Behind the scenes - Boris Hook ...

In the winter of 1991, Russian viewers saw on their screens an uninhibited game show "Love at First Sight" - a Russian version of the English TV game Love at first sight. Her presenter were the smiling Alla Volkova and the detailed Boris Hook. Even then, the country noticed that joking and improvising in front of the camera, this chubby strong-eyed in glasses can be great. But very few people knew that the charming Hook more specialized in intellectual games, rather than on romantic shows. A year before the release of this program, he developed a scenario of a youth brainstorming tournament called "Brain Ring", was to become its host. Teenager Boris Kryuk, along with Vladimir Voroshilov, lived in the wheelhouse of the presenter in the famous intellectual casino "What? Where? When?". At the beginning of the new millennium, he became the leader of this fascinating and gambling television program.

Something from the biography

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

My mother dreamed that Borya learned from a doctor, but he chose a technical college, although he was always, as admitted, a pure humanist. Just a teacher of literature, which put the deuce for independent thinking, completely repulsed the hunt for humanitarian subjects. After graduating from school, Hook entered the University. Bauman, was educated as an engineer. From the technical profession, Boris left immediately after the pre-diploma practice. Now it is obvious that he was destined to work in the depths of the television studio, where he spent all his childhood.

The dealer of an intelligent casino

His parents Natalia Stetsenko (TV director) and Alexander Kryuk (builder) dispersed when Boris was about four years old. Mom again married - for Vladimir Voroshilov, "uncomfortable" and ingenious director, who worked, like her, on television. Together they came up with the game "What? Where? When? ", Which appeared on the blue screens in the fall of 1975. Voroshilov long remained incognito, viewers and participants of the program heard only his voice. This became a peculiar highlight of the program, although it was dictated by the censorship of the television leadership. When in 2001, after the death of Voroshilov, the voice of an invisible announcer came from the leader's chopping, all were stunned: the resemblance in timbre and manner of conducting the game was striking. So Boris Kriuk became the successor and author of the program. The photo and recording of the program, where it can be seen in the frame, appeared later - in 2008.

Childhood on the other side of the screen

Little Boris was a witness of the filming, and in some places a participant of the most popular Soviet programs: "This is you can" (at 4 years old), "Ah well, guys" (at 5 years old). In 10 years he played on the side of viewers in "What? Where? When? "(His question fell to the experts in the very first game). At the age of 12, he came up with the rule of excluding the loser from the club. As a student, Boris Kriuk worked on this transfer as an assistant director. In 1989, Boris became a staff member of the Youth Editorial Office of the Central Television, and then - first deputy general director of the TV Company "Game-TV" and vice-president of the International Association of Clubs "What? Where? When? ", Where he is the deputy of his mother Natalya Ivanovna. If Hook is asked about "blat", he cites the example of Ford and the Rockefellers and notes that business dynasties around the world achieve success precisely because their members can rely on each other in everything.

Mysterious voice

First broadcasts "What? Where? When? "After Voroshilov looked like a detective. Hook, as all used to, came to the shooting in jeans and a sweater, to the very beginning scurried among people, preparing the studio for airtime. At this time, Voroshilov's Jaguar was brought to a television studio by a stranger in a black tuxedo (this was Vladimir Yakovlevich's cousin), and he immediately went to the announcer's. In the very last moment before the game, Boris came there. The hoax was supported by computer voice processing, proposed by Konstantin Ernst. All this was necessary in order not to bring down the psychological attitude of experts before the game. Not soon the viewers of the television show learned that the real presenter is Boris Hook.

Personal life

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

In addition to intellectual contests, Boris Hook is passionately fond of football, which only helps him improve the intellectual show, whose horse he has long and successfully saddled.