New Delhi: Salman Khan’s ‘Bigg Boss 13’ has managed to keep the viewers hooked on to their television sets with its drama-packed episodes. The popular reality show has received an extension of five weeks and the grand finale will now telecast in February 2020. Several former ‘Bigg Boss’ contestants including Gauahar Khan, Kamya Panjabi, Dolly Bindra and Vindu Dara Singh are constantly tweeting about the same.

Shilpa Shinde, while talking to an entertainment portal, revealed her favourite contestant. The popular TV actress, who won ‘Bigg Boss 11’, said that Asim Riaz is the only contestant she likes in the show.

The ‘Bhabhi Ji Ghar Par Hain’ actress called Asim a genuine person and said that he is not faking things like other contestants.

“Among all the current inmates, I only seem to like Asim Riaz, for that bloke is genuine and it reflects on his face and actions. His fights are real, for he reacts to the situation as any normal person would do. He is not faking it as several others. I really felt bad when Paras Chhabra took a dig at him regarding his wealth,” Shilpa told IWMBuzz.


Asim Riaz, who grabbed eyeballs during his fight with Sidharth Shukla, often trends on Twitter. Hashtags like #JusticeForAsim and #WeStandWithAsim trended on the micro-blogging site after Sidharth pushed him during the captaincy task.

“It is no mean feat that despite being a non-celeb, he is trending so much. He is just like me. I was as real as him. If you had noticed, I happily served to my biggest opponents. Even money-wise, sometimes if I feel my rivals need dough, I will still help them, as humanity should always top all,” Shinde told the portal.


Interestingly, when asked to react on Vikas Gupta’s entry in ‘Bigg Boss 13’, the Marathi mulgi chose not to comment. Vikas and Shilpa were arch rivals in the ‘BB 11’ house and their rivalry dates back to ‘Bhabhi Ji Ghar Par Hain’ days.

For the uninitiated, Shilpa had to quit the show because of issues with the producer. Vikas Gupta was the programming head of the channel back then.

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