Sunny Leone hiding her porn star status?

When Sunny is assigned to learn a sexy dance number, Bedi says her moves, intended as an act of seduction, need to have more passion, Sunny says: "Usually I just walk around in high heels and it works. I do not need to dance." That's the farthest she has revealed about her line of work.

They keep talking about her "innocence", "charm", "beauty" and "freshness", and even suggest that she may have a promising career in Bollywood like Katrina Kaif, but they steer clear of the P-word.

The ignorance of her housemates about Sunny's antecedents seems a little hard to believe. Even when Bedi briefly insists that she has "seen Sunny somewhere" and the porn star replies, "maybe on the Internet", the other housemates let the matter drop.

She dumped her long-time companion Matt Erikson, a Playboy marketing honcho, to partnering with an array of leading men of porn, including Tommy Gunn, James Deen and Voodoo, for movies such as The Dark Side of the Sun, The Other Side of Sunny, Sunny's Big Adventure and Co- Ed Confidential.

In fact, she hasn't ever worn as many clothes on screen as she does in Bigg Boss 5. The former Penthouse Pet has been steadily ascending the totem pole of porn, transitioning from lesbian scenes to hardcore heterosexual action in 2007 for adult entertainment company Vivid.

Sunny and her hosts may be airbrushing her image, but the bisexual star's porn acts leave very little to the imagination.

When Pooja replies in the affirmative, Sunny asks her with staged innocence if Indian audiences would accept such a celebrity if she were of Indian origin. Pooja, whose scant respect for clothes was the only reason why she attracted notice during her brief flirtation with Bollywood, informs her housemate that the Indian audience is conservative and may not take kindly to it.

"My friends and family have already accepted me, so why should I be scared?" But she's yet to share details of her work with the viewers of Bigg Boss 5. To figure out why, because with R& B singer Ray J).

"She is a sweet looking girl." Inside the confession room, Sunny informs Big Boss she is not afraid to disclose her identity and dares viewers to make their own judgment about her. "You can call me every name in the book," she says.

She was speaking after winning the award for the 'Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene'. Bhatt pointed out that "the line between a forbidden zone like porn and mainstream is progressively getting blurred". He said he was keen on casting her in the 2003 film Kalyug, but it did not work out. "I have never felt she should not be considered for mainstream films," he added.

Ironically, Sunny first shared her dream to become a Bollywood star at the porn industry's equivalent of the Oscars, the Adult Video News (AVN) Awards, in 2010.

That would be quite a comedown for a porn star who had more than 17 lakh Netizens glued to her online oral sex education classes. A Google search for Sunny throws up an 11 million search results in 0.14 seconds! Is Sunny underplaying her track record in porn because of her ambition to act in a Bollywood film? Mahesh Bhatt, insisting "there is no truth in the story that we have signed Sunny Leone for Murder 3," said there was "nothing wrong" on Sunny's part to "sanitise her image" for a TV reality show.

Why is the woman with anatomical augmentations, rated by lad-mag Maxim as one of the world's top 12 porn stars in 2010, being so coy about her line of work? She has even let it be known that she wishes to go back to the profession she abandoned - paediatric nursing - to become a Penthouse Pet of the Month and launch herself as an XXX- rated porn star with side businesses such as having a sex toy for men moulded out of her vagina and promoting the Sunny Leone Exciter vibrator.

Salman Khan claims not to have seen her work. The Bigg Boss 5 website describes her as an adult film star (the term has an altogether different meaning in India), businesswoman (well, she has a line of vibrators!) and model. And though she entertained her housemates with a sexy pole dance, they still don't know what Sunny Leone does for a living.