The season launched on 30 January 2022 with Kamal Haasan as a host, but he has exited the show from week 3 onwards, due to scheduling conflicts with his upcoming film Vikram.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The Grand Finale of the show took place on 10 April 2022 and Balaji Murugadoss emerged as the winner, while Niroop Nandakumar became the runner-up.

[8] Thamarai Selvi and Maria Juliana became the first 2 commoner contestants to make it to the grand finale and becoming finalists in the whole Bigg Boss Tamil franchise.

Change of hostSince actor Kamal Haasan was busy with his film's shooting Vikram he stepped down as host at the end of the third week of the show.

These following housemates have received an improvement in their status and overall positions in this version of Bigg Boss compared to when they played in their previous seasons.

Niroop, Anitha, Snehan, Suruthi, Juliana, Abhinay and Vanitha received enough public votes to stay in the Bigg Boss Ultimate house.

Balaji Murugadoss was sent to the prison on Day 9 by Bigg Boss due to a rule break during the BB Police Station task.

Balaji M, Thamarai Selvi, Juliana, Anitha Sampath, Niroop Nandhakumar and Snehan received enough public votes to stay in the Bigg Boss Ultimate house.