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Bigg Boss 2 was the 2008 second season of the Indian reality TV programme Bigg Boss.

It began airing on 21 August 2008 on Colors.

Shilpa Shetty replaced Arshad Warsi as host of the show.

Fourteen handpicked housemates entered during the launch and were described newsmakers rather than celebrities, though the majority of the contestants were associated with Bollywood or Indian TV channels and other realities shows.

The housemates, considered strangers for each other, spent 98 days or nearly 14 weeks locked out together under one roof under the 24×7 supervision of 32 cameras fitted around the Bigg Boss house at Lonavala, a hill station about 100 km east of Mumbai.

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a wicket (a set of three wooden stumps) at each end.

One team bats, attempting to score as many runs as possible, whilst their opponents field.

Each phase of play is called an innings.

After either ten batsmen have been dismissed or a fixed number of overs have been completed, the innings ends and the two teams then swap roles.

The winning team is the one that scores the most runs, including any extras gained, during their innings.

Celebrity biographers are authors who specialize in writing sensationalized books about the lives of celebrities.

Historically, biographers have been limited to those who specialized in literary works on important personalities or those officially commissioned by a living person or if deceased, by the estate to provide a biography of that person.

In recent years, the term "celebrity biographer" has come into existence.

ForeWord Magazine notes that "There is the literary biographer and the celebrity biographer." Designed to be entertainment, books by celebrity biographers are often referred to as "quickie" biographies due to the limited amount of research done vis-à-vis that of a literary biographer.

Books about celebrities have existed for many years but the advent of the personal computer (PC) reduced writing and editing costs substantially.

Combined with the Internet, that provided massive sources and easy contact, the PC created an explosion of celebrity books beginning in the early 1990s.

Because of these technological tools, early writers on celebrities such as Fred Lawrence Guiles who wrote "Norma Jean; the life of Marilyn Monroe" in 1969 were able to substantially increase their book output while some newer celebrity biographers produce a book almost on an annual basis.