She held her own on an international reality show.She fought what’s bad and what’s ‘goody’ and emerged victorious. Today, she is back on the star radar, she is an ambassador against racism and she is a household name in Britain. Karan’s first guest is the super glamorous and very hot Shilpa Shetty. His second guest is the acting star of today, who is doing exceptionally well and is going to go from strength to strength in the future, Shilpa’s younger sister Shamita. Also, joining them is a woman who means the world to them and has always been a pillar of strength, She is none other than Shilpa and Shamita’s mother Sunanda Shetty.

Excerpts from the interview:

Karan: Ok, how does it feel to be on the show… I know I am giving too much importance to myself by asking you this question, but how does it feel?
Shilpa: It feels weird

Karan: Weird? That’s a first… why would you feel weird?
Shilpa: Its feels weird because you know we have known each other as friends and you can get away with a lot, but, I really don’t know, the feelings are mixed.

Karan: But, it’s such a sweet innocent, almost like harmless show. So, why should you feel weird?
Shilpa: Am I still on Koffee with Karan? (laughs)

Karan: What was the worst thing Jade Goody said to you?
Shilpa: I think behind my back, most of the things were said, that’s the reason it created the furore it did. It became this whole international incident, I think we as a race - Indians, are pretty tolerant, we tend to forgive and forget more easily, and that’s exactly what I did. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt and even after those fights I just wanted to move on, because I was like, this is just a show and I am going to go back home and honestly Karan, I took up the show because, I didn’t think I would last that long .
I told Anurag, I left Metro and I told him, listen this is a great opportunity, they have told an Indian to be on the show, Main jaaongi, bahut saara paise bhi de rahe hain, aur mujhe kya karna hain. I just have to be myself, So I am just going to have a good time and come back. I said keep the shoot after two weeks, I will be out in 2 weeks (laughs)

Karan: (laughs) So you never thought that you would ever win?
Shilpa: Not in my life! It was a dream!

Karan: What about Jade Goody?Had you heard of her?
Shilpa: No, I hadn’t heard of her.

Karan: Neither had I!
Shilpa: Ya … people in the UK know her.

Karan: Have you been in touch with her,Have you had any kind of interaction with her?
Shilpa: No

Karan: Not at all
Shilpa: No… not as yet

Karan: But, tell me, how did it feel when Shilpa went through all if this, you back home, you and dad and mum?
Shamita: When we were not in touch with her?

Karan: Ya , because you know, she didn’t know what was happening in there? But, all of you did?
Shamita: None of us knew what was happening, In fact, when the press wanted us to comment, we actually kept away from the press for some time because we didn’t want to make any comments till we saw actually what was happening.

Karan: Were you at all disturbed when everything was happening inside the house? There was so much being said?
Sunanda: I think she is a very brave child and she did handle the entire situation with a lot of dignity. I knew that she could walk out whenever she wanted to but since she stuck around we knew she was in a position to cope.

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