List of Bigg Boss controversies
Bigg Boss is a television reality show broadcast on Colors TV in India. It follows the Big Brother format, which was first developed by Endemol in the Netherlands. Within a span of 15 years of telecast, Bigg Boss has rolled out 15 seasons (latest being season 15, airing on Colors TV), one spin-off version and one OTT version.
Season 2Edit
- Rahul Mahajan made headlines when he broke the rules of the show and escaped over the house by jumping over the wall.[1]
- Raja Chaudhary and Sambhavna Seth abused each other before getting really intimate on the show.[2]
Season 3Edit
- Contestant Kamal Rashid Khan had caused ruckus inside the house which lead to a controversial exit by makers after he threw a bottle at Rohit Verma but later hit Shamita Shetty.[3]
Season 4Edit
- TV actors Sara Khan and Ali Merchant were paid Rs.50 lakhs to get married on the show.[4] The wedding is considered forbidden in Islam, because Sara Khan and Ali Merchant were already married.[5] Ali Merchant's mother, Salma, however, said Muslim law permitted the same couple to remarry as many times as they wished to.[6]
- Pakistani actress Veena Malik was involved in physical relationship with Ashmit Patel.[1]
- During the first week of the show's airing, activists of Shiv Sena, a political party, started protesting against the inclusion of Pakistani housemates in the show.[7] After being evicted from the house, Rahul Bhatt claimed that Bigg Boss is scripted.[8] In November 2010, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry served a notice on Colors, due to complaints of indecent exposure aired on national television, asking the channel to change the timings of the show from 9:00 pm to 11:30 pm.[9][10] The channel later got a stay order from Bombay High Court allowing them to continue the telecast of the show during prime time.[11]
Season 5Edit
- Akashdeep Saigal had an fight with Mahek Chahal in which he threatened to bring out Mahek's personal life and when Salman Khan scolded him for the fight he accused Salman of hitting him and causing him emotional hurt during his time on the show. After the show ended he again accused Salman saying that he destroyed his career.[12]
Season 6Edit
- Contestant Imam Siddiqui made a statement about host Salman Khan that Salman Khan owed him money. He also removed his clothes after a midnight fight with his co-participants.[13]
Season 7Edit
- Armaan Kohli was arrested from the set of the show when a complaint filed by British singer-actress Sofia Hayat for allegedly assaulting her during their stay in the show.[14]
- Kushal Tandon and Tanisha Mukherjee got into a nasty fight during a task after Tanisha pushed Kushal and Kushal body shamed and said nasty stuff to Tanisha. Kushal even climbed on the roof and escaped the house after this incident. In the weekend the host Salman Khan was caught favoring Tanisha instead of Kushal despite her unarguably violent behavior and Khan supported all of Mukherjee's wrongdoings.[15]
- Kushal Tandon got physical with VJ Andy after Andy made nasty comments on Gauahar Khan. This causes Bigg Boss to throw Kushal out of the house. Gauahar too had exit the house with Kushal after she accused Bigg Boss for being unfair towards Kushal but later they both were brought back in the house and Gauahar went on to win the season.[16]
Season 8Edit
- Karishma Tanna had a big fight with Gautam Gulati after he abused her during the Hijack task in the second week. This led to the whole house turning against Gautam.[17]
- In November 2014, on Gautam Gulati's birthday, Diandra Soares had took him into the bathroom which lead to another controversial topic of the house.[18] After Diandra's eviction, there was another controversial topic after reports started saying she was pregnant when she reportedly went to the hospital but later she denied all of the rumours.[19][20]
- Ali Quli Mirza was trying to escape from the show by climbing up the rooftop to escape the house when he was slapped by Sonali Raut for passing inappropriate remarks.[21]
Bigg Boss Halla BolEdit
- The introduction of special panel members on occasional eviction episodes came under controversy during the season. The production team was mainly accused for violating the concept of the original Big Brother franchise and allowing interference from external agents into the house environment. The second week saw appearances from Andy and Kamya who were seen forcing their opinions on the housemates by calling it a guide to their stay. However Kamya, on a relative off-note, went on to malign targeted housemates' stance and reputation by wording her take as the 'viewer's point of view'.[22] Subsequent to the episode's airing critics termed her conduct as 'adding script to a rather spontaneous programme'. A similar incident took place in the fourth week where Sargun Mehta's argument with Minissha received much backlash from viewers.[23][24][25] Despite demands and complaints from viewers, the broadcaster declined the opportunity to explain the addition.[26]
Season 9Edit
- Kishwer Merchant disgusting act spitting in Rishabh Sinha water and food including Keith. [27]
- During a task, contestant Rishabh Sinha made Kishwer Merchant walk like a dog for three hours.[28]
Season 10Edit
- Priyanka Jagga,after creating fights in the house and saying nasty things to Lopamudra Raut and Manu Punjabi's late mother got kicked out by host Salman Khan.[29]
- Contestant Swami Om threw his urine on co-contestants Bani J and Rohan Mehra. Later, the makers of the show evicted Swami Om. He has had several exits before on the show but later came back.[30]
- The fight between Bani J and Lopamudra Raut got ugly after the BB Call Centre Task which lead to Bani trying to strangle Lopamudra's neck.[31]
Season 11Edit
- Zubair Khan attempted suicide to get out of the show and was hospitalized for consuming pills after host Salman Khan blasted him for using abusive language against women of the house. He claimed that Salman Khan threatened him that he would not be able to work in the industry anymore after he leaves the house.[32][33] The host Salman Khan called him 'dog' on the telecast episode.[34] Later Salman Khan sarcastically apologized by saying, "I really need to apologize... I am really sorry to all the dogs of this world".[35]
- Vikas Gupta escaped the Bigg Boss jail three times and tried to escape the house by climbing on the roof after he was constantly harassed and provoked by Shilpa Shinde.[36]
Season 12Edit
- During the captaincy task which named "Breaking News", Deepak Thakur to create news, said demeaning things about Megha Dhade and even passed lewd comments on her character. On listening to all the things about herself, in a fit of anger, she hurled a shoe and even spit on him.[37][38][39]
- During the luxury budget task when the house was divided into two group i.e. Gupta's Parivaar and Shinde's Parivaar, Sreesanth lost his cool when Vikas Gupta called him 'Badtameez' repeatedly. Giving it back to Vikas, Sreesanth passed a derogatory comments on his sexuality.[40][41] [42]
Season 13Edit
- Rashami Desai's rumoured boyfriend Arhaan Khan was revealed to have a child on national television. He had kept this a secret from Rashmi and this caused a lot of controversy in their relationship.[43]
- Rashami Desai threw tea on Sidharth Shukla during a Weekend Ka Waar episode when Sidharth was constantly referring to Rashami as "aisi ladki." Salman had seen all the drama live and he bashed both Rashmi and Siddharth for their behavior.[44]
- Vishal Aditya Singh and Madhurima Tuli had got into a fight on the show. Madhurima was seen hitting Vishal with a frying pan and after this Madhurima was ejected from the show for physical violence.[45]
Season 14Edit
- Contestant Jaan Kumar Sanu, son of Kumar Sanu, made a remark against Marathi language, against Rahul Vaidya. But the former apologized for his remarks.[46]
- The heated arguments started between Rubina Dilaik and Kavita Kaushik got ugly when Kavita tells to Rubina that she knows her husband's truth. Rubina tells her to speak the truth if she has guts. Kavita threatens to slap her. Both ask each other to shut up and Kavita Kaushik walks out of the house.[47]
- After heated argument for a week, Vikas Gupta pushed Arshi Khan in swimming pool after she abused his mother. Vikas Gupta was ejected from the Bigg Boss house, but later he re-entered the house.[48]
- The heated arguments started between Rubina Dilaik and Sonali Phogat got ugly after Sonali Phogat started abusing Rubina and Nikki. Sonali also threatened Rubina and Nikki that after she will come out of the house she will send her men to teach them lessons.[49]
OTTEdit
- Zeeshan Khan was bashed by host Karan Johar following which he suffered from an anxiety attack inside the house.[50]
- While Nishant Bhat was in Bigg Boss OTT, his co contestant Shamita Shetty talked about him and said, "I don't want to mention what incident it was but he once crossed the line with me and I didn't like it. I told him sternly that he did wrong and he didn't speak to me after that. I just thought I should keep a distance from him because I don't want to be reminded of that. At the stage also when I saw him, I just reacted that I know him."[51]
Season 15Edit
- On Day 3, There was heated argument between Jay Bhanushali and Pratik Sehajpal which grew so much that Pratik started damaging the property of the Bigg Boss house. Bigg Boss punished all the Bigg Boss Jungle housemates that they will be nominated throughout the week. As a result all contestants started shouting and accusing Bigg Boss for being unfair by nominating everyone who were innocent and not nominating Pratik who did everything.[52]
- On Day 4, Pratik Sehajpal broke the bathroom lock while Vidhi Pandya was taking a bath. After the other contestants got to know about that, they all started to fight and mostly everyone supported Vidhi while Pratik refused to apologize for his behaviour and claimed that he didn't do anything wrong.[53]
- On Day 18, when Donal Bisht and Vidhi Pandya were evicted by housemates as a part of double and mid-week eviction, fans started to protest that their eviction was unfair and that they were getting a lot of votes.[54]
- On Day 20, Afsana Khan during the Entrance Task, got into a verbal fight with Akasa Singh where she also tears off the latter's shirt and also kicked her. She also made fun of the latter for the way she dressed.[55]
- On Day 40, Afsana Khan tried to injure herself with a knife after being denied the entry to the VIP Zone resulting the crew to take her out of the house.[56]
- On Day 74, Abhijit Bichukale after helping Devoleena Bhattacharjee throughout the task asks her for a kiss in exchange. "I can do anything for you," he offers, "but I'd like a kiss in return." Bhattacharjee responds angrily, saying she will never kiss him and warns him not to cross his limits and take advantage of her generosity. Agitated by this, Abhijit threatens to drink Lizol.[57]
ReferencesEdit
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