The show, spread over 14 weeks, came to an end with Juhi beating Amar Upadhyay, Mahek Chahal, Siddharth Bhardwaj and Akashdeep Saigal. Towards the end, her sole rival in the fray was Mahek.

"I am happy and thankful to the audience....I supported the truth since the start of the show and everyone has seen it. My family was my biggest support system. Whenever I was weak, I used to think of my parents, my husband and my in-laws," Juhi said.

She received Rs one crore in prize money. The reality show has celebrity contestants staying in the `Bigg Boss House' for 14 weeks, cut off from the outside world and under continuous camera surveillance.

The winners of previous four seasons were Rahul Roy, Ashutosh Kaushik, Vindu Dara Singh and Shweta Tiwari.

The grand finale tonight saw performances by Indo-Canadian porn-star Sunny Leone, Rakhi Sawant, Malakia Arora, Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan.

The fifth season started with one male and 13 female contestants. Bollywood's bad man Shakti Kapoor entered the house with much funfare, along with actress Pooja Bedi, Nihita Biswas, wife of serial killer Charles Sobhraj, singer-actress Raageshwari Loomba, wrestler Sonika Kaliraman, model-VJ Pooja Mishra, Bhojpuri actress Shraddha Sharma, model-actress Shonali Nagrani, actress Mahek Chahal, Afgani beauty Vida, celebrity transgender Laxmi Tripathi, Rajasthani dancer Gulabo, anchor Mandeep Belvi and TV actress Juhi Parmar. Amar Upadhyay, Akashdeep Saigal and Siddharth Bhardwaj entered later on. The Big Boss house this time had moved from Lonavala to Karjat.

International and national personalities who came on the show as guests were Swami Agnivesh, filmmaker Mahesh Bhaat, Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds and Japenese sumo wrestler Yamamotoyama.

There were cat-fights, physical and verbal abuses and romance in the house. Pooja Mishra took the centre-stage, by picking up fights with almost every contestant. She was ousted after a fight with Siddharth Bhardwaj.

'The feeling is yet to sink in', says Bigg Boss winner Juhi

TV actress Juhi Parmar, who has won the fifth season of controversial reality show 'Bigg Boss' says it is a second innings for her as her 'weighty' issue had kept her away from the small screen.

"It is like a second innings for me....I wanted to start work but only after reducing weight...getting in proper shape. I was away from work for a year or so. My weight was a big hindrance in my career which I gained due to medical reasons. But there are no excuses accepted in the industry. For me the struggle was to lose weight...my target was that," Juhi said.

"Bigg Boss came my way so I took it up. I thought it was the right thing before I begin work with a rocking start," she said.

Before getting into Bigg Boss, Juhi had lost 10 kgs and after going to the show she lost four kgs.

"The feeling has yet to sink in. Forget about winning the show I had never expected to be there till finale. I felt as I was not the focal point of the show I may not last longer. As I never picked up fights or anything of that sort," Juhi said.

"I was not the silent player. I used to talk, laugh, cry, voice my opinion, stood up for the truth," she said.

Juhi feels fights and controversies do not help any contestant in the long run.

"If pick up fights and all that was concerned then I wouldn't have won the show. I have hardly had any major fight on the show. It takes you ahead in the show as it does not help you in winning. That is not the mantra," she said.