'Rao Sahab' to first wild-card winner, Elvish Yadav takes the trophy of Salman Khan's Bigg Boss OTT 2

Elvish Yadav. Pic/Bigg Boss OTT 2

The much-awaited finale night of Salman Khan-hosted Bigg Boss OTT 2 took place today. The Top-5 contestants of the show were Pooja Bhatt, Bebika Dhurve, Manisha Rani, Abhishek Malhan and Elvish Yadav. After a thrilling episode, Salman announced Elvish as the winner of the trophy. He defeated Abhishek in the Top-2. Entered as a wild card participant, he went on to steal the thunder from most of the housemates and established himself as the potential owner of the title.

During his stay in the house, Elvish made bonds with Abhishek and Manisha. Despite being competitors, they never allowed the game to create rifts in their friendship. Re-writing the history of Bigg Boss, Elvish became the first wild card contestant to win the coveted trophy. Popularly known by his social media name, 'Rao Sahab', Elvish is a YouTuber. Hailing from Gurugram, he has two YouTube channels. One of the channels is called 'Elvish Yadav' which has 10.8 million subscribers The second one is named 'Elvish Yadav Vlogs' and it has 4.75 million subscribers.

With over 13 million followers on Instagram, Elvish is a youth icon. He entered Bigg Boss OTT 2 house with Aashika Bhatia. They were given a task to perform with Manisha Rani and Avinash Sachdev. Upon entering the house, he had major fights with Avinash. A showdown between them happened over 'baap pe mat jaana'. Known for his straight and unfiltered talks, Elvish added the much-needed spice to the show. In a unique situation, it became YouTuber vs YouTuber at the finale.

One of his favourite and most popular terms on the show was 'systumm'. Over the past few weeks, it had become clear that the final tussle would be between Fukra Insaan (Abhishek) and Rao Sahab (Elvish) and viola! In the initial weeks on the show, he had to deal with tough tasks. Including the one where Jiya Shankar made him drink water mixed with hand soap.

Manisha Rani, who often flirted with Jad Hadid, found her comfort zone with Elvish. The trio of Manisha, Elvish and Abhishek shall remain immortal in the hearts of the audience. The Bihar-based social media influencer confessed to having affection for the wild card contestant. In an episode of Bigg Boss OTT, Manisha said she has feelings for Elvish. Admitting that she respected him as a person and loved spending time with him, the social media influencer requested him to not reveal her sentiments to other housemates. Elvish was left surprised by Manisha's confession and explained that he only flirts and argues with those he actually cares for.

During the recently held Family Week, Elvish's father entered the house and warned Manisha to stay away from the YouTuber. He asked her to focus on her career instead of establishing a romantic relationship on the show. Later, she clarified to him that her interactions were intended to be for fun and not offend him or hurt his girlfriend. Manisha said, "If your girlfriend doesn't understand my flirting, then she's mad," and was quick to say that Elvish's girlfriend would recognise it as harmless flirting.

For all female fans of Elvish, sorry ladies, he isn't single. Kriti Mehra is the lucky lady. Reportedly, they've been dating for close to 6-7 years now.