Big Boss 3 Telugu Winner Announced!

The biggest reality show in Telugu, which is hosted by Akkineni Nagarjuna, has earned the highest ever TRP rating in the last two seasons. Bigg Boss Telugu 3 was launched with 15 celebrity contestants and a new celebrity host on July 21. It has garnered 17.92 TRP for the third season’s first episode. Smashing the records Akkineni Nagarjuna has proved to be more popular on the small screen than Junior NTR and Nani with the launch episode of his reality TV show Bigg Boss Telugu 3.

Rahul Sipligunj, Sreemukhi, Varun Sandesh, Baba Bhaskar and Ali Reza emerged as the finalists of this season. The finale was shot live today so as to prevent leaks about the winner.

Actor Anjali announced the eviction of Baba Bhaskar pushing it finally to a competition between Sreemukhi and Rahul Sipligunj. Both the contestants were offered a price of 25 lakh which they refused and decided to move on with the competition. Finally breaking the most anticipated part of the show Chiranjeevi hands the Big Boss Season 3 trophy to Rahul. The actor cheers up Sreemukhi, saying she has won love of the audience.

Rahul Sipligunj takes home the winner’s trophy and prize money of Rs 50 lakh.

Big Boss Telugu Season 3 earned the highest ever TRP rating. Here are a few things that were a standalone of this season!

No commoner: The show has no commoners participating this season. All the fifteen contestants are celebrities raging from singers, TV artists, actors/actress, anchor etc.

Real life couple: For the very first time, a real life star couple became a part of Bigg Boss Telugu. Actor Varun Sandesh and his wife Vithika Sheru steped into the Big Boss house together. Varun is famous for romantic films such as Happy Days and Kotta Bangaru Lokam whereas Vithika is well-known for her performance in Prema Ishq Kadhal and Paddanandi Premalo Mari.

Controversies: Even before the show began, a petition was filed in the Telangana High Court against the obscenity and vulgarity in the show. According to a report, Nagarjuna increased security outside his house and outside the house of the Bigg Boss Telugu makers in case the protests take a violent turn.

When the news was released about BB3 new host, social media did not welcome the idea. Season 1 and 2 of this reality show was previously hosted by Rama Rao Jr. and Nani. Actor Akkineni Nagarjuna was being trolled on social media for accepting the offer to host Star Maa’s hit reality TV show Bigg Boss Telugu 3, which he had called voyeuristic during the promotion of Devadas. He initially told that he has nothing good to say about the show. Later on he said that he is a collector of experience and loves to try new things.

Pregnancy test: Bigg Boss 3′ Telugu show organizers conducted pregnancy tessts on female participants to ensure that there would be no unforeseen case of abortion(s) in the house in case any accident happens because of jostling, etc.

Pandu the Monkey: The small monkey toy was seen clinging to Nagarjuna’s finger while he hosted the show. This added to the cute humorous appeal