Shilpa Shetty : Hit, now Miss!

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Posted: 17 years ago

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Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty, who created ripples after winning the reality show Big Brother and bagging the Broadway musical Miss Bollywood, has suffered a set back. If sources are to be believed, producer Farhath Hussain (who also organises Bollywood shows all over UK) is now trying to rope in Lara Dutta / Priyanka Chopra/ Bipasha Basu to get into Shilpa's shoes for the second inning.

So what's the problem? Our source informs, "The problem is not how the shows fared. They did reasonably well in most of the places, except Germany. The problem is that Shilpa demanded a lot of money. In fact her mother took charge and asked for an amount that was three times more than what was agreed upon initially. The contract was divided in three parts and she had already taken the Rs 3 crores after the first part of the contract was fulfilled. However, for the remaining part she demanded three times the amount. The total contract was over Rs 12 crores. Naturally, Hussain flared up and decided to strike her off from the upcoming season. Hussain was also upset as he is the one who has been officially promoting her after she won Big Brother. He had also organised many shows and charity events for Shilpa."

Sunanda Shetty

The second run of the musical slated to begin in March has been postponed to September. Our source adds, "Shilpa was unable to give dates for March, because she was committed to shoot for Vijayta Films' film Man."

An actor close to Shilpa defends her, "Shilpa has not been booted out. She is simply exhausted because the shows have been held in several parts of the globe. In fact, she herself is not interested in pursuing Miss Bollywood any further."

When contacted, Hussain said, "I don't want to talk about this at all."