Anton Zaitsev: biography, personal life

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Anton Zaitsev is a famous Russian journalist and TV presenter. Today he is 49 years old, he is not married. According to the sign of the Zodiac - Pisces. He also works as a reviewer of computer games, thanks to which he gained fame under the nickname Gamover (from the English phrase game over).

Short biography of Anton Zaitsev

Our hero was born on March 6, 1969 in Moscow. In the family, he was a long-awaited child. The boy's mother, Raisa Georgievna Zaitseva, worked as an English teacher. Little Anton was a real gift for his mother, as he was born on the eve of International Women's Day on March 8.

Anton Zaitsev's father, Jim Gidion Nyumba, was from Sudan. It was from him that the boy inherited an exotic appearance. During the war in his homeland, the man moved to Russia. Here he married and lived all his life. According to the presenter, his dad professed Orthodoxy and was an aristocrat.

The further fate of Anton Zaitsev

Anton did not think much about the choice of a higher educational institution. He considered the short distance from his house to Moscow State University to be significant and enteredat the Faculty of Journalism. Such a frivolous attitude to the choice of a university did not negatively affect his career, since the guy from an early age dreamed of becoming a journalist and had good abilities for this. Anton Zaitsev served in the air defense. He recalls these years with horror and says that he would not like to experience such sensations again.

Career

In 1993, our hero received an offer from the famous director Alexander Pavlovsky to star in a comedy film called "Marshmallow in Chocolate". As planned by the creators, the main character had to have an exotic appearance and at the same time be fluent in Russian. Only Anton Zaitsev turned out to be like that.

A couple of years later he was again invited to act in films. This time the young man became one of the main characters of "Vladimir De Boko". On this work in the cinema for Zaitsev ended. He preferred television.

TV presenter career

Today, Anton Gidionovich is a famous TV presenter who gained fame in the early 90s. Shortly before that, he happened to try himself as a journalist in Komsomolskaya Pravda and Nedelya.

From the moment when video games began to gain immense popularity, our hero realized that this attracted him and he could make good money by commenting and researching them. And so it happened. Having assembled a huge team, he became one of the best in this business.

Private life

Despite the fact that the personal life of the TV presenter is hidden behindseven locks, it is known that he has a daughter, Katya. Anton Zaitsev frankly admits that he is not married and does not plan to marry in the next ten years for sure. The man admits that, despite all the charms of family life, he loves to return to an empty apartment, and then enjoy the silence and loneliness with his beloved pipe.

In social networks, our hero appears infrequently, as he does not like to share information about the most intimate. It is known that he does not have an Instagram page, but has a VK profile. However, he rarely visits. Fans of host Anton Zaitsev know about this, so they try to follow his work on the TV screen.