted, Sara
protested against partiality towards Dolly. Sara kept on complaining that 'Bigg
Boss' was not fair at which Samir Soni, who too, had re-entered agreed with
what Sara had to say. Sara was later strictly warned by the Bigg Boss and host
Salman Khan regarding these vague accusations.[24]

Season 6

Soon after the entry of Kashif Qureshi, a common man chosen via auditions
held across India, as an inmate of the house the whole exercise of selecting an
unknown person to be part of Bigg Boss seemed to have come into question
and has been reportedly a planned one. After Kashif was selected from the
three short-listed hopefuls to enter the house the media scrutinized every detail
that linked to Kashif's background. Unexpectedly Qureshi was found to
personally know Salman Khan since he was shooting Wanted.[25]

Guests appearances
Celebrity guests to appear on the series include:
Inhabitant
Nation of origin Season Days
Ali Merchant
India
4
11
Pamela Anderson
Canada
4
3
Swami Agnivesh
India
5
3
Andrew Symonds
Australia
5
7
Yamamotoyama
Japan
5
1
Jyoti Amge
India
6
3

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"What the Bigg Boss house is going to be like this season". Rediff.com Movies.
30 September 2011. Retrieved 2014-09-03.
"Shweta gets b'day suprise [sic] on Bigg Boss". MiD DAY. 5 Oct 2010.
Retrieved 2014-09-03.
Rajul Hegde (8 October 2009). "What really goes on in Bigg Boss house?".
Rediff. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
Malvika Nanda (9 October 2010). "Lights or not, camera, action". Hindustan
Times. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 20 December
2010.
"Bigg Boss casts out violent Khan". Daily News and Analysis. 22 October
2009. Retrieved 2 January 2011.

 "Sony, Endemol lock horns over Big Boss". Business-Standard. Retrieved 20

December 2010.
Sharmistha Mukherjee (7 October 2010). "Bigg Boss 4: Salman Khan scores
over Amitabh Bachchan". Retrieved 18 December 2015.
BS Reporter (18 September 2012). "Colors bets big on Bigg Boss". Retrieved
18 December 2015.
Ashish Sinha (6 October 2009). "Big B fails to boost Bigg Boss 3 inaugural
ratings". Retrieved 18 December 2015.
"Indian Television Dot Com Bigg Boss 4 ends on a high note with 6.7 TVR".
Indian Television Dot Com. 12 January 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
Swarup Chakraborty (13 October 2010). "KBC-4 opens far better than other
reality shows". Retrieved 18 December 2015.
"KBC 5 dominates Bigg Boss 5 in TRP ratings". Retrieved 18 December 2015.
"Bigg Boss 5: Pooja Missra thrown out". The Times of India. Retrieved 18
December 2015.
Gaurav Laghate (17 October 2012). "Bigg Boss gets the biggest jolt as TAM
defers ratings data". Retrieved 18 December 2015.
"Indian Television Dot Com Bigg Boss 6 lifts Colors ahead of Star Plus".
Indian Television Dot Com. 16 January 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
BS Reporter (21 January 2013). "Bigg Boss' sixth season fares better than
previous run". Retrieved 18 December 2015.
"GEC Watch: Mahabharat gets epic start; Bigg Boss pushes Colors up".
Retrieved 18 December 2015.
"TRP Ratings from 8th December 2013 to 14th December 2013 (Week 50)
Telly TRP". Retrieved 18 December 2015.
"TRP Ratings from 24th December 2013 to 30th December 2013 (Week 52)
Telly TRP". Retrieved 18 December 2015.
"'Satyamev Jayate 3' has Better TRP Ratings than 'Bigg Boss 8': Aamir Khan
Beats Salman". International Business Times, India Edition. 13 November 2014.
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"Is Bigg Boss 8 Boring? TRPs Suggest Nobodys Watching NDTV Movies".
NDTVMovies.com. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
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1.
"Bigg Boss 6: Common man Kashif Qureshi's entry courtesy
Salman Khan?". Zee News. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

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Juhi Parmar
Urvashi Dholakia
Gauahar Khan
Gautam Gulati

Prince Narula

Veena Malik
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Rochelle Maria Rao
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Gautam Gulati
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Rahul Mahajan
Shweta Tiwari
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Imam Siddique
Rakhi Sawant
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Ajaz Khan

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