Just a few days after Salman Khan made an official announcement of Bigg Boss 12, former contestant Sofia Hayat said that the show should be banned.
Sofia, who was a part of Bigg Boss 7, made some hard-hitting comments on the show, accusing it of promoting violence and encouraging people to disrespect women.
In an exclusive statement to International Business Times India, she also slammed host Salman, and went on to say that the show is all about "who licks Salman's a**."
Below is what Sofia has to say about the show just a few days before the start of Bigg Boss 12:
"Bigg Boss should be banned. There are men disrespecting women, there is a trend to shout at people and put people down. Trolling is encouraged by Bigg Boss as they do it themselves, humiliating people is what the show is about. Bigg Boss promotes all of these to its younger viewers. Young minds saturate things they watch and what they watch becomes a part of their programming as young children, then as adults. We are shaped by what we see and hear. Our body cells imprint images and sounds into the water that makes up 70% of our bodies. Imagine the impact this show has on you! Bigg Boss makes men disrespect women, it makes people fight for entertainment and all for what? Bigg Boss should be boycotted. Why are people watching the show? They edit a lot of things, and they allow people to take drugs in the house and children are watching this thinking this is how people behave. They are not real circumstances. Although on my part I was always real, a lot of my things were edited out, so you did not see what really happened. Salman Khan needs to have some responsibility, which he does not. It is all entertainment for him, and if you flutter your eyelids at him and bow down to him, you might get a film or shoot with him. The show is about who throws the best insults, who licks Salman's a** a lot and who the best liar is."
Sofia had earlier accused co-contestant Armaan Kohli of physically assaulting her inside Bigg Boss house. She had targeted Salman earlier too when the actor was granted bail in the black-buck poaching case.
