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'If I used Prince in Bigg Boss, why did he allow me?'

January 04, 2016 16:05 IST

'Love will not happen in three-four weeks. I never went overboard saying, I love you, I miss you etc just for the attention. It is not a relationship yet.'

Bigg Boss' Nora Fatehi clears the air about Prince Narula.

A week after Gizele Thakral got evicted from Bigg Boss 9, it was Nora Fatehi's turn.

The girls had entered the house together as wild card entries.

Unlike Gizele, Nora says she saw her eviction coming. 

"I was prepared for the eviction. Since I was a wild card entry, I knew I would be evicted," Nora explains. 

Nora claims she displayed my talent and voiced her opinion whenever she got an opportunity. Nora, of course, was best known for her 'romance' with Prince Narula.

In one of the episodes, Prince had proposed to the starlet, who was the three item girls in the blockbuster film Baahubali: The Beginning.

Prince wanted to take their relationship to the next level but Nora did not reciprocate his feelings. 

"I did tell Prince that I like him. People made it look like we were dating but it’s not like that," she clarifies. "I would like to meet him outside the house and get to know what kind of a person he is." 

Gizele told us that Nora was just using him for the game, and Nora clarifies her stand again: "If I did use him, why did he allow me to use him? If the housemates had warned him about my game plan then, why did he develop feelings for me? He enjoyed my company, that's why he spent time with me. There is nothing wrong with that. I didn’t treat anyone as competition; I was a wild card entry and knew that I would not reach the finale. If I knew that, why would I have a game plan in the first place?

“Love will not happen in three-four weeks," Nora says with a laugh. "I never went overboard saying, I love you, I miss you etc just for the attention. It is not a relationship yet." 

Nora clears the air about being caught in an awkward position with Prince as well: "Our 'make-out session' that people are talking about was blown out of proportion. That never happened. He had his head on my lap and he was just talking. He was bitching about somebody and whispering. Plus, even if we wanted to make-out, why would we do it in front of everyone?" 

Nora had heated altercations with almost everyone inside the house recently, and was quite a shift from her usual vulnerable self.

"I had a bad fight with Rishabh (Sinha) and that's my only regret," she adds. "I don’t like fighting but things happen in the heat of the moment inside the house."  

Nora thinks Priya Malik and Mandana Karimi are playing the smartest game in the house. 

"Priya interferes with everything. Since she was in Big Brother, she knows what is expected in the show," Nora says. 

"I am glad that I could display my dance talent and my conviction during the tasks," she adds. "I went inside the house to have fun." 

She bonded with the housemates, and found 'real friends' in Prince and Kishwer Merchant. "Prince will be the winner of this season!" she exclaims. "If not him, it will be Kishwer." 

What next for Nora?

"I am in talks for another reality show," she tells us.

Rajul Hegde in Mumbai