Bigg Boss (Telugu TV series) season 3

Bigg Boss
Season 3
File:BIGG BOSS Telugu.png Third season eye logo with host Akkineni Nagarjuna
Presented by	Akkineni Nagarjuna (Week 1-5, 7-15) Ramya Krishnan (Week 6)
No. of days	1930/105
No. of housemates	17
Winner	Rahul Sipligunj
Runner-up	Varun Sandesh
No. of episodes	1930/105
Release
Original network	Star Maa
Original release	21 July, 2019
Season chronology

Bigg Boss Telugu 3 is the third season of the Bigg Boss Telugu broadcast in India. Nagarjuna is hosting the season. The third season premiered on 21 July 2019 on Star Maa TV.

Ramya Krishnan was the guest host for Week 6, as the main host Nagarjuna was outside India on the occasion of his 60th birthday celebration in Spain.

Housemates

Housemate	Housemate Type	Occupation	Day entered	Day exited	Result	Refs
Srimukhi	Original	Actress, TV Host	1
Baba Bhaskar	Original	Choreographer	1
Mahesh Vitta	Original	Actor	1
Siva Jyothi	Original	News presenter,Actress	1
Rahul Sipligunj	Original	Singer	1	62	Fake Eviction
			62	64	In Secret Room
			64
Vithika Sheru	Original	Actress	1
Ali Reza	Original	Actor	1	49	Evicted
	Re-Entrant		67
Varun Sandesh	Original	Actor	1
Punarnavi Bhupalam	Original	Actress	1	77	Evicted
Ravi Krishna	Original	TV Actor	1	70	Evicted
Himaja	Original	Actress	1	63	Evicted
Shilpa Chakravarthy	Wild Card	TV Host	43	56	Evicted
Ashu Reddy	Original	Internet celebrity	1	35	Evicted
Rohini Reddy	Original	TV Actress	1	28	Evicted
Tamanna Simhadhri	Wild Card	Actress	8	21	Evicted
Jaffar Babu	Original	Journalist	1	14	Evicted
Hema	Original	Actress	1	7	Evicted

Guests

Week	Day	Guest(s)	Purpose of Visit
2	14	Ram Pothineni and Nidhhi Agerwal	To celebrate iSmart Shankar movie success.
3	21	Vennela Kishore	To promote Manmadhudu 2 movie in which the host Akkineni Nagarjuna is lead actor.
6	42	Ramya Krishnan	Entered the house for the Eviction Process.
7	49	Nani	To promote Gang Leader movie.
8	56	P. V. Sindhu and Pullela Gopichand	To celebrate 2019 BWF World Championships victory.
9	60	Family members of Housemates	To take part in a Task to meet their family member.
	63	Varun Tej	To promote Gaddalakonda Ganesh movie.
11	79	Akkineni Nagarjuna	On the Occasion of Vijayadashami festival
12	84	Ram Charan	To celebrate Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy movie success.

Voting History

	Week 1		Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8		Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14	Week 15
	Day 0	Day 1
House Captain	No Captain			Varun	No Captain	Ali	SivaJyothi	Varun	Bhaskar		Vithika	Mahesh	Sreemukhi	No Captain
Captain's Nomination				Mahesh Sreemukhi		Bhaskar (to evict)	Rahul	Ravikrishna Ali	Ravikrishna (to save)		Himaja (to evict)	SivaJyothi Vithika Rahul Bhaskar	No Nominations
							Varun (to evict)
Vote to:	none		Evict								Save		none
Ali	Safe	Safe	Himaja Varun	Tamanna Rahul	Immune	House Captain	Varun Mahesh Sreemukhi Vithika	Rahul Mahesh	Evicted (Day 49)				No Nominations	No Nominations
Bhaskar	Nominated	Safe	Vithika Rahul	Vithika Punarnavi	Bhaskar	Rahul Ashu	Punarnavi Ravikrishna Himaja Vithika	Rahul Ali	House Captain		Sreemukhi	SivaJyothi Vithika Rahul	No Nominations	No Nominations
Mahesh	Safe	Safe	Vithika Varun	Rahul Punarnavi	Varun	Rahul Varun	Punarnavi Ravikrishna Himaja Vithika	Ali Sreemukhi		Varun Punarnavi	SivaJyothi	House Captain	Nominated	Nominated
Rahul	Nominated	Nominated	Himaja Sreemukhi	Mahesh Ali	Rahul	Himaja Sreemukhi	Varun Ravikrishna Bhaskar Himaja	Ali Sreemukhi		Ravikrishna Sreemukhi	Punarnavi	SivaJyothi Vithika Punarnavi	Nominated	Nominated
SivaJyothi	Safe	Safe	Sreemukhi Jaffar	Vithika Tamanna	SivaJyothi	Punarnavi Rahul	House Captain	Rahul Mahesh		Shilpa Punarnavi	Ravikrishna	Ravikrishna Rahul Bhaskar	No Nominations	No Nominations
Sreemukhi	Nominated	Safe	Himaja Mahesh	Rahul Vithika	Nominated	Rahul Ashu	Punarnavi Ravikrishna Mahesh Rahul	Rahul Ali		Punarnavi Shilpa	Varun	Vithika Varun Punarnavi	House Captain	No Nominations
Varun	Nominated	Safe	Jaffar Sreemukhi	House Captain	Varun	Rahul Mahesh	Ali Mahesh Himaja Rahul	House Captain		Mahesh Himaja	Himaja	Sreemukhi Ravikrishna Punarnavi	Nominated	Nominated
Vithika	Nominated	Nominated	Not eligible	SivaJyothi Bhaskar	Ravikrishna	Mahesh Ashu	Varun Ravikrishna Mahesh Sreemukhi	Ali Ravikrishna		Ravikrishna Mahesh	House Captain	Sreemukhi Rahul Punarnavi	No Nominations	Used Medallion
Punarnavi	Safe	Nominated	Himaja Sreemukhi	SivaJyothi Bhaskar	Immune	Himaja Rahul	Ravikrishna Bhaskar Himaja Vithika	Ali Ravikrishna		Mahesh Sreemukhi	Rahul	Sreemukhi Vithika Rahul	Nominated	Evicted (Day 77)
Ravikrishna	Safe	Safe	Himaja Jaffar	Tamanna Himaja	Ravikrishna	Rahul Himaja	Punarnavi Mahesh Himaja Rahul	Rahul Mahesh		Rahul Shilpa	Bhaskar	SivaJyothi Varun Bhaskar	Evicted (Day 70)
Himaja	Safe	Nominated	Punarnavi Rahul	Rahul Punarnavi	Rahul	Punarnavi Ashu	Punarnavi Ravikrishna Mahesh Rahul	Rahul Mahesh		Shilpa Vithika	Mahesh	Evicted (Day 63)
Shilpa	Not in house							Ali Sreemukhi		SivaJyothi Himaja	Evicted (Day 56)
Ashu	Safe	Safe	Sreemukhi Rahul	Sreemukhi Tamanna	Bhaskar	Himaja Rahul	Evicted (Day 35)
Rohini	Safe	Safe	Punarnavi Mahesh	Tamanna Punarnavi	SivaJyothi	Evicted (Day 28)
Tamanna	Not in house		Varun Vithika	Bhaskar Rohini	Evicted (Day 21)
Jaffar	Nominated	Nominated	Vithika Mahesh	Evicted (Day 14)
Hema	Monitor	Nominated	Evicted (Day 7)
Notes	1, 2, 3		4, 5	6, 7	8, 9, 10, 11	6, 11	6, 12, 13, 14	15	16		17	18	19	19
Against Public Vote	Rahul Punarnavi Vithika Himaja Jaffar Hema		Sreemukhi Himaja Jaffar Mahesh Varun Vithika Punarnavi Rahul	Tamanna Punarnavi Rahul Vithika Bhaskar	Ravikrishna SivaJyothi Varun Bhaskar Rahul Rohini Sreemukhi	SivaJyothi Rahul Himaja Ashu Mahesh Punarnavi Bhaskar	Punarnavi Ravikrishna Mahesh Himaja Rahul Varun	Rahul Ali Mahesh Ravikrishna Sreemukhi	Shilpa Punarnavi Himaja Mahesh Sreemukhi		Mahesh Rahul Himaja	Sreemukhi Ravikrishna Varun Bhaskar	Rahul Mahesh Punarnavi Varun	Varun Mahesh Rahul
Evicted	Hema		Jaffar	Tamanna	Rohini	Ashu	No Eviction	Ali	Shilpa		Rahul	Ravikrishna	Punarnavi
											Himaja

Notes

  indicates the House Captain.

  indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction prior to the regular nominations process.

  indicates that the Housemate was granted immunity from nominations.

• ^Note 1 : On Launch Night, Siva Jyothi, Ravikrishna & Ashu were given a task to ask few questions given by BIGG BOSS, they had to choose 6 Housemates on the bases of their answers. As a result Rahul, Bhaskar, Sreemukhi, Jaffar, Varun & Vithika were Nominated.   And other housemates were Safe.
• ^Note 2 : :   On Day 1, Rahul, Bhaskar, Sreemukhi, Jaffar, Varun & Vithika had to mutually decide one housemate to be the Monitor. They choose Hema.
• ^Note 3 : Housemates were given a Nomination Task where the 6 nominated housemates had a chance to replace 1 safe housemate, but the decide will be made by Monitor Hema. Monitor Hema was also up for replace for the sixth nominee and the decision was taken by other housemates and nominated Hema.
• ^Note 4 : During the nomination process, Vithika was discussing nominations. Bigg Boss immediately took away her nomination eligibility.
• ^Note 5 : Bhaskar denied Bigg Boss to nominate two housemates. Bigg Boss gave him a choice to nominate 2 housemates or all the housemates will be nominated for eviction. Bhaskar decided to nominate two housemates.
• ^Note 6 : Face-to-face nominations.
• ^Note 7 : During the nomination process, Punarnavi self-nominated and denied to nominate two housemates. Bigg Boss gave her choice to nominate 2 housemates or she will be nominated for the entire season. Punarnavi decided to nominate two housemates.
• ^Note 8 : On Day 17, during the task Sreemukhi broke task property. Bigg Boss directly nominated her for Week 4.
• ^Note 9 : In Week 3, Ali & Punarnavi successfully competed their Secret Task and won immunity from Week 4's nominations.
• ^Note 10 : For this nomination process, housemates were called in pairs to the Confession Room, then had to mutually decide to save one of them from eviction and nominate the other.
• ^Note 11 : During the nomination process, Siva Jyothi & Rohini were discussing nominations. As Siva Jyothi was already nominated for Week 4's Eviction, Bigg Boss nominated Rohini. And directly nominated both of them for Week 5.
• ^Note 12 : In this nomination process, Bigg Boss asked the housemates to pair-up. Then other housemates had to nominate one of the housemate from each pair. The one with more nominations was nominated and incase of a tie in votes, the Captain Siva Jyothi had to break the tie. Later Captain Siva Jyothi had a special power to directly nominate one of the non-nominated housemates. She chose Varun.
• ^Note 13 : On Day 37, three of the six nominee had a chance to save themselves from nominations. Ravikrishna, Rahul & Varun successfully competed their tasks and were saved from nominations.
• ^Note 14 : This week there was no Eviction, even though the public voting was open.
• ^Note 15 : Nominations were done in pairs.
• ^Note 16 : In Week 8, before the nominations Bigg Boss divided the housemates into two groups.   Group 1 - Sreemukhi, Ravikrishna, Himaja, Siva Jyothi and Mahesh and   Group 2 - Punarnavi, Rahul, Varun, Vithika & Shilpa. Each housemate could only nominate 2 housemates from the other group.
• ^Note 17 : In Week 9, one had to do a sacrifice given by Bigg Boss to save the other contestant from nominations.
• ^Note 18 : In Week 10, Bigg Boss paired-up housemates and each pair had to pitch themselves to show they are stronger player than the other. Then other housemates had to save one of the housemate from each pair.
• ^Note 19 : In Week 11,Week 12, Bigg Boss gave a Task as part of Nominations.

Nomination vote count

Housemates	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14	Week 15	Nomination(s) Received to Evict	Nomination(s) Received to Save	Eviction(s) Faced
Bhaskar	Safe	0	3	2	1	2	0	C	1							8	0	3
Mahesh	Safe	3	2	0	2	6	4	3	1	C						20	0	5
Rahul	1	3	4	2	7	5	6	1	1							29	0	6
SivaJyothi	Safe	0	2	2	1	C	0	1	1							6	0	2
Sreemukhi	Safe	5	2	1	1	2	3	2	1		C					16	0	4
Varun	Safe	3	C	2	1	4	C	1	1							11	0	2
Vithika	1	4	3	0	0	4	0	1	C							13	0	3
Punarnavi	1	2	4	I	2	5	0	3	1			Evicted
Ravikrishna	Safe	0	0	2	0	7	3	2	1		Evicted					14	0	2
Himaja	1	5	0	0	4	5	0	2	1	Evicted						16	0	5
Shilpa	Not in house						0	3	Evicted							3	0	1
Ali	Safe	0	1	I	C	1	8	Evicted								10	0	1
Ashu	Safe	0	0	0	4	Evicted										4	0	1
Rohini	Safe	0	1	1	Evicted											2	0	1
Tamanna	Not in house	I	5	Evicted												5	0	1
Jaffar	1	3	Evicted													4	0	2
Hema	1	Evicted														1	0	1

Weekly summary

The main events in the house are summarized in the table below. A typical week begins with nominations, followed by a "luxury budget" task, punishment, a task for immunity or anything else, and then the eviction of a housemate during the Saturday or Sunday show. Evictions, tasks, and other notable events for a particular week are noted in order of occurrence.

Week 1	Entrances	On Day 1, Shiva Jyothi, Ravi Krishna, Ashu Reddy, Jaffar, Himaja, Rohini, Rahul Sipligunj, Baba Bhaskar, Punarnavi Bhupalam, Hema, Ali Reza, Mahesh Vitta, Sreemukhi, Varun Sandesh and Vithika Sheru entered the house.
	Daily Tasks	On Day 1, Bigg Boss Bigg Boss gave a task to Siva Jyothi, Ravi Krishna and Ashu Reddy to ask few questions to the other entrants and at the end requested them to give six names based on their answers. From the results of the task six housemates are Rahul Sipligunj, Punarnavi Bhupalam, Jaffar, Himaja , Vithika Sheru and Hema Bigg Boss announced six housemates were nominated and everyone was shocked. On Day 2, Bigg Boss gave a chance to six nominated housemates to save themselves from nomination and request to select a monitor, who can help them to save from nomination. Unianonymously Hema has been selected as a monitor. Bigg Boss assigned a task to Hema that she has to listen out to the nominated housemates and can decide to save one of them and also can recommend other housemates to the nomination. Gong No. Nominated Housemate Replacement Choice Housemate Decision 1 Rahul Siva Jyothi Denied 2 Varun Punarnavi Granted 3 Vithika Ashu Denied 4 Sreemukhi Himaja Granted 5 Jaffar Mahesh Denied Special Bhaskar Hema Granted
	Captaincy Task	Captaincy contenders: Winner:
	Nomination	Rahul Sipligunj, Hema, Jaffar, Punarnavi Bhupalam , Vithika Sheru and Himaja
	Luxury Budget Task
	Exits	Hema
Week 2	Entrances	On Day 8, Tammanah Simhadri as wildcard.
	Daily Tasks	On Day 8, Each one of the housemates were called to the confession room by Bigg Boss
	Captaincy Task	Captaincy contenders: Varun, Ali, Himaja Winner: Varun
	Nomination	Sreemukhi,Himaja, Jaffar, Mahesh, Varun,Vithika, Punarnavi, Rahul
	Luxury Budget Task
	Exits	Jaffar
Week 3	Daily Tasks
	Captaincy Task	Captaincy contenders:Rahul,Ali,RaviKrishna Winner: Ali
	Nomination	Sreemukhi, Bhaskar, Vithika, Punarnavi, Rahul
	Luxury Budget Task
	Exits	Tamanna Simhadri
Week 4	Daily Tasks
	Captaincy Task	No Captain for Week 4
	Nomination	RaviKrishna, Baba Bhaskar, Rohini Reddy, Rahul, Varun Sandesh, Sreemukhi
	Luxury Budget Task
	Exits	Rohini Reddy
Week 5	Daily Tasks
	Nomination	SivaJyothi, Himaja, Ashu, Rahul, Mahesh, Punarnavi, Baba Bhaskar HouseCaptain Ali nominated Baba Baskar for the direct nomination to evict.
	Luxury Budget Task
	Exits	Ashu Reddy
Week 6	Daily Tasks
	Captaincy Task	Captaincy contenders:SivaJyothi and Vithika Winner: SivaJyothi
	Nomination	Mahesh, Punarnavi, Himaja
	Luxury Budget Task
	Exits	No Eviction