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Bigg Boss Ott 3 Confirmed By The Makers Amidst Cancellation Rumors ( Photo Credit – JioCinema )

Recently, it was rumored that Bigg Boss Ott 3 might not make it this time since the buzz for the show was very low. However, it seems that the show is ready to roll, and the makers have also dropped a hint on their Instagram channel.

A picture of Salman Khan was shared along with Bb Ott S3 graphics, and fans were asked their choice of contestants. A lot of names revolved around the current season of Splitsvilla and its contestants, Siwet, Digvijay, and others since the show is produced by Endemol as well.

A lot of comments were regarding former Splitsvilla and Roadies contestant Hamid Barkzi. Many demanded the return of Aashika Bhatia and reasoned that the TV star and social media influencer deserved a chance.

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Actress Aashika Bhatia, who made her Bollywood debut with Salman Khan’s 2015 box-office hit ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’, recently opened up about her plans to do more work in Bollywood. Speaking about the same, Aashika shares about how the character offered to her matters: “I focus on portraying my talent. I will do films where I get to play a strong character. I would love to play a character based on my personality.”

Answering if she feels the pressure after being part of a blockbuster like ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’, the actress confidently replies: “I don’t think that working on a film like Prem Ratan Dhan Payo has added a pressure on me to do better things. But it has surely motivated me to do more such projects and I think that’s nice.”

Aashika also revealed about her openness to working in web-series which appear to be the...

Actress Aashika Bhatia, who made her Bollywood debut with Salman Khan’s 2015 box-office hit ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’, recently opened up about her plans to do more work in Bollywood. Speaking about the same, Aashika shares about how the character offered to her matters: “I focus on portraying my talent. I will do films where I get to play a strong character. I would love to play a character based on my personality.”

Answering if she feels the pressure after being part of a blockbuster like ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’, the actress confidently replies: “I don’t think that working on a film like Prem Ratan Dhan Payo has added a pressure on me to do better things. But it has surely motivated me to do more such projects and I think that’s nice.”

Aashika also revealed about her openness to working in web-series which appear to be the...

Elvish Yadav entered Bigg Boss Ott 2 as a wild card contestant along with Aashika Bhatia. He made history on Bigg Boss Ott 2 after becoming the first wild card contestant to win the reality show. While after winning Bigg Boss Ott 2 Elvish Yadav was invited by the Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar to his residence last week. The Cm also shared a photo with Elvish Yadav on Twitter and congratulated him on his win.

A video was shared by the official Instagram handle of Cm Khattar wherein he can be seen addressing Yadav’s fans and urging the youth to take inspiration from the YouTuber and make the state drugs free.

The video was captioned, “Hail Mother India! The strength that this immense crowd of youths has demonstrated together with enthusiasm and enthusiastic will definitely help to take India to new heights in the nectar period and create a drug-free society.

Bigg Boss Ott 2 may have ended but the celebrations and get-togethers are keeping the buzz alive. Yesterday, former Bigg Boss Ott contestants, Aashika Bhatia, Aaliya Siddiqui, Jad Hadid and Akanksha Puri attended a birthday party hosted by Palak Purswani in Andheri, Mumbai.

Jad Hadid and actress Akanksha Puri reunited after their embarrassing kiss incident inside the Bigg Boss Ott 2 house. The two artists buried the hatchet and posed together for paps. While posing for the media, Jad demanded another kiss from Akanksha, and the latter gave a peck on his cheek. During this moment, Jad touched Akanksha inappropriately, and it got captured on the camera.

As soon as the video got shared on social media, a majority of netizens slammed Jad for behaving indecently, and even Akanksha for acting ‘desperate for attention’. An internet user wrote, “Akansha is so despo acha kiya Mika ne shaadi nahi ki.”

Another netizen wrote,...

Bebika Dhurve recently visited her Bigg Boss Ott co-contestant and season 2’s first runner-up Abhishek Malhan in the hospital. She shared a picture with him on her social media handle.

Sharing their picture together, she wrote, “It had been a journey of highs and lows… even though u didn’t win the trophy u have won hearts of janta… get well soon and rise high always…@fukra_insaan.”

Apart from Bebika, fellow contestants like Manisha Rani, Aaliya Siddiqui, and Aashika Bhatia also visited Abhishek at the hospital to offer their support.

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Bigg Boss Ott 2 first runner-up Abhishek Malhan was admitted to a hospital. Aaliyah Siddiqui and Aashika Bhatia, who were part of the reality show with Abhishek, paid him a visit.

Their gesture of solidarity underscored the strong bonds that had formed among the participants throughout the season.

While Aashika shot a video where Abhishek expressed his desire to have cupcakes, and she promised to fulfill his craving next time.

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Salman Khan is all set to take the stage as he announces the Bigg Boss Ott 2 winner at the show’s grand finale tonight. The Bigg Boss Ott 2 finalists are Elvish Yadav, Abhishek Malhan, Pooja Bhatt, Bebika Dhurve and Manisha Rani. Jiya Shankar was the last contestant to be evicted from the show.

The race is between Elvish Yadav and Abhishek Malhan, who have both been fan favourites during the season. Bigg Boss Ott 2 was planned as a six-week reality show but it got an extension after the audience accepted it and streaming figures saw an upswing.

Bigg Boss Ott 2 grand finale will be streamed on Jio Cinema from 9 pm. It is one of the rare times that the reality show’s grand finale is taking place on a Monday as usually they are planned over the weekend. Akanksha Puri, Cyrus Broacha, Jad Hadid, Aaliya Siddiqui, Avinash Sachdev, Aashika Bhatia,...

As the house is heating up with its grand finale drawing closer and closer by every minute, the contestants of ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’ will get a moment of love as they saw their families and wept tears of joy, born out of the many tense and nerve wracking moments they’ve had to undergo in the house.

This will now lead to a whirlwind of emotions as the emotional drama only gets more intense and carries on wayward, until the grand finale finally happens.

The table is currently set for eight contestants as Aashika Bhatia was recently evicted from the house.

The remaining contestants who have managed to stay for this long include Avinash Sachdev, Jiya Shankar, Manisha Rani, Elvish Yadav, Abhishek Malhan, Jad Hadid, Pooja Bhatt and Bebika Dhruve.

First Jiya Shankar’s mother opened up on her harsh life and her determination to push through all obstacles. Then...

Actor Avinash Sachdev gets emotional as he opened up on his early struggling days in Mumbai in the upcoming episode of reality show ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’. In tonight’s episode, Abhishek Malhan decides to talk to Avinash about the fight they had over the ration distribution last week.

Audience will see Avinash getting emotional, and sharing what and how he has become the type of person he his.

Avinash shares that he was working with a courier delivery company earlier. He goes on to say: “I did not use any auto or taxi for the first two years in Mumbai. I only used to travel in train and bus, I have often slept on the stations.”

“I then lived in a shared PG and would split every bill that would come. In case I had to share an auto someday, I would only use it until the meter would reach a certain amount,...

Mumbai, July 31 (Ians) On the latest episode of ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’, housemate Jiya Shankar finally opened up about her family and the broken home she comes from to her co-housemate Abhishek Malhan.

After the nomination, Jiya had a fight with Avinash Sachdeva. Abhishek was trying to make her understand that she did wrong by nominating her friend.

Jiya burst into tears and said that she wants to play the game for herself as she needs it the most.

Talking about her family, Jiya said that she has a single mother.

Asked if she had a brother, Jiya denied saying that it’s only her mom and she in the family.

Jiya said: “Nobody has lived the life that I’ve. I don’t have a dad and it’s not easy to live with a single mom. I’ve no male in my family, not even a brother. It’s just me and my mom.

Aashika Bhatia, who entered the controversial reality show ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’ as a wildcard, will be shown the exit in the latest Weekend Ka Vaar episode. Aashika had entered as a wildcard two weeks ago in the show along with Elvish Yadav. She was nominated alongside Manisha Rani for eviction.

A tweet from BiggBoss Tak, which has all the insights and scoop on the show, read: “Breaking! Aashika Bhatia is evicted from the Bigg Boss Ott house.”

During her stay in the house, Aashika took her time to open up. However, she grew close to Elvish, Manisha and Abhishek. During last week’s captaincy task, Aashika was seen losing her cool at Avinash Sachdeva and made it a point that he doesn’t win the task.

Pooja Bhatt won the challenge and became captain. However, doing the nominations it was her decision leading to Manisha and Aashika getting nominated in...

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who is currently hosting the reality show ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’, has revealed why he comes back even though he loses his cool or walks out in anger.

Salman’s genuine love and appreciation for his fans is what makes him comeback every time.

Salman said: “My fans are my biggest achievement and pride! I am what I am because of them. Yes, I lose my cool on the show and sometimes even walk out but I always come back only and only for my fans who patiently wait for my Weekend ka Vaar.”

‘Bigg Boss’ is an Indian reality show franchise based on the Dutch reality show Big Brother.

‘Bigg Boss’ was originally started in the Hindi language, and has since been extended into seven languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent, including Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Malayalam.

Salman joined the show as a host...

The ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’ house is raging with tension as the contestants are getting nervous for eliminations. To make things worse, amid this, Aashika Bhatia gets a bad scolding from the senior most member of the house, Pooja Bhatt for not doing her duties properly.

The conversation started post an allegation which said that the house members are angered by Aashika for not cleaning the house well enough and doing her duty lazily if not at all.

Angered by this, Bebika was the first one to speak out loud and angrily said: “I am unwell, yet working. You still haven’t cleaned the washroom well, nor have you cleaned the dustbin.”

As is tradition with ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’, this whole thing sparked the flames of a furious argument, and it did not take much time before Pooja Bhatt got involved, and she is not in the best mood at all.

The ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’ is giving out the ‘Ticket to the Finale Week’. But grabbing the ticket is not child’s play as all the members of Team C compete with each other to get that ticket in a hilariously fierce competition. Team C comprises contestants Jiya Shankar, Elvish Yadav, and Bebika Dhurve.

Fierce and hilarious are not exactly synonymous with one another, presenting the viewers with a dichotomy. But it sure is welcome, as the new episode, the promo of which was shared on Thursday, promises comedy, action and drama all packed in one as each member of Team C competes to sell the most amount of stuffed toys with one another for pearls and their supporters can steal said pearls and toys from the rival contenders and keep it in their favourite contender’s shop

Elsewhere, Avinash and Abhishek have engaged in a stormy argument and Elvish sure...

Bigg Boss Ott 2 has been full of exciting episodes that keep viewers glued to the screen with its drama, emotions, and surprising turns. The show features intense tasks like the ‘Ticket to Finale,’ where contestants compete to create viral moments, as well as heartwarming scenes of new romances and honest conversations.

In the latest episode of Bigg Boss Ott 2, there was a special task called the ‘Ticket to Finale.’ Three teams competed to create viral moments. Team A had Jad Hadid, Avinash Sachdev, and Aashika Bhatia.

Team B included Abhishek Malhan, Manisha Rani, and Pooja Bhatt. Team C consisted of Jiya Shankar, Elvish Yadav, and Bebika Dhurve. The team that could create the best viral moments would win, and the audiences got to decide the winner through live voting.

During the task, when it was Team C’s turn, Jiya Shankar playfully chatted with Abhishek Malhan to create a viral moment.

In reality show ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2, tension is simmering in the house as the makers have announced ‘Ticket to the Finale’ week in which contestants will be seen making videos and the team with maximum number of videos will win.

Last time, audiences saw Falaq packing her bags as she was evicted from the show in the previous round of eliminations. Now a new task has come which will be a pivotal moment for the contestants, making them eligible for grabbing hold of the ‘Ticket to the Finale Week’.

The task will see the remaining contestants divided into three teams, Team A, Team B and Team C respectively with each team having to make videos about the house and the show that can go potentially viral. While it may sound easy, there is more to this than meets the eye.

The catch is that these videos have to be original,...

The Bigg Boss Ott 2 has turned into a war zone as the contestants have turned against each other to win the game. Bigg Boss announced Angel and Devil task to the contestants.

In this task, there are two leaders, Abhishek Malhan who is the angel and Elvish Yadav who is the devil. The contestants were divided into groups, Jiya Shankar, Bebika Dhruvi, and Aashika Bhatia under Elvish’s team and Avinash Sachdev, Manisha Rani, and Jad Hadid under Abhishek’s team.

The task of the devils was to make sure these angels break the rules which were, no ignoring, no crying, referring to the devils as ‘aap’ and no speaking loudly. The devils will do their level best to trigger the angels but they could not break the rules.

Jiya comes beside Abhishek to sit and Abhishek tells her, “Aap kya apne haath saaf kar rahe hai” Jiya replies saying yes.

In the latest episode of ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’, Falaq Naazz was shown the exit and this left Avinash Sachdev in shock.

Aashika Bhatia, Avinash Sachdev, Elvish Yadav, Falaq Naazz, Jad Hadid and Jiya Shankar were nominated for eviction this week.

Jad Hadid, Falaq Naazz and Avinash Sachdev were in the bottom three, said the show’s host Salman Khan.

Later, a vote was taken by the housemates over who was least interested in the show among these three. Falaq was subsequently voted out.

Avinash, who has a soft corner for Falaq, asked her to wait for him outside the Bigg Boss house.

“I still can’t believe that you have to leave the show. I am not happy about it at all. Please wait for me outside the show,” he said.

Salman shared that Falaq’s eviction was a direct consequence of their votes. He also points out that Jad...

Mumbai, July 23 (Ians) The ‘Weekend Ka Vaar’ episode on Sunday turned into a nightmare for housemate Jad Hadid, who will be seen getting evicted from the show.

Salman was seen talking to all the housemates about their interpersonal relationship. It was only when he questioned Jiya and Jad about their relationship that things went problematic for Jad.

Salman scolded Jad about being disinterested in things lately. He explains that Jad’s behaviour has changed and he hasn’t been putting in the effort.

“You are here to win the show, but you are slacking behind. I cannot see the effort.” He later calls him an escapist as he always repeats,”I am down!” in all the tasks he does.

Before schooling Jad, Salman did a “pardafaash” on housemates leaving in-house relationships a little shaken.

Continuing to the ‘Asli Chehra’ task from Saturday, Salman says it was his turn to ‘Benakaab’ now.

Mumbai, July 23 (Ians) In the upcoming episode of ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’, two popular contestants, Jad Hadid and Falaq Naaz, have been shown the exit door.

Falaq and Jad have been eliminated on the Sunday episode, hosted by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan.

They were nominated against Aashika Bhatia, Avinash Sachdev, Elvish Yadav, and Jiya Shankar.

A Twitter page dedicated to Bigg Boss Ott called ‘@BiggBoss_Tak’ wrote: “Breaking! Jad Hadid and Falaq Naaz are Evicted from the Bigg Boss Ott house.”

Currently in the house, contestants such as Manisha Rani, Abhishek Malhan, Pooja Bhatt, Aashika Bhatia, Avinash Sachdev, Elvish Yadav, and Jiya Shankar are left.

Falaq made her acting debut with a cameo in the comedy series ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah’. She then played the role of Lakshmi and Sita in ‘Devon Ke Dev…Mahadev’ and ‘Sasural Simar Ka. She is the sister of actors Shafaq Naaz and Sheezan Khan.

Mumbai, July 22 (Ians) The table is set, the main course is done and finished and now the house will be set ablaze as the eliminations will begin this time on ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’ on the ‘Weekend Ka Vaar’ special. The ‘Weekend Ka Vaar’ is always special given that it has new guests and more challenges, but this time, the house is truly hot because no one knows who will pack up and go home and who shall still remain.

The drama and conflicts coupled with the twists and turns is a ‘Bigg Boss’ trope and audiences have witnessed much, ranging from Salman Khan’s ‘Dabangg’ swag to contestants engaging in various tasks, heated arguments and controversies.

Each and every time, the contestants are forced to up their game if they want to stay in the house, but now the time for listening and thinking is long past, it is time...

In the latest episode of ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’ things turned awry amid the captaincy task when Elvish Yadav teased Avinash Sachdev and the two got into a heated war of words.

According to the game, Elvish had to turn into a dictator and give work to the other participants.

The terms were that if he handled the contestants perfectly during this task, he would become the new captain.

During Avinash’s turn of being called, Elvish ordered him to repeat what he said. Avinash did not listen to what Elvish said and instead said the opposite.

All irritated, Elvish complained to Bigg Boss that Avinash was not performing his task properly.

Moments later, the two got into an argument and the former says that when Avinash leaves the house, he will do many things behind his back.

Elvish got Avinash angry by saying: “Bandi teri, romance mera.”

With the comment,...

In the latest episode of Bigg Boss Ott 2, Falaq Naaz and Jiya Shankar discuss Abhishek Malhan’s closeness with wild card entrant Aashika Bhatia.

Abhishek is mesmerised and appreciates Aashika’s perfume. Later he also playfully draws on Aashika’s forehead. Seeing this Falaq comments in front of Jiya, “It can be attraction. Because she got hurt because of him and he might have a soft corner.

When a girl gets hurt because of a boy, the boy melts… kitna bhi sakht launda ho ladka pighalta hain. This is my observation.

Falaq then stops Abhishek and teases him saying, “We are seeing kya aashiqui chal rahi hai yaha pe’. Abhishek quizzes them and jokes, “Oh I am falling in love. But who are you talking about?’...

Mumbai, July 17 (Ians) In the latest episode of ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’, Elvish Yadav was chosen as the personal assistant of contestants present in the show.

It happened during the Weekend Ka Vaar episode, where Bharti Singh and Krushna Abhishek turned hosts in Salman Khan’s absence.

They question Elvish and Aashika Bhatia to point out their own good traits which they think make them better than the others.

Elvish said that he was more flexible in making conversation with anyone while he claimed that Aashika could not do that. While, Aashika said out that she minds her own business and does not poke her nose in anyone’s life without any reason.

Housemates had to choose one between Aashika and Elvish to be their personal assistant. Elvish got more votes. He was feted with the personal assistant of contestants tag. And as the rule, his housemates can assign any personal task to him.

The two new entries Elvish Yadav and Aashika Bhatia in the Bigg Boss Ott 2 have completely changed the dynamics of the house.

Elvish has gotten into many fights with contestants eversince he made an entry in the show. The latest episode saw a verbal spat between Avinash Sachdev and Elvish Yadav. Things got worse when Elvish used some abusive words for Avinash.

In the kitchen, Elvish Yadav was seen discussing Bebika Dhurve’s life in Dubai while Avinash overheard and initiated an argument. Avinash became increasingly heated, while Elvish maintained a calm demeanor.

The housemates tried to calm down the two but Avinash passed a comment to Elvish. He said, “Gandh maat macha.” On the other hand, Elvish’s comment of “Bewakoof Ka Baccha” provoked Avinash further.

Wildcard entrants Aashika Bhatia and Elvish Yadav have made their way into the ‘Bigg Boss Ott 2’ and have started to play the cards right.

In the latest episode, contestant Bebika Dhurve bonded with Aashika in the house and inquired about her friendship with Elvish.

Bebika asked, “Since how many years have you known Elvish?” Aashika replied: “I got to know him during lockdown. He had made a roast video on her.”

Bebika asked what was content, and she replied, “It was about body shaming me. But I ignored it as I was very happy in my skin.”

Bebika then spoke about herself, “Main toh bhar bhar ke body shame hui hu yahan. Have you seen Abhishek body shaming me?”

Aashika takes Abhishek’s side and said that it’s her who instigate him. Bebika then interferes and said: “It was Pooja ma’am who made Abhishek understand. He has said such bad things about me.

Bigg Boss Ott 2 is one of the most loved reality shows and it has been successfully grabbing eyeballs owing to its controversies. Each episode brings new challenges and conflicts among the contestants, creating engaging drama.

Aashika Bhatia and Elvish Yadav entered the house and met all the contestants. Abhishek Malhan expressed his surprise to Elvish, saying he couldn’t believe that Elvish and Aashika were sitting together.

Elvish entered and he hugged his fellow youtuber Abhishek. Fans really want to see their bromance grow in this show.

Elvish revealed that he first heard Aashika’s voice before seeing her face, which shocked him. Avinash Sachdev thought that Aashika and Elvish were a couple when they entered together. This statement left Elvish in splits.

Bigg boss ott 2: elvish yadav enters and hugs abhishek malhan; fans want to see more bromance...