Behind the scenes – Boris Kryuk

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

In the winter of 1991, Russian TV viewers saw on their screens the uninhibited game show Love at First Sight, the Russian version of the English TV game Love at first sight. It was hosted by smiling Alla Volkova and thorough Boris Kryuk.

Even then, the country noticed that this round-faced, burly man with glasses can joke and improvise in front of the camera perfectly. But few people knew that the charming Hook specialized more in intellectual games than in romantic shows. A year before the release of this program, he developed a scenario for a youth tournament of minds called "Brain Ring", was supposed to become its host. As a teenager, Boris Kryuk, next to Vladimir Voroshilov, settled in the cabin of the host in the famous intellectual casino “What? Where? When?". At the beginning of the new millennium, he became the host of this exciting and gambling TV program.

Some biography

Kryuk Boris Alexandrovich was born in the summer of 1966 in Moscow. He was, as he himself says, a kind of quiet man with big eyes and a curly head. Once on the street, Boris’s grandmother, who was already proud of her grandson, was respectfully told that her boy had a “Leninisthead . Parents trusted their child, they never arranged personal searches and interrogations with passion. The boy's life schedule was free.

Mom dreamed that Borya would study to be a doctor, but he chose a technical university, although he was always, as he admits, a pure humanist. It's just that the teacher of literature, who put deuces for independent thinking, completely discouraged the hunt for humanitarian subjects. After graduating from school, Hook entered the University. Bauman, was educated as an engineer. Boris left the technical profession immediately after undergraduate practice. Now it is obvious that he was destined to work in the bowels of the television studio, where he spent his entire conscious childhood.

Intelligent casino croupier

His parents Natalya Stetsenko (TV director) and Alexander Kryuk (builder) separated when Boris was about four years old. Mom married again - to Vladimir Voroshilov, an "uncomfortable" and brilliant director who, like her, worked on television. Together they came up with the game “What? Where? When?”, Which appeared on blue screens in the fall of 1975. Voroshilov remained incognito for a long time, the audience and participants in the program heard only his voice. This became a kind of highlight of the program, although it was dictated by the censorship considerations of the television leadership. When in 2001, after the death of Voroshilov, the voice of an invisible announcer rang out from the host’s cabin, everyone was stunned: the similarity in timbre and manner of playing was striking. So Boris Kryuk became the successor and author of the program. Photos and recordings of the program, where it can be seen in the frame, appeared later - in2008.

Childhood on the other side of the screen

Little Boris was a witness of filming, and in some places also a participant in the most popular Soviet programs: “You can do it” (at 4 years old), “Come on, guys” (at 5 years old). At the age of 10, he played on the side of the viewers in “What? Where? When?" (his question fell to experts in the very first game). At the age of 12, he came up with a rule to expel the losing team from the club. As a student, Boris Kryuk worked on this program as an assistant director. In 1989, Boris became a staff member of the Youth Editorial Board of the Central Television, and then - the first deputy general director of the Igra-TV television company and vice-president of the International Association of Clubs "What? Where? When?”, where he is the deputy of his mother Natalya Ivanovna. If Hook is asked about "blat", he cites the Fords and Rockefellers as an example and notes that business dynasties all over the world succeed precisely because their members can rely on each other in everything.

Mysterious voice

First broadcasts of “What? Where? When? after Voroshilov they looked like a detective. Hook, as everyone is used to, came to the shooting in jeans and a sweater, scurried around among the people until the very beginning, preparing the studio for the broadcast. At that time, a stranger in a black tuxedo was brought to the TV studio on Voroshilov's Jaguar (it was Vladimir Yakovlevich's cousin), and he immediately went to the announcer's room. At the very last moment before the game, Boris came there. The hoax was supported by computer voice processing proposed by Konstantin Ernst. All thisit was necessary in order not to bring down the psychological mood of the experts before the game. It did not take long for viewers of the TV show to learn that the real presenter is Boris Kryuk.

Private life

Fans of the show "Love at first sight" immediately married two pretty presenters - Volkova and Kryuk. But their relationship was businesslike, moreover, Hook was already married to the microbiologist Inna. Boris and Inna have two children - Mikhail and Alexandra. The second time Kryuk married Anna Antonyuk, from this marriage he has two daughters - Alexandra and Varvara.

Besides mental competitions, Boris Kryuk is passionate about football, which only helps him improve the intellectual show, the horse of which he has successfully saddled for a long time.