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{{Short description|Model and TV presenter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox pageant titleholder
| name = Shonal Rawat
| image = Sonal Rawat at Surabhi Prabhu's birthday bash (2).jpg
| caption = Sonal Rawat in 2012
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| birth_date =
| birth_place = Kolkata, [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| title = [[Femina Miss India|Femina Miss India Asia-Pacific 2003]]
| competitions = [[Femina Miss India|Femina Miss India Asia-Pacific 2003]] (Winner) Miss Asia Pacific 2003 (1st Runner Up) (Miss friendship) (Miss talent) (Miss Congeniality)
| occupation = [[Model (profession)|Model]], [[Television presenter]]
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| height = 1.61 m<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shonal Rawat|url=https://specials.rediff.com/getahead/2007/apr/12lfwshonal1.htm|access-date=2021-06-30|website=Rediff}}</ref>
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| spouse = {{marriage|Karan Vats|2013}}
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'''Shonal Rawat''' is an [[India]]n former [[Model (person)|model]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://fashionfad.in/models/speak/content/speak.aspx?interviewId=22 | location=India | work=The Hindu | title=Fashion fad* Model Speak ''Shonal'' | date=16 June 2006 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401031520/http://fashionfad.in/models/speak/content/speak.aspx?interviewId=22 | archivedate=1 April 2012 }}</ref> and [[Television anchor]]. She won ''[[Femina Miss India]]'',<ref>{{cite news| url=http://feminamissindia.indiatimes.com/archives/miss-india-winners-2009-1964/2010-2001/Shonal-Rawat/articleshow/7284215.cms | title=Femina Miss India Shonal Rawat Bio| date=16 June 2006}}</ref> 2003 and was subsequently sent to ''Miss Asia Pacific'', 2003.<ref>{{cite news|title=Catch-Up With The Past Miss Indias|url=http://feminamissindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5925804.cms|accessdate=11 December 2010|work=The Times Of India|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225040525/http://feminamissindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5925804.cms|archivedate=25 December 2010}}</ref> She anchors [[Zoom (Indian TV channel)|Zoom Network]] talk shows and is a [[VJ (media personality)|VJ]].<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-08-06/model-of-the-day/29854975_1_satya-paul-ritu-kumar-miss-gandang-rickyreyes | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120701131159/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-08-06/model-of-the-day/29854975_1_satya-paul-ritu-kumar-miss-gandang-rickyreyes | url-status=dead | archive-date=1 July 2012 |location =[[India]] | work=[[The Times of India]] | title=Shonal Rawat – The Time of India| date =15 February 2011}}</ref> She is best known for the music video, [[Do Raaste|Bindiya Chamkegi]] remixed by [[Bally Sagoo]].

==Personal life==
Her father is an [[Indian Police Service]] officer and her mother has her own kindergarten in [[Kolkata]]. Since her father was posted in [[West Bengal]] she had attended schooling in different parts of the states she done her matriculate from [[Loreto House]], and other from Ashok Hall. She married her boyfriend, Karan Vats in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.in/content/year-model-wedding|title=Year of the model wedding|website=Vogue India}}</ref>

==Career==

===Modelling===
She won [[Femina Miss India]] in 2003 and represented India at ''Miss Asia Pacific'' in that year<ref>{{cite news| url=http://feminamissindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/252944.cms | title=Femina Miss India | date=16 June 2006}}</ref> and finished second at the 43rd Pageant in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]. In 2004, she appeared in the mega hit video Bindiya Chamkegi with [[Upen Patel]]. Subsequently she has been an active model, appearing in shows for ''Satya Paul''.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/06/01/stories/2004060100220200.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040929190639/http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/06/01/stories/2004060100220200.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=29 September 2004 | location=[[India]] | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Indian designs going places | date=1 June 2004}}</ref>

===Television===
Shonal Rawat has acted in Hindi comedy serial ''Aaj Ke Shriman Shrimati'' as a film actress Aishwarya Sen.
She is all set to host [[Sony TV]]'s comedy-based reality show ''[[Champion Chaalbaaz No.1]]''. As the channel heads took a combined decision of not overexposing [[Mona Singh]] to the reality show scenario, keeping in mind the to-be-launched reality show, ''The Extreme Makeover'', Shonal Rawat now takes over the anchoring responsibilities of Champion Chaalbaaz No. 1.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}}

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ Television
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" | Channel
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Champion Chaalbaaz No.1]]''
| (Hosting)
| [[Sony Entertainment Television Asia|Sony T.V]]
|-
! scope="row" | ''Planet Bollywood''
| (Hosting)
| [[Zoom (Indian TV channel)|Zoom]]
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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