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There is an excellent historical anecdote: “A young man comes to be hired by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He, in addition to professional moments, is interested in the marital status of the applicant. “I am married and have seven children,” the young man replies, to which Sir Winston raises his eyebrows in surprise and says: “Everyone knows about my addiction to cigars, but even I sometimes take them out of my mouth…” Why am I? Oh yes, about children and cigars ... Both our hero, Otar Kushanashvili, an outrageous journalist, disturber of public peace, a person far from polycorrectness and curtsy, a super-emotional representative of his proud people, is simply adored by our hero, Otar Kushanashvili, on a sharp tongue to which stars of all ranks and estates prefer not to come across.

- Otar, so you, it turns out, are a father of many children?

Yes, I have seven children. Each of them was born with an interval of two years. Only the youngest son, now three years old, is an exception.

- What are the names of the children?

Dasha, Georgy, Nikolos (sons live in Kiev), Alina, Elina - this one lives in Rostov-on-Don, uncle Fedor and Danil. Four guys and three young ladies. And everything with my face - this must be emphasized: all Otariki!

-As I understand it, all children are not from the same wife?

I will bypass this question. By the way, officially I was married only once, and this marriage formally ended quite recently. And so it lasted all these years, from the very graduation. The next day I brought my beloved to meet her parents. It was in Kutaisi.

- Do Georgians welcome early marriages?

In general, few people do this in Georgia. Early marriage is no longer in vogue. But my parents, now deceased, did not show much discontent. They saw that I was in love, and no one objected to the wedding.

- And now you do not regret that you were not dissuaded then?

No, not at all. I only regret that my wife and I said a lot to each other bad words... Well, what can I remember now ... They were young and very stupid. My temper, nervousness played a role. It was necessary to somehow build relations in a different way, but by that time I was traveling around the country, I was very tired, I exploded on every occasion. I should have shown a little more sensitivity, wisdom, but no, I freaked out and thought that I was underestimated. I will say this: I am today and I am five years ago - two different people. But she no longer understands me now and does not love me. But what a sin to hide - these feelings are mutual.

Otar, we met you at the "Slavianski Bazaar" festival in 1995. You were the frantic Otarik around whom the entire universe seemed to revolve.

Yes, at the time I was raunchy and playing a failed gangster. Ivan Demidov told me to be like that on stage - a boozer, a swordsman. And when I crossed the threshold of the house, I became a sentimental and whiny lover of Indian cinema. We gave birth to children every two years, in between I went to discover the world, but my wife never gave it to see it. I had a lot of impressions, I drove wherever I wanted, and at that time she was raising children. Now I think about it with such sympathy for her.

You know, I once gave an interview in which I named names ... It was after breaking up with my wife, I did not think that I would hurt her. She was furious! I figured that if I was free now, then I could start novels and talk openly about them. It turns out that I can't - it stabs a person in the heart. And we agreed that now I will only mention one name - Masha. Therefore, I will say this: there was no one but Masha.

It's very masculine. Otar, did you feel guilty before your children for not receiving your father's warmth?

This does not apply to children! They do not participate in this conflict at all. I left, came back and was with them. No dislikes! I choked the children with my love, they choked in it. As my father and mother loved me, so I loved them.

- Are you the only one in the family?

My friend, there cannot be one child in a Kutaisi family! We have nine parents.

- Not ready to repeat the feat of your parents?

I won't last more than seven. It's all!

- You mean the financial side?

Of course, I must invest in the normal future of my children. First of all, Dasha, she is already quite an adult, she is sixteen. And fighters are already there. Naturally, they should be liked by the most beautiful girls, read a lot, be educated, I have to dress them normally. In general, none of my children are deprived. I find it funny when some characters spend 300 thousand in a casino and complain that they have no money. I should always have money for my children!

- Listen, does the income of a journalist really allow you to support such a crowd?

No, well, what, my friend, income? Journalism doesn't make money. I have never lived on these earnings, but lived in a semi-legal activity - some restaurants, cafes, in general, with the world on a string.

- Never worked as a literary slave - did you write books for anyone?

With my syllable, which I myself do not understand, this is impossible.

It is also necessary to take into account that anthropologically and anatomically Georgian men age earlier. By the age of 35, I realized that it was enough to play the fool. Children grow up, and either you take up your mind for the sake of them, or you are worth a penny. What I feel? Probably pity and anger. After all, it was possible to build life in a different way. I could be smarter and more attentive to people. It seems to me that if I had not listened certain people, because of whom my friends - Murat Nasyrov, Igor Sorin, left, and did not get carried away with some moments, justifying them with a large amount of work, it would be much better. Of course, the man realizes that he is no longer a teenager. But I want to somehow grow old nobly, like Richard Gere. Lena Nerushenko and I from the Dynamite group agreed to grow old in this way. And then he died from drugs and alcohol.

“You had the sanity to avoid this fate.

You know, kids change. And friends change. As there were three of them since 1992, so three remained.

Also, when it comes to age, I think more and more with guilt about my parents. After all, I was the youngest and most beloved of nine children. And there was tenderness and sentimentality in me, which I carefully concealed. I did not give my parents sincere feelings. Only now I understand this that I had to tell my parents every minute that I love them. Mom especially needed it. She gave out this love to the idiots and received less of it in return. On the other hand, seeing how my peers relate to still living parents, it seems to me that I am a model. Although you can always be the best.

Now you have the opportunity to rehabilitate yourself in relationships with children. You have a very grown daughter. Are you bringing her out?

She really wants it. Dasha is the only one of all my children who wants a public profession. She wanted to become an actress, but being a girl with the face of Otar Kushanashvili is a curse. So she decided to be a journalist, which I'm not happy with. I don't like the way she puts words together. In addition, in Ukraine, Russia, and Georgia this profession is paid so miserably, people are brought to their knees with two kopecks. I, as a Georgian dad, do not want Dasha to be an addicted person, I would like her to do something in life that allows her to hold her head high and not humiliate herself in front of anyone. And the profession I have named will not be in economic favor for a long time. People are in a humiliating position. But in any case, I will always help my daughter! And I will always protect her.

- You can only dream of such a dad.

In general, I turned out to be a manic dad. I call to check if she is at home after eleven, and if not, I demand a report on who is accompanying her. After all, how many people are mentally unhealthy. Of course, when the children were young, I changed diapers, but I never thought that I would be such an anxious dad.

And what if Dasha follows in your footsteps and brings her former classmate to meet her the next day after the prom? How do you react to this turn of events?

Honestly, while I'm not ready for this and cannot predict, but I think that I have enough wisdom and intelligence not to be a didactic and not shake a finger. But to a greater extent, I hope for Dasha's sanity - she can't help but understand that it's too early to start a family, that you need to look around, see the world. But as far as I know, Dasha doesn't have a boyfriend now. She would tell me about falling in love, and the senior guardian tells me what is happening in the class.

- Otar, do you remember all the birthdays of your children?

Sometimes I can confuse who is following whom. And they catch me on this. But I know for sure that a series of birthdays begins on September 5th. My excuse is that I saved the demography of three countries, that I have more children than fans of Dynamo Kiev! Usually I get everyone together and we go to Twin Peaks - this is a restaurant in Ostankino.

- Imagine a picture: a happy father of a family, surrounded by loving children.

I realized: I like to like children. And earning authority from them is very cool!


Otar Shalvovich Kushanashvili (06/22/1970) - Russian journalist specializing in music. Published regularly in various magazines and newspapers. TV presenter who has made a career in the "Sharks of the Feather" program. He became famous for not being afraid to say "strong word". V this moment conducts several author's projects on various TV channels.


“Once I said to myself:“ Don't copy the manners of the same Dmitry Dibrov or Nikolai Fomenko. ” I am different. Maybe not so talented, but a real workaholic. And if people react to me somehow, then I am doing everything right. We need to develop this further "

Childhood

Otar Kushanashvili was born in the city of Kutaisi on June 22, 1970. Parents - Shalva and Nelly Kushanashvili. In addition to Otar, the family had eight more children.

Otar dreamed of becoming a journalist back in school. He wrote small articles that were published in the daily newspaper Kutaisi Pravda. At the same time, he corresponded with the authors of the Literaturnaya Gazeta. There was one funny episode in childhood that Kushanashvili himself likes to remember. He wrote one of the letters to the then famous journalist Lev Annensky. In it, he openly began to give advice to the meter. In particular, he recommended that he reread the Georgian author Nodar Dumbadze. And what is interesting, Annensky answered the young boy and asked him to write more information about himself. Otar Kushanashvili admits that he was crying at that moment and kissed the letter.

After school, he entered the Tbilisi State University at the Faculty of Journalism. But he was expelled from him for bad behavior. Young Otar had to go to the army.

After demobilization, Kushanashvili decides to leave his native Kutaisi and move to Moscow. It is not clear what the young guy was counting on at that time, he had neither education nor connections. Naturally, with such a nondescript baggage, it was difficult to count on a job as a journalist. And at first, Otar Kushanashvili interrupted himself in the capital with odd jobs. For example, he worked as a watchman in one of the schools, and also cleaned at the Paveletsky railway station.

Career

But Otar did not forget about his dream, so he periodically sent out his resume to various editions. They answered him only once, offered to become a correspondent for the newspaper "Novy Vzglyad". Since there was not much to choose from, Kushanashvili immediately agreed. It was in 1993.

His boss was then Yevgeny Dodolev, who a few years later invited Kushanashvili to try himself on television. And even put in a word in front of Ivan Demidov. This is how a little-known Georgian journalist took his first steps towards fame. Years later, Otar Kushanashvili has more than 300 hundred interviews with various representatives Russian show business. And he is one of the most famous music journalists in our country.

Otar Kushanashvili was particularly popular with the Sharks of the Feather TV program. He stood out prominently among his fellow journalists. First of all, by his manner of asking questions. He was not ashamed of anything, he could speak harshly, did not flatter, but on the contrary, he always tried to offend the interlocutor. The "sharks of the pen" have cemented Kushanashvili's reputation as a rebel.

After that there were also programs "Party zone", "Big jackpot", "Obozzz-show" and others. In parallel, he tried his hand at the radio. For example, he hosted a program at Europe Plus. Also, Kushanashvili is regularly published in many popular publications. Among them - "Arguments and Facts", "MK", ​​Vechernyaya Pravda "," Om ".


“I had a significant hiatus, I hadn't been writing for many years. But today it gives me real pleasure. I got better. And I really miss the writing. "

For 20 years now, Otar Kushanashvili has been heading the weekly magazine MuzOBOZ. Even at the dawn of his work as editor-in-chief, he regularly published in his own edition, but over time he cooled off. Although he is still listed in this position.

Scandals

The main "act" for which Otar Kushanashvili "became famous" was mate in live Channel One. It happened in 2002 during a discussion of the Eurovision Song Contest in the program with Andrei Malakhov. After such an outburst, Kushanashvili was closed for a long time the entrance to television, and to any channel.

There was also an episode with him running out onto the football field. In 2004, at the Russia-Portugal match, Kushanashvili did not like the referee's decision to remove our goalkeeper. And he decided to personally inform him about it. For this trick, he was fined 2.5 thousand euros and received a term. True, suspended for two years.

There were other funny episodes as well. For example, at one concert he decided to jump into the crowd, hoping to be picked up. But the people parted, and Kushanashvili crashed to the floor. There was also his demonstrative failure to appear for the fight with Sergei Chelobanov during the television project of the First Channel "King of the Ring". The journalist motivated that act by dishonesty of refereeing.

The reputation of a brawler is partly confirmed by the numerous marriages of Otar Kushanashvili. There were three of them in total. And from each wife he has several children. True, love affairs hit the journalist's wallet hard. The former spouses seized almost all of his property. In addition, he has to pay significant alimony every month.

I had an acquaintance - a certain Otar Kushanashvili, a type of "journalist", whose name few readers will remember now, with whom I first met on the "Sharks of the Pen", which thundered at one time - one of the first programs on television, quite openly revealing the nature of things in the music show business. Basically, you could see me there. Although this was not the first time I appeared "in the cinema".

Otar Kushanashvili dreamed of becoming a journalist back in school. He wrote small articles in Georgian, which were published in the local newspaper Kutaisi Pravda. He could not write in Russian, because he knew him through a stump-deck.

After school, he entered the Tbilisi State University at the Faculty of Journalism. But he was expelled from him for bad behavior. Even then, in Otar, what he then successfully implements was manifested,
Having made my way into journalism is not washing, so rolling.

Young Otar had to go to the army.

After demobilization, Kushanashvili decides to leave his native Kutaisi and move to Moscow. What the young guy was counting on at that time is not clear - he had neither education nor connections. And at first, Otar interrupted himself in the capital with odd jobs - he worked as a watchman in one of the capital's schools, cleaned at the Paveletsky railway station.

How Otar ended up at work as a journalist in the Moskovskaya Pravda newspaper (there is a version that he started in the Novyi Vzgly newspaper, but I have other information), who spoke Russian in such a way that it was difficult to understand - the mystery covered gloom. However, the fact remains - this was the beginning of his journalistic career.

Of course, Otar could not take on intellect, outlook, literary, journalistic, as well as any other talents. Therefore, he put into circulation the only weapon that he had, and was in abundance - arrogance.

An interesting episode in his biography. Printing short notes in "Kutaisi Pravda", Otar immediately imagined himself a "shark of the pen" and wrote to the then famous journalist Lev Annensky in the "Literaturnaya Gazeta". In it, he openly began to give advice to the master, in particular, recommended him to re-read the Georgian author Nodar Dumbadze. Even then, the boy did not have an unparalleled impudence.

It seems that Evgeny Dodolev, who put in a word to Ivan Demidov, offered him to work for Sharks of the Pen. The program was planned to be "perestroika", sharp, the then Russian music observers were not yet accustomed to this manner of work, so new bright faces were required and at the same time - shameless insolent people, like Kushanashvili, who could not hesitate to cut the truth straight into the eyes. ... And Otar began to chop.

But the first thing he attracted attention to himself - his ever-dirty long, below the shoulders, hair - because of which the female journalists of other publications disdainfully avoided him, frankly not wanting to sit next to him. But Otar did not pay absolutely any attention to this and did not wash his hair, it seems, for months - his disdain for others was already off scale.

Looking ahead, I will say that Otaru's unparalleled rudeness, as expected, did not get away with it - in the end he was caught, filled with charisma, and most importantly, his business card was cut off - always dirty hair. After that, Otar slightly calmed down for a while, washed his hair and did not grow it back. However, since he no longer knew how to be rude, offend and throw mud at people, in order to stay in journalism, he willy-nilly had to saddle his old horse again. True, he no longer touched "serious people".

In general, Alena Snezhinskaya, who at that time was the press attaché of Bari Alibasov and, accordingly, the "boy group" "Na-Na" produced by him, told me a lot of interesting things about him then. Kushanashvili, taking advantage of her disagreements with Bari Kimovich, directly pitted her against Alibasov, and when it smelled of fried, he simply fled into the bushes. Later he will act in a similar way in the show of the First Channel "King of the Ring", without showing up for the fight with Sergei Chelobanov.

“When I called Moskovskaya Pravda, I ended up on Otar, who was sitting in the editorial office,” she told me Alena Snezhinskaya.- By that time he had already been in Moscow for a year and a half.

This is Oska at the phone, - he said.

I do not understand:

What Oska?

Otar Kushanashvili.

At first I didn't understand what he was saying at all. He had big vocabulary problems. Then I got used to it. "

But it will be later, and now there were "Sharks ...".

Viewers of the "journalist" with a tanned non-Slavic appearance, small, fast-running eyes and tongue-tied Russian-Georgian tongue twister will be remembered, of course, not only for his homeless hair, but, above all, for the unusually frank rudeness with which he attacked the guests of the program - well-known time of performers and groups. Such on Russian television not yet. (The words "ass", "fak yu", "suck", then the screen has not yet been spoken.) And to be honest - we must pay tribute to Dodolev's foresight - the program went uphill largely due to Otar's frankly defiant behavior.


Does it remind you of anything? ..

So, surprisingly coincided the unparalleled insolence of Otar Kushanashvili, his inability to do something else, and the avalanche interest of the people to an unprecedented phenomenon - the first appearance of the "holy fool clown". I remember that there was always talk - both among the brethren of journalists and among the people - when and who would finally kick this tongue-tied carpet jester in the neck, but surprisingly everyone, every new "Sharks ..." the holy fool in its front ranks. Ratings are above all.

I can cite two episodes as an example.

There was some kind of meeting for journalists in a night entertainment center (I forgot the name), located in the basement building of the cinema "Russia" (now - "Pushkinskiy"), I do not remember for what reason. The omnipresent Otar, in his usual boorish manner of Russian-Georgian patter, fell upon the journalistic fraternity - they say, go to presentations only to devour for free, they say, if you have even a drop of conscience, each of you must pay for what is in front of you on the table, otherwise you are not journalists, but corrupt mongrels.

I asked for a microphone.

"Otar," I said, "tell me, please, how much did you put in the cashier for the fact that you are now eating so actively, and did you still have a check? You are not a venal mongrel, unlike everyone else, right?" The researcher of the nature of things in me was waking up even then.

There was silence in the hall. Only blitz flashed and camera shutters clicked - half of the photographers were filming me, half of Otar, who silently gazed at me with his small Georgian eyes and clearly forgot about his drooping jaw, was clearly not used to the active resistance of this "truth-teller".

Then the photographers changed places: those who shot Otar switched the lenses to me and vice versa. I have these pictures.

Otar did not take the answer, although the microphone was in his hands. He sat down, muttering something like: "Everyones go here ..."


In the same way, by the way, the blogger Mironenko behaved herself - she fucked up from the question I asked her publicly, didn't answer anything and immediately "banned" so that "everyone", instead of expressing admiration for her backwards asking unpleasant questions, here is more did not go.

Then I got off easy. When I asked a simple question to the late Yuri Aizenpshis about his protege Vlad Stashevsky, he, snapping his teeth, rushed at me with his fists. But that one has an old prison temper. And what to take from a gentle "literary lady" who has raised her own ass to the rank of a cult - as you know, not a source of thoughts, but a source of shit?

Otar Kushanashvili, for obvious reasons, could not "ban" me, but he could easily have done something wrong in his usual manner, having "driven" through my publication in his next "speech" - naturally, he did not fail to find out who I am and where I am from. To my surprise, this did not happen. Moreover, the next time we met at some journalistic get-together, he treated me very friendly. Well, I did not aggravate, remembering what Ilya Reznik told me about Kushanashvili.

It must be said that the former Kutaisi freelancer Otar Kushanashvili, who did not meet with resistance, basking in the rays of glory that had suddenly fallen on him, more and more lost his sense of reality (although, in fact, he never had it) and his blatant rudeness more and more often grew into direct insults.

The ubiquitous Otar was also present at the presentation of the new disc by Ilya Reznik, based on songs written to the poet's poems, as well as ditties containing him. Taking the floor, he said literally the following into the microphone:

They're sucking you up here, but I'll tell you straight: your disc is shit!


Ilya Rakhmielevich said nothing.

Then I asked the master why he didn’t answer Kushanashvili. And he said:

You see, young man, I am clean and squeamish, and I adhere to the principle in life that a certain substance always stinks by definition. And so that the stench is not even more, it is better not to touch it and, if possible, bypass it.

I have this answer among the dictaphone records, but I am too lazy to search, so I quote it from memory.

It seems to me that there is a lot in common between the aforementioned Elena Mironenko and Otar Kushanashvili. In part, they are even mirror images of each other.

Rudeness, abomination, stupidity and abusive attitude towards a person has increased - both on television and in the media, and - especially - on the Internet. And Mironenko's blog, her behavior on the same television, when she was simply exhibited from broadcasts during a live broadcast, is an example of this. Against this background, the "scandalous" Otar, naturally, faded, and smoothly disappeared "from the radar" public opinion... In addition, the center of rudeness moved to the rapidly developing Global Web, and Otar had no chances here - he, in fact, never knew how to write, he was not friends with the keyboard.

The first roles were taken by the "writer" Elena Mironenko, who types texts on the keyboard at a speed that significantly exceeds the speed of her thought.


The oil painting in the portrait of the former "shark of the pen" can be complemented by the following bright strokes:

In 2002, during the discussion of the Eurovision Song Contest in the program of Andrei Malakhov, the completely oversized Kush, as he was now often called, began to express his thoughts using the "folk Russian language" directly on the First Channel. This was already beyond everything, and even a very loyal TV leadership, turning a blind eye to his art and forgiving everything, for the sake of the ratings he brought, were forced to respond. After such an outburst, Kushanashvili was closed for a long time the entrance to television, and to any channel.

In 2004, at the Russia-Portugal match, Kushanashvili did not like the referee's decision to remove our goalkeeper. And he decided to immediately personally inform him about it, running straight onto the football field. For this trick, he was fined 2.5 thousand euros and sentenced to imprisonment for a period of two years. True, conditionally.

There were other unforgettable episodes, though rather funny ones. ... At one of the concerts, apparently inspired by the example of "stars" and imagining that he was a "star" of no less magnitude, Otar jumped from the stage into the crowd with a running start, apparently hoping that he would be picked up. But the people did not appreciate Otar's ardor and stepped aside in puzzlement. Kushanashvili fell to the floor with all his foolishness.

During the television project of the First Channel "King of the Ring", he defiantly did not show up for the fight with Sergei Chelobanov, later motivating his act by dishonesty of refereeing. But few have doubts that "Undaunted Bicho" just dropped out. For in the previous battle he was impudently defeated by the 100-kilogram Gediminas Taranda, a former ballet dancer, at that time (2005) - the head of the ballet troupe, who was head and shoulders above him and exceeded the weight of a kilo by 25. The result was predictable - the fight was stopped in the second round due to the clear superiority of Taranda. And it is understandable - to fight like a man, this is not for you to grind with your tongue, like a bazaar woman, and pour slop over people who cannot answer you in the same way.

However, entering the ring against such a man as Taranda is another vivid illustration of the fact that Otar never had a sense of reality. What he was thinking about is not clear. The most logical explanation is that about nothing. And what could be expected from a person who came to training drunk?

Then he will lie uncontrollably that the difference in weight they had was 46 kg (in fact, 28: 72 for "Undaunted Bicho" and 100 for Taranda, which, of course, is also a lot); Moreover, Kush did not present any claims to the organizers of the show, but he won back in front of the journalists in full. He will lie about kilograms (as if this cannot be verified), lie that he flew out of the ring from the blow of Taranda, and he caught up with him and began to beat him (in fact, Kush himself turned his back to the opponent, as a result of which he received a remark from the judge).

Women, in the portrait of the aforementioned media personality, are likely to be especially interested in his relationship with the "fair sex". Especially for them I would like to inform you that Otar Shalvovich was married three times. And from each of them the hot Kutaisi guy has several children. Such Georgian lovingness hit Otar's wallet hard. The former spouses seized almost all of his property. In addition, as they say, he is forced to pay considerable alimony every month.


I don’t know if the Georgians have a similar proverb, but Otar Kushanashvili clearly forgot the Russian one: “If you like to ride, love to carry sledges”.

I have a lot of pictures with Otar. But then I shot on film and photographs, respectively, on paper. We need to scan. Well, to be honest, I’m reluctant. Connect the scanner, install the drivers. Maybe sometime later. Therefore, I illustrate with pictures from the Internet.

To be continued.

He is called an icon of adventurism and a nightmare of Russian show business, and he claims with a smile that he is an "anti-publicist" and "a chemically pure genius." The troublemaker and brawler, a bright and shocking, unpredictable journalist, television and radio host, popular columnist Otar Kushanashvili may be liked by someone, but madly annoyed by someone. The only feeling that a journalist does not evoke in anyone is indifference.

Otar Shalvovich Kushanashvili was born in ancient Georgian Kutaisi in a large family... The journalist's parents - Shalva and Nelly Kushanashvili - raised nine children.

Journalism began to attract Otar in middle school. Sociable, emotional and erudite Kushanashvili did not see himself in any other profession. It seems to be communicating with outside world and the desire to speak out on any occasion, whether someone likes it or not, was in his blood. The test of the pen took place in the local "Kutaisi Pravda". The schoolboy read a lot, including the authoritative Literaturnaya Gazeta. And he did not just read, but wrote to famous authors of the publication, such as Stanislav Rassadin and Lev Anninsky.

Once Anninsky, clearly provoked by an amazing sincerity, bordering on the outrageous Georgian boy who wrote to a journalist that « - this is a bad writer! Read at least Nodar Dumbadze. Our writer will be stronger! ", decided to answer Kushanashvili. Later, Otar said that when he received a response from the capital's celebrity, he kissed the letter and cried out of an overabundance of feelings.


After leaving school, Otar Kushanashvili entered Tbilisi University. I chose, of course, the Faculty of Journalism. Soon the young man was expelled from there. According to the journalist, for behavior unworthy of a Georgian and too long language.

The guy was drafted into the army. After serving, Otar decided not to waste his time on trifles and went to conquer Moscow. The capital did not immediately open its hospitable arms to the young man. Kushanashvili washed the floors at the Paveletsky railway station during the day, worked as a school watchman at night and tirelessly sent resumes to all kinds of Moscow publications. Of the 35 editors Otar contacted, only one responded.

Journalism

The creative biography of Otar Kushanashvili began in the newspaper Novy Vzglyad, which was founded by Evgeny Dodolev. The persistent Georgian guy was hired as a correspondent. Otar had a hard time. First of all, it was necessary to thoroughly master Russian grammar. But Kushanashvili turned out to be a capable and stubborn young man. Six months later, the young journalist was awarded an editorial prize for an excellent interview with and.


Otaru could not sit still: the young man energetically made his way everywhere, knowing full well that water does not flow under the lying stone. Soon, Otar Kushanashvili met with the head of the TV-6 television channel. He immediately realized that such a guy, impudent and without complexes, would be of great use to him in promoting the new project "Sharks of the Pen".

Otar Kushanashvili did not disappoint the hopes imposed by Demidov. From the very first broadcasts, the journalist made a name for himself and raised the rating of the program. The guest stars of show business were shocked by this guy's provocative questions. Otar Kushanashvili was not at all shy and did not feel any reverence for the people whom the whole country knew. For example, Kushanashvili asked if he was straight and didn’t sleep with his own Great Dane. Although the singer was shocked, he did not suffer from a lack of a sense of humor and self-control: he was able to gracefully fend off the “shark of the pen”.


However, not everyone had such self-control as Leontiev's. The late singer and fashion model Natalia Medvedeva, offended by Kushanashvili's antics, threw a microphone at him.

And Stanislav Rassadin wrote about the new scandalous star in his author's article that “in this disgusting young man attacking decent people with indecent questions” the journalist hardly recognized that wonderful young man from Kutaisi, who wrote him naive, semi-literate, but full of fire letters. Rassadin called Kushanashvili a "changeling" and regretted that the era of such people had come.

It seems that the dubious fame of a hardened cynic and provocateur ceased to please Otar himself. The TV presenter realized that in pursuit of rating he crossed the forbidden line. Therefore, the journalist left the TV show.


But Otar Kushanashvili was not going to radically change. Soon the journalist was attacked, about whose vocal abilities (more precisely, the lack of such) the journalist publicly declared, and even the prima donna of the Russian stage herself. Kushanashvili was not only brought to court, but even beaten. It is not surprising that one day a journalist lost his teeth.

Otar was not going to stop. In the end, shocking and scandals are part of a journalist's image. For this Kushanashvili was paid money. Once a journalist "modestly" admitted that there should be no compromises for literary geniuses. And he said that he was forced to "sell himself, so that his children do not feel the need."

Otar Kushanashvili also paid attention to politicians. For example, in 2008 the journalist called it "a shame on the nation." But later he radically changed his own opinion about this policy.


Not all celebrities were subjected to derogatory criticism of the shocking journalist. For example, he called Kushanashvili a great man, considered an unrecognized genius, and spoke about him as the smartest girl he knew, who never allows herself to offend the weak. Among the respected Kushanashvili stars of Russian show business were, and.

In the mid-1990s, Otar Kushanashvili has already become an acknowledged star of Russian show business. And it doesn't matter that many used the prefix “scandalous” to the word “star” - nobody disputed the popularity of the journalist. In 1995, Otar Kushanashvili became the head of the weekly "Musical Truth", which was then called "MuzOBOZ". As part of the project, Kushanashvili took over 300 interviews with celebrities.


At the beginning of 1997, Otar began to lead music and information projects "Party zone" and "Obozzz-Show" together with. Later, as a TV presenter, he appeared in the programs "Big Jackpot" on "STS", "On the Boulevard" and "Time is Money" on the TV channel "DTV", "What ?!" on KP-TV. And he also conducted the quiz "Clever found!" on the TV channel "360 ° Podmoskovye".

Kushanashvili also appeared on the radio. At various times he worked as a presenter for Europa Plus and Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda. He wrote columns for the newspaper "Argumenty i Pravda", magazines "Om", "Secret & Secret" and "Fly & Drive". The journalist's articles were regularly published in Vechernyaya Moskva, Moskovsky Komsomolets and Moskovskaya Pravda.


Since October 2015, the creative biography of Otar Kushanashvili has been enriched with new pages. Until March 2016, Kushanashvili hosted the morning radio show "100% of the morning" on Sport FM. In the same year, the journalist tried to fill the vacancy that became vacant after leaving the Ukrainian "Radio Vesti", but Kushanashvili was refused.

Kushanashvili also tried his hand at acting. The journalist appeared in the comedy project "33 square meters", in the third season of the detective series "Kamenskaya-3" and the action-drama "Club". He also starred in the films "Kaleidoscope", "Life is like a movie, or Show of a strict regime" and "Vladislav Galkin. Get out of the role. "


Peru Otar Kushanashvili owns the books "I and the Way in ... How to Conquer Good", "Ya. Book - revenge "and" The Epoch and I. Chronicle of a bully. "

In October 2016, Otar Kushanashvili became the TV presenter of the program "Natural Selection". The talk show is dedicated to the quality of the products. Programs come to the studio as victims of substandard goods average citizens, as well as owners with directors of manufacturing companies who are ready to defend the name of their own product. Disputes are resolved by experts: production technologists, doctors, nutritionists and even lawyers.

Zinaida Rudenko became Otar Kushanashvili's co-host. The TV presenter called his partner a godsend for the program, which instantly adapts to each topic and is able to bring the program to the desired level of tension.

At the same time, Kushanashvili himself admitted that he was performing in a show of this format for the first time. Although it is not the first time for a journalist to play the role of “defender of the oppressed,” Otar Kushanashvili is used to doing it in a more ironic and creative way. Otar Kushanashvili and Zinaida Rudenko


The TV presenter called the main goal of the program an educational function: to teach what and how to buy, how to live with high quality and safety, what to look at when choosing new brands, and what things and products it is better to completely abandon.

Personal life

Otar Kushanashvili not so long ago argued that he was not ready to repeat the feat of already deceased parents and have nine children. Nevertheless, the journalist already has 8 children.

The first wife of the journalist, Maria Gorokhova, gave birth to Kushanashvili's first three children, daughter Daria (or Dariko) and sons Georgy and Nikolos. All three live with their mother in Kiev. The father is especially proud of the eldest daughter. According to Otar, Daria is a real clever and beautiful woman. The girl plans to make a career in television.


After the divorce, Maria Gorokhova-Kushanashvili seized all the property from her husband.

The personal life of Otar Kushanashvili after breaking up with Masha made sense only when the journalist met Irina Kiseleva. The second wife also had nothing to do with the world of television and show business: she worked as a banking lawyer. In this union, two children were born - daughter Elina and son Fyodor.

Today Kushanashvili is happy in his third civil marriage. Business lady Olga Kurochkina in the summer of 2016 gave her husband a son, Roma. The boy is named after the deceased brother of Kushanashvili - Romani - and became the third common child in the family of Otar and Olga. In addition to the baby, the couple are raising their eldest son Mamuka and daughter Elena.


Otar Kushanashvili and Olga Kurochkina

Otar Kushanashvili introduced all his children from different marriages and is happy that the offspring managed to find a common language.

Otar Kushanashvili shares his thoughts not only in the format of officially published books or television programs on federal channels. The journalist is present on social networks and on other platforms for the exchange of opinions: he maintains accounts in “

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