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I had a friend - a certain Otar Kushanashvili, like a "journalist", whose name few readers now remember, whom I first met on the "Sharks of the Pen" that thundered at one time - one of the first programs on television that quite frankly revealed the nature of things in the music show business. Basically, you could see me there. Although it was not the first time I appeared "in the movies".
Otar Kushanashvili dreamed of becoming a journalist at school. He wrote short notes in Georgian, which were published in the local newspaper Kutaisskaya Pravda. He could not write in Russian, because he knew it through a stump-deck.
After school, he entered the Tbilisi State University at the Faculty of Journalism. But he was expelled for bad behavior. Even then, Otar manifested what he then successfully implements,
having made his way into journalism not by washing, but by skating.
The 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 lived in the capital by odd jobs - he worked as a watchman in one of the capital's schools, cleaned at the Paveletsky railway station.
How did Otar get to work as a journalist in the Moskovskaya Pravda newspaper (there is a version that he started in the Novy Vzglyad newspaper, but I have other information), who spoke Russian in such a way that it was difficult to understand him - the mystery is covered darkness. However, the fact remains that this was the start of his journalistic career.
Naturally, Otar could not take 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 - impudence.
Such an episode in his biography is interesting. Printing short notes in Kutaisskaya Pravda, Otar immediately imagined himself a "shark of the pen" and wrote to the then-famous journalist Lev Annensky in Literaturnaya Gazeta. In it, he openly began to give advice to the master, in particular, he recommended that he re-read the Georgian author Nodar Dumbadze. Unprecedented impudence to the boy already then was not to occupy.
It seems that Yevgeny Dodolev suggested that he work for the Sharks of the Pen, who put in a good word to Ivan Demidov. The program was planned to be "perestroika", sharp, the then Russian music observers were not yet accustomed to such a manner of work, so new bright faces were required and, at the same time, shameless impudent ones, like Kushanashvili, who could cut the truth straight into the eyes with no hesitation. ... And Otar began to chop.
But the first thing that attracted attention to himself was his ever-dirty long, below the shoulders, hair, which is why the female journalists of other publications squeamishly shunned him, frankly not wanting to sit next to him. But Otar paid absolutely no attention to this and did not wash his hair, it seems, for months - his disregard for others went off scale even then.
Looking ahead, I’ll say that Otaru’s unprecedented rudeness, as expected, did not get away with it - in the end they caught him, filled him with charisma, and most importantly, cut his business card - forever dirty hair. After that, Otar calmed down a little for a while, washed his hair and did not grow it. However, since he no longer knew how to do anything more than be rude, insult and throw mud at people, in order to stay in journalism, he willy-nilly had to saddle the old skate again. True, he no longer touched "serious people".
In general, Alena Snezhinskaya told me a lot of interesting things about him then, who at that time was a press attaché for Bari Alibasov and, accordingly, the "boy group" Na-Na, which he produced. Kushanashvili, taking advantage of her disagreements with Bari Kimovich, directly pitted her against Alibasov, and when it smelled of fried food, he simply ran into the bushes. Later, he will do the same in the First Channel show "King of the Ring", not appearing for a fight with Sergei Chelobanov.
“When I called Moskovskaya Pravda, I got 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 by the phone,” he said.
I do not understand:
Which Oska?
Otar Kushanashvili.
At first, I didn't understand what he was saying. He had big problems with vocabulary. Then I got used to it."
But it will be later, and now there were "Sharks ...".
The “journalist” with a tanned non-Slavic appearance, small fast-moving eyes and a tongue-tied Russian-Georgian patter was remembered by the audience, 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 - known at that time time of performers and groups. This has never happened before on Russian television. (The words "ass", "fuck you", "suck", then were not yet pronounced from the screen.) And what a sin to hide - we must pay tribute to Dodolev's foresight - the program went uphill largely due to Otar's frankly defiant behavior.
Doesn't that remind you of anything?
So, the unprecedented impudence of Otar Kushanashvili, his inability to do something else, and the people's avalanche interest in an unprecedented phenomenon - the first appearance of the "holy fool" coincided in an amazing way. I remember that there was constant talk - both among the brethren of journalists and among the people - when and who would finally give this tongue-tied carpet jester around the neck, but to the surprise of everyone, every new "Sharks ..." came out with the same dirty long-haired holy fool in its front ranks. Ratings - above all.
I can give 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 Rossiya cinema (now Pushkinsky), I don’t remember for what reason. The ubiquitous Otar, in his usual boorish manner, with a Russian-Georgian tongue twister, attacked the journalistic fraternity - they say, go to presentations only to eat for free, they say, if you have even a drop of conscience, each of you must pay for what is before you on the table, otherwise you are not journalists, but corrupt mongrels.
I asked for a microphone.
"Otar," I said, "please tell me how much you paid to the cashier for the fact that you are now eating so actively, and did you still have a check? You are not a corrupt mongrel, unlike everyone else, right?" The explorer of the nature of things in me woke up even then.
There was silence in the hall. Only flashes flashed and camera shutters clicked - half of the photographers filmed me, half - Otar, who silently stared at me with his small Georgian eyes and obviously forgot about his drooping jaw - this "truth-seeker" is clearly not used to active rebuff.
Then the photographers switched places: those who shot Otar switched their 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: "There are all sorts of people walking around here ..."
In the same way, by the way, the blogger Mironenko behaved herself - she went crazy from the question I asked her publicly, did not answer anything and instantly "banned" so that "all sorts", instead of expressing admiration for her ass, asking unpleasant questions, here more didn't go.
Then I got off lightly. When I asked the late Yuri Aizenpshis a simple question about his protégé Vlad Stashevsky, he, clattering his teeth, rushed at me with his fists. But he has an old prison temper. And what to take from the gentle "writer" who elevated 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 play a dirty trick in his usual manner, "driving" through my publication in his next "speech" - naturally, he did not fail to find out who I was and where I came from. To my surprise, this did not happen. Moreover, at the next meeting at some journalistic get-together, he treated me very friendly. Well, I did not exacerbate, 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, bathed in the rays of glory that suddenly fell on him, increasingly lost his sense of reality (although, in fact, he never had it) and his overt rudeness increasingly grew into direct insults.
At the presentation of the new disc by Ilya Reznik, compiled according to songs written to the poet's verses, as well as containing his ditties, of course, the ubiquitous Otar was also present. Taking the floor, he said literally the following into the microphone:
You're being sucked up here, and I'll tell you straight out: Your CD is shit!
Ilya Rakhmielevich was silent.
Then I asked the master why he did not answer Kushanashvili. And he said:
You see, young man, I am clean and fastidious, and I adhere to the principle in life that a known substance always stinks by definition. And so that there is no stench even more, it is better not to touch it and, if possible, bypass it.
I have this answer among the dictaphone records, but I'm too lazy to look for it, so I'm quoting it from memory.
It seems to me that there is much in common between the aforementioned Elena Mironenko and Otar Kushanashvili. In part, they are even mirror images of each other.
Rudeness, abomination, stupidity and insulting attitude towards a person has become more - 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 put out of the programs during the live broadcast, is an example of this. Against this background, the "scandalous" Otar, of course, faded, and gradually disappeared "from the radar" of public opinion. In addition, the center of rudeness has moved to the rapidly developing Global Web, and Otar had no chance here - he, in fact, never knew how to write, he was not friends with the keyboard.
The first roles were played by the "writer" Elena Mironenko, who types texts on the keyboard at a speed much higher than the speed of her thoughts.
The oil painting in the portrait of the former "feather shark" can be complemented by the following bright strokes:
In 2002, during a discussion of the Eurovision Song Contest in the program of Andrey Malakhov, the completely presumptuous Kush, as he was now often called, began to express his thoughts using the "folk Russian language" directly on Channel One. It was already beyond everything, and even the very loyal TV leadership, who looked through their fingers at his art and forgave everything, for the sake of the ratings that he brought, were forced to react. After such a trick, Kushanashvili closed the entrance to television for a long time, and to any channel.
In 2004, at the Russia-Portugal match, Kushanashvili did not like the decision of the referee to remove our goalkeeper. And he decided to immediately tell him personally about this, running straight to 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 curious ones. ... At one of the concerts, apparently inspired by the example of the "stars" and imagining that he was a "star" of no lesser magnitude, Otar jumped from the stage into the crowd with a running start, apparently hoping that he would be picked up. But people did not appreciate Otar's ardor and parted in puzzlement. Kushanashvili, with all his foolishness, crashed to the floor.
During the TV project of the First Channel "King of the Ring", he defiantly did not appear for the fight with Sergei Chelobanov, later motivating his act with the dishonesty of refereeing. But few people doubt that "Fearless Bicho" just missed the mark. For in the previous fight he was brazenly defeated by the 100-kilogram Gediminas Taranda, a former ballet dancer, at that time (2005) - the head of the ballet troupe, who was a head taller than him and exceeded 25 kilos in weight. The result was predictable - the fight was stopped in the second round due to the clear superiority of Taranda. And it’s understandable - to fight like a man, it’s not for you to grind with your tongue, like a market woman, and pour slop on 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 is unclear. 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 between them was 46 kg (in fact, 28: 72 for "Fearless 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 to the journalists in full. He will lie about kilograms (as if this cannot be verified), lie that he flew out of the ring from Taranda’s blow, and he caught up with him and began to beat (in fact, Kush himself turned his back on 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 inform you that Otar Shalvovich was married three times. And from each of them, the hot Kutaisi guy has several children. Such Georgian love of love hit Otar's wallet hard. Former spouses sued him for almost all the property. In addition, as they say, he is forced to pay considerable alimony every month.
I don't know if Georgians have a similar proverb, but Otar Kushanashvili obviously forgot the Russian one: "If you like to ride, love to carry sleds."
I have many photos with Otar. But then I shot on film and photographs, respectively, on paper. Gotta scan. Well, to be honest, it's a shame. Connect the scanner, install the drivers. Maybe sometime later. Therefore, I illustrate with pictures from the Internet.
To be continued.
Kushanashvili Otar Shalvovich (06/22/1970) is a Russian journalist specializing in music. He regularly publishes in various magazines and newspapers. TV presenter who made a career in the Sharks of the Pen program. He became famous for not being afraid to say a “strong word”. IN this moment leads several author's projects on various TV channels.
“Once I said to myself: “There is no need to copy the manners of the same Dmitry Dibrov or Nikolai Fomenko.” I'm different. Maybe not so talented, but a real workaholic. And if people somehow react to me, it means that I am doing everything right. We need to develop this further.”
Childhood
Otar Kushanashvili was born in Kutaisi on June 22, 1970. Parents - Shalva and Nelli Kushanashvili. In addition to Otar, the family had eight more children.
Otar dreamed of becoming a journalist at school. He wrote small notes that were published in the daily newspaper Kutaisskaya Pravda. At the same time, he corresponded with the authors of the Literary Gazette. There was one funny episode in childhood, which 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, I recommended him to re-read the Georgian author Nodar Dumbadze. And interestingly, Annensky answered the young boy and asked him to write more information about himself. Otar Kushanashvili admits that he cried at that moment and kissed the letter.
After school, he entered the Tbilisi State University at the Faculty of Journalism. But he was expelled for bad behavior. The 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. Naturally, with such nondescript baggage, it was difficult to count on a job as a journalist. And at first, Otar Kushanashvili lived 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 resumes to various editorial offices. They answered him only once, they offered him to become a correspondent for the Novy Vzglyad newspaper. 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, offered Kushanashvili to try himself on television. And even put in a good word to Ivan Demidov. So the little-known Georgian journalist took his first steps towards fame. Years later, Otar Kushanashvili has more than 300 hundred interviews with various representatives of Russian show business. And he is one of the most famous music journalists in our country.
Otar Kushanashvili became especially popular with the TV program “Sharks of the Pen”. He stood out noticeably among his fellow journalists. First of all, the way you ask questions. He was not shy about anything, he could speak harshly, did not flatter, but on the contrary, he always tried to offend his interlocutor. "Sharks of the pen" cemented Kushanashvili's reputation as a rebel.
After that, there were more programs "Party Zone", "Big Jackpot", "Obozzz Show" and others. In parallel, he tried his hand at the radio. For example, he led the program on Europe Plus. Kushanashvili is also regularly published in many popular publications. Among them are “Arguments and Facts”, “MK”, Evening Truth”, “Om”.
“I had a significant break, I did not write for many years. But today it gives me real pleasure. I got better. And I really missed writing."
For 20 years now, Otar Kushanashvili has been the head of the weekly magazine MuzOBOZ. Even at the dawn of his work as editor-in-chief, he regularly published in his own publication, but over time he cooled off. Although still listed in this position.
Scandals
The main "act" for which Otar Kushanashvili "became famous" was a mate on the air of Channel One. It happened in 2002 during a discussion of the Eurovision Song Contest in the program with Andrey Malakhov. After such a trick, Kushanashvili closed the entrance to television for a long time, and to any channel.
There was another episode with him running out onto the football field. In 2004, at the Russia-Portugal match, Kushanashvili did not like the decision of the referee to remove our goalkeeper. And he decided to tell him personally about it. For this trick, he was fined 2.5 thousand euros and received a sentence. True, conditional 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 absence from the fight with Sergei Chelobanov during the TV project of the First Channel "King of the Ring". The journalist motivated that act by the dishonesty of refereeing.
The reputation of a brawler is partly confirmed by the numerous marriages of Otar Kushanashvili. There were three in total. And from each wife he has several children. True, love affairs hit the journalist's wallet hard. Former spouses sued him for almost all the property. In addition, he has to pay a lot of alimony every month.
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." Troublemaker and brawler, flamboyant and outrageous, unpredictable journalist, TV and radio host, popular columnist Otar Kushanashvili can please someone, and insanely annoy someone. The only feeling that a journalist does not cause in anyone is indifference.
Otar Shalvovich Kushanashvili was born in the ancient Georgian Kutaisi in a large family. The journalist's parents, Shalva and Nelli 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 that communication with the outside world and the desire to speak out on any occasion, whether someone likes it or not, were in his blood. A test of the pen took place in the local "Kutaisskaya 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, obviously provoked by the amazing sincerity, bordering on the outrageousness of a Georgian boy, who wrote to a journalist that « Chingiz AitmatovThis is a bad writer! You should read at least Nodar Dumbadze. Our writer will be stronger!” decided to answer Kushanashvili. Later, Otar said that when he received a response from a metropolitan celebrity, he kissed the letter and cried from an overabundance of feelings.
After graduating from 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 unworthy Georgian behavior and too long language.
The guy was drafted into the army. After serving, Otar decided not to waste time on trifles and went to conquer Moscow. The capital did not immediately open hospitable embraces 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 out resumes to various Moscow publications. Of the 35 editors contacted by Otar, only one responded.
Journalism
The creative biography of Otar Kushanashvili began in the New Look newspaper, which was founded by Evgeny Dodolev. The persistent Georgian guy was enrolled in the state as a correspondent. Otar had a hard time. First of all, it was necessary to master Russian grammar thoroughly. But Kushanashvili turned out to be a capable and stubborn young man. Six months later, the young journalist was awarded an editorial award for an excellent interview taken from Vera Glagoleva and Viktor Merezhko.
Otar did not sit still: the young man vigorously made his way everywhere, knowing full well that water does not flow under a lying stone. Soon Otar Kushanashvili met the head of the television channel "TV-6" Ivan Demidov. He immediately realized that such a guy, impudent and without complexes, would be of great use to him in the promotion of the new Sharks of the Pen project.
Otar Kushanashvili did not deceive the hopes placed by Demidov. From the very first broadcasts, the journalist made a name for himself and raised the rating of the program. The invited stars of show business were shocked by the provocative questions of this guy. Otar Kushanashvili was not at all shy and did not feel any reverence for people who were known by the whole country. For example, Valeria Leontiev Kushanashvili asked if he was straight and if he slept with his own dog. Although the singer was shocked, he did not suffer from the lack of a sense of humor and self-control: he managed to gracefully parry the “shark of the pen”.
However, not everyone had such self-control, like Leontiev. 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 an author's article that "in this disgusting lad 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 "shifter" and regretted that the era of such people had come.
It seems that the dubious fame of a hardened cynic and provocateur has ceased to please Otar himself. The TV presenter realized that in pursuit of the rating he had crossed the forbidden line. Therefore, the journalist left the TV show.
But Otar Kushanashvili was not going to change radically. Soon the journalist was attacked by Sergei Lazarev, whose vocal abilities (more precisely, the lack thereof) the journalist publicly announced, Alexander Abdulov and even the prima donna of the Russian stage Alla Pugacheva herself. Kushanashvili was not only brought to court, but even beaten. It is not surprising that once a journalist lost his teeth.
Otar was not going to stop. In the end, outrageousness and scandals are part of the image of a journalist. Kushanashvili was paid money for this. One day, 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 would not be in need."
Otar Kushanashvili did not ignore politicians either. For example, in 2008 a journalist called Mikheil Saakashvili "a disgrace to the nation." But later he radically changed his own opinion about this policy.
Not all celebrities were subjected to derogatory criticism of the outrageous journalist. For example, Kushanashvili called Yuri Aizenshpis a great man, considered Igor Sorin an unrecognized genius, and Ksenia Sobchak spoke of Ksenia Sobchak as the smartest girl he knew, who never allows herself to offend the weak. Iosif Kobzon, Valery Meladze and Leonid Agutin were among the stars of Russian show business respected by Kushanashvili.
In the mid-1990s, Otar Kushanashvili had already become a recognized star of Russian show business. And it doesn’t matter that many used the prefix “scandalous” to the word “star” - no one disputed the popularity of the journalist. In 1995, Otar Kushanashvili headed the weekly "Musical Truth", which was then called "MuzOBOZ". As part of the project, Kushanashvili interviewed over 300 celebrities.
In early 1997, Otar began to lead the music and information projects "Party Zone" and "Obozzz-Show" together with Lera Kudryavtseva. Later, as a TV presenter, he appeared in the Big Snatch programs on STS, On the Boulevard and Time is Money on the DTV channel, What is it ?! on KP-TV. And he also led the quiz "Smart found!" on the TV channel "360° Podmoskovye".
Kushanashvili was also noted on the radio. At various times, he worked as a broadcaster for Europe Plus and Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda. He wrote author's columns for the Argumenty i Pravda newspaper, Om, Secret&Mystery and Fly&Drive magazines. The journalist's articles were regularly published in Vechernyaya Moskva, Moskovsky Komsomolets and Moskovskaya Pravda.
From October 2015 creative biography Otara Kushanashvili has been enriched with new pages. Until March 2016, Kushanashvili hosted the morning radio show 100% Morning on Sport FM. In the same year, the journalist tried to fill a vacancy that had become vacant after the departure of Matvey Ganapolsky on the Ukrainian Radio Vesti, but Kushanashvili was refused.
Kushanashvili also tried his hand as an actor. The journalist appeared in the comedy project "33 square meters", in the 3rd 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 a high security show” and “Vladislav Galkin. Step out of role.
Otar Kushanashvili at the presentation of the book “I. The Book is Revenge Peru Otar Kushanashvili owns the books “I and the Way in ... How to defeat good”, “I. The Book is Revenge” and “The Epoch and I. Chronicles of a Hooligan”.
In October 2016, Otar Kushanashvili became the TV presenter of the Natural Selection program. The talk show is dedicated to the quality of products. Both average citizens who have suffered from low-quality goods, and owners with directors of manufacturing companies who are ready to defend the name of their own product come to the studio of the program. Disputes are resolved by experts: production technologists, doctors, nutritionists and even lawyers.
Zinaida Rudenko became the co-host of Otar Kushanashvili. The TV presenter called his partner a godsend for a program that 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 purpose of the program an educational function: to teach what and how to buy, how to live efficiently and safely, what to look for when choosing new brands, and what things and products it is better to completely abandon.
Personal life
Otar Kushanashvili not so long ago claimed that he was not ready to repeat the feat of already deceased parents and have nine children. However, the journalist already has 8 children.
The journalist's first wife, Maria Gorokhova, gave birth to Kushanashvili's first three children, daughter Daria (or Dariko) and sons George and Nikolos. All three live with their mother in Kyiv. The eldest daughter is especially proud of the father. According to Otar, Daria is a real smart and beautiful woman. The girl plans to make a career in television.
After the divorce, Maria Gorokhova-Kushanashvili sued her husband for all the property.
After parting with Masha, Otar Kushanashvili's personal life only made sense 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 Fedor.
Today Kushanashvili is happy in his third civil marriage. Business lady Olga Kurochkina in the summer of 2016 gave her husband an eighth child - 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 TV shows on federal channels. The journalist is in in social networks and on other platforms for exchanging opinions: maintains accounts on VKontakte, Twitter and Instagram. In addition, the TV presenter maintains a blog on the LiveJournal platform, where he speaks in detail on topics of interest to the journalist.
Otar Kushanashvili now
In 2017, the TV presenter released a new book called "Not Alone". The book was printed and distributed by Argumenty Nedeli Publishing House.
In April 2018, the TV presenter became a guest of the author's program of the writer Tatyana Ustinova "My Hero", which airs on the TVC channel. In this talk show, Otar Kushanashvili talked with the writer about his own biography, talked about conflicts with people who brought Kushanashvili to journalism, about the indignation of the appearance of a journalist on the part of the residents of Tbilisi, which arose in the 90s, as well as about the behind-the-scenes life of the program “Natural selection".
Since October 2015, Otar's creative biography has been enriched with new pages. At this time, he led the morning radio show "100% of the morning" on "Sport FM". In 2016, the journalist tried to fill a vacancy after the departure of Matvey Ganapolsky on the Ukrainian Radio Vesti, but he was refused.
Kushanashvili also tried his hand as a film actor. 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 a high security show” and “Vladislav Galkin. Step out of role.
Since October 2016, Kushanashvili has been the host of the consumer talk show "Natural Selection" on the TV Center TV channel.
Creativity Otar Kushanashvili
TV projects
1995 - 1998 - TV show "Sharks of the Pen"
1995 - weekly "MuzOBOZ"
1997 - TV show "Party Zone"
1997 - TV show "Obozzz-Show"
1998 - 2005 - TV series "33 square meters"
2003 - TV series "Kamenskaya-3"
2006 - 2009 - TV series "Club"
2007 - documentary "Life is like a movie, or a high security show"
2008 - TV series "Kaleidoscope"
2011 - documentary film "Vladislav Galkin. Exit Role"
2013 - 2014 - TV show "What is it?!"
2015 - 2016 - TV show "100% of the morning"
2016 - TV show "Natural Selection"
Filmography
1998 - 2005 - 33 square meters - theater director.
2003 - Kamenskaya-3 - Gleb Svitin, journalist
2006 - 2009 - Club - cameo
2008 - Kaleidoscope - episode
2007 - Life is like a movie, or a high security show (documentary)
2011 - Vladislav Galkin. Step out of role (documentary)
Books
2010 - book "I. Book - revenge "
2011 - the book "The Age and Me: Chronicles of a Bully"
2012 - book "Me and the Way in ... How to defeat good"
2017 - book "Not Alone"
Otar Kushanashvili was born on June 22, 1970 in Kutaisi, Georgia. The boy grew up in a large family. Together with him, his parents, Shalva and Nelli Kushanashvili, raised nine children. A sociable, emotional and erudite boy, he dreamed of becoming a famous journalist. Communication and the desire to speak out on any occasion, whether someone likes it or not, were in his blood. A test of the pen took place in the local "Kutaisskaya Pravda". The schoolboy read a lot, including the authoritative Literaturnaya Gazeta. And he did not just read, but wrote to well-known authors of the publication, such as Stanislav Rassadin and Lev Anninsky.
After graduating from school, Otar Kushanashvili entered the faculty of journalism at Tbilisi University. Soon he was expelled from there for unsatisfactory behavior. Then the guy was drafted into the army. After serving, he decided not to waste his time on trifles and went to conquer Moscow. At first, the young man washed the floors at the Paveletsky railway station during the day, worked as a school watchman at night and tirelessly sent out resumes to various Moscow publications. Of the thirty-five editors contacted by Otar, only one responded.
Kushanashvili's creative biography began in the New Look newspaper, which was founded by Yevgeny Dodolev. The persistent Georgian guy was enrolled in the state as a correspondent. He 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, he was awarded an editorial award for an excellent interview taken from Vera Glagoleva and Viktor Merezhko.
Soon Otar met the head of the television channel TV-6 Ivan Demidov. He immediately realized that it was just such a guy, impudent and without complexes, that would be great for him in the promotion of the new Sharks of the Pen project. Kushanashvili did not deceive his hopes. From the very first broadcasts he made a name for himself and raised the rating of the program.
The invited show business stars were shocked by the host's provocative questions. Otar was not at all shy and did not feel any trepidation in front of the people whom the whole country knew. Soon, the dubious fame of a burned-out cynic and provocateur ceased to please Otar himself. The journalist realized that in pursuit of the rating he crossed some forbidden line and therefore decided to leave the show.
However, Kushanashvili was not going to change radically. Soon, Sergei Lazarev, whose vocal abilities the journalist announced publicly, Alexander Abdulov and even the prima donna of the national stage Alla Pugacheva herself, were attacked by him. Otar was not only brought to court, but often beaten, but he was not going to stop.
The journalist and politicians did not bypass their attention. For example, in 2008 he called Mikheil Saakashvili "a disgrace to the nation." But not all celebrities were subjected to derogatory criticism of the outrageous correspondent. For example, he called Yuri Aizenshpis a great man, considered Igor Sorin an unrecognized genius, and Ksenia Sobchak spoke of Ksenia Sobchak as the smartest of all the girls he knew, who never allows herself to offend the weak. Iosif Kobzon, Valery Meladze and Leonid Agutin were among the respected stars of show business.
In the mid-1990s, Kushanashvili was already a recognized star of the domestic show business. And it doesn't matter that many used the prefix "scandalous" to the word "star": no one disputed the journalist's fame. In 1995, he headed the weekly "Musical Truth", which was then called "MuzOBOZ". As part of the project, Otar took more than three hundred interviews with celebrities.
At the very beginning of 1997, he began to conduct musical and informational projects "Party Zone" and "Obozzz-Show" together with Lera Kudryavtseva. Later, as a host, he appeared in the programs "Big Jackpot" on "STS", "On the Boulevard" and "Time is Money" on the DTV channel, "What is it ?!" on KP-TV. And he also led the quiz "Smart found!" on the channel "360° Podmoskovye".
Kushanashvili was also noted on the radio. At various times, he acted as the host of programs on Europe Plus and Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda. Wrote books, author's columns for the newspaper "Arguments and Truth", magazines "Om", "Secret&Secret" and "Fly&Drive". His articles were regularly published in Evening Moscow, Moskovsky Komsomolets and Moskovskaya Pravda.
There is an excellent historical anecdote: “A young man comes to be hired by the Prime Minister of Great Britain, 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 of these are simply adored by our hero, Otar Kushanashvili, a shocking journalist, a disturber of public peace, a person far from polycorrectness and curtsy, an over-emotional representative of his proud people, a rhetorician and a bully, in a sharp tongue to which stars of all ranks and classes 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, he is now three years old, is an exception. - What are the children's names? Dasha, George, Nikolos (sons live in Kyiv), Alina, Elina - this one lives in Rostov-on-Don, uncle Fyodor and Danil. Four boys and three ladies. And everything with my face - this must be emphasized: all Otariki! -I understand that all children are not from one wife? I will bypass this question. By the way, I was officially married only once, and this marriage formally ended quite recently. And so it lasted all these years, from graduation. The very next day I brought my beloved to meet my parents. It was in Kutaisi. - Do Georgians welcome early marriages? In general, few people do this in Georgia. Early marriages are no longer in use. But my parents, now deceased, did not show much dissatisfaction. 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 of bad words to each other. Well, what can we remember now ... They were young and very stupid. My temper, nervousness played a role. It was necessary to somehow build relations differently, but by that time I was already traveling around the country, I was very tired, I exploded on every occasion. I would have to show 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 now she does not understand me and does not love me. Yes, what a sin to conceal - these feelings are mutual. Otar, we met at the Slavianski Bazaar festival in 1995. You were a frantic Otarik around whom the whole universe seemed to revolve. Yes, at that time I was cheesy and played a failed gangster. Ivan Demidov told me to be like this on stage - a buzzer, a fencer. And crossing the threshold of the house, I became a sentimental and whiny lover of Indian cinema. We had children every two years, in between I went to discover the world, and my wife never let him see it. I had a lot of impressions, I went where 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 already after the break with my wife, I did not think that I would hurt her. She was furious! I reasoned that if I am now free, then I can start novels and talk openly about them. It turns out that I can’t - it’s a person who is stabbed in the heart with a knife. And we agreed that now I will call only one name - Masha. Therefore, I will say this: there was no one but Masha. It's very masculine. Otar, didn’t you feel guilty before your children because they didn’t receive your father’s warmth? This does not apply to children! They do not participate in this conflict at all. I left, returned and was with them. No dislike! 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. - Are you ready to repeat the feat of your parents? I can't take more than seven. This is all! - Do 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 the fighters are already there. Naturally, they should like the most beautiful girls, read a lot, be educated, I have to dress them properly. In general, none of my children are deprived. I find it funny when some characters spend 300 thousand in the casino and complain that they have no money. I should always have money for my children! - Listen, does a journalist's income really allow him to keep such a crowd? No, well, what, my friend, is the income? Journalism doesn't make money. I never lived on these earnings, but lived in semi-legal activities - some restaurants, cafes, in general, with the world on a thread. -Never worked as a literary slave - did you write books for anyone? With my style, which I myself do not understand, this is impossible. Here we must also 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 them, or you are worthless. What I feel? Probably pity and anger. After all, life could have been built differently. I could be smarter and more attentive to people. It seems to me that if I had not listened to certain people, because of whom my friends left - Murat Nasyrov, Igor Sorin, and had not been carried away by some moments, justifying them with a large amount of work, it would have been much better. Of course, the man understands that he is no longer a teenager. But I want to somehow grow old nobly, like Richard Gere. Lenya Nerushenko and I from the Dynamite group once agreed to grow old 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. And also, when it comes to age, I think about my parents more and more often with guilt. I was the youngest and most beloved of nine children. And there was tenderness and sentimentality in me, which I carefully concealed. I didn't convey sincere feelings to my parents. Only now I understand this, that I had to tell my parents every minute that I love them. Mom especially needed it. She distributed this love to the blockheads and did not receive 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 in relationships with children. You have a very grown daughter. Are you bringing it to light? 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 about. I don't like the way she puts words together. In addition, in Ukraine, and Russia, and in Georgia, this profession is so meagerly paid, people are forced to their knees with two kopecks. I, as a Georgian dad, do not want Dasha to be a dependent person, I would like her to do business 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 to come. People are in a humiliating position. But in any case, I will always help my daughter! And I will always protect her. One can only dream of such a father. 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 an account of who is seeing her off. After all, how many people are mentally ill. Of course, when the children were small, I changed diapers, but I never thought that I would be such an anxious dad. And if Dasha follows in your footsteps and the next day after the graduation party, she brings her former classmate to meet? How would you react to this turn of events? Honestly, while I'm not ready for this and can't predict, but I think that I have enough wisdom and intelligence not to be a didactics and not to wag a finger. But in more I hope for Dasha's sanity - after all, she cannot fail to understand that it is too early to create a family, that she needs to look around, see the world. But as far as I know, Dasha doesn't have a boyfriend right now. She would tell me about falling in love, and the senior trustee tells me what is happening in the class. - Otar, do you remember all the birthdays of your children? Sometimes I can confuse who goes after whom. And I'm being caught on it. But I know for sure that a series of birthdays begins on September 5th. I justify myself by saying that I saved the demography of three countries, that I have more children than Dynamo Kiev fans! Usually I gather everyone together and we go to Twin Peaks - this is such a restaurant in Ostankino. - I present a picture: a happy father of a family, surrounded by loving children. I realized: I like to please children. And earn their authority - it's very cool!