Sixteen contestants walked into the Bigg Boss Telugu 10 house. A week later, two are already gone and a third is bracing for the worst.

RJ Charan Mahadev, who entered through the Agnipariksha task, was the first out, eliminated just three days in. Chaitra Rai followed the very next day. Neither exit went through the show's usual audience vote. Both were decided by housemates themselves, and that alone was enough to set social media off, with viewers wondering whether Bigg Boss was running one of its trademark twists.

Host Nagarjuna wasn't having any of that speculation. He came on air and said plainly that both eliminations were real, that Charan and Chaitra were home, not tucked away in some secret zone waiting to be reintroduced. He even brought them in on video calls to prove it. That single clarification appears to have caught a few contestants inside the house off guard too, according to Filmibeat's report on the episode.

Rohith way out front, four names stuck at the bottom

With two contestants already out, the question turned to who's next. Unofficial voting trends put together from fan polls have Rohith Naidu running away with week one, pulling in 25.78 per cent of the vote. Trigun trails at a distant second with 11.18 per cent, ahead of Mukesh at 9.28 per cent and Ramprasad at 8.84 per cent. Vamsi and Aman round out the safer end of the table at 7.45 and 6.34 per cent.

The middle of the pack, Debjani, Shalini, Jhansi and Naresh, sit in the low single digits, none of them clear of danger but not at the sharp end either.

That sharp end belongs to Srishti, Krishnudu, Sudheer and Varshini. Srishti sits at 1.90 per cent, with the other three tied at 1.74 per cent apiece, according to the fan-poll numbers Filmibeat cited. Worth flagging that these are unofficial, social-media-driven trends and not the show's own count, so movement before results are read out is entirely possible.

Krishnudu's game plan under fire

Word going around is that Krishnudu might dodge elimination this week, with talk of a no-elimination Sunday tied to Vinayaka Chavithi. If that holds, it buys him time he badly needs. His run inside the house has drawn criticism for leaning too heavily on Trigun, for going after Rohith directly, and for keeping his focus fixed on the Agnipariksha batch rather than building his own game.

Whether the elimination actually gets called off, and whether Krishnudu survives regardless, should become clear when the Sunday episode airs. Until then, the numbers keep shifting and so does the noise around them.