Bengaluru: Actor Manju Pavagada is the winner of Kannada Bigg Boss season 8. The grand finale held on Sunday late night in which host Kichcha Sudeep announced that Manju is the winner.

Manju received 45,03,495 votes from the viewers while runner up K.P. Aravind from Udupi received 43,35,957 votes.

Actress Divya Uruduga received 11,61,205 votes and adjudged as the third runner up.

Manju attributed the trophy to Maja Bharata, another comedy show, which provided him the platform.

Manju received Rs.53 lakhs as the prize money while Aravind received 11 lakhs. He also won another Rs.2 lakhs.

This year Bigg Boss was held for 120 days in two segments.