Indian Telly Award for Best Television Personality of the Year is an award given by Indiantelevision.com as part of its annual Indian Telly Awards for TV serials, to recognize a television anchor/host/actor/presenter/professional who overshadowed all his peers either on the screen or off it leaving an indelible mark/stamp during the year and have consistently topped in terms of impact, visibility, acceptability. He/she could have remarkably improved the viewership of a channel or programme by his/her unique presence.
The award was first awarded in 2001 to Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan for hosting popular reality show Kaun Banega Crorepati. Most of the time, the winner is announced out of nominations, but sometimes the award is given without nominations. In 2007, 2009 and 2010, the award was awarded with different titles. Only once, in 2012, the award was given separately to a male and female personality.
List of winners
2001-2009 2001 Amitabh Bachchan 2002 Cezanne Khan Prannoy Roy Harsha Bhogle Vir Sanghvi Rajdeep Sardesai Amitabh Bachchan Navjot Singh Sidhu Shekhar Suman 2003 Smriti Irani 2004 Rajeev Khandelwal & Mona Singh Hiten Tejwani Niki Aneja Walia Mandira Bedi 2005 Rajeev Khandelwal Ronit Roy Abhijeet Sawant Shekhar Suman 2006 Ronit Roy Javed Jaffrey Rajdeep Sardesai Navjot Singh Sidhu 2007 Hussain Kuwajerwala (Style Icon of the Year) Ronit Roy Rajeev Khandelwal Rajdeep Sardesai 2008 Akshay Kumar Salman Khan Shilpa Shetty Saroj Khan Parul Chauhan Sara Khan Shahrukh Khan Shaan 2009 Rani Mukerji (TV Ki Rani Award)
2010-2019 2010 Ronit Roy (10th Anniversary Special Award for TV Star of the Decade) 2011 No Award 2012 Ronit Roy (Male) and Ankita Lokhande (Female) Barun Sobti Pratyusha Banerjee Gia Manek 2013 Karan Singh Grover 2014 Rohit Shetty 2015 Divyanka Tripathi 2016 Not Awarded 2017 Not Awarded 2018 Not Awarded 2019 Divyanka Tripathi 2020-present 2023Shaheer Sheikh 2025Rupali Ganguly
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