A recent report revealed the amount of remuneration the contestants and host of Bigg Boss Telugu earned this season and it sure does seem a lot. Although the winner of this year’s Telugu Bigg Boss was Sipligunj, it was Sreemukhi who was the most earning contestant in the show with a whopping 80 lakhs.
Sipligunj was the next in line grabbing the title and 50 lakhs. Other finalists Varun Sandesh, Ali Reza, and Baba Bhaskar were reportedly paid somewhere between Rs 30 Lakhs to Rs 20 Lakhs as remuneration. The finalists were paid decent amount while the other contestants of the season got paid between Rs 1 Lakh to Rs 15 Lakhs, reported PINKVILLA.
The host Nagarjuna reportedly charged 5 crores for 30 episodes while Ramya Krishnan who hosted two of the episodes this year charged 5 lakhs per episode. However, none of these have been confirmed by the channel.
The grand finale of Bigg Boss Telugu 3 witnessed celebrities like Chiranjeevi, Catherine Tresa, Anurag Kulkarni, Srikanth, Raashi Khanna, and the director Maruthi as special guests.