Many people know who Vasily Utkin is. Some recognize his voice while watching a football match, others are looking forward to the release of the program in which he will take part. There are also viewers who openly do not like him for his harshness and intemperate remarks during interviews.

But the fact that Vasily Utkin is a popular personality is difficult to dispute. How did the showman become famous?

Childhood and adolescence

He was born in 1972, in Balashikha, very much. His father is a physicist who devoted his whole life to science. Mom worked as a doctor. He has an older sister.

Vasily liked to study the humanities. He enjoyed writing essays and loved to reason and debate in literature classes.

After school, Vasily Utkin entered the capital's pedagogical university at the department of philology. The student's height was almost 2 meters. He was always the center of attention. True, he did not become a certified specialist, dropping out of his studies in the 4th year after failing the exam.

Carier start

In 1992, by a stroke of luck, Utkin became the editor of a political program called “Politburo.” It was an original project. For young Vasily, working in a team among professionals was a wonderful start. He learned a lot from watching how panelists behaved on set. A year later the project was closed. Vasily Utkin worked for another two years at the VID company, but in 1994 he decided to switch to a new channel - NTV. He was hired as the host of a sports program dedicated to football. He told TV viewers about football matches, interviewed players and their coaches. The journalist conducted one of his first reports while at the game between Dynamo Tbilisi and Torpedo Moscow.

In 1997, after a scandalous story about coach O. Rumyantsev, Utkin began to be ignored by the players of FC Spartak. The journalist spoke incorrectly about their coach. And it was not ignored.

Soon his program was closed, citing a drop in ratings and fatigue of the presenter himself. Sports commentator Vasily Utkin was forced to look for a new job.

Activities in new directions

In 2000, a journalist was attacked. In the morning, on the way to work, a man ran into Utkin and stuck a screwdriver in his back. The sharpening did not affect the organs, but only injured the muscle. It was never determined who hit the journalist.

At this time, he worked as a commentator for the World and European Championships, and wrote articles for Soviet Sport. In 2004 he was recognized as the best in his field and received the TEFI television award.

Vasily Utkin decided to develop in new directions. He was interested in offers to work in entertainment programs. He was the host of many projects on different channels, including the show “Hunger”, the “Wall to Wall” project, and the “Earth-to-Air” program. Later he appeared in the television game “What? Where? When?”, and was also one of the jury members in KVN.

Acting talent

Vasily Utkin also tried his hand at cinema. In the film “Election Day” he appeared as a candidate for governor. In 2010, he was invited to star in another film called “What Men Talk About.” The film is comedic and philosophical at the same time.

Personal life

Vasily Utkin is not yet married. His personal life is not going well. In 2003, he took part in the program “School of Scandal.” During filming, I met a wonderful girl and began to court her. The journalist even planned to propose to her. But the romantic meetings ended with the lover soon announcing that they needed to leave.

Vasily Utkin suffered a breakup for a long time. Personal life did not work out even after. He never found his one and never tied the knot with anyone. As it turns out, unhappy love is not a disaster. In one interview, the journalist admitted that he stopped suffering immediately after the apartment was robbed. The fact that his cross was stolen was much more upsetting. But at that same moment he realized that a new stage of life was beginning.

Conflict with Tina Kandelaki

The fact that Vasily Utkin is one of the most scandalous showmen has been known for a long time. He never looked for the correct words and expressed everything he thought to his opponent in a far from flattering form. This happened this time too.

In 2015, another scandal involving his participation broke out. And a dispute arose with Tina Kandelaki almost immediately after her appointment to the position of general producer of the Match-TV channel. The conflict flared up quickly. As a result, after exchanging unkind comments, Utkin announced that he was leaving the channel and believed that working under Tina’s leadership was humiliating for him.

Vasily Vyacheslavovich Utkin. Born on March 6, 1972 in Balashikha, Moscow region. Russian sports journalist and television commentator, host of the “Football Club” program, television and radio presenter, showman, actor.

Father - Vyacheslav Nikolaevich, physicist.

Mother - Natalya Igorevna, doctor.

Has a sister Anna, she is an engineer.

As a child, I was fond of books. His favorite author was the famous British naturalist Gerald Durrell. As a teenager, Vasily even wrote him a letter, although he did not receive an answer.

From an early age he was an avid football fan. I supported Spartak (Moscow), Real (Madrid), Juventus (Turin). His favorite football player was.

Graduated from Balashikha school No. 2.

Then he completed four courses at the Faculty of Philology of the Moscow Pedagogical State University. IN AND. Lenin. Then I took academic leave so as not to go into the army. He never returned to school and did not receive a higher education diploma - he was carried away by the profession of a journalist.

Since 1992, he began working on television - he began as an editor in Alexander Politkovsky’s “Politburo” program. Then, until October 1993, he worked as a correspondent for the Red Square program.

He became widely known as a football commentator. In the period 1994-1999, 2000-2001 and 2004-2006 he hosted a popular program "Football club" on the NTV channel.

He himself recalled: “We at the Football Club, in a sense, staked out space and reclaimed it - sometimes from prejudice, sometimes from nature. Now it’s hard to imagine, but once upon a time there was no complete review of the Russian Championship round. We did it first. And with an incredibly crooked scheme, it helped us a lot that structurally we were part of the news. And since the structure of the news, it means that we could use the entire system of our own correspondents for the cities. First, we ensured that we had a review by the end of the week. We started broadcasting on Monday, and the review was already on Monday.”

According to Utkin, in 1999 the “Football Club” program on NTV was closed due to the intrigues of Savik Shuster. After this, Shuster was able to create his own football program “Third Half”.

In 1996-2015, he was a regular commentator on football broadcasts on NTV and NTV-Plus Sport television channels, mainly matches of the Spanish championship, the Russian Premier League and the Champions League. He conducted his first report in the fall of 1996 - he commented on the UEFA Cup match between Dynamo (Tbilisi) and Torpedo (Moscow).

Vasily Utkin has four UEFA Champions League finals to his credit (2000, 2001, 2004, 2011). He commentated on matches of the World and European Championships - in 2000 for NTV-Plus and the Ukrainian TV channel STB, in 2002 and 2008 for NTV-Plus. He also commentated on the Euro 2004 and 2006 World Cup matches for the Rossiya and Sport TV channels.

Winner of the TEFI Award in the category “Best Sports Commentator” in 2004 and 2005.

He has worked at a number of Olympic Games since 1996. From NTV and NTV-Plus, Utkin traveled to the Games in Atlanta, Nagano, Athens, Turin, Beijing and London. During the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, he commentated on the competition from Moscow and hosted the “Night Talk” program, during which he talked with an invited guest in the studio and answered phone calls from viewers.

In 1999, he was a sports columnist for the Kommersant newspaper. In 2001, he worked as editor of the “Sports” department of the newspaper “Gazeta”, at one time he was published in the “Weekly Journal”. He was a columnist for the newspaper “Soviet Sport” and the magazine “PROsport”.

Since 1999, he has acted as a guest of the “Football Club” program on radio “Echo of Moscow”. From the fall of 2008 to August 20, 2010, he hosted the analytical program “Morning Spread” on the same radio station, where various economic and socio-political issues were discussed. Until June 6, 2014, together with Anton Orech, he made the “Russian Bomber” program, intended as an evening “U-turn.”

From February 2005 to December 2012, he hosted the “Football Club” program on Friday evenings on the NTV-Plus Football channel, initially with Dmitry Fedorov, and since 2006 - independently. From 2006 to 2008, on a freelance basis, he commentated on some football broadcasts on the REN TV channel.

In 2004, he took part several times as a member of the jury of the KVN Major League.

In the 2000s, he began working as a host of entertainment shows - “Earth-Air” on the TV-6 channel, “Wall to Wall” on Channel One, “Hunger” on the TNT channel.

From the spring series of 2007 to the winter series of 2010, he was a member of Alexey Blinov’s team for the game “What? Where? When?".

Out of love for football, I met the members of Quartet I. At some point he offered him a role in a movie. Utkin said: “Well, Khait says: “There is one ridiculous person in the comedy, and Barats and I decided that you are ridiculous enough to try to play him.” I read the comedy, not understanding at all where to laugh, but rehearse with friends "Of course, I agreed." So he got into a popular project "Election Day", in which he played the role of gubernatorial candidate Igor Vladimirovich Tsaplin.

Vasily Utkin in the film "Election Day"

Later he starred in the films “What Men Talk About” and “Till Night Do Part.” And in 2015 a comedy was released "Election Day-2", in which his hero is still the same Igor Vladimirovich Tsaplin - already the current governor.

From September 1, 2010 to August 31, 2015, he was the editor-in-chief of sports television channels NTV-Plus.

In 2011, he decided to return to the Football Club and led the program until December 21, 2012. On March 4, 2013, he announced the closure of the program.

In 2012, Vasily Utkin, together with Yuri Rozanov, commentated on the Euro 2012 matches on the Ukrainian TV channel “Football”.

He signed open letters and appeals in support of Manana Aslamazyan’s Educated Media Foundation (formerly Internews), Svetlana Bakhmina, Oleg Kashin.

Vasily Utkin's height: 199 centimeters.

Personal life of Vasily Utkin:

Not married and never have been. Have no children.

In the early 2000s, he was in a relationship for four years with a girl whom he met in 2003 on the program “School of Scandal” by Tatyana Tolstaya and Dunya Smirnova. As Utkin said, he was even close to getting married. But it didn’t work out. He said: “We lived for almost four years, and then separated, contrary to my passionate desire to be together. And for the next few years I suffered terribly. We, the Utkins, are monogamous...” Later, his former lover married and gave birth to two sons. They have maintained good relations and continue to communicate.

In a recent interview, Utkin said that he does not have a life partner.

Attack on Vasily Utkin:

In 2001, an armed attack was carried out on Vasily Utkin - a sharpener was stuck in his back. The attacker was never found, just as he could not establish the reasons for the assassination attempt.

Vasily said: “Nothing foreshadowed. I left the house - it was my first rented apartment on Malaya Bronnaya, a man ran up to me and hit me in the back twice... I felt a sharp blow from my fist. It hurt, but the man had already run away, I thought: “Well, now,” and walked on. And I could have easily walked to work, because after the attack I walked half the street, but on Mayakovskaya, on the Garden Ring, near the house where the Volkonsky bakery is. , a man ran up to me: “There’s a knife sticking out of your back!” It flashed through my head: “Wow.” Now an office center was built opposite, and then there was an empty house for demolition. They took me there, sat me on a stool, and I called the editorial office - at that time I was working at the Gazeta newspaper: “ Guys, I’m sorry, I won’t come to the editorial board - they stuck a knife in my back.” My institute friend Misha Mikhailin, who was then the deputy editor of Gazeta, and now became the editor-in-chief of Kommersant, says: “The ambulance is about to arrive, but I’m flying straight to Sklif.”

After this attack, the commentator began to have problems with excess weight due to stress.

In 2014, a month and a half before the Olympic Games in Sochi Utkin lost 50 kilograms. Later I lost another 15 kg.

Filmography of Vasily Utkin:

2007 - Election Day - Igor Vladimirovich Tsaplin, candidate for governor
2010 - What men talk about - Vasily Utkin, special guest with smart thoughts
2012 - Until the night do us part - restaurant visitor
2015 - Election Day-2 - Igor Vladimirovich Tsaplin, current governor

Voiced by Vasily Utkin:

2009 - Peregrine Falcon (animated) - Duck, commentator

Bibliography of Vasily Utkin:

2008 - Play football! Notes from a sports commentator
2008 - Fuss around the ball. Notes from a sports commentator

Vasily Utkin is one of the famous sports journalists in the Russian Federation and is the most popular commentator of football matches. Popular among fans due to its clear presentation of information, sparkling humor and sports professionalism. He began his career with the program “Politburo” in 1992, then hosted the program “Football Club” on the NTV channel until 1999.

Since 1996, he has been the official sports commentator for the NTV+ channel. Many people do not realize that the man behind the scenes, a successful journalist and famous commentator, for a long time had a huge problem that he could not fight for a long time. This problem was called - overweight, and Utkin simply could not be fully happy with his enormous body weight.

How did Utkin lose weight?

Until July 2013, Vasily Utkin weighed 230 kilograms. The mass was so large even with the journalist’s two-meter height that his life became unbearable. In his interviews, he admitted that living with such a burden suddenly became terribly difficult.

It seemed impossible to get to Ostankino without an elevator, and the modest straight distance of 30 meters from the elevator to his own office was given to Utkin with several stops and shortness of breath, sweating increased, and his appetite was simply inhuman. Then the journalist realized that something had to be done and very urgently.

There are a lot of diets and newfangled remedies to get rid of excess weight. What exactly Utkin chose for himself, he is embarrassed to say.

In his opinion, any remedy is so individual that everyone must choose the right one for themselves:

• by willpower;
• for health;
• by the amount of weight you need to get rid of;
• by preferences in physical exercises;

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According to Vasily Utkin, his weight loss is divided into two stages. In the first, which lasted more than a month before the Winter Olympics began in Sochi in 2014, he was radical and tough with himself, keeping himself within limits and gritting his teeth towards his goal.

The result was not long in coming - about 50 kilograms. The second stage was less successful: after the end of the Games, he was able to lose 15 kilograms until July, and then in August 2015 by another 20.

One of the reasons that pushed Utkin to lose weight was severe health problems. The commentator's condition was so critical that he required surgery and specialist help.

During rehabilitation, he was forced to go on a diet, not eating fatty foods, and eat properly and balanced. Perhaps this was the first impetus for losing extra pounds.

Now Vasily Utkin weighs 135 kilograms, but if you think about the figure that was his body weight before, this is a huge difference, isn’t it?

How much should a sports journalist lose in order to regain shape and not feel inferior, not be ashamed of being overweight and lead a full healthy lifestyle? Calculating the parameters of height and weight, the norm for Utkin could be from 80 to 100 kilograms.

In the fight against excess weight, one can only envy Vasily’s perseverance, because looking at the before and after photographs of this man, it is very difficult to call the current journalist a fat man. Vasily Utkin can become a role model for everyone who dreams of losing weight, but just can’t muster the strength.

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The famous sports journalist Vasily Utkin was married more than 20 years ago, but hid his marriage from the public for a long time. The commentator tried to start a family with model Natalia Pakueva. After a series of troubles in family life, the couple broke up. According to Utkin, his ex-wife was the only love in his life.

“We met in a common company and started a relationship. This became a marriage because Natasha did not have a Russian passport - she was the daughter of a military man and was not born in Russia. At some point I said, “Marry me.” It was a very modest wedding, we stayed together for a little over a year, but we lived together in fits and starts - there was no apartment, nothing. At the same time, it was a normal relationship, we loved each other, but pretty soon we realized that we had to leave - and we got divorced,” said Vasily.

According to the journalist, he met Natalia at work. The girl ignored Utkin’s advances for a long time, but soon gave up. “I fought her off, and for quite a long time. She loves tulips very much and immediately said: I don’t need to give flowers, I only love tulips. And then there was a belief that tulips only come in spring. I lived on Patrick Street, there was a flower shop nearby, where I met the manager. I knew: once a week a shipment arrives from Holland. I started ordering, and once a week they brought me tulips, including ones that no one had ever seen here - with pimples, with teeth. Among other things, one of my good friends was in love with her, with whom I then ruined my relationship for a whole year,” shared Vasily.

Utkin noted that the relationship soon began to collapse. In his opinion, mutual claims led to separation. But the journalist tried several times to return his beloved.

“I have a large number of friends, friends of friends - I generally consider this my greatest capital. I have a friend Dima Ivanov, who owns the Gorki restaurant. The guys from Quartet I were very friends with the Agatha Christie group. And she really loved the Agatha Christie group. I rented the Gorki restaurant - I paid the lowest price for it - it was Monday, but I paid. But the Samoilov brothers did not take money from me. I talked to the elder, he said: “What money? A man must help a man,” Utkin recalled.

After the surprise, the lovers reunited, but soon separated again. Natalia met another man. Her chosen one was the famous CSKA football player Sergei Ignashevich, the model married him. Utkin had a hard time with the breakup, because he commented on the matches in which Ignashevich played. The showman ate away at the mental pain.

“I hardly eat sweets. If I also ate sweets, I would have burst. I'm just one of those stress eaters. Well, of course, he drank for a while,” the commentator noted.

Today Utkin admits that he is used to living alone, he doesn’t want to fall in love anymore and start a family. “Not everyone is so lucky with their wife. Not only this can discipline. Myself, for example. In a situation where I was left without work, with my habits, any normal person would drink himself to death. This didn't happen to me. I am sitting now and finishing my last glass of beer - quite possibly the last one in the entire next six months. And exclusively for the company - so a very busy year awaits me,” Utkin said in an interview with Sports.ru.

Vasily Utkin has long been known not only as a sports commentator, but also as an inveterate debater. Many regard his provocative statements as offensive, clashing with Vasily in brilliant verbal duels.

Vasily himself is a very interesting and versatile person. He proved himself in many areas of activity. True, the personal life of the famous commentator has not yet developed.

He had a girlfriend and the relationship was even quite serious - things were moving towards a wedding. But she, without explanation, suddenly changed her mind, leaving Vasily sad and broken-hearted. He was sad for a long time.

Rumor has it that he even became addicted to gambling in order to get rid of thoughts of a difficult breakup from his head, and then Vasily was incredibly lucky - he won $30,000 in a casino in one night!

After thinking about it the next day, he decided to use this money to buy himself a house and quit gambling. Risk, as we know, is a noble cause, but this incident shocked Vasily too much.

Recently, the Russian media has been especially active in discussing the scandal between Vasily and Tina Kandelaki. The press actively discussed every word thrown at each other by opponents.

But suddenly Vasily disappeared. He was not visible on screens for several long months.

And here's some good news: Vasily Utkin appeared in public for the first time after an open conflict with Tina Kandelaki. And the public immediately noticed that Vasily, who regularly boasts about his success in losing weight, is in relatively good shape!

“The problem with my remaining weight loss is completely different. It has absolutely nothing to do with drinking alcohol or anything else. And what can we say about this? Who cares about my weight but me? Everyone? No one. This doesn’t even interest you - you put my fat photos everywhere. No others? They could send a photographer,” Vasily said in an interview.