Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 8

Wildcard entrants

• Nagapriya "Riya" Thiyagarajan, a Bigg Boss critic, influencer and model. She is also the second runner-up of the beauty pageant Miss Chennai 2023.
• Raanav V C - an actor and model, known for his role in the web series Aadhalinaal Kaadhal Seiveer.
• Varshini Venkat, an actress and model known for her role in Kannana Kanne.
• Manjari Narayanan, an influencer, public speaker and news reader, known for contestant in Tamil Pechu Engal Moochu (Season 3).
• Shiva Kumar, an actor known for his role in the film Singakutty and winning BB Jodigal (Season 2), husband of Season 1 contestant Suja Varunee.
• Rayan, a television actor known for his roles in Thamizhum Saraswathiyum and Panivizhum Malarvanam.

Twists

24-hour eviction

Host Vijay Sethupathi announced that for the first time in Bigg Boss history there will be an eviction within 24 hours of the grand launch. Sachana Namidass was evicted by fellow housemates in an open nomination process.

Boys vs girls

On launch day, Bigg Boss announced that the theme of the season is going to be boys vs. girls hence both boys and girls need to collaborate to obtain privileges over the Bigg Boss house facilities with the other gender. Both teams will record their points for each weekly and daily task they win. The team with the most points closer to the end of the season will receive special advantages. However the theme concluded on Day 50 and the individual competition began.

Contestant swap and direct nomination

A contestant from each team is interchanged every week to support their respective teams. The two contestants are allowed to directly nominate a contestant from the house for the upcoming eviction process directly.

Weekly Team Nomination-Free Pass

Each week the teams will need to complete three rounds of tasks assigned by Bigg Boss and the team that wins the most tasks will receive a nomination free pass token which will allow them to save a housemate from their team who is in the present week's nomination list.

Goibibo's all-expenses-paid trip to dream destination

Team Boys and Team Girls will need to entertain and perform well every week. At the end of every week, one best performer will be chosen from each team by their housemates, which in turn will reward them with a Goibibo stamp in their Goibibo passport. The Boys vs Girls theme concluded on Day 50. Following that, two or more individuals will be selected by their housemates as the best performers in the house based on their weekly performance. The contestant who collects the most stamps towards the end of the season will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to their dream destination.

Nomination-Free Pass (Viduthalai Pass)

Every week, all housemates are required to compete and excel in the weekly task assigned by Bigg Boss. The winner will be awarded a Nomination-Free Pass, granting them immunity from the nomination process in the following week. However, this immunity was revoked by Bigg Boss for the rest of the season due to foul play observed during Week 12's captaincy task, conducted at the end of Week 11.

A23's Captaincy Streak leaderboard

The A23 Captaincy Streak Leaderboard tracks the captaincy streaks of housemates weekly, with updates featuring their names and achievements. At the end of the season, the housemate with the highest number of captaincies will be awarded a Royal Enfield motorcycle by A23. Evicted housemates become ineligible for this reward. During Week 14, A23 organized a tiebreaker challenge for the remaining contestants on the A23 Captaincy Streak Leaderboard. The task featured Muthukumaran, Vishal, Deepak, and Arun as participants, as they were the only housemates still present in the house and on the leaderboard, while the others—Manjari, Jeffry, Ranjith, Tharshika, and Sathya—had been evicted. Muthukumaran secured victory by being the first to successfully complete the puzzle task.

Movies

This is the first season in Bigg Boss history where housemates watched a full-length movie on Netflix as a promotion for the movie and production team.

Wild Card Knock - Out (K.O.)

For the first time in Bigg Boss history, Penultimate Week witnessed the return of the first eight evicted contestants, not as reunion guests but as challengers. In the unprecedented Wild Card Knock-Out (K.O.) task, the Top 8 had to compete against the challengers to defend their positions and secure a spot in the final week. By the end of the task, one or two members of the Top 8 could be replaced by challengers based on performance, while those who fail will face eviction.

However, on Day 99, Bigg Boss concluded, after a discussion he initiated, that the challengers had not made sufficient efforts to replace the Top 6. Acknowledging the consistent performance of the Top 6, he declared that their efforts earned them a place in the finale week.

Cash Grab Run Task and Jacquline's eviction

Unlike other seasons (including BB Ultimate) where the housemate accepts the cash eviction and evicts them self from the game. This season for the first time in Bigg Boss India's history allowed housemates to take the cash and still continue in the game, However housemates will have to leave the Bigg Boss house and run outside of the house where the cash box is placed within a certain meter radius from the house's main door and pick up the box and return to the house within a selected time frame. If the housemate doesn't return to the house within the time they will lose the cash they received and will be evicted from the house hence being unable to continue the game. Each time the housemate runs for the cash box the cash will be deducted from the overall winner cash prize which was initially lakhs. The more cash taken by housemates the lesser the prize money of the winner will be at the end of the season.

• Housemates can still attempt to run for the cash and return to the house midway after changing their mind if they won't wish to risk being evicted and unable to take the cash in time. If they do so they are safe and won't be evicted.

Guest appearances

Weekly summary

The main events in the Bigg Boss 8 house are summarised in the table below.

Nomination table

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Nomination notes

• : Housemates must evict one teammate within 24 hours of the grand launch.
• : On Day 5, Sachana re-entered the house.
• : after a task, Arun won the nomination free task, saving him from the Week 2 eviction process and hence cannot be evicted that week.
• : Muthukumaran and (Pavi) also known as pavithra were allowed to nominate one housemate for a direct nomination in Week 2.
• : Team Girls won the nomination free pass and awarded it to Jacquline and she saved herself from Week 2 nomination.
• : Team Girls won the nomination free pass and awarded it to Pavithra and she saved herself from Week 3 nomination.
• : Team Girls won the nomination free pass and awarded it to Sunita and she saved herself from Week 4 nomination.
• : Host Vijay Sethupathi cancelled the eviction for Week 4 due to Diwali-week celebrations in house.
• : Manjari, Raanav, Rayan, Riya, Shiva and Varshini were granted immunity from nominations for Week 5 as the new entrants.
• : Team Boys won the nomination free pass and awarded it to Ranjith and he saved himself from Week 5 nomination.
• : During a task Deepak was selected as a least performer and hence was directly nominated for Week 6 nomination.
• : Team Boys won the nomination free pass and awarded it to Deepak and he saved himself from Week 6 nomination.
• : Team Boys won the nomination free pass and awarded it to Shiva and he saved himself from Week 7 nomination.
• : On Day 50, Deepak was evicted due to surprise mid-week eviction twist
• : Since Jeffry won the "Doll House" task in Week 8, he gained immunity and was saved from the Week 9 eviction process.
• : The audience was asked if there should be an assistant captain for Week 9, and they voted yes. Hence, all the housemates voted for Sachana to be the assistant captain for Week 9.
• : Since Manjari won the "Angels vs Devils" task in Week 9, she gained immunity and was saved from the Week 10 eviction process.
• : Since Jeffry won the "Bigg Boss Factory" task in Week 10, he gained immunity and was saved from the Week 11 eviction process.
• : During the "Bigg Boss Factory" task in Week 10, Raanav was voted to be directly nominated for the Week 11 eviction process by co-housemates.
• : Since Team Yellow won the "Sengal Sengala" task in Week 11 and controversially awarded the nomination free pass to Rayan, he was saved from the Week 12 eviction process.
• : During the captaincy task, Bigg Boss announced that there would no longer be house captain immunity for the season, as the contestants were accused of not playing the task to their full potential.
• : Sandy won the ticket to the finale task and became the first finalist of the season.
• : Since Rayan won the ticket to the finale, he is directly saved from the Week 13 eviction and was automatically exempt from the nomination process in Week 14.
• : Since Jacquline failed to complete the Cash Box task, she was evicted from the Bigg Boss House and losing her position as a finalist.

Related shows

Bigg Boss 8 Munnottom

Bigg Boss 8 Fun Unlimited

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