The fifth season of the Kannada-language version of Indian reality television series Bigg Boss premiered on 15 October 2017.
[2] The finale of the season took place 28 January 2018, and rapper Chandan Shetty was declared the winner of the show and was awarded the prize money of ₹50 lakh.
[6][7] This will be the first season to allow non-celebrities to the Bigg Boss house with online auditions taking place from July 2017.
[8][9][10] The application process of the auditions for non-celebrities was exclusively carried by mobile app called Voot.
Hegde was evicted from the house a few days later after she assaulted Sameer Acharya for allegedly touching her inappropriately.