Lonavala, Jan 14 (PTI) Shilpa Shinde was tonight crownedthe winner of reality TV series "Bigg Boss 11", beating HinaKhan through live voting.
Polls conducted by quite a few media houses and socialmedia had predicted Shinde would go on to win the show.
The show that premiered on October 1 last year, had itsfinale today here, with Shilpa and Hina competing for thewinner's title. Inmates Vikas Gupta and Puneesh Sharma wasevicted due to less number of votes polled for them.
The finale had Bollywood star Akshay Kumar as the specialguest alongside host Salman Khan.
The controversial reality show had quite a fewperformances by contestants between Vikas Gupta and ShilpaShinde, Puneesh Sharma and Bandgi Kalra, Hina Khan, PriyankSharma and Luv Sinha, among others.
The contestants of this season were Shilpa Shinde, HinaKhan, Hiten Tejwani, Vikas Gupta, Priyank Sharma, PuneeshSharma, Arshi Khan, Akash Dadlani, Benafshaa Soonawala, LuvSinha, 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 contestantsdivided into two groups - Gharvale and Padosi.
The sprawling "Bigg Boss" house spread across 19,400square feet had 90 cameras installed in it. The house in thepicturesque Lonavala, near Mumbai, was designed by directorOmung Kumar and his wife Vanita.
The show was aired on Colors channel. PTI KKPIJT.
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