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After the roaring heat generated by Ashmit Patel and Veena Malik on Bigg Boss last year, romance was definitely a missing link this season. But now that too, is about to become a thing of the past.

While India’s biggest House of Scandal continues to buzz with mind-boggling activity including daily catfights, Miss India International Shonali Nagrani and Wild Card entry Siddharth Bhardwaj have begun coochie-cooing like lovebirds on the reality show.

The latest episode caught the couple in the bedroom, exchanging sweet-nothings under the observance of night cameras, with Siddharth consoling and hugging Shonali and kissing her hand, while the girl seemed to reciprocate his every move.

“Siddharth has earlier won the reality show MTV Splitsvilla and knows how to play things up. If all goes well, we should have the first full-blown romance of this season on Bigg Boss in a few days,” says celebrity publicist Dale Bhagwagar, who is a specialist with reality shows, having handled the PR for some of the most popular contestants including Shilpa Shetty (Big Brother), Rakhi Sawant, Kashmera Shah, Sherlyn Chopra and Ashmit Patel (Bigg Boss).

When asked if Siddharth and Shonali are doing this for TRP’s, Dale remarks, “It doesn’t matter much, as long as they are providing the entertainment. Bigg Boss is a game and however much one thinks of it affecting society, one should not forget that all the Housemates know very well that they are wearing mikes around them and are surrounded by cameras 24x7. They have all gone on the show with personal agendas and roles to portray. They have all gone on it to play and win.”

Singer Raageshwari Loomba became the latest contestant to get evicted from the fifth season of reality show "Bigg Boss".

Raageshwari was nominated for elimination along with Pooja Missra, Amar Upadhyay, Mahek Chahal, Juhi Parmar and Shonali Nagrani.

The singer, who was quite popular among the contestants and stayed away from controversies, was nominated by Bigg Boss after she failed to complete her secret task, where she had to spy on the other inmates.

"Bigg Boss 5", which started Oct 2, has celebrity participants locked inside an isolated house without any communication with the outside world.

With Salman Khan returning to co-host the Aapka Farmaan episode of Bigg Boss with Sanjay Dutt, it would be interesting to see, if his 'good friend' Mahek Chahal can get away with her new-found arrogance on the reality show.

Ever since her nomination this week, Salman's girl has been unnecessarily fighting and arguing with most contestants in the House. This week, she dramatically attacked new Housemate Siddharth Bhardwaj over petty issues and patched up with him later.

"Whether it is her ego or insecurity, Mahek is surely being unreasonable and coming across as artificial; just like Pooja Bedi. She may be doing all this to save herself from the eviction. But she needn't worry about that when she has Salman Khan's influential hand over her," says a source.

Some time ago, it came to be known that the Norway-based Mahek is special to Salman. It was revealed that the superstar not only recommended her name for his earlier films Wanted and Main Aur Mrs. Khanna, but also for Bigg Boss.

According to reports, when Mahek got a call from the makers of Bigg Boss, she had already packed her bags and readied herself for the show, assuming that no one could ever refuse Salman's recommendation. She was right!

Now, whether Mahek is getting too big for her boots is not as important as the bigger question: Can the Salman connection save her from eviction? The other five Housemates nominated this week include Pooja Misrra, Raageshwari, Juhi Parmar, Amar Upadhyay and Shonali Nagrani, while Pooja Bedi, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, Shradha Sharma, Mandeep Bevli, Vida Samadzai and Shakti Kapoor are safe for the time being.

As the week draws to a close, Bigg Boss fans can't help but wonder, who will be evicted this week.

Changing the norm of putting up two contestants for eviction every week, this week the show has nominated six Housemates namely Juhi Parmar, Raageshwari, Shonali Nagrani, Amar Upadhyay, Mahek Chahal and Pooja Misrra (the latter being nominated for the third consecutive week).

"Since Bigg Boss is India's biggest reality show, people speculate with abated breath to see who goes out every week and who gets to survive. This week too, the anticipation is high," says celebrity publicist and Bigg Boss specialist Dale Bhagwagar, who has handled the media for maximum number of reality show contestants like Shilpa Shetty (Big Brother), Rakhi Sawant, Kashmera Shah, Sherlyn Chopra and Ashmit Patel (Bigg Boss) among many others.

Hesitant to come up with a probable name, when we push Dale for his personal opinion, he says, "Knowing, studying and understanding the show from years, I'd pick Raageshwari. Though she is a fabulous person, I feel she hasn't been able to meet the requisites a scandalous show like this demands. This makes her the weakest link at the moment, very likely to be evicted."

"Plus, if Raageshwari goes, there'll be more drama as her 'best friend' Pooja Bedi will be terribly upset that her closest pal left instead of her 'target' Pooja Misrra," added Dale.

Now, Dale has rarely gone wrong in his judgment, so let's see if he has his hand on the pulse this time too. It sure is an interesting wait-and-watch game.

The fiery Pooja Mishra has got everyone in Bigg Boss 5 on the edge. Now, the evicted housemate, the Rajasthani folk dancer Gulabo Sapera, has made a shocking disclosure about Pooja Missra.

Talking about everyone’s pet peeve in the house, Sapera has said in media interviews that she suspects that Pooja Missra is on drugs. And what does Pooja get high on? The incense sticks, according to Sapera.

Gulabo Sapera has revealed that when she was in the Bigg Boss house, Pooja would often ask her for incense sticks which she would carry into the bathroom. Sapera suspects Pooja either used to sniff the smoke or eat the incense sticks to get high.

In fact, Gulabo goes on to say that Pooja’s behaviour used to change after she smoked her cigarettes. According to her, Pooja smoked for hours after which she would get hostile.

Both Pooja and Gulabo were up for eviction but Pooja was spared after the public voted for Gulabo’s eviction from the house.

In the house, Pooja Missra has fought with many housemates, including Shonali Nagrani and Mahek Chahal.

Pooja Misrra continues to lock horns with housemates on Day 12 of Bigg Boss 5. The lady's violent streak perturbed the housemates.

Pooja got extremely angry when she was blamed by inmates Vida and Shonali for creating imbalance in the house.

She even kicked the dustbin and broke the broom while fighting with Shonali. She went to the extent of threatning to hit Shonali.

If this was not enough, Pooja picked up another fight with Mahek who came to console her. She had a heated argument with her and almost punched her.

The housemates got extremely furious with Pooja Misrra and come to a conclusion that Pooja is mentally unstable and requires psychiatric help. All the housemates also come to an agreement that Pooja needs to apologize or leave the house as her violent behavior is just unacceptable.

Later, however, Amar comes in to sooth Pooja Misrra and told her that though the core reason for her anger is right, she needs to learn to deal with the issues better and control her temper.