Bigg Boss OTT 1, also known as Bigg Boss: Over-the-Top Season 1, was the first season of the Indian reality digital series Bigg Boss OTT which itself is the spin-off version of Bigg Boss. It premiered on 8 August 2021 on Voot with Karan Johar as the host for the OTT version. The Grand Finale of the show took place on 18 September 2021 where Divya Agarwal emerged as the winner and Nishant Bhat emerged as the runner-up.
On 24 July 2021, Voot unveiled a poster with Karan Johar as the host of this digital exclusive season. On 3 August, Voot unveiled a third promo with Karan Johar revealing the format of the season being much more bolder and crazier ever in the history.
Apart from the usual hour-long episode, viewers will also have access to the direct 24x7 camera footage. The show will be streamed every day. The episodes will be first telecasted through 24 hour live channel on paid subscription of Voot Select, then it will be shown for free next morning on Voot. The episodes also started to telecast on Colors TV late night but it later stopped telecasting on television.
The house this year is made with the theme "Stay Connected". The house consists of a Patio, Living Room, Kitchen, Bathroom, Bedroom, Garden Area, Confession Room, Dining Table, Swimming Pool and specially for the theme, they added a special room called "Stay Connected Room". The bedroom contains bunk beds this year and the house seems to be carnival-type designed one.
Theme<br/>This season was a first-time ever in the history of Bigg Boss, that launched 6 weeks before the television version on an OTT platform Voot. The season's theme was "Stay Connected" and 6 boys and 6 girls entered as pairs while 1 girl entered alone. The contestants had to work on making the bond with their connection stronger and survive in the game. On Day 29, Bigg Boss announced that all connections are now broken and all the housemates will play as individuals.
Features<br/>The makers have also launched many new features that will give powers to the audience such as Live Nominations, Punishments and Daily Report Card.
Ticket to Bigg Boss 15<br>All five finalists were offered Ticket to Bigg Boss 15 but the condition was that they would be out from finale race. Pratik Sehajpal chose the offer and he officially became the first contestant of Bigg Boss 15. As per the show's concept, finalists Shamita Shetty, Nishant Bhat and Pratik Sehajpal were qualified to participate in Bigg Boss 15. Later Raqesh Bapat and Neha Bhasin entered the Bigg Boss 15 as wildcard contestants but they couldn't survive for very long. Later, Shetty, Bhat and Sehajpal made it into finale week of Bigg Boss 15 by living in for 17 weeks and ended up becoming as 3rd, 4th, 1st Runner-ups respectively.
The participants in the order of appearance and entered in stage are:
Before entering the House, the housemates had to pair up with one co-contestant as connection. Divya Agarwal entered the House without any connection which resulted in Divya being nominated. On Day 30, all the pairs were broken. <blockquote style="padding: 0em; overflow:auto;">
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