Bigg Boss 7’s Apurva Agnihotri says Bigg Boss is scripted

Former Bigg Boss contestant Apurva Agnihotri has said that the reality show is scripted, adding that people can now predict winners. Apurva and his actor wife Shilpa Saklani appeared on the seventh season of Salman Khan’s reality show as participants. (Also read: Abdu Rozik’s team reveals MC Stan’s management damaged his car)

Apurva and Shilpa shared a vlog recently and it opened with him saying that the most common question that he is asked is whether Bigg Boss is scripted. It is often asked if everything is decided beforehand, who will be the winner, and all of that, he added.

Apurva then asked Shilpa Saklani if Bigg Boss was scripted, she said, “Everyone is aware and knows what is to be done if they want to be the ‘the’ person. Bigg Boss is not scripted. They have prerequisites – react karo, content do (react, give content for the show), fight, give your point of view and be assertive. If the personality is not like that, then what to do.” Shilpa also added that prior to their appearance on Bigg Boss 7, they were approached for the show every year.

Disagreeing with her, Apurva said, “It is scripted. The channel knows who will react, and how. And that’s why people have started predicting in recent seasons. And the makers at the end, kind of forcefully have to turn tables and surprise everyone with the winner’s name. We saw it in the recent season too, else everyone would have said, ‘she (perhaps suggesting Priyanka Chahar Choudhary) is the channel face so she became the winner’. The show is scripted to a certain extent.”

Apurva added that before they entered the Bigg Boss house, participants were even crying because they were worried about their images. “You know how editing can alter narratives,” he said.

Shilpa also said that neither Apurva, nor she enjoyed their Bigg Boss journey. “Thank God, we went in as a couple. Only because they made the offer for us as a couple. So, we agreed to go together. We knew, in that madness, we may not stay there for long,” she said.

The latest season of Bigg Boss saw rapper MC Stan bag the winner’s trophy. Priyanka along with Shiv Thakare and MC Stan made it to the top three finalists.