Amrapali Dubey: Age, Bhojpuri Career and Bigg Boss 20 Run

Bhojpuri star Amrapali Dubey walked into the Bigg Boss 20 house as the fifth contestant on premiere night, September 6, 2026, Brut’s live blog of the launch recorded. She is 39 as of October 2026, going by the January 11, 1987 birth date printed by Amar Ujala. She is unmarried and has said she plans to adopt a daughter.

Two stories from October 7, 2026 put her name back in the news. Moneycontrol wrote that she joined the show only after asking for weekly updates on her father, who is on dialysis, and NDTV published a tour of the sea-facing Mumbai apartment she bought earlier in the year.

• Born: January 11, 1987, in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh (Amar Ujala, January 11, 2022)
• Age: 39 as of October 2026
• Work: Hindi television soaps first, Bhojpuri films since 2014
• First film: Nirahua Hindustani (2014), opposite Dinesh Lal Yadav, known as Nirahua
• Marital status: unmarried as of October 2026 (Indian Express, September 29, 2026)
• Bigg Boss 20: in the house since September 6, 2026, and still a contestant in reports dated October 7

Age and Birth Date

Amrapali Dubey was born on January 11, 1987, in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, Amar Ujala wrote in a birthday piece on January 11, 2022, the day it said she turned 35. That count fits the year, so she is 39 in October 2026 and turns 40 on January 11, 2027.

ETV Bharat ran its own birthday profile on January 11, 2023, with the same date and the same district. It adds that she studied at Bhavan’s College in Mumbai, where her family hoped she would train as a doctor.

The headline of that piece called it her 31st birthday, a number that cannot be squared with a 1987 birth year. The dated count in the Amar Ujala piece is the one that adds up.

She grew up largely in Mumbai.

Amar Ujala’s 2022 profile says she moved to the city with her grandfather and finished her schooling there. Her first acting jobs came in Mumbai television, years before her first Bhojpuri film.

Television Years and the Bigg Boss 6 Link

Her acting career began on Hindi television, not in Bhojpuri cinema. ETV Bharat’s 2023 profile says an audition for the soap Saat Phere was held at her college, and a friend urged her to try. She was cast. Amar Ujala’s 2022 piece places her first role as the daughter of the character played by lead actress Rajshree Thakur in Saat Phere: Saloni Ka Safar.

After Saat Phere and Maayka, she took the lead role of Suman in Rehna Hai Teri Palkon Ki Chhaon Mein in 2009, ETV Bharat wrote, followed by Mera Naam Karegi Roshan in 2010. Then the work dried up. Amar Ujala described 2010 to 2014 as hard years in which she found almost no roles.

Family pressure pointed her toward Bhojpuri films. In the ETV Bharat account, her grandmother wanted people in their home district to know her granddaughter, and kept pressing her to act in a Bhojpuri film. Dubey had thought of the industry as too small for her. Watching Nirahua’s film Parivaar, which her grandmother asked her to see, changed her mind.

The casting itself ran through an earlier season of Bigg Boss. ABP Live, writing on September 10, 2026, said Dinesh Lal Yadav and actor Santosh Shukla were both contestants on Bigg Boss 6, and that Nirahua wanted a newcomer opposite him in Nirahua Hindustani. Shukla knew her from television work and suggested her name. The Indian Express, on September 29, 2026, gave the order the other way round, saying Nirahua recommended her name to Shukla during Bigg Boss 6. Both versions name the same two men and the same season. ABP’s longer telling, drawn from her own description, has Shukla making the suggestion.

Bhojpuri Films and the Nirahua Pairing

Nirahua Hindustani, released in 2014, was her film debut, and Nirahua was her co-star, the Indian Express and Moneycontrol both state. Amar Ujala called the film a superhit and wrote that the pairing stuck. Its 2022 list of later films with him includes Nirahua Chalal Sasural 3, Veer Yoddha Mahabali, Nirahua Chalal America and Patna Se Pakistan 2.

Filmibeat, on September 9, 2026, named Raja Babu, Border, Nirahua Hindustani 2 and Lallu Ki Laila as the hits she is best known for. ETV Bharat put her tally at more than 25 Bhojpuri films by January 2023 and noted that fans call her the YouTube queen. The Indian Express described her in September 2026 as one of the highest-paid actresses in the Bhojpuri industry.

Before Bigg Boss, she appeared on the reality show Bhojpuri Bawaal, where her talk with Nirahua about adoption made news in August 2026. Her next film is already moving. ABP Live’s Hindi site published the trailer of Biwi Ho Toh Aisi on October 7, 2026, in which she stars opposite Vikrant Singh Rajput in a story about a married couple’s quarrels.

Amrapali Dubey in Bigg Boss 20

Amrapali Dubey has been a Bigg Boss 20 contestant since the September 6, 2026 premiere, and Moneycontrol and the Times of India both wrote about her as a current housemate on October 7. Brut’s premiere blog logged her entry at 9.40 pm as contestant number five.

Kanika Mann, Isha Rikhi, Mary Kom and Arishfa Khan were among the others Brut listed entering that night, while Love Gill and Rhiya Ahir were put to an audience vote, a twist the show called Fans Ka Faisla, for a place in the house.

Dubey told the Indian Express on September 6 that the makers had been offering her a place since season 14. “The biggest reason to say yes to Bigg Boss is Salman Khan,” she said. To Filmibeat three days later, she put her plan in four words: “I’ll be myself.”

Her father’s illness shaped how she entered. Moneycontrol wrote on October 7, 2026 that he has been unwell for a long time and is on regular dialysis for kidney-related problems.

By the outlet’s account, she is said to have asked the producers for frequent updates on his health as her condition for joining, and she still receives them every week. Her sister, Aanchal, is looking after their parents while she is in the house, the same report says.

Her friendship with Love Gill has turned into a point of friction. On the Weekend Ka Vaar episode covered by the Times of India on October 4, 2026, Dubey said Love Gill forgets the respect owed to a person once she gets angry. Host Salman Khan agreed: “I think Love should learn this from Aamrapali.”

A rift with Mahhi Vij surfaced the same week. Amar Ujala reported on October 3, 2026 that a Weekend Ka Vaar promo showed Dubey saying she did not want to sit wherever Mahhi was and would not be seen with her even after the show. That week also ended the run of Rhiti Tiwari, sent out in a surprise eviction, Amar Ujala added.

A former contestant from another season is backing her. Munisha Khatwani of Bigg Boss OTT 3 told the Times of India on October 7, 2026 that her picks are Dubey and Mahhi Vij: “My bets are on these people.”

The same day, NDTV ran a home tour she had filmed with journalist Nayandeep Rakshit. The sea-facing Mumbai apartment, bought earlier in 2026, was still being furnished, with a home mandir in place and an empty room set aside for makeup and content work.

Marriage Status and the Adoption Plan

Amrapali Dubey is not married, and no national outlet has reported a wedding or an engagement. On September 6, 2026, she told the Indian Express that she wants to adopt a daughter and remain unmarried, a decision her family strongly disagreed with.

“Honestly, there is a stigma attached to everything that a woman tries to do in our society,” she said in that interview. She added that she wants a daughter “not to give her a better life, but to better my life.”

The plan first came up on Bhojpuri Bawaal, where she told Nirahua, the Indian Express reported on August 5, 2026, “Everything else in my life is negotiable, but this isn’t.”

The other recurring question is Nirahua. Their on-screen pairing has drawn rumors before, and both have called it a friendship, the Indian Express wrote on September 29, 2026. Nirahua is married to Mansha Yadav.

On the episode covered in that report, Dubey told Love Gill the friendship began when she entered Bhojpuri films. “People think he and I are dating, and that poor guy has gone crazy convincing me that I should marry someone,” she said.

The same Indian Express piece recalls an earlier Times of India interview about photos of the two at the Mahakumbh. She said the trip was a family plan that included her mother, sister, uncle and aunt, and that Nirahua joined because he was in Uttar Pradesh at the time.

As of October 2026 the link stays a rumor she has denied, with no husband and no confirmed partner on record.

Timeline: 1987 to October 2026

The early television dates come from birthday profiles written years later, so treat the 2009 and 2010 entries as the years those outlets gave rather than broadcast records. Everything from August 2026 onward was reported within days of the event.

Amrapali Dubey FAQ

Who is Amrapali Dubey’s husband?

Amrapali Dubey has no husband. No marriage has been reported, and in September 2026 she told the Indian Express she plans to adopt a daughter and stay unmarried.

What is the relationship between Amrapali and Nirahua?

Amrapali Dubey and Dinesh Lal Yadav are frequent co-stars and, in their own words, close friends since her 2014 debut opposite him. He is married to Mansha Yadav, and she has denied the dating rumors.

Did she work on television before films?

Yes. Before Bhojpuri cinema she acted in Hindi soaps, including Saat Phere and Rehna Hai Teri Palkon Ki Chhaon Mein, in which she played the lead role of Suman, ETV Bharat wrote in 2023.