Putting the ‘Nach Baliye 3′ controversy behind her, actress Rakhi Sawant is back on entertainment channel Star Plus as one of the participants of its new reality show ‘Arre Deewano Mujhe Pehchano’.

The outspoken actress, who alongwith ex-boyfriend Abhishek Awasthi, lost the show’s final to Sanjeeda Sheikh and Aamir Ali, had accused the channel of cheating her. Rakhi had created a ruckus in front of chief guest Salman Khan during the show’s final and vowed never to work with Star Plus again.

“Star Plus is like home. ‘Nach Baliye 3′ has given a boost to my career and I cannot forget it. I apologise for my conduct in the past,” Rakhi said when quizzed about the issue here on Tuesday. The item girl said this was first time she would be seen doing stand-up comedy and gags in disguise.
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As Salman’s ‘Dus Ka Dum’ is all setting up to wrap up, it has a lot of guest celebrities in store for its viewers. After Jeetendra and Tushaar Kapoor, Rani Mukherji, Lara Dutta and Rakhi Sawant will be seen sharing the television screen with Salman in the show.

Salman is known to get along very well with his celebrity guests and this was evident with the way Salman was made the studio echoed with laughter and enjoyment as entertained everybody with spotty one-liners. One thing which was very very obvious was Salman’s cold behavior with Lara. He mingled quite well with Rani and Rakhi, but not with Lara Dutta. Read the rest of this entry »

This week has been really tough on actress Shilpa Shetty, who is hosting the second season of “Bigg Boss”. First Jade Goody’s traumatic adieu and then item girl Rakhi Sawant’s allegation that a contestant on the show has been changed because of her manoeuvres.

The show went on air Aug 17 on newly launched channel Colors.

When questioned about Rakhi’s allegation, Shilpa told IANS: “I don’t even want to talk about her. But I was very hurt. I really like Rakhi. Why was she talking this way about me without knowing the facts? How does she know the facts about how contestants were chosen?
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