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Every person dreams of visiting exotic places on earth. Many even choose travel as their goal in life. However, not everyone has the opportunity to travel. In order to go somewhere once, we study a lot of incoming information: we watch videos, sit up in front of TV screens.
Program "Heads and Tails"
None of the existing programs have previously shown tourist attractions the way the “Heads and Tails” program does. Ukrainian television demonstrates the world in all its manifestations. It not only describes in detail the generally accepted, well-known tourist attractions, but also presents local everyday flavors. “Heads and Tails” became the calling card of one of the brightest famous personalities of Ukraine - Zh. Badoeva.
Presenter Zhanna Badoeva, whose biography (especially the periods of her growing up and formation as a person) is very little described, in most cases is mentioned together with her ex-husband. But she also deserves special attention, since she is currently a successful manager of several projects on Ukrainian television. Despite the fact that several hosts have already changed in the “Heads and Tails” program, the atmosphere created by Zhanna Badoeva still does not fade away. The biography, maiden name, and presenter are widely discussed in the media today. Zhanna's popularity is growing every day.
Biography of Zhanna Badoeva
Zhanna is a native of Lithuania. She spent her entire childhood in one of the small towns called Mazeikiai. At the age of 18, she and her parents moved to Kyiv, where she received two higher educations: construction and directing. Zhanna Badoeva, whose biography is filled with many bright events, attaches great importance to family in her life. She tries to devote most of her free time to her children Bora and Lolita. And this is confirmed by pages on social networks, where new facts from life appear every now and then.
At the age of 20, Zhanna connected her life with one of the successful men who was much older than her. It was her first husband, Igor, who became her support, adviser, father, and only authority. However, this marriage did not last long - only seven years. They were destined to part. “It’s just that such a moment has come in life,” says Zhanna Badoeva. The biography took a new turn, the values in the girl’s life changed dramatically. The reason was the husband’s irreconcilability with Zhanna’s personality, as she began to develop professionally, and her worldview began to change, new interests appeared. Her husband was no longer the only object of her attention.
After some time, Zhanna Badoeva married her former classmate Alan Badoev for the second time. They were married for almost 12 years, but separated in 2012. As Zhanna and Alan comment: “love just passed.” Currently, Zhanna Badoeva is engaged to a businessman from Los Angeles. And perhaps in mid-2014 they will start a new family. Time will tell what kind of Zhanna Badoeva, whose biography will receive another new twist, will appear before us.
Projects of Zhanna Badoeva
The biography of Zhanna Badoeva, especially her creative activity, is quite rich. She began her creative journey with the Comedy Club project, where she was the first female resident. Great popularity and success came when Zhanna began to engage in the author’s project “Heads and Tails”. She was one of the founders and co-host of the project. Then there were several more successful projects on television: “Sharmanka”, “I Dance for You”, the talent show “Superzirka”, “Master Chef”. Zhanna continues to work in the field of producing. Let's hope that in the near future she will delight viewers with new bright projects.
Children of Zhanna Badoeva– son Boris and daughter Lolita were born from different men. Boris's father was Zhanna's first husband, businessman Igor Kurechenko - he was rich, owned a chain of gas stations and fully provided for his family. Zhanna married him very early, at nineteen, and after the birth of her son, she became completely immersed in family problems. The birth of her son did not prevent her from going to college, but Jeanne’s husband, who was much older and only wanted his wife to be a housewife and an obedient woman, did not like such independence.
In the photo are the children of Zhanna Badoeva
However, Zhanna’s character did not allow her to obey Igor in everything and remain silent when he began to put forward his demands and make claims. In response, Zhanna objected, argued, and, as a result, Igor Kurechenko set a condition - either Zhanna leaves the institute, or they get a divorce. She chose the second, hoping to the end that these were just words, but Igor really decided to break off relations with her, and at the same time, he simply kicked his wife out the door along with his little son, who at that time was only eight months old. She took this situation very hard, and pride and resentment did not allow her to demand alimony from her ex-husband for her son.
In the photo - Zhanna and Alan Badoevs with children
Zhanna worried about this situation for several years and only calmed down when she got married for the second time. At the institute, she met her second husband, Alan Badoev, whom she initially treated simply as a friend, and did not even think that she would ever marry him. They became close after a joint trip to Egypt, and after some time they got married - this happened seven years after the first divorce.
Zhanna's son Boris took Alan calmly, since he had known him since childhood. They had a daughter, Lolita, but, according to Zhanna, they never had a family as such, and in recent years the relationship became strained to the limit, even Zhanna Badoeva’s children did not help correct the situation. The presenter says that their marriage was heading towards its collapse slowly and smoothly, and therefore it is difficult to say when the relationship between them deteriorated completely.
The famous TV presenter was married twice before her wedding to businessman Vasily Melnichin. Now the couple lives in Italy and is raising two children - a son, Boris, from his first marriage and a daughter, Lolita, from his second marriage. Zhanna, in a frank interview, spoke about relationships with ex-husbands, the situation in the family and the project “Heads and Tails.”
- I'm lazy. But ask: do I want to change? I will answer: no. Vulnerable. When I need to pull myself together, I can – bam! - and get unstuck. Hot-tempered. I don’t like people who do things unprofessionally, slowly and uncertainly. I can boil. But quick-witted. And also soft. As long as I live, I learn to say the word “no.” It's so difficult. Sometimes fear gets in my way. I'm afraid of the unknown. Powerless in the face of rudeness. And, of course, I worry about my loved ones and children. But the paradox is that take all this away and it won’t be me.
Dreams and reality
– I got married for the first time at the age of 18. Igor was 33. Handsome, smart, charismatic. I couldn't help but fall in love. When I told my parents that I was getting married, they did not dissuade me. They just asked: are you sure? She answered yes. My parents never broke me, but sometimes they offered an alternative. So, when I got ready to go to the theater after school, they said: “Great! Just get an education first.” And I, the daughter of engineers, forgot about my dream for a while and entered construction.
My husband was a wealthy man (Igor Kucharenko owned a chain of gas stations - Antenna's note), I did not need additional income. But after a while I got bored and opened a small business – an audio and video store. But I didn’t enjoy the idea. I continued to dream about the theater, but I was afraid that nothing would work out.
I lived with Igor for seven years. These were happy years, he adored me, showed me the world, for which I am very grateful to him. But the night after my son was born, I didn’t sleep, I thought whether my Boris would be able to answer the question in a few years: “Who is your mother? What does she do?" Then I finally decided to realize my dream and entered college.
This categorically did not suit my husband. All these years, I, a little girl, grew up next to an accomplished man. And when I entered the institute, I changed: I began to argue, my own vision appeared, people whose opinions I valued. Igor gave an ultimatum: either you leave the institute, or we get a divorce. I didn’t take his words seriously and refused. Then he took off the ring, and a couple of weeks later he gave me a suitcase with things and put him and his eight-month-old child out on the street.
The ground was disappearing from under our feet. I couldn’t eat, drink, or think. She cried day and night. We need to raise our son and pay for college. My parents helped me cope financially. Over time, study and work saved me from depression. Later I realized: everything was right, I would have chosen a family - it would have broken up later anyway.
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Jokingly get married
– The relationship with my second husband was initially based on friendship. I’ve known Alan (Badoev, now a director, music video director. – Antennas’ note) since the first year of theater, we studied together in a group at the same faculty. We have similar creative views. We understood each other well. Boris was six years old when Alan said: “I want to raise your son.” Of course, he bribed me with this, I jokingly replied: “Great! Then get married." He easily agreed and assured: “You’ll see, in a year I’ll earn a million.” And even though there wasn’t a million a year later, I saw promise, talent and ambition in this skinny boy. His success was a matter of time. And I am very captivated by the leadership qualities in men. Yes, Alan was 23, just a boy, just graduating from college. I understood that in this marriage I would not have the same stability as in the previous one. But she also knew that Alan would not give her a choice: career or family. At that moment it was decisive.
When he found out that we were having a daughter, he jumped and squealed with happiness. It was impossible to expect a different reaction from him; he himself was still like a child. Picking Lolita and me up from the maternity hospital, he ordered a limousine, two hundred balloons, brought me and my daughter home, kissed them both and... went off to filming. I never dreamed that Alan would get up at night and change diapers. But I knew who I was marrying. The work of a director requires detachment from everything. When he came home “dead” after 20 hours of filming, it was stupid to demand his help with the child.
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Heads and tails
Yes, Alan did not sit with Lolita, did not bathe her. But he talked to his daughter, watched films, explained, from the age of two months she was on his set, saw how dad worked, came up with something. This was his upbringing. And Alan always bore the burden of financial responsibility for all four of them. He believed that he had to provide for us with everything, I didn’t convince him of this, it’s in his blood.
But time passed. Alan built a career and made money. Sometimes he didn’t like the fact that I was invited to filming or to work; he wanted me to spend more time with the family. Although we were from the same creative environment, he still preferred that I stay at home. Such pure male egoism. I don't blame him. Just a fact.
And then we started the “Heads and Tails” project. Probably at that moment I broke out of the vicious circle. I was able to realize myself, I realized that I could exist on my own. But I came home from trips, and no one was waiting except for the children. Alan disappeared for days on set and often didn’t even know that I had returned. Each of us lived by our own interests. The relationship began to fade away. This did not happen immediately - gradually. At first it hurt from loneliness, then it hurt, then it didn’t matter, and finally it felt good. At some point we decided to call it a day. No tragedies.
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Again from scratch
– We celebrated the divorce in a restaurant. Together. We laughed and had fun. It was like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders. I really think that if a husband and wife have nothing to talk about, there is no spiritual or physical warmth, no desire to see, hear each other, there is no point in preserving everything. Especially for the sake of the children. They suffer many times more if they see their parents constantly fighting.
When I got divorced for the first time, I was a student with a child in my arms, this time I worked, I could not only support myself. And Alan continued to bear financial responsibility for the children. And now the training of Boris and Lolita is on his shoulders.
When my son and daughter asked why we were getting a divorce, I then answered: “How often do you see dad at home? He works all the time. But I want simple female happiness: returning home, communicating with my husband, having dinner together. In order for this to become possible, we need to separate.”
So, after ten years of marriage, Alan and I came to the point where we started - friendship. Now we communicate better. We value and respect each other. If someone is having a hard time, we can write an SMS to support them. We are close people in any case.
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About stereotypes
Boris considers Alan his father. This is understandable: he has known his son since he was eight months old, and now he is 17 years old. They already communicate directly with each other. Now it’s simple: there are social networks, Skype, mobile phones, you can be in touch at least 24 hours a day. Sometimes I learn from Alan about some news from Boris. Let's say a son can first send him a photo with a new haircut, and then send it to me. The son does not have such a close relationship with his own father. He can talk to him on the phone, but he is unlikely to ask for advice. Igor congratulates Borya and Lolita on the holidays, sends gifts, and may go somewhere with the children.
Our mutual grievances subsided over time. If you approach relationships wisely, why should it be any different? These are all stereotypes: if people are divorced, they must fight, but if they are friends, this is nonsense. If ex-spouses learned to treat each other with respect, there would be fewer problems for both them and their children.
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Marriage in Italian
We met Vasily a little over a year ago in Venice, and we already got married in the fall. This, of course, is very funny, but we don’t remember how we came to the wedding. We wanted to be together, and we were both tired of my constant flights and departures. We decided to settle down and got married...
Having gone through two marriages, I never thought about another one. This was Vasya's wish. I decided: he wants it - why not? Only the wedding hasn't been held yet. I don’t dream of a big celebration, but I want to wear a bride’s dress.
Vasya has been living independently since he was seven years old. At first he was sent to a music boarding school. And at the age of 15 he left to enter the Conservatory of Rome. Vasya is used to loneliness. We laugh that his wife, two children and a dog immediately fell on him.
I didn't plan to move anywhere. My husband and I chose an option that was convenient for everyone. It turned out to be easier to do this with my work; Vasya has more ties to the place. He works in the high fashion industry. But if Vasya was in Taganrog for work, she would have gone there too.
Now we live in an old house, the windows of which overlook the villa where Hitler and Mussolini met in the 40s. Venice is 20 minutes away. Before, I couldn’t even think that I could walk the streets of this magical city even every day. Even its name seemed magical. And now my husband sometimes invites me to Venice for a cup of coffee, but I refuse... So everything in life is relative.
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Mom is a poor student
– Boris and Lolita took the changes in life easily. I heard and read a lot that difficulties often arise when the mother of adult children gets married, but we didn’t have any. Maybe it’s about the attitude towards each other, a strong spiritual connection.
The children go to the local school. Secondary education in Italy lasts 13 years. In order to enter a university, Boris needs to complete two more years of school. We got used to the new place quite quickly. It was easy for my son; he speaks excellent English. In addition, he previously studied both in Canada and in London. Lolita had a more difficult time adapting, she is still small, she is only ten, she still has girlfriends in Kyiv, and her daughter’s English is worse. But now time has passed, everything has improved.
Lolita and I are learning languages together. I used to use “you” in English before. Sign language saved me. With him I can even find my way to the Moon. And now Italian has also been added. My daughter started school with the basics, and it’s easier for me. But with such work I miss a lot, and Lolita has already overtaken me and considers me a bad student. Sometimes he will ask something, but I don’t know. I downloaded the tutorial and textbooks onto my iPad, but it’s not always possible to look at it.
Vasya is a leader. You can't dictate to him. You can ask, offer, hint. But stomping your feet is not the case at all. I think it’s right when a man is strong. I can’t understand why get married when a woman is ready to handle everything herself, and a man only submits. Maybe this suits some people. And although I feel comfortable alone, if someone is ready to take on some of the issues - even if it’s to change a faucet - and I don’t have to think about it - great!
I'm in harmony now. And that makes me feel good. I do what I want, what I like. There are children, work. My beloved man, whom I can rely on. Many women, having everything that I have listed, do not feel happy.
Alan often comes to visit us in Italy, we celebrate holidays together, he gets along well with Vasya. He will definitely be one of the guests at our wedding.
But I'm not euphoric. No rose-colored glasses. Life is like a swing. The main thing is to understand: no matter what happens, good or bad, it is temporary. Difficulties are a chance to understand yourself, to understand your mistakes.
And also, you know, I realized that when everyone is happy, they look like fools. But that doesn't concern me. I think I'm just a happy woman. I don't try to justify myself to those who think I'm stupider than I am. I will not convince you otherwise. Besides, I'm so self-critical. If I started listing all my shortcomings, the day wouldn’t be enough.
Known to viewers from the program “Heads and Tails,” presenter Zhanna Badoeva does not make admirers of her talent bored with the details of her personal life. The TV presenter has never made much of a secret about her family life, and in numerous interviews she has often openly talked about her relationships with her husbands. The same thing happened honestly and openly with new husband of Zhanna Badoeva.
Let us remember that the TV presenter has already been married three times. The first husband, oil businessman Igor, was much older than his chosen one and already had a failed marriage behind him. They lived together for seven years. From this marriage, Zhanna Badoeva has a son, Boris. The husband looked after his young wife like a father and allowed her any whims. For example, having decided to try her hand at business, Zhanna opened an audio-video salon, but, having played enough and realizing that this was not her calling, she quickly lost interest in her business. The discord in the family began after Zhanna entered the institute to study directing. The husband could not tolerate that his wife’s worldview, which had previously developed in unison with his personal, began to change, and new interests appeared in her life, different from his own. After seven years of loneliness, Zhanna again linked her fate with the famous music video director Alan Badoev. There was complete mutual understanding in their family, but at some point the marriage broke up. Despite the official break in family relations, Zhanna and Alan Badoev still maintained a friendly disposition towards each other. The couple has a daughter together, Lolita. And finally, the third husband, Sergei, appeared in the life of Zhanna Badoeva in 2013. Despite the enthusiasm and strong passion of the presenter, this marriage was very short-lived.
In the photo - Zhanna Badoeva and Vasily Melnichin
And finally, the TV presenter told the world about her new husband Vasily Melnichin. Ukrainian by origin, Vasily now lives permanently in Italy. Zhanna Badoeva, apparently, is very much in love again, since from numerous photos posted on social networks, one can judge that the couple is trying not to separate for a moment. The wedding took place at the end of last year. According to Zhanna Badoeva herself, everything happened very spontaneously. And the fans, although they knew about the new romance of their favorite presenter, were still dumbfounded by such a quick turn in the matter. Zhanna Badoeva is delighted with her new chosen one and praises his outstanding human qualities. Finally, she found a person who was able to accept her for who she is and put up with the constant travel that Zhanna’s life is filled with. Vasily Melnichin is in no way going to interfere with his wife’s professional growth. According to the TV presenter, the couple is now on a honeymoon, which she would like to extend until the end of her life.
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Biography of Zhanna Badoeva
Zhanna Badoeva(nee Dolgopolskaya) was born on March 18, 1976 in the Lithuanian city of Mazeikiai. Zhanna's parents were engineers and wanted their daughter to enter a construction college.
Thanks to the creative influence of her pianist grandmother, Zhanna took up dancing and was interested in music as a child. However, at the request of her technically minded parents, she graduated from the construction institute in Kyiv, where the family had moved by that time. Nevertheless, Zhanna did not want to work in her specialty and then entered the theater institute at the department of television directors (initially Zhanna went to the acting department, but she was not accepted there because of her age).
Creative career of Zhanna Badoeva
Zhanna began her creative journey by participating in the comedy program Comedy Club and became the first female resident. After that, she worked as a production director on such popular projects as “Sharmanka”, the dance television competition “I Dance for You”, and the talent show “Superzirka” on the Ukrainian channel “1+1”.
In 2011, Zhanna came up with and implemented her own project “Heads and Tails” on the Ukrainian TV channel “Inter”. The show gained enormous popularity and was soon adopted by Russian television. Zhanna spent three seasons in the project as a presenter, after which she decided to leave the show and move on.
Zhanna Badoeva: “At the institute, I dreamed of making a program about travel, but the path turned out to be long and thorny. In general, traveling is my way of life. You can say that I am a person who lives thanks to movement... After the third season, it became clear that I had realized myself as a presenter. I needed to move on."
In 2012, Zhanna became a judge of the popular Ukrainian culinary project “MasterChef”, joining the company of the famous chef Hector Gemenez-Bravo and the famous restaurateur Nikolai Tishchenko.
In March 2015, on the Friday! The project “Battle of Salons” was launched, which was also led by Zhanna Badoeva. In each episode of the show, representatives of three beauty salons of different classes of service became clients in the establishments of their competitors.
In the fall of 2015, fans of the presenter were in for a pleasant surprise: Zhanna Badoeva became the host of the project #ZHANNAPOZhENI on the channel “Friday!” Moreover, Zhanna Badoeva not only acted as a wedding planner, but also tried on a white dress herself. #ZHANNAPOZhENI became a project for those who risked running away without warning from friends and relatives, from standard wedding competitions and toastmaster jokes, from “jump photos” and herring under a fur coat.
At the end of May 2016, the Friday! announced the premiere of the extreme travel show “Dangerous Tours”. In this project, the brutal showman Vova Myaso became Zhanna’s guide through the world of marginal Europe. An experienced traveler, Badoeva had to spend the night in porn hotels and drink absinthe.
In addition to the new show, in 2016 Badoeva launched a new side project - a line of designer shoes under the ZHANNA BADOEVA brand. The collection was created with the participation of Italian fashion designer Ernesto Esposito. Jeanne's passion for the shoe business came along with her love for her third husband, with whom she lives in Italy. It was he who lifted the curtain on the specifics of this case for Badoeva.
In the winter of 2017, it became known that Zhanna would return to one of the episodes of the project “Heads and Tails. Star Season,” in which the presenters of previous seasons performed in tandem with the stars of Russian show business. The program was attended by Comedy Club member Alexander Revva, Ukrainian singer Svetlana Loboda, actresses and presenters Ekaterina Varnava and Anfisa Chekhova, actor Mikhail Bashkatov and others. Actor Viktor Vasiliev became Zhanna’s couple.
In 2019, another Zhanna show launched on Channel One - the travel program “The Lives of Others,” dedicated to the ordinary everyday life of people from different countries and cities of the world. As part of the show, Zhanna had the opportunity to visit different parts of the planet, but not in the same way as she did for the project “Heads and Tails” - this time the presenter needs to immerse herself in the realities of the average inhabitants of a particular place.
“Of course, starting something is always scary, but no matter what you do in life, you involuntarily expose yourself to criticism: there will always be people who don’t like something. And if you are afraid of this, then you will never be able to move forward.”
Personal life of Zhanna Badoeva
Zhanna Badoeva was married to Igor, her first husband, from 1996 to 1998. In this marriage, a son, Boris, was born (1997).
Zhanna met Alan Badoev at the institute. They managed to become a married couple only after finishing their studies, Zhanna’s divorce from her first husband and a trip to Egypt. Zhanna and Alan had a daughter, Lolita (2005). Zhanna was married to Alan from 2003 to 2012.
On August 28, 2012, Zhanna Badoeva and Alan Badoev announced their divorce. The former spouses also said in an interview that the “Heads and Tails” project was the last attempt to revive their family relationships. As a result, the couple made a difficult but correct decision: first, they left the show one by one, and then the family nest.
After her divorce from Alan, Zhanna had a relationship with Sergei Babenko, whom she met in America, but the wedding never took place.
Zhanna Badoeva’s third husband is businessman Vasily Melnichin from Italy. The couple got married in 2015, after which Zhanna and her children moved to the Italian city of Padua.
Zhanna Badoeva: “We met Sergei several years ago in a common company. For a long time we communicated at a distance - on social networks: Seryozha lives in America, and I live in Kyiv. But one day we met and realized that we couldn’t live without each other. Such a banal story."
According to Zhanna, she was often away, and then the children had to do without her for some time. According to the presenter, they are already accustomed to the fact that their mother is constantly leaving somewhere, and they respect her right to her creative life.
“If I’m not around, then there’s always a nanny, a grandmother, a husband... I know women who stay at home, but have very little contact with their children. We live in a time of such technological progress when we have everything to be in touch 24 hours a day. I am aware of all events and always within reach. Well, then, if I’m not home for a week, I don’t think that during this period you can go crazy with melancholy or not solve some problem.”
Today, Badoeva’s son has already become an independent young man and lives separately from his parents in Milan, where he works as an editor.
At the beginning of 2019, rumors appeared on the Internet that Zhanna was expecting a third child, but Badoeva herself did not confirm this information. Also in 2019, information was released that Zhanna had undergone a series of manipulations in a Korean plastic surgery clinic, but in fact it turned out that the screen star simply removed a small spider vein from her face and underwent a series of non-surgical cosmetic procedures. Zhanna also admitted that she took several kilograms of cosmetics from Korea as souvenirs.
