taken all necessary precautions to ensure a COVID-free environment for everyone involved in the production. Format The show follows selected contestants who are isolated from the outside world for 106 days (or 15 weeks) in a custom-built house. The housemates are dictated by an omnipresent entity named Bigg Boss. Each week, one or more of the housemates are evicted by a public vote. The last week, the housemate who gets the most votes, wins the game. Housemates The participants of Bigg Boss Kannada Season 8 are as follows: Dhanushree – Social media personality Shubha Poonja – Film Actress Shankar Ashwath – Veteran Actor Vishwanath Haveri – Singer Vaishnavi Gowda – Serial Actress Aravind KP – Motorcyclist Nidhi Subbaiah – Film Actress Shamanth Gowda – Social media personality Geetha Bharathi Bhat – Serial actress Manju Pavagada – Comedian Nirmala Chennappa – Actress & Director Raghu Gowda – Youtuber Divya Suresh – Actress and Model Divya Uruduga – Actress Chandrakala Mohan – Serial Actress Prashanth Sambargi – Businessman & Activist Rajeev Hanu – Actor & Cricketer Wildcard entrants Chakravarthy Chandrachud - Journalist, Writer and Director Vyjayanthi Adiga - Actress Priyanka Thimmesh - Film actress Nomination table References Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic Colors Kannada original programming Kannada-language television shows Bigg Boss Kannada