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Shilpa Wins 'Celebrity Big Brother'
Reality Show
'Pakistan
Times' UK Bureau
LONDON (UK): Indian film
actress Shilpa Shetty has
won Channel 4's reality TV show 'Celebrity Big Brother' and bagged an
estimated 100,000 pounds (almost Rs.9 million) in prize money.
The results didn't come as a surprise because the leggy Indian star was
tipped as the favourite to win.
Shilpa, 31, the first Indian to participate in the British TV show, was
reportedly paid in excess of 40,000 pounds for her participation.
'She was leading all the betting sites,' Shilpa's publicist Dale Bhagwagar
told media.
Shilpa's being on the show, which started Jan 3, didn't make as much news as
the racist slurs hurled against her by her housemates, namely British
contestant Jade Goody who has since been voted out by the audience.
The racist comments caused outrage in India and Britain, with the issue
figuring in the House of Commons and feminist diva Germaine Greer, and even
two Indian ministers, demanding corrective action.
Shilpa, who made her debut in Bollywood with the 1993 super hit 'Baazigar'
which also starred reigning superstar Shah Rukh Khan, never managed to touch
the skies as a star. Her slinky dance numbers were more appreciated than her
emoting.
But now her popularity ratings have soared suddenly.
'Hollywood film offers have started coming in. Apart form the US and
Britain, offers are coming from Spain and Singapore too. Also, the Indian
film industry suddenly seems to have woken up to the new Shilpa,' said
Bhagwagar.
Other contestants who participated in it were Michael Jackson's brother
Jermaine, A-Team star Dirk Benedict, Donny Tourette of punk band The Towers
of London, ex-Steps star Ian 'H' Watkins and 'Kenny Everett' Show actress
Cleo Rocos.
Recap
As was reported in-depth by Raza Mumtaz 'Pakistan Times' Executive
Editor/UK Bureau Chief of Pakistan's first ISSN-certified independent daily
E-newspaper, 'Pakistan Times' for its issue of Monday, January-29,
2007 Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has won the UK reality TV show Big Brother
with an overwhelming 67 percent majority.
To recap this story Click Here;
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/01/29/top11.htm
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