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Shilpa Shetty a
winner
 (Tulu:
ಶಿಲ್ಪ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ) (born 8 June 1975 in Tamil Nadu, India) is an
award-winning Indian film actress and model. Since making her
debut in the film Baazigar (1993), she has appeared in nearly 50
films, her first leading role being in 1994 in Aag. She resides
at the centre of the Hindi-language film industry in Mumbai,
India. Her younger sister Shamita Shetty is also a Bollywood
film actress.
Shilpa was crowned the winner of the British Celebrity Big
Brother on 28 January 2007 with 63% of the final vote,after an
international racism controversy involving her and fellow
contestants Jade Goody, Jo O'Meara and Danielle Lloyd.
Celebrity Big
Brother
Celebrity Big Brother 2007 was the fifth series of the United
Kingdom reality television series Celebrity Big Brother, a spin-off
of Big Brother. The series was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK
(also on S4C in Wales), and involved a number of celebrities
referred to as 'housemates', who live in the Big Brother House
with no contact with the outside world. In recent series, the
show's producers have offered celebrities money to appear on
Celebrity Big Brother.
Celebrity Big Brother 2007 started on 3 January 2007, and ran
for 26 days. The launch show peaked at 8.2 million viewers,
making it the second most-watched launch in Big Brother history.
It was the first Celebrity Big Brother series to be shown in the
16:9 widescreen format and the final Celebrity series to be held
in the Elstree compound with the regular series later in the
year being the final one overall.
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Big Brother
Big Brother is a reality television format. In each series,
which lasts for around three months, a number of people (normally
fewer than fifteen at any one time) live toge-ther full-time in a
"Big Brother House", isolated from the outside world but under
the continuous gaze of television cameras. The house-mates try to
win a cash prize by avoiding periodic, usually publicly-voted,
evictions from the house. The "real life soap" was invented by
the Dutchman John de Mol and developed by his production company,
Endemol. It has been a prime-time hit in almost 70 different
countries.
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