After stealing hearts in Amazon Prime Video’s The Traitors, Apoorva Mukhija, aka The Rebel Kid, Purav Jha, and more might join Bigg Boss 19 as participants.

According to the latest report by the Indian Express, Bigg Boss 19 is going to be the longest season of the reality show franchise, which will expand over five months.

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While the show will go on for five months, Salman Khan will be there only for three months, and then the makers will rope in three other hosts.

“Like every year, the makers are planning to bring in different celebrities as special hosts. After Salman finishes his three-month-long stint, makers will bring in Farah Khan, Karan Johar, and Anil Kapoor to step in as hosts,” added the source.

According to the source, the core team is still discussing whether they’ll bring in just one host after Salman Khan’s exit or rope in multiple celebrities to host the show in two-week slots. However, it’s confirmed that Salman will be back to host the grand finale of the season.

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This season is expected to kick off with around 15 contestants, with an additional 3 to 5 wild-card entries joining later. Recently, two more names, actress Lataa Saberwal and Ashish Vidyarthi, have surfaced as probable participants. Apart from them, several well-known faces from TV and social media have reportedly been approached, including Ram Kapoor, Gautami Kapoor, Dheeraj Dhoopar, Alisha Panwar, Munmun Dutta, Anita Hassanandani, Khushi Dubey, Gaurav Taneja, Apoorva Mukhija, Chinki Minki, Purav Jha, Krishna Shroff, Mr. Faisu, Kanika Mann, Raj Kundra, Daisy Shah, Arshifa Khan, Tanushree Dutta, Sharad Malhotra, Mamta Kulkarni, Paras Kalnawat, and Mickey Makover.

According to the report, the show will go live on August’s last weekend, the 29th and 30th of the month.