Valdis Pelsh

June 5, 1967 was born Valdis Pelsh, showman and TV presenter

Personal business

Valdis Eyzhenovich Years (53 years old) was born in Riga. His father worked as a journalist, his mother was an engineer. In 1983 he graduated from a special school with an in -depth study of the French language, came to Moscow, where he entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. During his studies, he played at the university youth theater, then in the KVN team.

In the first year, I met Aleksei Kortnev, with which he created the group "An accident". In 1987, he first hit television. First, as a player of the KVN team of Moscow State University, then-the director of the program “Bes, on!”, He did with Igor Ugolnikov. Then Pelsh had a number of unsuccessful projects: “And all”, “Blue Nights of the Cheka”, “Pilot” that did not go on the air. After the first release of the Debiliad programs, according to the showman, he was almost expelled from ORT “for mockery and distortion of the appearance” of the channel. The program was immediately closed.

In 1995, he met with the general director of ORT Vladislav Listyev and became the host of the musical and entertainment program “Guess the Melody”. In the same year, he received the Ovation Award for the “Best Entertainment Program”, in 1996 - the TEFI prize in the “Leading Entertainment Program” nomination. In total, from 1995 to 2001 he was a director, screenwriter and host of a dozen television projects.

In December 2001, when the head of the ORT Directorate Sergey Suponev died in the snowmobile accident, Pelsh came to his place. In January 2002, he headed the Directorate of Entertainment Programs ORT. In 2003, he left the leadership of the entertainment directorate, remaining leading on the channel. As he himself said , "he began a new life - from the headquarters (was) thrown to the front line."

In 2006, together with Alexei Kortnev, he became part of the Svobodnaya Russia Party Supervisory Board (later “civilian force”) of lawyer Mikhail Barschevsky. At the same time, he did not enter the party.

He takes part in the jury of the Highest League of KVN, whose game is broadcast by Channel One. According to the data on the channel’s website, it consists in its leadership, while the position of the Pelsh is not indicated, and information about it has not been updated for a long time.

In the last year of the university, he married lawyer Olga Igorevna Pelsha. In 1992, the couple had a daughter Azhen. In 2002, Pelsh had a daughter Ilva from Svetlana Akimova - now the hostess of the agency for the selection of home staff. In 2005, the presenter divorced his first wife and in December 2006 marries Akimova. In 2009, the couple had a son Einer, in 2014 - the son of Ivar.

What is famous

Valdis Pelsh became famous as the permanent host of the program “Guess the Melody”. The program was very popular in the mid-1990s, when the country came to retro music. In January 2013, Pelsh for the next time launched the project “Guess the Melody” on Channel One, becoming its host.

In addition, at different times, he conducted the programs “These Funny Animals”, “Russian Roulette”, “Lord of Taste”, “Roscience”, “First Squadron”, “Psychics against Scientists”, “Some Home”, participated in many television projects on the first and NTV.

Often Pelsh was a "trial leading" popular television show. He led, in particular, the “Field of Miracles”, “Washing by a million”, “Comedy Club”. Participated in the programs "What? Where? When?" As the captain of the team, “Pro -PotterShilton”, “Two Stars”, “King of the Ring”.

What you need to know about

Pansh is one of the creators of the group “An accident”, in which he was responsible for the musical component of songs. He was a regular participant in the team until 1997, after that he enters the stage only at the most important concerts of the "accident". In 2003, he participated in the recording of the anniversary album of the collective “Last Days in Paradise”. In 2010, he presented the album “Tunnel at the end of the world” together with the group.

In the 1990s, Valdis Pelsh and Alexei Kortnev were leading awarding ceremony of the Golden Gramophone Award.

Together with a participant in Comedy Club, Vadim Galygin Pelsh starred in an advertisement for Eldorado household appliances stores.

Direct speech:

About fame : “There were 1995-1997. Then the institution of glamor, gloss, hunting for the stars did not exist. Yes, there was no person in a country that would not know me; Yes, I used all the benefits that Glory bestows, but then there was no car that picks up a new face and puts it on a pedestal in the minds of people as a demigod who looks at you from all covers. Naturally, I starred on the covers of all the magazines that existed then. I had two fads: “light”, which I remembered since childhood as a number one magazine, and the “Result magazine”. And I appeared there, scored all the goals. (Laughs.) <...>

Once there was a incident on the program “Guess the Melody”: the driver played, and I was joking unsuccessfully, went about how the trucker did not have good music in the car. The game was instantly stopped, and the director on the communication channel that only we heard, said: “What are you doing? Are you cool, or what? Due to who are you asserted? Due to the person who, according to social status, is obviously different from you in the worse? Tie, son, remember who you were!” Here is such an instant landing! ”

About the program “Guess the Melody”: “Guess the Melody” - one of the oldest television games in the world, it was invented in the United States in 1954. In America, you can’t just name the line from the song - you need to know for sure its name, and no concessions are given there. We, when we came up with the image of the host for the Russian version of the game, decided that he should be kind to the audience. Of the two wallets - programs and a player - he always chooses a player’s wallet. Moreover, the Americans, if the player correctly calls the line from the song, the jingle "correctly" or "wrong" sounds. With us, even if the player was mistaken, the jingle "wrong" does not sound until I say "yes" or "no". I could try to stretch out the player, even frankly tell him - that was my right.

If all the components of the program coincide - interesting rules, scenery, new aesthetics, musical content - there is a certain magic that works for the public, and the public responds with love. And the day after our program, the audience (who often guess the players before) shared their impressions: "Watching yesterday" Guess the Melody "? I guessed all the melodies - I would be in the program!"

About the homeland : “I have two homelands. This is Latvia, at the place of birth, in the father, and Russia, by mother and all other relatives. And I live quite comfortably for two houses. Since I am half Latvian and half Russian, it seems to me that I successfully divided both the other national traits in half, absorbing all the best and discarded the worst. I’m joking periodically that he managed to drive the Latvian and Russian demons and left himself only angels. ”

About the meeting that turned life over: “Of course, a meeting with Vlad Listyev. It was he who chose me to participate in the new project, saw the potential. But how hard it was to do "Guess the Melody" twenty days after the death of Listyev! You know, then everyone was different. People who are now at the helm of television, economics, politicians, and we all have changed a lot. And I do not know what Vlad would become today, because the whole country has changed. But the leaves remained in that 1995. And people like him, I have not met anymore. ”

8 facts about Valdis Pelsche:

• The showman starred in several entertainment films, among which “in a brisk place” (1998, debut, along with Kortnev), “Turkish Gambit” (2005), “Love-Grandma” (2007), “What else men are talking about” (2011).
• Pelsh is a parachutist of category “C” of the International Parachute Sports Federation.
• Seriously fond of diving (Dive-master Advanced Trimix Diver TDI and Iantd).
• Gathering army helmets of the First and Second World War.
• Pelsh has one citizenship - Russian.
• In 1995, he got with the program “Guess the Melody” in the Guinness Book of Records - then 132 million people at the same time looked at it. “Yes, in 1995 we made the program“ Guess the Melody ”, which collected a 132-millionth audience. Although in fact the record was different: in forty days we shot 143 programs. This is really an unbearable thing! After all, the ratings are a subjective thing - today they are, but tomorrow is not. Or you were just lucky - the weather was bad, and everyone stayed at home at the TVs. But do not go crazy, being forty days in the pavilion and shooting four programs a day ... ” - recalled Poglsh.
• The daughter of the host Azhen also fell into the Guinness Book of Records - as the youngest diver, who was immersed off the coast of Antarctica (she was then 14 years old)
• In April 2015, Valdis Pelsh almost became a victim of a destructive earthquake in Nepal. He was in the Himalayas on the North Tibetan slope for filming a documentary about Everest. “It collapsed with stones the path that we walked along. It was a big rockfall. If we were on this path, I would not talk to you, ” said the TV presenter.

Materials about Valdis Pelsche:

Biography of the showman in Wikipedia

Biography on the site "Find out everything"

Biographical certificate on the site Peoples.ru