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Bigg Boss: Quick recap of the past episodes, winners, controversies

Since its first season in 2006, reality show Big Boss had always been a hit on Indian Television, with people staying curious about what the show has kept in store for its next update.

The 10th season of the controversial reality show is set to be premiered on October 16 at 9 pm on the Colors channel. (PTI)
The 10th season of the controversial reality show is set to be premiered on October 16 at 9 pm on the Colors channel. (PTI)

Since its first season in 2006, reality show Bigg Boss had always been a hit on Indian Television, with people staying curious about what the show has kept in store for its next update. In its latest trailer, the television show hosted by Salman Khan, hinted that this year in ‘Big Boss 10’, along with well known celebrities, a lot of commoners will also participate. And as the 10th season of the controversial reality show is set to be premiered on October 16 at 9 pm on the Colors channel, here is a quick recap of the previous 9 seasons, their participants, winners, and the most controversial happenings.

Season 1:

Winner: Rahul Roy

The season is well-remembered for the constant catfights between Rakhi Sawant and Kashmira Shah, who were busy competing each other to add more spice to the show. Also a silly fight between Rakhi and actor Amit Sadh also added glamor to the season.

Popular participants: Rakhi Sawant, Ravi Kishan, Carol Gracias, Amit Sadh, Baba Sehgal, Deepak Tijori, Anupama Verma, Kashmira Shah and Bobby Darling.

Season 2:

Winner: Ashutosh Kaushik

The love triangle between Payal Rohatgi, Rahul Mahajan and Monica Bedi was the major spice of the show. Also the pairing up of Raja Choudhary, Sambhavana Seth, who had allegedly kissed during the season, made the show controversially popular among its viewers.

Popular participants: Jade Goody, Diana Hayden, Monica Bedi, Payal Rohatgi, Rahul Mahajan, Raja Choudhary, Sambhavana Seth and Zulfi Syed.

Season 3:

Winner: Vindu Dara Singh

Kamal R Khan being thrown out of the show after throwing a bottle at Rohit Verma, and again returning as a changed man, made this season a treat for its viewers. Also Shamita Shetty quitting the show, because of her sister Shilpa Shetty’s wedding, added flavor to the show.

Popular participants: KRK, Shamita Shetty, Tanaaz and Bakhtiyaar Irani, Rohit Verma, Sherlyn Chopra, Raju Srivastav, Poonam Dhillon, Claudia Ciesla and Pravesh Rana.

Season 4:

Winner: Shweta Tiwari

Sara Khan’s TRP stunt showing a made-up weddding with her then boyfriend Ali Merchant and actors Ashmit Patel & Venna Mallik passing messages, waiting for the night to get intimate were the major spices of season 4. The season was even more spiced up with Dolly Bindra ‘Baap pe mat jana’ brawl with Manoj Tiwari, over a few eggs in the kitchen. And most of all Dolly’s actual physical fight, leaving participant Shweta with bruises, made the show a treat for the viewers.

Popular participants: Ashmit Patel, Veena Malik, Dolly Bindra Aanchal Kumar, Manoj Tiwari, Samir Soni, Sara Khan and Rahul Bhatt, along with Khali and Pamela Anderson as guests.

Season 5:

Winner: Juhi Parmar

The season is remembered for Pooja Missra’s fight with almost all the participants of the show, specially when she slammed the door at Siddharth Bhardwaj. Also Akashdeep Saigal’s fight with Mahek Chahal after he accused the host, Salman Khan of favouritism, spiced up the show. In this season filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt stepped into the Big Boss house and offered Sunny Leone her debut film Jism 2.

Popular participants: Sunny Leone, Pooja Misrra, Shakti Kapoor, Pooja Bedi, Raageshwari, Mahek Chahal, Akashdeep Saigal and Siddharth Bhardwaj.

Season 6:

Winner: Urvashi Dholakia

Iman Siddique was the key controvery of this season, specially his face-off with Urvasi, the weird body suit he wore after a fight and also his claim that Salman Khan owes his money. Also Sapna Bhavnani’s claim, that Salman Khan was a serial women-beater, also spiced up the show.

Popular participants: Navjot Singh Sidhu, Imam Siddique, Sapna Bhavnani, Delnaaz Irani, Rajiv Paul, Aashka Goradia, Sayantani Ghosh and Sana Khan.

Season 7:

Winner: Gauahar Khan

Romances between Kushal Tandan & Gauahar and Tanisha Mukherjee and Arman Kohli were the major flavours of Season 7. In this season, host Salman Khan was seen biased for Tanisha Mukherjee and Elli Avram. The season got more attraction afte, Sofia Hayat filed an FIR against Armaan Kohli after he accidentally hit the actress.

Popular participants: Kushal Tandon, Tanisha Mukherjee, Armaan Kohli, VJ Andy, Pratyusha Banerjee, Kamya Punjabi, Sangram Singh, Elli Avram, Sofia Hayat, Ajaz Khan and Hazel Keech.

Season 8:

Winner: Gautam Gulati

The major controversy of the Season 8 was Gautam and Diandra’s intimacy under sheet and Diandra allegedly getting pregnant during the season. Arya Babbar confession that he and Minissha Lamba were exes also beefed up the shows TRP.

Popular participants: Karishma Tanna, Upen Patel, Diandra Soares, Arya Babbar, Minissha Lamba, Puneet Issar, Ali Quli Mirza, Dimpy Ganguli and Sushant Divgikar.

Season 9:

Winner: Prince Narula

Two major romances of Suyyash-Kishwer and Keith-Rochelle were the major spices of this season. Also Rishabh Sinha’s daily challenges to Prince kept viewers stay curious for the next episodes.

Popular participants: Rimi Sen, Kishwer Merchant, Suyyash Rai, Mandana Karimi, Yuvika Chaudhary, Aman Verma, Rochelle Rao, Keith Sequeira, Rishabh Sinha, Priya Malik, Nora Fatehi.

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First published on: 12-10-2016 at 03:00 IST
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