Big B will continue to host KBC 2

Rumours started floating as soon as the super-star host of KBC 2 fell ill. Despite clarifications by the director-producer of the show, Siddharth Basu, who had laughed off the speculations of Mr. Bachchan opting out of the popular game show, the latest rumours doing the rounds were that the anchor of the show, Mr. Bachchan is stepping down and his son Abhishek is taking over the role of the host.

Today, in a press release by Star TV, the CEO of the channel, Samir Nair, has refuted any such rumour and has reiterated that the show will be hosted by none other than Mr. Amitabh Bachchan.

The release further said that the channel will wait for him to recover completely and will shoot fresh episodes after that. Mr. Bachchan was to shoot for the game show last week and the schedule was postponed till further notice.

The channel had earlier decided to change the show schedule from being a tri-weekly to a bi-weekly. Effective Dec 2nd ’05 KBC 2 will be telecast on Fridays and Saturdays only. Apart from this there will be two KBC 2 specials on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.