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Igor Bogdanoff in Belgrade in 2010.
The two emblematic brothers of French television will be dead within days of each other. Igor Bogdanoff died on Monday, at the age of 72, six days following his twin brother Grichka. The two brothers, who were not vaccinated, were admitted in mid-December to the Georges Pompidou European hospital in Paris following contracting the Covid.
“In peace and love, surrounded by his children and his family, Igor Bogdanoff left for the light on Monday January 3, 2022”, wrote his relatives in a message sent by his agent.
The family did not wish to communicate on the causes of the death of Igor Bogdanoff, which occurred Monday followingnoon in a Parisian hospital. Her twin brother, Grichka, died on December 28, following several days of hospitalization and a coma. There too, the family did not wish to communicate on the causes of his death, but relatives had assured that he was not vaccinated and that he had died of Covid-19.
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Science-fiction
The two brothers had made themselves famous in the 1980s with their science fiction show “Temps X” on TF1. A popular science program, in which the duo were dressed in futuristic suits in a spaceship setting. Igor and Grichka had subsequently become the object of mockery for their deeply transformed faces, which they themselves described as “aliens”. Authors of several scientific works, the two brothers had attracted a lot of controversy and the wrath of part of the scientific community, criticizing the “low value” of their work.
The twins have been discreet in recent years, in addition to a few appearances on some television sets. Recently, they had considered relaunching their flagship program Temps X with the Canal group. An ambition thwarted by a legal case: the two were accused of having defrauded a millionaire suffering from bipolar disorder and under guardianship to settle their financial woes and carry out their project. Returned in January to correctional for “fraud”, the trial was to take place on January 20, 21 and 27, 2022.
In 2002, Libé painted their portrait to read here.