Why did the creator of the game “What? Where? When?" Vladimir Voroshilov

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The phenomenon of the creator and host of the TV game “What? Where? When? defies any explanation. At 43, he was fired from television and banned from appearing on screens, and he came up with a game where the presenter does not appear in the frame. Legends were written about his complex character. Surprisingly, this did not interfere with his personal life at all. Vladimir Voroshilov was officially married four times, but he preferred to hide his last de facto wife even from friends.

Difficult person

Vladimir Voroshilov has not been with us for 20 years, but films are still being made about him and those lucky ones who had a chance to communicate with this unique person tell in their memories. And at the same time, everyone remembers perfectly: Vladimir Yakovlevich has never been a darling. Most of all in his life he was interested in the business in which he was engaged. And yet the women loved him. Some absolutely incredible male charisma emanated from Vladimir Voroshilov, the influence of which there was no way to resist.

Ballerina Voroshilova, whose name remained unknown to history, gave her husband her last name, and after the divorce, she seemed to disappear from his life. The second wife of Vladimir Yakovlevich was art critic Tatyana Kukarkina, the daughter of Alexander Kukarkin, a writer, film critic and author of books about Charlie Chaplin. For the third time, the TV presenter married a nurse with a beautiful surname Muzyka.

Vladimir Voroshilov never sought to advertise his personal life, but almost everyone knew about Natalia Stetsenko, his last official wife. However, this is not surprising, because for many years Natalia was not just an assistant, but the real right hand of Voroshilov, who is always busy on television.

Guest marriage

Natalya Stetsenko was sent to work with Voroshilov from the Youth Editorial Office. At the time of their acquaintance, the TV presenter carefully looked at the girl who had grown fat after the recent birth and simply said: “So this is what you are, Natasha Stetsenko - as fat as me.” It would seem that after such a meeting they could not have any relationship. But the power of the male charm of Vladimir Voroshilov was so great that the young woman could not resist her pressure. And when he invited her to live together, Natalia took her little son and went to her boss.

Their life together seemed unbearable from the outside. In the edition of the program “What? Where? When? they not only quarreled, but sometimes even punched each other. There were no trifles in work for Voroshilov, he was always attentive to everything that concerned his brainchild, whether it was stage lighting or the preparation of tricky questions.

The couple lived in different houses, and once, after another grandiose scandal at work, Natalia Stetsenko was driving home and thought that tomorrow she would take a knife and just stab her obnoxious husband. Vladimir Voroshilov could fight with a colleague, shout at his subordinates, throw a heavy object into the wall.

Almost everything was forgiven him. For his talent, for his reverent attitude towards the business in which he was engaged. He did not like and did not really know how to relax, and the only place where he could afford to relax was a house in Svetlogorsk on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Surprisingly, outside of work, Natalia Stetsenko and Vladimir Voroshilov almost never quarreled. Natalia truly loved her husband, she did not pay attention to either his difficult character, or eternal immersion in work, or the everyday helplessness of her husband.

If he wanted fried potatoes, he simply called his stepson Boris Kryuk and asked if he could cook his favorite dish, and after an affirmative answer, he immediately went to lunch. But in the house in Svetlogorsk, he could easily bring and plant a huge jasmine bush on the site, or do something with his own hands.

It seemed that when everything in the life of the spouses was already going on the knurled one, they parted, unexpectedly for everyone. As Natalia Stetsenko says, they seemed to be tired of each other, they ceased to be the support and support that they were up to now. Voroshilov did not file a divorce. Despite all his harshness and even rudeness, he was a very decent person and believed that he could not do this to his Natasha.

last love

As Vladimir Voroshilov's colleagues recall, he was always capable of unexpected actions and knew how to surprise others. He was also a fatalist and believed in signs of fate. True, the famous TV presenter did not even imagine that at a fairly mature age he would become a father for the first time.

Natasha Klimova appeared in his life. At that time, Vladimir Voroshilov changed a lot. He became more affable with his subordinates, even began to smile at them, which was not at all typical for a TV presenter. But his young beloved Vladimir Yakovlevich hid for a long time. He was desperately embarrassed that he fell so banal in adulthood with a young girl.

But it was she who gave him the greatest happiness in life - his daughter Natasha. Vladimir Voroshilov was simply discouraged by the range of new emotions and feelings that came to him after the birth of his daughter. Little Natasha grew up and called her famous father "daddy-bunny." Strict and even tough Voroshilov was moved and enthusiastically told his colleagues about his daughter.

Unfortunately, he understood too clearly that he would hardly have to see his daughter become an adult. He determined for himself the term - 70 years. And he left on March 10, 2001, when little Natasha was not yet four years old.

Natalia Klimova seemed to continue the tradition laid down by Vladimir Yakovlevich: she leads a closed lifestyle and categorically refuses any interviews. Daughter Natasha has already grown up and, like her mother, prefers not to attract attention to herself in any way.

All his acquaintances and colleagues spoke about his difficult and irreconcilable character, but it was not those around him that suffered most from this, but he himself. The creator of the intellectual game “What? Where? When was fired several times from television, and the audience for many years puzzled over why is he not shown in the frame, not knowing that the presenter was forbidden to appear on the screens.