Bigg Boss (Telugu TV series) season 2

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Bigg Boss
Season 2
Bigg Boss Telugu Season 2 Logo.png
Season 2 eye logo
Presented by Nani
No. of days112
No. of housemates18
Winner Kaushal Manda
Runner-up Geetha Madhuri
No. of episodes113
Release
Original network Star Maa
Original release10 June (2018-06-10) –
30 September 2018 (2018-09-30)
Season chronology
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Season 1
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Season 3

Bigg Boss 2 is the second season of the Telugu-language version of the Indian reality television series Bigg Boss. It premiered on 10 June 2018 on Star Maa. Nani hosted the show. [1] It was the second longest season (112 days) in Indian versions of Bigg Boss. Unlike the first season, this season featured general public along with celebrities as housemates. [2] For this season of Bigg Boss, a lavish house set has been constructed in Backlots of Annapurna Studios 7 Acres, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. [3]

The season was extended by one week (112 days) instead of the actual 105 days format of the show. Among the five finalists, Kaushal Manda emerged as the winner with highest number of public votes, followed by Geetha Madhuri as runner-up, Tanish Alladi, Deepti Nallamothu and Samrat Reddy as third, fourth and fifth respectively.

Housemates status

HousemateDay enteredDay exitedStatus
KaushalDay 1Day 112Winner
GeethaDay 1Day 1121st Runner up
TanishDay 1Day 1122nd Runner-up
DeeptiDay 1Day 1123rd Runner up
SamratDay 1Day 1124th Runner up
Roll RidaDay 1Day 105Evicted
AmitDay 1Day 98Evicted
SyamalaDay 1Day 28Evicted by housemates
Day 54Day 91ReEvicted
Nutan NaiduDay 1Day 14Evicted
Day 54Day 68Walked
Day 75Day 84Evicted
GaneshDay 1Day 83Evicted
PoojaDay 45Day 77Evicted
Deepthi SDay 1Day 70Evicted
Babu GDay 1Day 63Evicted
NandiniDay 8Day 56Evicted
TejaswiDay 1Day 42Evicted
Bhanu SriDay 1Day 35Evicted
KireetiDay 1Day 21Evicted
SanjanaDay 1Day 7Evicted

Housemates

Left host Nani, Middle winner Kaushal Manda, right guest Venkatesh Kaushal-manda-759.jpg
Left host Nani, Middle winner Kaushal Manda, right guest Venkatesh

Original entrants

The participants in the order they entered the house are:

Celebrities

  1. Geetha Madhuri - Singer
  2. Amit Tiwari - Actor
  3. Deepti Nallamothu - TV9 Anchor
  4. Tanish - Actor
  5. Babu Gogineni - Indian humanist, rationalist and human rights activist
  6. Bhanu Sree - Actress
  7. Roll Rida - Rapper and singer
  8. Syamala - Anchor and actress
  9. Kireeti Damaraju - Actor
  10. Deepthi Sunaina - Social media personality and actress
  11. Kaushal Manda - Actor and model
  12. Tejaswi Madivada - Actress
  13. Samrat Reddy - Actor and cricketer

Commoners

  1. Ganesh - Radio Jockey, Vijayawada.
  2. Sanjana Anne - Model, Miss Hyderabad, Miss India Participant, Vijayawada.
  3. Nutan Naidu - Social Activist, Visakhapatnam.

Wild Card

  1. Nandini Rai - Actress, Model
  2. Pooja Ramachandran - Actress, Model

Reception

Guests

Week(s)Guest(s)Notes
Week 2 Srinivas Reddy and Vennela Kishore To promote the film Jamba Lakidi Pamba.
Week 4 Sai Dharam Tej and Anupama Parameswaran To promote the film Tej I Love You [8]
Week 6 Pradeep Machiraju To inform about his new show - Pradeep's Pelli Choopulu [9]
Lakshmi Manchu To promote the film W/O Ram [10]
Week 8 Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar,
Ghibran, and Shamdat Sainudeen		To promote the film Vishwaroopam II [11]
Week 11 Anasuya Bharadwaj As a guest to Mehendi Task [12]
Taapsee Pannu, Aadhi Pinisetty and Ritika Singh To promote the film Neevevaro [13]
Host Nani On the occasion of Raksha Bandhan festival.
Week 13 Chandini Chowdary & Raja GouthamTo Promote the film Manu
Sunil Varma & Allari Naresh To Promote the film Silly Fellows [14]
Week 14All Housemates family membersAs a part of weeks luxury budget task [15]
One Joker and six unknown peopleTo irritate housemates and stolen food from the house, While housemates are in freeze command by Bigg Boss [15]
Week 16 Sudheer Babu and Nabha Natesh To promote the film Nannu Dochukunduvate . [16]
Vangaveeti Santhosh (Common Audience)Winner of amazon wild card entry contest entered the house to meet and present some gifts to all housemates. [17]
All Evicted contestants except Nutan Naidu on day 110As a guests to family party of Bigg Boss 2. [18]
Beauticians on day 111To give contestants a makeovers for the grand finale. [19]
Venkatesh Daggubati on day 112To present the trophy to the winner. [20]

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