Bigg Boss 16 grand finale live updates: MC Stan beats Shiv Thakare to win Bigg Boss 16

The big day is here, the grand finale of Bigg Boss 16, where a new winner of the popular reality show will be crowned. The Salman Khan-hosted show has been one of the most prominent and viewed shows on Indian television for over a decade.

Rapper MC Stan aka Altaf Tadavi has been crowned the winner of Bigg Boss 16, beating close friend and Bigg Boss Marathi winner Shiv Thakare. Priyanka Chahar Choudhary reached the top three but was eliminated from the show. Host Salman Khan praised her for her composed reaction to the eviction, calling her the 'real winner'. Archana Gautam is the second contestant to be eliminated from the show. The actress-politician cried after her name was announced.

Shalin Bhanot became the first contestant to be eliminated in the grand finale of Bigg Boss 16. As he exited the house and met Salman Khan, a video message was played for the actor, wherein Ekta Kapoor offered the lead role in her show Beqaboo.

In the latest video shared by the official page of Colors on Instagram, ex-contestants Abdu Rozik, Sajid Khan, Sumbul Touqeer Khan, Nimrit Kaur, Gautam Vig, Soundarya Sharma, Ankit Gupta, Manya Singh can be seen entering the house and interacting with the top 5 finalists. Sunny Deol entered the house to promote his film Gadar 2 and had Abdu Rozik dance with him and Salman Khan to Main Nikla Gaddi Leke.

 

 

 

 

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On Sunday night, the 16^th winner of the show will be chosen from the five finalists – Priyanka Chahar Choudhary, Shalin Bhanot, MC Stan, Shiv Thakare, and Archana Gautam. The finale will begin telecast on Colors TV and Voot from 7pm on Sunday, February 12, bringing to an end several months of entertainment, tasks, infighting, and competition. The grand finale night will feature stand up acts from Bharti Singh and Krushna Abhishek as well as dance performances by the finalists. Apart from this, the occasion will also see some reunions as some of the most popular ex-contestants from the show will return.

On Saturday, after the episode ended, the makers shared behind-the-scenes action and preparation for the finale night. This is the first time in the history of Bigg Boss that a good chunk of making was shown on television. Choreographers were busy making the finalist dance to their tunes. Apart from the top five finalists' dance performances, the audience will be treated with notable acts from former contestants.

While the winner will be crowned around midnight later tonight, speculations and polls around it have already begun. In a Twitter poll conducted by DNA, fans had a clear favourite as over half the total votes fell in favour of Priyanka Chahar Choudhary. The atress polled 50.5% of the 4940 votes in the poll, closely followed by Shiv Thakara with 38.6% of the total votes. MC Stan and Archana Gautam lagged far behind in the counting.

Fans of Bigg Boss 16 have been voting for their favourite finalist to win on the Voot app. Voting lines were open till Sunday, 12 pm. Bigg Boss 16 Grand Finale will be aired on Colors on February 12, 7 pm onwards.