Alexey Mikhailovsky was born in 1969 in Moscow. From the beginning of "dashing» In the 1990s, his biography is closely connected with television. At first, Mikhailovsky was interested in information programs and political PR, but since 1999, Alexei has ceased to engage in elections.
On Channel One Mikhailovsky collaborated with Alexander Lyubimov ("Vzglyad") in the programs "Time" and "". After he was invited to NTV by the main producer of the channel Sergey Shumakov. With the departure from NTV, Alexei's career stalled for some time: for a whole year he sat at home and did not know where to apply his strength, until he received an offer from the director of the project " House 2"To create a certain system for the show.
Mikhailovsky He was delighted, and outlined his vision to the creators of the project. The idea was supported by the organizers of the reality show, after which they began to implement it, starting from scratch: they had to look for land, create a perimeter, come up with the rules for the show, which was launched on the night of May 5, 2004, although it appeared on the air on the 11th.
The first fifteen contestants to cross the perimeter gate were Stepan Menshikov, Alena Vodonaeva, Olga Buzova, Roman Tretyakov, Olga "Sun" Nikolaeva and May Abrikosov (Tertishny), as well as Elena Berkova, Stanislav And Oscar Karimov.
Producer Alexey Mikhailovsky, for which " Dom-2"Is an integral part of life, you often have to answer sharp questions about the reasons for the popularity of the show.
Mikhailovsky: “There are several moments that are the engines of the project. He is constantly changing. It does not have strict rules governing its operation. The show allows participants not only to build relationships, but also to find ways of creative self-expression. So, there was a period when the participants actively toured. The first concert on December 6, 2005 at the Olimpiyskiy turned out to be successful. Since 2009, the Youth Train has been operating, calling for social activity. The guys donated blood, struggled with bad habits. Since 2006, various competitions have been used to create an atmosphere of competition. The project can be viewed as a school of life, according to which everyone can compare their own decisions. The openness of the participants, who allow themselves to show feelings and emotions on the air, gives people the opportunity to revise their own relationships and understand what is right and what is unacceptable in them ... "
When asked when the scandalous project will close, the producer has no answer, since he does not understand why this should be done if the show is watched by 35 million viewers. In 2014, for example, a new platform was opened - in the Seychelles, where the relationship of existing couples was checked. From 2004 to 2016, the project has 7 children born and 16 weddings.
At the end of November 2017, information appeared that Alexei Mikhailovsky was fired from the post of general producer of the project "House 2". The show is losing ratings, and, in all likelihood, Mikhailovsky himself is no longer able to save the project.
Alexey Mikhailovsky. Personal life
From the first day of work on the project "Dom-2" co-producer Mikhailovsky was his then wife Vasilina with whom they raised their son maxima who was born in 2000. The couple broke up in 2011. However, Mikhailovskaya still remained in the program until 2014, after which she announced that she was leaving the longest reality show on Russian television. According to Vasilina, this decision was not easy for her, but the time has come for a new life and other projects.
June 2, 2013 Alexey Mikhailovsky married his second wife - a former member of "House-2" Natalya Varvina. As it turned out, they registered the marriage a year before, without advertising the ceremony.
The general producer of the reality show told the DOM-2 magazine about the ex-spouses, the family project and plans for the future.
Alexei Mikhailovsky with his wife Natalia Varvina
Photo: Oleg Zotov
The country's main television set has become a second home for producer Alexei Mikhailovsky. Here he worked with a team of 200 people for almost 14 years. During this time, Alexey himself managed to find a soul mate - he married the ex-participant and choreographer of the project Natalya Varvina, and in the near future he wants to become a father for the third time. Therefore, he leaves the project to come to grips with his family.
I remember how I came to the show in 2004, - Alexei recalls. - Then I painted the concept on several sheets, and there was a reality in it .... about a simple construction site! A little later, during discussions, we decided that people should not only work, but also start romantic relationships.
You have so many people under your command. Do you think you are a good boss?
This is what people should appreciate.
They say very much. You help them develop.
I have always had this position: not to take anyone from outside, but to grow my own cadres. By the way, there are those who have been with me for many years ...
For example, with one of the main producers, Lekha Markelov, they worked on Volgograd television in the youth editorial office of the DoZa channel - for those who are “up to” and for those who are “for”. At DOM-2, a significant part of the staff grew up with me and now makes this show the way it is and the way it will remain. And some even formed couples behind the scenes. Indeed, in our country people fall in love with each other and build families, work with wives and husbands. I can name at least two couples right off the bat. Nastya and Lesha Kobozevs, graduates Ilyukha Tsvetkov and Anya Kocheseva, who got together and gave birth to children. We have a big family here! The project employs employees who managed to get married, divorced and find a couple again, while at the same time communicating normally with their former halves.
Natalya Varvina leaves after her husband
Photo: Oleg Zotov
"Build your love" in the truest sense.
You know, love cannot be “built” completely! "Construction" must be constant, day after day, throughout life! Passion is not eternal and love needs to be worked on, to support what has grown on this passion. And don't forget to enjoy! What else is love for?
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Alexei Mikhailovsky devoted almost 14 years to work at DOM-2
Photo: Oleg Zotov
Do you remember your first love?
Certainly. The girl's name was Inna. In kindergarten, at a quiet hour, we slept side by side, and held each other's hands. The teachers walked by, whispered and were touched. Then, at school there was a girl with whom I was secretly in love for 8 years - Tanya. Unfortunately, she is no longer there. She was killed in 2002, right next to the house where she lived.
Was there ever an unrequited love? Or maybe you were thrown, refused?
Once, I was 21 years old, already during my work at the factory, I was passionately in love with one very windy girl, and at some point she exchanged me for another. It was a blow! True, for two days. Then I wrote a couple of poems, then spent a month trying to restore these relationships. But, in the end, he spat and scored. A year later, she found me herself, but I was no longer up to her, although, of course, the thought “nice” flashed by.
Are you a proud person?
Yes, proud! But there is also pride that gets in the way. But it interferes not only with me - with everyone! This sin sometimes arises and prevents me from hearing people. For example, when from the outside they tell you some things that are diametrically opposed, and you, “cool dude”, think “what are you filling me with everything here?”. Often such third-party views turn out to be the truth that you are not ready to hear because of pride. Sometimes I understand everything, but emotions outweigh.
Are you easy to get emotional?
I can be enraged by ridicule or deliberate misunderstanding of the issue. People see where your boiling point is, and they begin to influence it on purpose. At some point, you realize that this is a provocation, but you can't help it.
Alexei has been working on the reality show since its launch
Photo: Oleg Zotov
Is it the same in family life? We women often provoke. Also, we can be naughty.
This doesn't happen with Natalia. We can say that we somehow agreed that such an attitude is unacceptable. For us, meanness is a provocation within the family. Our guys from DOM-2 live by this - this is their role model, a game: they quarreled - they made up in bed. We also have models, but absolutely opposite. Both me and Natasha can be in a bad mood, at such moments we say to each other: “don’t touch me yet” - that’s all.
But you weren't always so wise. However, you are now in your fourth marriage.
The first marriage, which took place at the age of 19, we do not consider at all - it was still a childish prank. But seriously, I have great respect for what happened and for the women who were next to me! I was to blame for the fact that it didn’t work out - largely because I didn’t fully understand responsibility, because in the first place I always had a job, not a family, because I didn’t know what to do when the first passion fades away. No one knows this right away, because there are not so many happy marriages. Now I understand that I was not ready for a family then, because I didn’t have a student years - I served, and made up for a cheerful youth after thirty. Our marriage with Vasilina (Mikhailovsky's first wife, - ed.) actually broke up in the fall of 2004, at the very beginning of DOMA2. But we continued to work together for many years.
And although our relationship could not be called simple, we always found a compromise for the sake of a common cause. There was love, passion - and then you realize that you are completely different people, and you just thought badly about what you did. But with Natalia I was lucky. We were lucky! And we are happy! And yes, this is the very case when we did everything deliberately, calculated, if you like. We fell in love in 2010, but when we got together in 2011, we had already gone through a long break.
Alexey with his mother and wife Natalia
Photo: Personal archive
This break was due to your pride?
That's not the point at all. I just mistakenly thought at one point that I didn’t need all this. I thought, made a decision and at one moment left the horizon, having acted very cruelly with Natalia. Then I thought it was right. We continued to communicate discretely for several months, and at some point we simply decided to move in together. And they didn't part again. At that time, Natasha lived in Moscow, and moved in with me.
You seem to be good at compromise.
In our case with Natasha, this is not a compromise, but feelings! But if in general, then yes - I'm always looking for it, because the hard one is very brittle, but the flexible one does not break and lives longer. You can always and should moderate your ardor and think. Sometimes, in a moment of total disagreement, I “give up” if that wins me in the end. Because the people who argue with you are ordinary people and also expect attention and praise. It's just that someone is quiet, and someone is quite loud. The latter are all on Instagram.
You also have an account with 150k followers.
There are 170 thousand of them. But I don't lead it. My experiment with this social network ended, and I clearly understood that I don’t need this crap. See how it works. And now I only monitor other accounts. Now I'll show you which ones.
Alexei opens Instagram on a widescreen phone. “Here is Hugh Jackman, Miley Cyrus, Olga Buzova, Vlad Kadoni, Ksenia Borodina, Madonna, AC / DC, many other stars, TIMES edition, Arkady Novikov and his delicious food photos ... art accounts, ideas from which I use for decoration Houses. I also subscribe to stores with vinyl records - I have more than three thousand in my collection ... "
“It’s already evening, and are you sitting here on Instagram?”, - Natalya Varvina, the wife of the general producer, enters the office of the general producer.
Alexey and Natalia will celebrate the New Year with their family, at home in Moscow
Photo: Oleg Zotov
I showed Anya who I subscribed to. Here Natasha maintains her blog, and, perhaps, on its basis, we will conduct a joint one for fun. Go to restaurants and leave video reviews.
And when you are frayed in public, do you read?
Of course not! There was a time, I even answered, but now I forbade myself and my wife too. This meaningless activity is very addictive, and you begin to live in a reality that does not exist.
NATALIA VARVINA:
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Natalia supports her husband in everything
Natalya sits down next to her husband and immediately takes his hand.
Natasha, when her husband announced his departure to the TV project staff, he assured that you made the decision together.
Alexei: she is my wife, of course, she influenced! At one point, we realized that we were chatting about work at home almost all the time. I woke up one day and said “that's it, I'm leaving”, life went differently - we found time for personal communication, walking with the dog ...
Natasha, Alex didn't offer you to stay?
Natalia: It was absolutely obvious to me that I was leaving for my husband. Like him, so do I. Moreover, we left for the sake of the family - why should I stay and not see Lesha.
Alexei: Two as one whole - the concept of "HOUSE-2", where one - there and the second. What is she to do here without me?
Natalia: Nothing. When you said your farewell speech, you assured that you were not going to get in touch for six months.
A.: This is true. I want to rest. Are you sure you won't remember for half a year?
A.: This is a property of character and mind: I will throw anything out of my head in a day.
How are your friends from work?
A.: Nastya and Lekha Kobozeva, Ksenia with Kurban, Rastorguev, Kadoni - everyone will stay! Where without them? If you are talking about whether it will be painful to communicate with them - no, it will not. This is how my brain works.
N.: I'm the same - I got it from my husband.
What else do you learn from your spouse?
N.: Kindness. He is an infinitely kind person. He is tolerant of everyone. And I'm more aggressive and sharp. So I agree: when I came to work on the project, everyone told me: "Aleksey Nikolaevich is a good policeman."
A.: What is kindness? You can't just be unaccountably kind to everyone, like Prince Myshkin. Still, kindness is a method. My method!
N.: Oh, now you will assure us that you are an evil genius and cleverly invent everything. Woland is right.
A.: Well, that's when I left you at one point - was I kind?
N.: No. And why did you even remind me of this?
A.: I mean that all people are made up of different things. In addition to good, there are also flowers of evil. It is important that you grow more in yourself, which part of the garden you water more often.
You, Alexey, what did you learn from your wife?
A.: I am learning from her to be kinder and to be more happy with what is around us, to hear each other more! In general, the right relationship is when you strive to perceive important things on the one hand, to hear each other. Some may understand a partner for the rest of their lives by only 25%. We have so far managed to increase this figure to 50%. And it looks 100%.
That doesn't happen. People in general tend to think out, to twist. What to say about women who think differently. It needs to be clarified. And often Alexei asks you if he understood everything correctly?
N.: No
A.: This is not the case in family life. Here, sometimes everything is in silence, glances, tactile sensations.
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The couple are ready to start a new life
Photo: Social networks
Do you often quarrel?
N.: Of course we fight. But we quickly put up, because we understand that these were emotions.
A.: Many couples troll each other, bring to emotions, violently swear, and then violently reconcile. We don't. But I do not blame anyone - they want pleasure. Everyone in life strives for pleasure.
What is your thrill? Travel, judging by your flights.
A.: Our thrill is in ourselves! Being next to each other, and where is not so important!
N.: We have all cruises with a romantic connotation, because we always travel together. Sometimes we meet friends who have a rest in the same city, and sometimes my mother flies with us.
A.: Traditionally, we fly to Paris for Natashkin's birthday. But this year we missed it, sorry. We'll make sure to catch up.
Where do you want to return?
A.: On the sofa. To the dog and serials.
N.: We love to look at new items.
A.: Natasha reviewed the entire "Doctor House", "Desperate Housewives", "The Big Bang Theory". I like more about naturalness, such a real one - "True Detective", "Ray Donovan", "13 Reasons Why?".
You talk so smoothly, they say, do not immediately put up, do not bring each other up. But still, Natasha, surely there is something in your husband that pisses you off?
A.: Now he will say that he gets up in the morning, and the whole kitchen is in crumbs, because I ate at night.
N.: Well, I don't worry about it anymore. My dad taught me the rule “where you got it from - put it there”, but Lesha does not adhere to this.
A.: We just have a different idea of order. By the way, here's what else infuriates her: I think that you can walk around the apartment in shoes. When you forget something, you don't have to take off your shoes - the floors will withstand everything.
N.: I just wash these floors. Moreover, I am ready to run, take off my shoes and bring, but he still stomps in his boots.
A.: Now I will wash the floors. Yes, and never refused.
N.: And I, fool, never asked you.
A.: Laughter, laughter, and I want to say: I found that person who seemed to have always been there. I am comfortable.
Alexey and Natalya parted at one time, but soon realized that they could not live without each other
Didn't you have a lap?
A.: There was a feeling that everything had been like this all my life. In its place.
N.: I was alone for a very long time, but I was always sure: “mine” - it will come. And now I’m sitting here, as in that very picture “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears” and I think “how long I have been looking for you” ... It’s a pity that my mother didn’t have time to meet Lesha - she would really like him!
A.: Natasha has an ideal relationship with my mother.
N.: I call her "mom", and Lesha my dad - "dad".
You knew him from the project. And how did he know about your transition from producer to fiancé?
A.: Yes, we just stood on the street, smoked, and he says “Lech, really?”. I answer yes. And that's all.
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Alexey and Natalya hid their romance from the public for a long time
Photo: Personal archive
Do you have a clear separation between home and work? Is it difficult to exist as a boss-subordinate?
A.: My mother once explained to me that generosity is one of the main male virtues! Therefore, we do not have quarrels due to the fact that “dinner is not ready”.
N.: He rarely praises me, and I need encouragement. In fact, we argue, but these are creative moments - there's nothing to worry about.
Do you get up at the same time and go to work together?
N.: No. Sometimes I may not know where Alexei Nikolaevich is. Sometimes we can have breakfast together, and then part for the day.
A.: But weekends are sacred. In winter we go skiing in the park, and in summer we ride bicycles.
N.: We also go to the gym together.
A.: The song tells everything about us. Now I'll turn on the track that I gave Natasha - it's about our whole life.
Natasha finds the song “I Love You Anyway” on her phone, which Alexey wrote and sang especially for her.
N.: Here every line with subtext! Here, for example: “I didn’t buy cream, it means I won’t pour coffee, but I still love you,” it’s about the fact that sometimes I forget to buy it for him, but he doesn’t swear at me. Lesha gave me a song for 35 years. Just turned it on in the morning. I burst into tears, and then again, and again.
The couple intend to focus on building a happy family
Photo: Personal archive
Well, the husband, like a real producer, knows how to surprise.
N.: Yes, we joked: when he forgets to compliment, you just have to listen to the song.
You said that, after leaving DOMA-2, you were planning to start a family project. Reveal the plan.
A.: The family is the big and most important thing that a man should come to! This is home, and love, and, of course, children. It's for life. We dream of children. In the movie The Godfather, Don Corleone says "if a man pays little attention to his family, he is not a real man." So, it's time to get real!
More recently, it became known that Alexei Mikhailovsky was fired from the Dom-2 project. Recently, the ratings of the show began to fall, and the producer could not save the audience of the show. Many argue that now no one is looking for a relationship on the project, but this is just a way to live on everything ready.
Everyone is used to gigolos and prostitutes who don't even try to hide it. No decent person would cross the threshold of this house. Maybe someone still decided to pull this show out of the failed hole and the first step was the dismissal of the general producer.
Alexei Mikhailovsky led this project for 13 years, we can say that Dom-2 is his creation, and the participants in the scandalous project are his children. And no, this is not strange, because he helped many to get well in life after the project. Recently everyone learned that Mikhailovsky was leaving his position.
It is not yet known whether he was actually fired or whether he left on his own. Alexei himself in his interview said that he himself decided to leave the project. Mikhailovsky said that he was very tired after thirteen years and could no longer endure it all. In the near future, he plans to take up his personal life and family. Natalya Varvina, the wife of the producer and a former member of Dom-2, fully supported her husband in this decision, which completely prompted him to leave.
The producer of Dom-2 Alexei Mikhailovsky was fired: the reason why Mikhailovsky left was revealed
Many say that the producer's gene has been "shifted". Recently, Alexander Karmanov, an influential businessman who owns shares in the project, has begun to take a lot of part in the management of the project and is starting to create his own team.
Mikhailovsky's ex-wife posted a post on Instagram, where she wrote that she was sure that Alexei did not leave of his own free will. From the first day the project was created, the girl worked with her ex-husband on Dom-2 until 2014, and she is completely sure that Mikhailovsky himself is to blame for being "flooded" from the show.
There are two versions of the producer's departure:
- After thirteen years of work, Aleksey is tired of making ratings and finally wants to devote time to his family. Mikhailovsky also does not like the active participation of Alexander Karmanov in the fate of the show.
- The producer was indeed fired due to a sharp drop in the ratings of the scandalous show.
But not without good reasons, Mikhailovsky began to be upset by the excessive interest of businessman Karmanov in the project, since he is suspected of puppetry. After his appearance, the ex-wife of Alexander Olga Orlova became the host of Dom-2, whose nature seems absurd for a reality show, because the girl herself is very intelligent and well-educated. Fans of the project are sure that her appearance on the project is directly related to the activities of Karmanov.
After the dismissal of Alexei Mikhailovsky, the show is waiting for big changes and not the fact that for the better.
The producer of Dom-2 Alexei Mikhailovsky was fired: the fate of the project after the departure of the producer will change
Rumors began to circulate around the network that if the producer was removed, then a big coup awaits other project participants. In any case, this may not bother Olga Buzova, who creates the program's ratings. But you should worry about Ksenia Borodina, who can follow Alexei, because they believe that she does not make the audience particularly interested and can easily be replaced by someone more interesting and scandalous.
The audience of the show "Dom-2" has been declaring for several years that the project has already become obsolete in some way. However, people continue to watch it. It is likely that after the departure of Mikhailovsky, there will be big changes in the project: the rules or traditions of reality will change. But it's too early to talk about it.
It cannot be said that after the departure of the producer, the project can change for the better, rather the opposite. The audience is sure that Dom-2 will soon end its existence.
Alexey was born in 1969 in Moscow. Alexei spent his childhood and youth in the capital. In the early 90s, Mikhailovsky got on television. At first, the young man was engaged in the promotion of political figures, as well as the preparation of information programs. In the 21st century, Alexey moved away from politics.
Mikhailovsky worked with Alexander Lyubimov on the Vzglyad talk show, as well as on the popular Vremya and Here and Now programs. Mikhailovsky acquired extensive experience in producing activities thanks to Sergei Shumakov on the NTV channel. But after the leadership changed there, Alexei was fired.
The man was out of work for a year. And then one day Alexei received an offer to participate in the casting for the vacant position of producer in a completely new show format. Television construction "Dom 2" with the slogan "Build your love" has become a novelty for Russia and for the entire world television. A new period began in the creative biography of Alexei.
Producer
Alexey Mikhailovsky got excited about this idea. The young man developed his own concept, painted the plan on paper and went to the organizers of the House 2 project. The idea was approved, and Alexey set about organizing the film set: he found the territory, came up with voting rules, criteria for getting into the show.
May 5, 2004 is considered the first day of filming "House 2", although viewers saw the show with a 6-day delay. On that day, 15 people entered the perimeter of the project for the first time, every week one of whom was replaced by a newcomer. Many of the participants in the show have received loud fame in the country. Suffice it to mention the names of Olga Buzova, Elena Berkova, May Abrikosov, Roman Tretyakov, Ventseslav Vengrzhanovsky, Irina Agibalova. These people, and hundreds of other names, owe fame to Alexei Mikhailovsky.
The producer explains the mega-popularity of the program by the fact that the project is constantly changing, the audience does not have time to get used to one innovation, as something new is invented. In addition, the openness of the manifestation of emotions by the participants in front of the cameras allows the fans of the show to see different models of human behavior from the outside and track the consequences of this or that act, spoken phrase, fleeting action.
It is worth noting that the Doma 2 format has become one of the few Russian projects that have been sold abroad. The show with the general concept of "How To Build Your Love" ("How to build your love") was bought by Dutch, British and American broadcasters.
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Personal life
It must be said that for 12 years the television project "House 2" has contributed to a dozen and a half marriages. Alexei Mikhailovsky also played one of the weddings. In 2013, the producer married Natalya Varvina, a participant in the show. The celebration was quiet and modest, few people knew about it, although many suspected about the relationship between lovers. Prior to this, Alexey and Natasha first appeared at an open party on the occasion of the birthday of Olga Buzova. The lovers visited the registry office on February 7, 2013, where they registered their relationship in the presence of relatives.
And in the summer of the same year, the couple also got married in the church, and this time the holiday was widely covered in the press. Unlike the winter ceremony, the newlyweds celebrated the summer celebration in the Turandot restaurant in Moscow, and Roman Tretyakov was invited to host the evening. Photos from the holiday appeared on the personal page of Natalia Varvina on Instagram.
So far, in alliance with Natalia Varvina, Alexei has no children. The girl's fans explain this by the fact that Natalya is passionate about her career on television. A four-legged friend lives in the house of Mikhailovsky and Varvina - a labrador named Ronald.
For Alexei, this marriage was the second. Back in the 90s, the young man married for the first time. The first wife Vasilina Mikhailovskaya subsequently became a co-producer of the show "House 2". In 2000, the son Maxim was born in the family. The ex-wife remained in office even after her husband left for another, but in 2014 she decided to leave the scandalous television project. After Vasilina left the project, the reality show ratings began to slide down.
Alexey Mikhailovsky now
In 2016, Alexei Mikhailovsky allowed himself too much on the set of the Man of the Year issue. The producer, being in a state of intoxication, constantly disrupted the work of the film crew. This act of the spouse was justified by Natalia Varvina. The girl sided with her husband at the moment when everyone turned against the producer.
In 2017, after a systematic drop in the ratings of the program in "House 2", the question arose of dismissing the producer. In December, Alexei Mikhailovsky was replaced by Alexander Karmanov, the ex-husband of Olga Orlova, the owner of ZAO Leman Pipe, which supplies large-diameter pipes for Gazprom. But this development of events did not break Alexei. Mikhailovsky began to participate in the creation of scenes at the "School of Acting", which is now led by Natalya Varvina.
Aleksey Mikhailovsky himself claims that he was fired of his own free will, as he was already tired of the exhausting work. Vasilina Mikhailovskaya commented on the situation as deplorable for the project. The ex-producer believes that the cold commercial approach of people who did not create and did not "sick" the program will finally kill the reality show.
Some fans of "House 2" believe that Alexei Mikhailovsky is getting what he deserves, since in 2014, secretly from the first creator of the show, Valery Komissarov, the TNT TV channel had built working areas, where the film crew moved after the expiration of a ten-year contract with the first producer.
Alexei Mikhailovsky is not going to give up. Rumor has it that, together with Ksenia Borodina, the producer plans to start a new project.
The general producer of the reality show told the DOM-2 magazine about the ex-spouses, the family project and plans for the future.
The country's main television set has become a second home for producer Alexei Mikhailovsky. Here he worked with a team of 200 people for almost 14 years. During this time, Alexey himself managed to find a soul mate - he married the ex-participant and choreographer of the project Natalya Varvina, and in the near future he wants to become a father for the third time. Therefore, he leaves the project to come to grips with his family.
I remember how I came to the show in 2004, - Alexei recalls. - Then I painted the concept on several sheets, and there was a reality in it .... about a simple construction site! A little later, during discussions, we decided that people should not only work, but also start romantic relationships.
You have so many people under your command. Do you think you are a good boss?
1.
This is what people should appreciate.
They say very much. You help them develop.
I have always had this position: not to take anyone from outside, but to grow my own cadres. By the way, there are those who have been with me for many years ...
For example, with one of the main producers, Lekha Markelov, they worked on Volgograd television in the youth editorial office of the DoZa channel - for those who are “up to” and for those who are “for”. At DOM-2, a significant part of the staff grew up with me and now makes this show the way it is and the way it will remain. And some even formed couples behind the scenes. Indeed, in our country people fall in love with each other and build families, work with wives and husbands. I can name at least two couples right off the bat. Nastya and Lesha Kobozevs, graduates Ilyukha Tsvetkov and Anya Kocheseva, who got together and gave birth to children. We have a big family here! The project employs employees who managed to get married, divorced and find a couple again, while at the same time communicating normally with their former halves.
"Build your love" in the truest sense.
You know, love cannot be “built” completely! "Construction" must be constant, day after day, throughout life! Passion is not eternal and love needs to be worked on, to support what has grown on this passion. And don't forget to enjoy! What else is love for?
≪WEDDING OF CALCULATION≫
Do you remember your first love?
Certainly. The girl's name was Inna. In kindergarten, at a quiet hour, we slept side by side, and held each other's hands. The teachers walked by, whispered and were touched. Then, at school there was a girl with whom I was secretly in love for 8 years - Tanya. Unfortunately, she is no longer there. She was killed in 2002, right next to the house where she lived.
Was there ever an unrequited love? Or maybe you were thrown, refused?
Once, I was 21 years old, already during my work at the factory, I was passionately in love with one very windy girl, and at some point she exchanged me for another. It was a blow! True, for two days. Then I wrote a couple of poems, then spent a month trying to restore these relationships. But, in the end, he spat and scored. A year later, she found me herself, but I was no longer up to her, although, of course, the thought “nice” flashed by.
Are you a proud person?
Yes, proud! But there is also pride that gets in the way. But it interferes not only with me - with everyone! This sin sometimes arises and prevents me from hearing people. For example, when from the outside they tell you some things that are diametrically opposed, and you, “cool dude”, think “what are you filling me with everything here?”. Often such third-party views turn out to be the truth that you are not ready to hear because of pride. Sometimes I understand everything, but emotions outweigh.
Are you easy to get emotional?
I can be enraged by ridicule or deliberate misunderstanding of the issue. People see where your boiling point is, and they begin to influence it on purpose. At some point, you realize that this is a provocation, but you can't help it.
Is it the same in family life? We women often provoke. Also, we can be naughty.
This doesn't happen with Natalia. We can say that we somehow agreed that such an attitude is unacceptable. For us, meanness is a provocation within the family. Our guys from DOM-2 live by this - this is their role model, a game: they quarreled - they made up in bed. We also have models, but absolutely opposite. Both me and Natasha can be in a bad mood, at such moments we say to each other: “don’t touch me yet” - that’s all.
But you weren't always so wise. However, you are now in your fourth marriage.
The first marriage, which took place at the age of 19, we do not consider at all - it was still a childish prank. But seriously, I have great respect for what happened and for the women who were next to me! I was to blame for the fact that it didn’t work out - largely because I didn’t fully understand responsibility, because in the first place I always had a job, not a family, because I didn’t know what to do when the first passion fades away. No one knows this right away, because there are not so many happy marriages. Now I understand that I was not ready for a family then, because I didn’t have a student years - I served, and made up for a cheerful youth after thirty. Our marriage with Vasilina (Mikhailovsky's first wife, - ed.) actually broke up in the fall of 2004, at the very beginning of DOMA2. But we continued to work together for many years.
And although our relationship could not be called simple, we always found a compromise for the sake of a common cause. There was love, passion - and then you realize that you are completely different people, and you just thought badly about what you did. But with Natalia I was lucky. We were lucky! And we are happy! And yes, this is the very case when we did everything deliberately, calculated, if you like. We fell in love in 2010, but when we got together in 2011, we had already gone through a long break.
This break was due to your pride?
That's not the point at all. I just mistakenly thought at one point that I didn’t need all this. I thought, made a decision and at one moment left the horizon, having acted very cruelly with Natalia. Then I thought it was right. We continued to communicate discretely for several months, and at some point we simply decided to move in together. And they didn't part again. At that time, Natasha lived in Moscow, and moved in with me.
You seem to be good at compromise.
In our case with Natasha, this is not a compromise, but feelings! But if in general, then yes - I'm always looking for it, because the hard one is very brittle, but the flexible one does not break and lives longer. You can always and should moderate your ardor and think. Sometimes, in a moment of total disagreement, I “give up” if that wins me in the end. Because the people who argue with you are ordinary people and also expect attention and praise. It's just that someone is quiet, and someone is quite loud. The latter are all on Instagram.
You also have an account with 150k followers.
There are 170 thousand of them. But I don't lead it. My experiment with this social network ended, and I clearly understood that I don’t need this crap. See how it works. And now I only monitor other accounts. Now I'll show you which ones.
Alexei opens Instagram on a widescreen phone. “Here is Hugh Jackman, Miley Cyrus, Olga Buzova, Vlad Kadoni, Ksenia Borodina, Madonna, AC / DC, many other stars, TIMES edition, Arkady Novikov and his delicious food photos ... art accounts, ideas from which I use for decoration Houses. I also subscribe to stores with vinyl records - I have more than three thousand in my collection ... "
“It’s already evening, and are you sitting here on Instagram?”, - Natalya Varvina, the wife of the general producer, enters the office of the general producer.
I showed Anya who I subscribed to. Here Natasha maintains her blog, and, perhaps, on its basis, we will conduct a joint one for fun. Go to restaurants and leave video reviews.
And when you are frayed in public, do you read?
-Of course not! There was a time, I even answered, but now I forbade myself and my wife too. This meaningless activity is very addictive, and you begin to live in a reality that does not exist.
NATALIA VARVINA:
≪SORRY THAT MOTHER DID NOT HAVE TIME TO GET TO KNOW LESHA≫
Natasha, when her husband announced his departure to the TV project staff, he assured that you made the decision together.
Alexey: she is my wife, of course, she influenced! At one point, we realized that we were chatting about work at home almost all the time. I woke up one day and said “that's it, I'm leaving”, life went differently - we found time for personal communication, walking with the dog ...
Natasha, Alex didn't offer you to stay?
Natalia: It was absolutely obvious to me that I was leaving for my husband. Like him, so do I. Moreover, we left for the sake of the family - why should I stay and not see Lesha.
Aleksey: Two, as one whole - the concept of "HOUSE-2", where one - there and the second. What is she to do here without me?
Natalia: Nothing. When you said your farewell speech, you assured that you were not going to get in touch for six months.
A: It is. I want to rest. Are you sure you won't remember for half a year?
A .: This is a property of character and mind: I will throw anything out of my head in a day.
How are your friends from work?
A .: Nastya and Lekha Kobozev, Ksenia with Kurban, Rastorguev, Kadoni - everyone will stay! Where without them? If you are talking about whether it will be painful to communicate with them - no, it will not. This is how my brain works.
N .: I'm the same - I took over from my husband.
What else do you learn from your spouse?
N: Kindness. He is an infinitely kind person. He is tolerant of everyone. And I'm more aggressive and sharp. So I agree: when I came to work on the project, everyone told me: "Aleksey Nikolaevich is a good policeman."
A: What is kindness? You can't just be unreasonably kind to everyone like Prince Mouse. Still, kindness is a method. My method!
N .: Oh, now you will assure us that you are an evil genius and cunningly invent everything. Woland is right.
A .: Well, that's when I left you at one moment - was I kind?
N: No. And why did you even remind me of this?
A .: I mean that all people are made up of different things. In addition to good, there are also flowers of evil. It is important that you grow more in yourself, which part of the garden you water more often.
You, Alexey, what did you learn from your wife?
A .: I am learning from her to be kinder and more happy with what is around us, to hear each other more! In general, the right relationship is when you strive to perceive important things on the one hand, to hear each other. Some may understand a partner for the rest of their lives by only 25%. We have so far managed to increase this figure to 50%. And it looks 100%.
That doesn't happen. People in general tend to think out, to twist. What to say about women who think differently. It needs to be clarified. And often Alexei asks you if he understood everything correctly?
N.: No
A .: In family life, this is not the case. Here sometimes everything is in silence, glances, tactile sensations
≪THE HOME IS BETTER…≫
-Do you often quarrel?
N .: Of course, we quarrel. But we quickly put up, because we understand that these were emotions.
A .: Many couples troll each other, bring to emotions, violently swear, and then violently reconcile. We don't. But I do not blame anyone - they want pleasure. Everyone in life strives for pleasure.
What is your thrill? Travel, judging by your flights.
A .: Our buzz is in ourselves! Being next to each other, and where is not so important!
N .: We have all cruises with romantic overtones, because we always travel together. Sometimes we meet friends who have a rest in the same city, and sometimes my mother flies with us.
A .: Traditionally, we fly to Paris for Natashkin's birthday. But this year we missed it, sorry. We'll make sure to catch up.
Where do you want to return?
A: On the sofa. To the dog and serials.
N .: We love to watch new items in an embrace.
A .: Natasha reviewed the entire "Doctor House", "Desperate Housewives", "The Big Bang Theory". I like more about naturalness, such a real one - "True Detective", "Ray Donovan", "13 Reasons Why?".
You talk so smoothly, they say, do not immediately put up, do not bring each other up. But still, Natasha, surely there is something in your husband that pisses you off?
A .: Now he will say that he gets up in the morning, and the whole kitchen is in crumbs, because I ate at night.
N .: Well, I'm not mad about this anymore. My dad taught me the rule “where you got it from - put it there”, but Lesha does not adhere to this.
A .: We just have a different idea of \u200b\u200border. By the way, here's what else infuriates her: I think that you can walk around the apartment in shoes. When you forget something, you don't have to take off your shoes - the floors will withstand everything.
N .: I just wash these floors. Moreover, I am ready to run, take off my shoes and bring, but he still stomps in his boots.
A .: Now I will wash the floors. Yes, and never refused.
N .: And I, fool, never asked you.
A .: Laughter, laughter, but I want to say: I found that person who seemed to have always been there. I am comfortable.
Didn't you have a lap?
A .: There was a feeling that everything had been like that all my life. In its place.
N .: I was alone for a very long time, but I was always sure: “mine” - it will come. And now I’m sitting here, as in that very picture “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears” and I think “how long I have been looking for you” ... It’s a pity that my mother didn’t have time to meet Lesha - she would really like him!
A .: Natasha has an ideal relationship with my mother.
N .: I call her “mom”, and Lesha my dad - “dad”.
- You knew him from the project. And how did he know about your transition from producer to fiancé?
A .: Yes, we just stood on the street, smoked, and he says “Lech, really?”. I answer yes. And that's all.
≪FAMILY LAW≫
Do you have a clear separation between home and work? Is it difficult to exist as a boss-subordinate?
A .: My mother once explained to me that generosity is one of the main male virtues! Therefore, we do not have quarrels due to the fact that “dinner is not ready”.
N .: He rarely praises me, but I need encouragement. In fact, we argue, but these are creative moments - there's nothing to worry about.
Do you get up at the same time and go to work together?
N: No. Sometimes I may not know where Alexei Nikolaevich is. Sometimes we can have breakfast together, and then part for the day.
A .: But the weekend is sacred. In winter, we go skiing in the park, and in summer, we ride bicycles. N .: We also go to the sports club together.
A .: The song will tell everything about us. Now I'll turn on the track that I gave Natasha - it's about our whole life.
Natasha finds the song “I Love You Anyway” on her phone, which Alexey wrote and sang especially for her.
N .: Here every line has subtext! Here, for example: “I didn’t buy cream, it means I won’t pour coffee, but I still love you,” it’s about the fact that sometimes I forget to buy it for him, but he doesn’t swear at me. Lesha gave me a song for 35 years. Just turned it on in the morning. I burst into tears, and then again, and again.
Well, the husband, like a real producer, knows how to surprise.
N .: Yes, we joked: when he forgets to give compliments, you just need to listen to the song.
You said that, after leaving DOMA-2, you were planning to start a family project. Reveal the plan.
A .: The family is the big and most important thing that a man should come to! This is home, and love, and, of course, children. It's for life. We dream of children. In the movie The Godfather, Don Corleone says "if a man pays little attention to his family, he is not a real man." So, it's time to get real!
