Priyanka Deshpande

Priyanka Deshpande (born 28 April 1990) is an Indian television presenter and actress who predominantly works in the Tamil television and film industry. Priyanka is also one of the highest-paid South Indian television presenters. She is well known for hosting numerous television shows such as Oo Solriya Oo Oohm Solriya, Super Singer Junior, Super Singer, The Wall, Start Music, OlliBelly, Suriya Vanakkam, Isai Unplugged, Azhagiya Penne, Glimpse, Jodi Number One, and Kings of Comedy Juniors. She has also appeared in a few short films, such as Raani Aattam (2015) and Unnodu Vaazhnthaal Varamallava (2016). Priyanka has also worked as a television host on various Indian television networks like Zee Tamil, Sun TV, Chutti TV, Sun Music, and Star Vijay. She is often referred to as Superstar of Television. Her appearance as a television anchor in the singing reality show Super Singer earned her to bag the Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards for the Best Female Anchor in 2016. She later also won the Best Female Anchor award in the Vijay Television Awards annual function in 2017. Priyanka also yet again won Best Lady Anchor for the third time in a row in the Galatta Nakshathra TV-Film Awards in 2018, winning the same nomination category for three years in a row. She also received the award Best Entertaining Star award by Blacksheep Digital Awards in 2021 after her success of her YouTube channel. In 2021, she joined the reality TV show Bigg Boss 5 hosted by Kamal Haasan as a contestant and finished as the runner up. She is the winner of Cooku with Comali season 5.