Lonavala: Shilpa Shinde was tonight crowned
the winner of reality TV series "Bigg Boss 11", beating Hina
Khan through live voting.
Polls conducted by quite a few media houses and social
media had predicted Shinde would go on to win the show.
The show that premiered on October 1 last year, had its
finale today here, with Shilpa and Hina competing for the
winner's title. Inmates Vikas Gupta and Puneesh Sharma was
evicted due to less number of votes polled for them.
The finale had Bollywood star Akshay Kumar as the special
guest alongside host Salman Khan.
The controversial reality show had quite a few
performances by contestants between Vikas Gupta and Shilpa
Shinde, Puneesh Sharma and Bandgi Kalra, Hina Khan, Priyank
Sharma and Luv Sinha, among others.
The contestants of this season were Shilpa Shinde, Hina
Khan, Hiten Tejwani, Vikas Gupta, Priyank Sharma, Puneesh
Sharma, Arshi Khan, Akash Dadlani, Benafshaa Soonawala, Luv
Sinha, Bandgi Kalra, Sabyasachi Satpathy, Mehjabi Siddiqui,
Sapna Choudhary, Zubair Khan, Shivani Durgah, Jyoti Kumari,
Lucinda Nicholas and Dhinchak Pooja.
The show, hosted by Salman Khan, had the contestants
divided into two groups - Gharvale and Padosi.
The sprawling "Bigg Boss" house spread across 19,400
square feet had 90 cameras installed in it. The house in the
picturesque Lonavala, near Mumbai, was designed by director
Omung Kumar and his wife Vanita.
The show was aired on Colors channel.
PTI
