Agnivesh was in the news recently for his estrangement from Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign.
The saffron-clad Arya Samaj leader will be the fifth male contestant in join the notorious gang of girls in the reality show.
The current participants in the show are model Shraddha Sharma, former Miss Afghanistan Vida Samadzai, VJ Pooja Missra, Pooja Bedi, Juhi Parmar, Shonali Nagrani, Mahek Chahal, transgender activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, Amar Upadhyay, Akashdeep Saigal and Siddharth Bharadwaj.
The controversial show, aired on Colors, is replete with bickering and backbiting - and one only wonders how Agnivesh will fare in it.