New Delhi: On an all-time high after winning the UK reality show Celebrity Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty is getting all the publicity she can ask for and more. Apart from becoming a very well-known face in the UK, she has some very lucrative assignments in the country and very soon, back home as well.
Considering the support she received from her fans in the UK while she was in and outside the Big Brother house, it’s not surprising that she now has a special place for the country in her heart.
“I am beginning to feel that Britain is a second home to me because of the amount of love I have got here. It is certainly different coming here now because everyone knows who I am,” Shilpa said in an interview to DNA.
The actress asserted that now her fans knew her as a person and not just through her profession. She added that through the show, she had represented India and showed that Indians were very tolerant people.
Dismissing rumours that she was signed up for a film with Hugh Grant, she hastened to add that would not turn such an offer down if it came her way.
And after being an alleged victim of racial discrimination, would Shilpa be taking the cause further any further? “It depends if I have time. But I do think that my stint in Big Brother has brought awareness about serious issues and many people say they now realise they must stand up to bullies of any kind. Recently I was told that a group of white children went up to some Asian children and said sorry after what happened to me in the show. That is what it is all about,” she told DNA.
Shilpa won the public's support after fellow contestants - British actor Jade Goody and model Danielle Lloyd - and hurled racially tinged insults at her in an episode that led anti-racism petitioners worldwide to file a record 40,000 complaints to the British media regulator Ofcom.
The actress took home a prize money of £100,000 (approx Rs 80 lakh) apart from big-ticket endorsements, jewellery and a chance to anchor a cricket show among others.
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