Some presenters have been going to auditions for many years, and he was noticed after the first video on the Internet. Less than a year on the air and not even in prime time, and he already has tens of thousands of fans. Alexey Durnev is a national star or a native of the people.
Having comfortably settled down, I tried to talk to such a calm and aloof Lesha. What came of it - read below.
Unexpectedly for myself, I found myself sitting on the bed with Lesha Durnev in the photo studio, where we shot him for the new cover of our portal. Having comfortably settled down, I tried to talk to such a calm and aloof Lesha. What came of it - read below.
I would like to start our interview with a joke...
— Darling, look how beautifully the frost has decorated our windows!
- So here it is written in your hand that I am a fat fool !!!
No, it's cold.
Do you have higher education?
Yes, technical. I graduated from the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, specialty - "Information Protection in Computer Systems."
And how did you end up in Kyiv?
I came to work for the 2010 presidential election. Worked in the public party "People's Salvation Army"
And what did you save?
We saved the people.
I went to different events and fooled around
Failed as far as I can see...
And how did the Durnev+1 project start? I know what you did in the first transfer on the Internet?
Yes, I went to different events and fooled around. And then, after the second release, we received proposals to transfer the project to television. It must have been luck.
Do you remember the first event you came to shoot?
It was a facebook party on March 1, 2011. We filmed with professional equipment from the first transmission. We worked and are working with Vladimir Petrov, the owner of our production, and he provided us with an operator and equipment.
You will surely be recognized on the streets. What do you think about it?
Passers-by constantly come by. If they just find out, then I try not to notice it. But often they ask to be photographed, give an autograph, talk about something. I try to ignore the conversations, but the rest is not an issue.
In short, I was cool.
Do they want to drink vodka with you?
All the time. But of course I refuse. I do not like strangers, I try not to leave the house. I love being in the company of friends.
In general, this is how the stars behave ...
No, I've always been like this. Even at the beginning it was hard for me to work, shoot - all these strangers around touch you, then you touch them ... Talking with them takes energy.
Is it easy for you to work with the camera?
Yes, back in school I worked as a presenter on the Mariupol TV channel MTV. I don't even remember the name of the show, but it still comes out on Sundays. Youth, in general, transfer. We filmed Mariupol rappers, breakdancers. In short, I was cool.
Wait, so you are from Mariupol, studied in Kharkov, and came to live in Kyiv? Not bad for a 25 year old...
Well, yes, but what's wrong with that? I just studied in Kharkiv, then even worked as the editor-in-chief of an opposition portal, the project ended up suddenly closing down, and I moved to Kyiv.
no one before us managed to become popular
But did you have the feeling that you would become famous on television?
Absolutely not. Nobody thought that this project would succeed. We filmed these programs in order to promote our then-news site - lumpeny.com, on which we put funny news. The business was moving slowly, and we decided to promote it through some non-standard videos. We started filming the Lumpen program, there were links to our website everywhere, and we got good traffic through it. Well, then we immediately began to receive offers from the channels.
You know, it always seemed to me that Durnev + 1 was a commercial carbon copy for the Russian project Reutov-TV. Here they are - a real trash, and you have everything smoothed out.
We watched "Reutov-TV" and also decided to do something of our own, it's true. But, in general, there are a lot of such projects. Now there are two more live projects in Kyiv, but no one knows about them. No one before us managed to become popular.
And why did you succeed?
Don't know. My image and sense of humor were noticed in time. We now have a much more successful program than Reutov-TV. Their sense of humor does not reach the masses. Their most popular cat show video on the Internet was watched five times less than our best episode. But they are very cool, I am waiting for their third season and would love to meet them.
How do you get into private events?
Well, we are accredited under false names, but often it does not work out that way. In short, we are fighting.
Do you enjoy these activities or are you just making money?
Yes, what money! It's all conditional. Of course there is pleasure. I love it when people like it! I love reading positive reviews online.
And what, girls on the car are filmed?
What are your plans?
Well, I don't know yet. I would like to switch to another format, shoot a talk show, so that it would be somehow new and fresh.
What about your personal life?
Nothing. I don't have girls.
Do you use your popularity to sleep with girls?
Of course, and who does not use! In general, girls stick to me. I don’t even take them anywhere, they write to me all by themselves. They come to the door, bring food and drink. Well, cigarettes, when they run out ...
Do you read at all?
Nope. Well, the last thing I read was Barney Stinson's Bro Code. Do you know him? It's from the movie How I Met Your Mother.
Fortunately, no. What car do you have?
Opel Vectra. And what, girls on the car are filmed? It seems to me that the car needs something else. iPhone 4 at least. Well, or popularity, like mine.
How do you feel about bank loans?
Are you implying that I need to buy another car? Crap. Well no, I wouldn't take it. It's just that if you take a better car, it will cost much more.
Would you like to become the second Andrey Malakhov?
"Don't switch!" I do not know. Maybe. I have such a smooth position in life ... Everything is smooth for me. I worked in Kharkiv as the chief editor of the site, then I went to the polls, and then became the host. All by itself. What will happen next? It's kind of purple to me. I don't set goals in life. Here summer has come - zashib.
Interesting position. I'm going off topic. Didn't you get beat up on set for awkward questions?
It wasn't there yet. But recently I was doused with a gas canister. I was very drunk and offered all the girls in the Vodka Bar a threesome. My face was burning for a whole week! That spray can was still the simplest, but it did not eliminate me, and I continued my actions. He annoyed me.
Annoyed? So you like hard sex?
Of course, who doesn't love him. I tie the girls to the bed, tie them up, beat them with a belt. Such cool stripes then remain on the body ...
Oh my God! I think this interview can be ended, thanks for the conversation.
Yes, you too! It was my first interview on the bed!
Text: Nadia Shapoval
Today we will tell you about a TV presenter who became incredibly popular as soon as he published his first video on the Internet. Unlike most showmen, Durnev got fame easily. He did not have to go to auditions and prove something to anyone. Today you will find out if there is a folk star Alexei in the social network Contact.
Guy's biography
Social media leader
And now you will find out if there is a favorite of millions in the social network Contact. Alexey VK is registered! If you want to go to the page of a famous TV presenter, then this link will come in handy for you: http://vk.com/aleksey_durnevAlexey has about 430 friends in Vkontakte and more than 126 thousand subscribers. All users can send personal messages to the TV presenter and subscribe to his page.
In VKontakte you can find about 250 photos with Alexey. Here are published photos of Durnev with different girls, photos in which Alexey acts as a DJ in nightclubs and many others.
Alexey VK published about 6 photo albums. Here you will find the photo album "Borispol", which contains joint photos of Alexei Durnev and Dasha Shi in Boryspil. The authors of this photo shoot are the wonderful guys Artur Dzhan, Mikhail Kapush and Alexey Pavlyuk. Another interesting album is the Durnev + 1 album, in which photos from the filming of the TV show are published. Alexey Durnev also published such albums in Vkontakte: “Fear and Loathing in Vodyaniki”, “The Rest”, and “Bydlotrip”. The album "Durnev" contains all the most famous photographs of the hosts of the project. In the album "Bydlotrip" you can see photos from the trip of Alexei and his friends to Holaya Pristan, Cape of the Holy Trinity, Cape Aya, Katseveli and other corners of the Ukrainian Crimea.
Alexey Durnev VK posted about 125 videos on his page. Here you can watch different episodes of the show "Durnev + 1": "Aleksey VS Klitschko", "Children's questions for drunk guys", "Children's questions for drunk girls", "Program about roads and hip-hop music", "Modern education 2012", "How to create a real information story" and other funny videos.
Alexey has posted more than 2720 entries on his wall. Anyone can put "I like" near Durnev's entries and leave a comment. On the wall, Aleskey posts his photos, funny videos, various jokes, program releases and much more.
Now you know how to find the TV presenter's page in Vkontakte. If you become its subscriber, you will be the first to watch the latest episodes of the Durnev + 1 program in VKontakte. You also have the opportunity to personally ask your question to Alexey Durnev. Subscribe to his page - and you will not regret it!
For several years in a row, the Ukrainian TV channel TET aired the Durnev +1 program, hosted by Aleksey Durnev and Dasha Shi. It was then that the public noticed and remembered this man with a subtle sense of humor and an ambiguous attitude towards people around him.
Biography
The biography of Durnev Alexei is not rich, but he has already managed to achieve a lot that others can only dream of so far. Alexey was born in the city of Mariupol on July 31, 1986. In 2008 he graduated with a degree in Information Technology Security. During his studies, he worked in the Kharkov online publication "City Watch".
Since 2011, he began working on the TET TV channel in his own program Durnev +1. It has become an extended version of the Lumpen Internet project. As part of this show, Durnev approached people on the street and asked questions from the school curriculum. The idea of this show is taken from a popular video where journalists from a humorous Australian show asked similar questions to the people of the United States.
He then joined the Shopping Goddess project team.
In 2014, Alexey Durnev announced the closure of the Durnev +1 project. Starting from 2014, he began to make attempts to become a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada.
Political scandals
As part of the Lumpen project, Oleksiy Durnev made several provocative actions against Ukrainian politicians. In March 2013, during an opposition rally in Vinnitsa, he handed the leader of the Batkivshchyna party, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a carrot, designating it as a "symbol of presidential power." Yatsenyuk handed the carrot to his attendants and promised to commit an obscene act with the carrot against Alexei. To which he said that he was going to sue for sexual harassment.
Then Alexei Durnev organized rallies near the Verkhovna Rada and in other cities, accompanied by people dressed as rabbits. Such funny allegories are connected with the fact that Arseniy Yatsenyuk has the nickname Rabbit. And thus Durnev beat it. However, the politician did not appreciate his humor. On the Internet, videos with these provocations have collected several hundred thousand views.
To the category of scandals, partly political, can be attributed the release of the Durnev + 1 program, in which the presenters interviewed students of the Kyiv Klovsky Lyceum, where the children of politicians and celebrities study. Even the future president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, fell under the sights of the cameras, and he also did not escape sharp jokes addressed to him.
Who is Alexey Durnev with?
The personal life of Alexei Durnev is not widely publicized, and little is known about it. There were rumors about his romance with socialite party girl Alain Laurent. They met the girl on the set of the show "Goddess of Shopping". Photos of their passionate kisses appeared on the Internet, and later there were rumors that Durnev paid the girl for lip augmentation procedures, and is now going to pay for breast augmentation.
After a long lull, photos began to appear on Alexei's page on the social network along with a pretty blonde named Katya. They met the girl on the social network and talked for a year and a half before they started dating. In the last year, Alexei did not publish joint photos. Perhaps the couple broke up, or perhaps, to paraphrase a well-known expression, happiness loves silence.
Alexey, you have recently returned from Austria. The Durnev +1 program was engaged in trolling poker players there. Why did you choose the industry of card games, and not nightclubs, as in Ukraine?
I have been into card games for a very long time. It's already a good tradition to go to tournaments organized by PokerStars. Already managed to play in Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Vienna. And the nightclubs are the best we have. They are fine abroad. Everyone is too serious there, no one thumps much, and there is no such game as we have.
- That is, all "our game" from "thumping"?
Well, yes. People fight, show off in front of each other. Very fun to watch! And abroad, people come, talk quietly over a cocktail.
- Are you a gambler yourself? Are you playing for money?
Yes, I play for money. But mostly I lose. True, not too large sums. I'd rather talk about the amounts that I'll ever win.
In order to troll foreigners, it turns out that you must know how the local society lives, guess its mood.
We are looking for our own format and make a parody of travel programs that show the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Manneken Pis in Brussels for the thousandth time. We provide information, but at the same time we carry complete nonsense. For example, in Vienna we showed a sign indicating the end of the pedestrian zone. It depicts a woman and a man walking hand in hand. And the picture itself is crossed out. We have interpreted this to mean that heterosexual couples are no longer allowed to enter.
And at the imperial estate, near the entrance to the courtyard, there is a sculpture: a beefy man beats another man. In a classic program about tourism, they would say that this is the myth of ancient Greece - Hercules is fighting off someone. We said that this is a homosexual security guard forcing a gaping passer-by to sodomy. At the same time, he proclaims: “Either a club in the eye, or in the ass again!”.
- In which countries will the next episodes of the program be filmed?
It is not yet clear. But we will definitely continue this trend. We are developing a travel show a la "idiot abroad". This is the technical name of the program. Personally, I would like to go to China. I have been to many countries in Europe. There everything is plus or minus in different ways, but in general people live a common way of life. The exception is Italians and Spaniards, who have a siesta. I was once shocked by this phenomenon. People work 5 hours a day. Rest the rest of the time!
- Would you like to move abroad?
It's not like moving... I would like to go to learn a few European languages and get trained as a TV producer. There is a good university in London. But education there is very expensive. I think I have everything ahead of me.
- The competition for the role of your new co-host is coming to an end. How will the winner be determined?
- We have a standard system. The girls reached the semi-finals, then there will be a quarter-final and a final. At first it seemed that nothing good would come of this venture. They sent us some stuff. And the normal participants realized it late when the competition ended. But still, we considered interesting options. Applicants tried to shoot a block of programs. Now you can see who is the most interesting. For example, under the video of Nastya Vostokova, who hosts the program as a classic host, there are few comments. And Kristina Istomina from Crimea is being actively discussed. Although it is, to put it mildly, not very adequate. And the video seems to be recorded in a drunken state. Also, a lot of comments were collected by the video of another participant Katya. She looks like a model, but she has a street upbringing. She speaks in a hoarse voice and acts quite cocky.
- Didn't you initially set yourself the unspoken task of finding a girl who looked like Dasha Shi?
The new presenter should be similar to her inconsistency and cause an ambiguous reaction. We are not interested in just a beautiful girl with a good speech. There are many other programs for such presenters. We need a girl who can break a glass on her head or fight a security guard.
- You once said that you write poetry. Can you quote a couple of lines?
I don't do it very often lately. Only if I come home very, very drunk can I sit down and write something. (Laughs - Note. ed). My poems are abusive and unformatted. I'm embarrassed to read them.
- Do you do any creative work besides work?
Work is creativity. Plus producing another program about cars. What I invent is my work. I do not have to write reports in the office during the day, and poems in the evening.
- You often mention alcohol, “drink”, “thump” ...
Yes, I drink a lot. When a girl opens my refrigerator, she is shocked - it is empty. Well, there are some missing eggs and dumplings ... That it's time to throw it away. But a lot of alcohol! I bring local drinks from abroad.
-What do you prefer from alcohol?
I love whiskey. And recently I was treated to Tatra tea liqueur. This is the Slovak national drink. It has 72 degrees of fortress. It is drunk like a liquor - sweet and thick, but at the same time it burns very much and intoxicates very much. Now I have literally 100 grams left. I really want to get it somewhere.
- You are currently renting an apartment in Obolon. Have you thought about buying a home?
I bought an apartment. But the house is still under construction. In a few months it will be put into operation. For now, I live in a rented apartment.
- How did you meet your girlfriend Katya?
We didn't have anything over the top. We talked on social networks for a year and a half, and then decided to meet.
- Do you live together?
No. Since we are still alive, it means that we do not live together.
- But relationships lead to this ...
Are you friends with my girlfriend? (Laughs - Note. ed.).
You are the owner of the original surname Durnev. If the girl who agrees to become your wife does not want to take your last name, how will you react?
Can we say that she will end up in traumatology? (Laughs - Note. ed.). I think that, on the one hand, this is not a fundamental issue. On the other hand, I would like her to bear my last name. If I decide to propose, I think the girl will adequately behave in this situation.
- Your parents live in Mariupol. Do you help them financially?
They refuse. But I don't insist too much. The parents are working. They are all right. I try to pamper them somehow, as they once did me in childhood. We did not live well, however, on holidays I received gifts that were clearly beyond the reach of our family.
- Does it annoy you when strangers ask you to take a picture, get an autograph?
Sometimes annoying. Recently, Katya and I went to a business meeting in an institution in the center of Kyiv. Empty hall. At one table there is a person who is waiting for us, and at the next table there is a company. Someone from this party says: “It’s this one!”. And he points his finger at me. Or somehow there was a situation in the bar. A person from an actively drinking company comes up and asks to be photographed. And his friend, just as drunk, for a long time cannot find how the camera turns on in the phone. Barely turns on. Then the phone runs out of memory. All this drags on for a long time. Pleasant, of course, in such a little. But sometimes the right people come across.
- Do you ever feel sorry for the average people over whom you harshly joke in the Durnev +1 program?
No. Yeah, I don't think I'm being that harsh. In this we are limited by the TV channel.
- Do you personally have any taboos in this regard?
I believe that there can be no taboo in humor.
- And if we are talking about speculation on dramatic topics, is that also normal?
Undoubtedly. Moreover, I will tell you that one of the most popular animated series in the world, "Family Guy" (in the Russian translation of Family Guy) does this all the time. In one of the episodes there was a sketch on the topics of incurable diseases. The boy in the hospital was happy. His parents surrounded him with balloons and gifts. But dad broke everything off: “You are not particularly happy. You still have brain cancer." Such jokes are very popular all over the world. Especially in the States. We have such a level of humor, even at night it is impossible to imagine on the air. This is controlled at the channel management level.
You shot videos in which you troll Ukrainian politicians. Have you received threats after such programs?
There were no direct threats. Unless indirect - from people with incomprehensible accounts in social networks.
You joked about the opposition. For example, you had a conflict with Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Now he has come to power. Are you scared now?
No, it's not scary. Recently I spoke with the mayor of Kharkiv when he was at the congress of the Party of Regions. And I joked: “Gennady Adolfovich, this is your last congress! You will all be imprisoned!” And he told me: “Look, so that you are not imprisoned! It was you who offered carrots to someone! But I think everything will be fine. Otherwise, I will continue my joke and offer him a carrot again.
- Don't you think that you are earning negative karma for yourself by constant trolling? Are you not afraid of this?
Maybe some kind of negative karma is being accumulated. But if you answer, I'm afraid or not - I'm not afraid. I will say that all these people, "offended" by me, do not take jokes so close to their hearts. For example, Olya Polyakova. We once met her at a social event. When she saw me, she began to yell across the hall: “Oh my God, my beloved man is coming!” At the same time, she ran to meet me. I don't think she continues to hold a grudge against me.
Who are you really friends with?
My friends are ordinary people. It's pretty hard for me to make friends. Of those with whom I made friends recently, these are Dima Shibaev, Yura Kaplan, Vlad Ivanenko. On my birthday you can meet completely different people. One works as a storekeeper in a warehouse, the other is the editor-in-chief of Playboy. And at the same time they have a lot of common topics for communication.
- What do you value in people?
Sense of humor. It is very important.
I love. But I haven't read anything for a long time. When I flew to Vienna and took an e-book with me. Wrote down the Da Vinci Code. 20 pages read. It didn't go any further. I read a lot of articles on the Internet on political and economic topics.
Your program makes fun of ignorance, primitiveness, stupidity. But lately we have stupidity in the trend itself. Why do you think?
I don't know where it came from. There is an expression that among humpbacks it is a shame to be slender. And the low-educated layer protects itself and influences everyone else. This has been happening for a long time. This is also a problem in our schools. I don't know what to do with it. But something is needed. It's a ticking time bomb. And it slowly explodes.
- You actively criticize representatives of Ukrainian show business. Who causes the most irritation?
Kamaliya, Oxy - this is the party. Well, at least everything is clear with Kamaliya: who sponsors her, in what direction she works. But Oxy has just been driving a Hummer with Oxy license plates around Kyiv for 10 years ... I can’t imagine a portrait of a person who will come to her concert. And if this is a business project, is it really not clear that it is a failure? People from this party are condemned for bad taste, bad behavior, and they all continue to go to events ... There was also Masha Fokina. But she stopped just in time.
- Did you have orders to make fun of someone for money?
It's a secret. It happened, but we didn't take it. There was one order, but after evaluating it, we answered: “We don’t need money! And so, with pleasure!
- With whom was it more difficult to communicate - with the stars or with the deputies?
MPs are also stars. All Ukraine knows them. In general, our country is more obsessed with politics than with show business. If Shufrich gave concerts, and Lyashko told how he spent the day, they would gather full houses.
- In the "Goddess of Shopping" you often criticized not even the choice of girls' clothes, but their figure, appearance ...
- ... figure, appearance, education. And if they spoke badly.
In general, you have such a critical approach - you see someone on the street and look for what is wrong with this person? You saw a girl and note to yourself: oh, the legs are crooked!?
No, I'm saving up all the bile for the program. On the street, I am kind and treat everyone well.
Dangerous Lesha Durnev became the new hero of our interview column. What attracts him in girls, what annoys him, and what fashion is for him - further in our publication.
How are you, Lesha? How is creativity?
Things are very good, creativity too. Somehow, a lot of energy has recently been spent on maintaining near-creative areas: all kinds of interviews :), shooting, recording, participating in some projects as an invited person.
Well, it's a publicity stunt, isn't it?
Well, yes, it's a publicity stunt. But this is less creativity than what we did initially. And we spend a lot of energy on this.
Lesha, why are you not in the last few editions of the Goddess of Shopping?
With the Goddess of Shopping and Friends Production, who are filming the program, we somehow did not agree on the terms of cooperation. As far as I understand, these negotiations are not over yet, so maybe in some of the next seasons I will return.
Do you like working there?
Well, basically, yes, it's fine. Not that I really like it, but it's cool.
Did you ever think of commenting on the members of the Goddess of Shopping not in in the vein of “quirking”, but how are other commentators serious and to the point?
So this is my opinion! I'm always joking. Even when I buy kvass, I still joke about kvass.
Let's say. Can Lesha Durnev be serious?
Probably happens. The police, for example. Although, recently he was in the police and still joked.
What did you get for?
For a fight with club security. Well, how they fought ... We were beaten)) The name does not need to be said, in the end we parted amicably :)
Since our interview is near-fashionable ...
How do you feel about fashion? Do you follow fashion trends?
I'm great with fashion! And I don’t follow trends, it seems to me that this is all nonsense. It turns out very strange: a maxi skirt comes into fashion, and everyone immediately puts them on. And still it looks /censored/ bad, because everyone wears them.
Then I have a question: Lesha Durnev was on the Daewoo Lanos in a leather jacket - where did the leather jacket go?
There is a jacket! It's getting colder soon, I'll get it. True, she is already so shabby ...
Nevertheless, be honest - you are very different from that Lesha Durnev, who appeared in the first issues of Durnev +1. You have become a stylish boy, what a hairstyle you have, and glasses how expensive!
Sasha, everyone is giving! I can't refuse! Hairstyle, by the way, overgrown - did not have time to cut your hair for your interview. But ... of course, I am different from that Lesha Durnev. Still, he lost heart, stopped wearing a T-shirt and a leather jacket - he began to look for a T-shirt with a fashionable print. He fainted and did not resist.
Are there men whose appearance and style appeals to you, from whom you take an example?
No. I don't really care about style or looks at all. Jeans, T-shirt or shirt put on and went.
And who puts on you all these cheerful jackets and shirts during filming?
There are shootings on which the stylist works - he dresses me. For example, there is a promo on TET right now - there Dasha flies on balloons, and I'm wearing a jacket in medals. This is what the stylists have done. And other times, I dress myself and, frankly, I don't think it's worth worrying about, especially for men.
Were there conflicts with stylists? Tried to pull light green leggings on you?
There were no direct conflicts, but there were cases. There is a stylist Lesya Gorobets, she somehow dressed us. And there, in her studio, she offers me to put on yellow pants. I told her so: “Wait a second! I am a fashion expert! And girls in one well-known TV program listen to my advice! So let's you now take these pants away and give me something that really corresponds to normal taste! Of course, it was a joke, because what a fashion expert I am, but they all got very tense. People who are serious about fashion don't like to joke about it.
Fashion expert, do you think girls really listen to your advice, or lock themselves in the bathroom in tears and get depressed?
Well, listen, what advice do I have? No boobs? - Get out! There isn't much to listen to here. Making boobs is not for everyone. And as my friend Sergei Kulik wrote, “Push-up is a swindle cleaner than MMM.”
By the way, about boobs - what do you have with Alena Laurent?
With Alena Laurent we have nothing. Once she left me a lipstick inscription near the door. She, Karolina Rufo and Tanya Pop came to my house at night, but I did not open the door. I was tired and in no mood, and they came in drunk ... They left an inscription in lipstick "Laurent + Rufo + Pop = Pro ** al"
/tears of tenderness/ In your videos you openly mock narrow-mindedness and bad taste. What do you think, are you perfect yourself? After all, only a person who is 100% confident in himself, or one who frankly does not care about his appearance, can afford such ridicule. What is your case?
It's not that I don't give a damn about my appearance, but I feel the power to tell people what I want to say. It has nothing to do with my specific appearance. You see, it all comes down to how we perceive reality. If it is important for someone that the person with the microphone told her/him that he/she does not look good, and they start to take a steam bath and make excuses about this, then these are their personal problems. If a person is confident in himself, then no matter what anyone tells him, it is unlikely that it will unsettle him. At the same time, a person with a microphone should not be a style icon.
And you, when you say this to people, what goals do you pursue? Insult or make fun?
No no! Do not offend in any way! It is exceptional to pull the unconscious out of a person so that he loses his balance for a moment and says something interesting.
So you're doing a show?
Well, of course, this is my job, first of all.
Like?
Question about Dasha Shi: how do you manage to work with her? The young lady is very extraordinary, you must admit. I personally think she looks great! But I came across the opinions of other people, including the viewers of your program, and according to them, Dasha didn’t understand where she gathered her wardrobe from, and she herself is a strange girl.
Dasha, by the way, is the person who cares about how she looks, especially on the set. She has almost all things sewn by designers. It is clear that not world famous designers, but, nevertheless, every thing is a creative work. It is very good to work with her - she is cheerful and pleasant.
If all the girls dressed like Dasha, how would it look?
I think it's much better than going to ZARA and buying yourself some junk on sale. In fact, what she does is a lot of work. She constantly meets with designers, they draw sketches. Somehow she tried to drag me into this whole story, but I'm too lazy to go there, take measurements. Why is all this necessary? You can just buy a T-shirt for 100 rubles and wear it :)
How much is your t-shirt worth?
If I'm not mistaken, in Spain it cost 10 euros.
Did you enjoy Spain? Do you travel often?
Once I was abroad - in Spain.
What is not released?
For a long time I did not have a passport, because until the age of 25, if you did not serve in the army, then you cannot get one. Then I turned 25. While I was itching, while back and forth, as a result, I got a passport only in the spring, at 25 and a half years old.
Do you think a beautiful and smart girl is fantasy or reality? Or is there always a catch in the form of a strabismus, a speech impediment, or something worse?
Bereza, is this your personal question?
You will not believe, but this is a question from the editor's plan!
Well, you are smart and beautiful. So it's not fantasy.
I have flat feet.
Strabismus, flat feet and speech defects are not the worst thing that a person can hide in himself. Meanness, greed and hypocrisy are things much worse than flat feet. Therefore, God forbid that a person be beautiful, smart and flat-footed.
What would you never wear in your life? Apart from those yellow pants from Lesya Gorobets?
Just so you know, I ended up wearing them! But I don’t know at all ... Probably, I wouldn’t walk in heels.
And if you look at things more realistically? You go into the store, and what do you not touch? Jeans with motney?
I have jean jeans! I bought them, put them on a couple of times, and I didn’t really like it ... In fact, I am ready to try everything, even stilettos with heels, but I will still give preference to just comfortable clothes - jeans, sneakers and a T-shirt.
I think the option "Lesha Durnev in heels" will surely interest someone now. How much money are you willing to pay? Save time for people who will start terrorizing you with offers.
If some girl wants to see me in her heels, let her come and show her boobs.
What if they are small?
If they are small, then let them not come.
Half of Ukraine is crying... What do you consider to be complete bad taste and categorically do not recommend girls and boys to wear? And why?
It annoys me when they listen to music from the phone with headphones. For me, it's like shoes and sweatpants. In general, all this is complete nonsense. If a person knows how to favorably emphasize his figure or hide flaws, then this is the art of dressing. Initially, a person should enjoy himself naked in front of a mirror. And then the body that he has to improve with the help of clothes. This is correct. And the fact that they are trying to convince us that this year it is better to wear a floor-length coral skirt is somehow ... wrong.
But you can not shave your legs.
You can't shave your legs! What a chance for girls in wheelchairs! Short-legged people can walk on stilts! And together for one price to go to the club!
What should a girl be wearing so that you turn around after her?
Neckline. With big boobs.
OK. There is a girl. Neckline. Big boobs. And push-up!
I always know where the push-up is!!! I distinguish push-up from 15 meters.
Let's call this interview "Lesha Durnev - a push-up expert." Are you going to UFW?
And we are not allowed. Last time, the organizers kicked us out with a scandal. And we went to shoot at Kiev Fashion Days :)
What did you do at KFD? Did you learn something useful from the world of fashion?
Yes, I went to hang out. I don’t look at all these shows, I don’t consider myself a consumer of the fashion industry.
Do you communicate with Grachev? There was no thought to be fashionable, to take an example from him, to put on a jacket and a scarf?
I communicate with Grachev, yes. But I still keep getting dressed at the last minute before leaving the house. Perhaps someday I will come to this, I will think over my appearance. Many people, especially girls, when buying clothes, immediately think what they will wear them with. I can't imagine it. I went shopping with stylist Sasha Ryazantseva several times. We bought clothes in sets, she told me what to wear, where to turn up the sleeves. I was so happy that I would finally look like a person, and the next day I didn’t remember anything.
Lyosha, you got involved in politics. How will this affect your appearance in the future?
Well, we are engaged in cheerful politics. Although, I like to wear jackets and shirts to keep everything strict. True, you need to lose some weight ...
How will you lose weight?
I won't eat at night. He celebrated his first weight loss day with smoked pork ribs and three glasses of beer. And then I ate 5 Milky Way. I did all this at three o'clock in the morning. The main thing is up to six. Soon I will move to Osokorki and start going to the gym. I'll be handsome :)
Text: Alexandra Bereza
