The Bigg Boss 12's first episode that aired on September 16 had all the ingredients the drama we had been missing all this time in the year. Sure, it had its ups and downs with moments centring around the biggest and promising subject of entertainment, Anup Jalota and Jasleen Matharu. But overall it does promise that there's going to be so much drama and hopefully better than what the 10th season had to offer. But before we get into the groove of the 12th season of Salman Khan's show, let us take a look at the contestants who won the Popularity ranks fair and square!

Ormax Media has often kept a track of the show and the viewers' reaction to the show. They have also maintained a statistics of the show's success, failure, contestants' popularity, bad PR and so forth. Just recently, they tweeted out a Popularity chart from season 4 till season 11.

"Since Season 4, the most popular Bigg Boss contestant in Ormax Characters India Loves has gone on to win the show. Look out for our weekly updates every Saturday on the Bigg Boss popularity charts. #BiggBoss12 #OrmaxCIL" said their tweet as they revealed the list. Shweta Tiwari, Gauahar Khan, Gautam Gulati and Prince Narula have managed to be the most popular throughout their respective seasons.

Check out the list below.

The 12th season does have some really controversial elements to make it a popular show. So far Jasleen Matharu and Anup Jalota's relationship has been the talk of the town. In fact, when we checked what Twitterati had to say about the first episode of Bigg Boss 12, they only had to talk about Jalota and him managing to get a girl like Jasleen. It's going to be super interesting!

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