Siddharth Shukla under fire

Former Bigg Boss winner and forever forthright television actress Shilpa Shinde is on the warpath against this season’s Bigg Boss winner Siddharth Shukla.

Shilpa, who admits to being in a relationship with Siddharth in the past, explained why it was important for his true colours to be exposed. “By winning Bigg Boss, he’s supposed to be setting an example. He is supposed to be some kind of an inspiration and a role model for many others who aspire to be winners on Bigg Boss. Is this the behaviour you endorse by making an abusive man a winner?”

Shilpa, who won the reality show in 2013, says she wouldn’t have spoken out if she hadn’t thought it was imperative to do so.

When asked about her relationship with Siddharth, she thinks for a while and then says, “He was aggressive in his behaviour as if he had something to hide. His phone would be switched off for long hours when we were seeing one another. He would go missing without prior announcement. When I asked him about this, he would get aggressive and ask back if I didn’t trust him. But I trusted him. So why didn’t he respect that trust?”

Shilpa reveals there were many times when she would come to his rescue. “Once, he got into trouble for acting aggressively with cops. I had to make some calls, but it’s not as if he didn’t have a good side to him. Of course, he did; I’ve seen him help those who have come to him in distress. But having said that, I’d still like to insist that he wasn’t the right person to win Bigg Boss.”

As for advice for future contestants on the show, she says: “Don’t imitate his (Siddharth’s) behaviour. He didn’t win because he was aggressive with women, he won because he had the backing of influential people.”