Vasily Utkin - sportscaster and outrageous showman

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:42

Who is Vasily Utkin, many people know. Some will recognize his voice while watching a football match, others are looking forward to the release of the program, in which this journalist will take part. There are also some viewers who frankly do not like him for his harshness and unrestrained remarks during an interview.

But the fact that Vasily Utkin is a popular person is hard to dispute. How did this outrageous showman become famous?

Childhood and adolescence

He was born in 1972, March 6, in Balashikha, in a very intelligent family. His father is a physicist who devoted his whole life to science. Mom worked as a doctor. He has an older sister.

Vasily liked to study the humanities. He wrote essays with pleasure, liked to reason and discuss in literature lessons.

After school, Vasily Utkin entered the Moscow Pedagogical University at the Department of Philology. The height of the student was almost 2 meters. He has always been the center of attention. True, he did not become a graduate, dropping out of school in the 4th year, after failing the exam.

Career start

In 1992, by a lucky chance, Utkin became the editor of a political programcalled the Politburo. It was the author's project of A. Politkovsky. For young Vasily, working in a team among professionals was a wonderful start. He learned a lot by watching how the panelists behave on the set. A year later, the project was closed. Vasily Utkin worked for another two years at the VID company, but in 1994 he decided to switch to a new channel - NTV. He was hired as the host of a sports program dedicated to football. He told viewers about football matches, interviewed players and their coaches. One of the first reports the journalist made was at the game between Dynamo Tbilisi and Moscow Torpedo.

In 1997, after the scandalous story about the coach O. Rumyantsev, Utkin began to be ignored by the players of FC Spartak. The journalist spoke incorrectly about their coach. And this incident was not ignored.

Soon his program was closed, citing a drop in the rating and fatigue of the presenter himself. Sports commentator Vasily Utkin was forced to look for a new job.

Activities in new directions

In 2000, a journalist was attacked. In the morning, on the way to work, a man ran into Utkin and stuck a screwdriver in his back. Sharpening did not affect the organs, but only injured the muscle. Who struck the journalist was never found out.

At this time he worked as a commentator on the world and European Championships, wrote articles for "Soviet Sport". In 2004, he was recognized as the best in his field and received the TEFI TV award.

Vasily Utkin accepteddecision to develop in new directions. He was interested in offers to work in entertainment programs. He was the host of many projects on various channels, including the Hunger show, the Wall to Wall project, and the Earth-to-Air program. He later appeared in the television game What? Where? When?”, And was also one of the jury members in KVN.

Acting talent

Vasily Utkin also tried his hand at the cinema. In the film "Election Day" he acted as a candidate for governor. In 2010, he was invited to star in another film called "What Men Talk About." The film is comedic and philosophical at the same time.

Private life

Vasily Utkin is not yet married. His personal life does not add up. In 2003, he took part in the program "School of Scandal". During the filming, he met a wonderful girl and began to look after her. The journalist even planned to propose to her. But the romantic meetings ended with the beloved soon announcing that they needed to leave.

Vasily Utkin experienced a breakup for a long time. Personal life did not work out after. He never found his only one and did not tie the knot with anyone. As it turned out, unhappy love is not a disaster. In one interview, the journalist admitted that he stopped suffering immediately after the apartment was robbed. The fact that his cross was stolen was much more upsetting. But at the same moment, he realized that a new stage of life was beginning.

Conflict with TinaKandelaki

The fact that Vasily Utkin is one of the most scandalous showmen has long been known. He never looked for the correct words and expressed everything that he thought to his opponent, far from being flattering. So it happened this time.

In 2015, another scandal broke out with his participation. And a dispute arose with Tina Kandelaki almost immediately after her appointment as general producer of the Match-TV channel. The conflict escalated rapidly. As a result, after an exchange of unkind comments, Utkin announced that he was leaving the channel and that it was humiliating for him to work under Tina.