On Sunday, the “Dancing on Ice” project with the participation of Russian stars figure skating, sports, television and show business. A project that, according to statistical data, attracted about 75% of the viewing audience from the adult population of Russia. The project that “made” its competitors in popularity is Channel One with its “Stars on Ice”. Not a sport, but... Naturally, “Dancing on Ice” (as well as “Stars on Ice”) is not at all a discovery of domestic television people. As in the vast majority of cases, the license to stage the show was purchased by our TV personalities from their foreign colleagues. At the same time, the two leading channels disagreed on issues of directing the show. “Russia” launched its project first, making it more popular, closer to the original idea - to show viewers in real time how people who have never practiced figure skating before (only a crazy person would believe this, but still) by the end of the project They become almost professionals. It also played a role that “Russia” did not turn the show into a sport and outright pathos; the presenters did not perform fourth-level lifts and unique spins in front of the cameras, but simply stood without skates and were real presenters, and not reading text from a piece of paper (or on the video board) as sports cyborgs. In general, of course, “First” surpassed its competitors in “stardom,” but the ratings stubbornly showed that people liked the show on “Russia” more. The omnipresent Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, details of whose personal life can be found out daily from newspapers, and experienced Yuri Nikolaev. Chronicle of "departures" The details of the lives of twenty project participants were studied by the entire country once a week for almost two months. I watched the falls, quarrels, tears, swearing, and painstaking work on the set. This was enough time to form an opinion on how the places would be distributed for the final round. Butyrskaya and Galanin immediately looked like outsiders - it was obvious that the partners had no desire to skate together. The musician didn’t really want to learn to skate, and the figure skater was clearly offended by the organizers because they gave her Galanin, and not Krasilov or Lazarev. However, it was not Butyrskaya and Galanin who were eliminated first. After the first round, Usova and Kalnins left the project. It was difficult for the older actor to become an ice pro, and he ended up injuring his knee during one of the training sessions. In the first round, Kalnins found the strength to skate, but refused further participation in the project. In the second round, Lada Dance and Vazgen Azroyan left Dancing on Ice. It was difficult for the partner with his oversized partner, who was never able to really learn to skate, although at the gala concert she did everything possible and sang while skating. Finally, in the third round, the judges and spectators got rid of Butyrskaya and Galanin. At the gala concert, the figure skater said that she considered her main merit to be the fact that she taught the musician to skate without outside help. “He became a good singles player, but as a couple we didn’t succeed,” Maria emphasized. Then Dogileva and Urmanov left. But they left not because they weren’t skating well (although they weren’t skating like crazy), but because their partner didn’t have enough health and time. Spectators and judges, with some kind of masochism, regularly gave the couple high marks. Apparently, they liked the way Urmanov twisted Dogileva. At the same time, we should not forget that Alexey is still an Olympic champion in single skating, and not in pairs or ice dancing. In general, the actress asked to be spared from participating in the project, and her request was granted. Azarova and Platov were the next to leave the show. The most spectacular couple of the project was initially an irritant for the judges, although the audience supported them with all their might. Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Elena Tchaikovskaya, who sat on the jury, regularly accused Anna of not showing any desire to learn something, although it was clear that Azarova was trying very hard. Perhaps the impartial jury had certain instructions that were clearly and steadily followed. Then the noticeably depressed Arthur Dmitriev and Lika Kremer, who was in excellent shape, left the project. We left in a rather disappointing manner, because we were skating great. The fact is that after the next round of the project they were nominated for elimination along with the Lazarev-Grebenkina pair, and the judges did not dare to give preference to someone, giving this right to the audience in the hall. They were not at all embarrassed by the mistakes that Sergei and Anastasia made, as a result of which Arthur and Lika turned from participants into spectators. Of the remaining four couples, Selina and Kazakova had the least chances. The partner and partner had a quarrel during filming and were not too eager to continue participating. It also had an effect that Celine fell ill at the most crucial moment. In general, it all ended with Dukalis not taking to the ice, and Kazakova saying goodbye to the audience with a single dance. There were three finalists left, whose fate was decided by fans and judges. The audience learned the choice of the judges, who put Lazarev and Grebenkina in first place, Krasilov and Grischuk in second place, and Chashchina and Goncharov in third place. Scandalous ending However, this choice was very conditional, since by the end of the project the judges in the persons of Elena Chaikovskaya, Irina Moiseeva, Andrei Minenkov, Igor Bobrin and Nikolai Tsiskaridze lost their voting rights. Everything had to be decided by voting in the form of SMS and phone calls from viewers. No one found out the details of this vote - Zavorotnyuk and Nikolaev simply announced the results as a given, and that’s all. In general, Chashchina and Goncharov remained third, and Krasilov and Grischuk were ahead of Lazarev and Grebenkina. After the end of the show, its participants began to sort things out. It’s as if the winner was known from the first days of the project, since Grischuk allegedly signed a contract to participate only on the condition that she would become the winner. It turned out that Pyotr Krasilov was seriously involved in figure skating at one time and was not an amateur, unlike Galanin and Selin. However, God bless them with scandals. It seems to me that the main result of Dancing on Ice was that the popularity of figure skating in the country has grown. And if Kostya Tszyu had also been invited to filming, the rating would have been simply prohibitive! (Kostya, we recall, was a finalist in the show “Dancing with the Star” in Australia.)

Filming for the first Dancing On Ice show began late on Thursday and didn't finish until late into the night. By this time, many participants were already collapsing from fatigue - rehearsals began at 11 am. Tatyana Dogileva, having trained, simply lay down on the side of the skating rink and did not even take off her skates.

By the way, at the dress rehearsal, all eight couples saw each other’s performances for the first time: until now they had skated at different venues and “secret” their performances. And then, naturally, they began to compare the performances with those of others and became nervous.

Sergei Galanin and Maria Butyrskaya had the most artistic performance. And this despite the fact that Galanin did not train at all for about two weeks, having received a knee injury! The picture was blurred by Maria's mistake. She did all the jumps and spins perfectly, and quite simple element, when Galanin had to drag it between his legs, the blade caught on the ice and got stuck... However, the couple was on the safe side. Their performance was based on the fact that their partner didn’t even know how to skate. So the error could be attributed to a planned one.

Two pairs of participants skated best: Pyotr Krasilov with Oksana Grischuk and Sergey Lazarev with Anastasia Grebenkina. Both pairs scored the same number of points, and in both cases the judges did not skimp on the “sixes”. Tatyana Dogileva also performed very well, she was terribly worried and for some reason was sure that she would end up in last place. Together with partner Alexey Urmanov, they found themselves in the middle of the results table. Ivar Kalnins, the oldest participant in the show, did not lose face. She and Maya Usova didn’t do any complicated elements; their number turned out to be simple, but romantic. And the last place went to Lada Dance paired with Vazgen Azroyan.

Just like Dancing with the Stars on the floor, the scores given to the contestants by the judges are not final. Viewer voting will begin immediately after the broadcast on Sunday. The vote of the people given for each pair will be added to the judges' scores. Whoever ends up with the fewest points will be eliminated from the show. But viewers will learn about this only next Saturday.

On what basis were grades given?

Judging in Dancing on Ice has nothing to do with judging in figure skating, where everything from appearance and ending with jumping approaches, sliding, and skating speed. The judges of “Dancing” are well aware that the participants in the show are amateurs, so they evaluate first of all the performance shown. And, of course, those elements of figure skating that the competitors were at least able to master.

And for each performance, participants are given two simple elements to “learn.” Every couple is required to include them in their number. But here, too, the judges evaluate not how the element was performed from the point of view of professional sports, but who was able to cope with the task better. By the way, precisely in order to emphasize the “breadth of views” of the jury, Nikolai Tsiskaridze was called as a judge, who has nothing to do with figure skating and can evaluate the performance of the contestants only from the point of view of choreography. Similarly, in the English “Dancing on Ice” on the BBC channel, there was one lay judge among the jury members.

P.S. Read an interview with one of the participants in the show “Dancing on Ice,” actor Sergei Selin (series “Streets of Broken Lights”), as well as other details of the television project in “KP” on Monday, August 21.

Who are the judges

The chairman of the jury is Elena Tchaikovskaya, Honored Figure Skating Coach of the USSR and a choreographer by training. She trained famous dance duets: Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov, Natalya Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov.

Jury members:

Irina Moiseeva and Andrey Minenkov. Husband and wife won the world championships twice in the 70s.

Igor Bobrin. Also a figure skater, European champion in men's single skating in 1981, he now runs an ice theater together with his wife Natalya Bestemyanova.

Nikolai Tsiskaridze. The only “non-ice” person on the jury is a star of the Bolshoi Theater ballet.

Today a section dedicated to “Dancing on Ice” has opened on the KP website:

Yesterday I had fun, went to the filming of the show “Dancing on Ice”. It was fun.

The whole thing took place at some kind of, I suspect, aviation plant - there are airplanes painted everywhere, a plant not far from the Airport metro station. There is a crowd of people in front of the barrier - half by invitation, half without. It turned out that anyone was allowed there, knowledgeable about the place and time. I’m not sure that this will last until the end of the show, because it will know, after all, half of Moscow.

The start was scheduled for 9 pm, but when have we ever started anything on time!? In Ostankino, all the studios are scheduled minute by minute, but here the entire huge hangar is at the complete disposal of one program, so filming began after half past ten.

This hangar was filled with a skating rink, 2-3 times smaller in size than the one on which figure skaters usually skate. On one side of the ice sit the spectators and the jury, on the other there are filming equipment and court photographers. Spectators were categorically forbidden to take pictures - neither with a photo nor with a video camera, warning that they would stop filming and take them out, and they promised to reward anyone who “whistles” on a neighbor who is trying to commit an illegal act with a photograph with their favorite star from among those present. No one received the prize.

There was also strict ban to mobile calls, and, surprisingly, for three hours there was not a single signal! And the last warning from the filming administrator was: “Take the gum out of your mouth and stick it on your neighbor.” It's a joke. The guards also suffered, who were ordered to ensure that “not a single person stood in the aisles, including you (the guards).” Then it was the turn of the applause rehearsal - well, this is always the case on the set of all kinds of shows. This quite surprises me. Because normal people react normally to everything without rehearsals.

Then the jury and presenters came out to the same applause: The beautiful nanny Nastya Zavorotnyuk, all in turquoise, and the pretty gray Morning Star - Yu. Nikolaev. The coaches were introduced - Bukin and Bestemyanova, who skated a small and not too difficult number. And then all the participants came out. Of the ten, only 9 pairs remained - Kalnynsh-Usova dropped out due to injury.

I didn’t watch the program on air, so everything was new to me. I also didn’t know that everyone was given the task of preparing a new dance within a week with costumes and including a mandatory element - a cross-roll.

The pairs performed out of order. The first were Dogileva and Urmanov. So I can imagine what it’s like at the very beginning! Tatyana was so touching, although rather helpless, for which she received almost the lowest score. The worst performer was the one last pair– Lika Dance and Arthur Dmitriev. If fate has deprived a person of a sense of plasticity, nothing can be done - the dance turns into antics, and the smooth movements of the hands into waving sticks.

I won’t describe who did what and how, what they received, all this will be broadcast on Saturday. But most of all I liked the Krasilov-Grischuk couple - they did everything so well, both technically and artistically. And also Lazarev and Grebenkina, who skated onto the ice in “swallows” - it’s hard to believe that the singer started skating only a month ago.

The jury, in general, was not stingy with its marks. It is curious that the assessments of the “non-ice” person Kolya Tsiskaridze often coincided with the assessments of the great figure skating coach Elena Tchaikovskaya. And she noted support from one couple that she would recommend using for professionals. The jury was constantly asked to comment on their decisions, and it was quite monotonous and boring. I hope that during editing the boredom will go away. Nastya Zavorotnyuk tried to joke all the time, when the jokes were personal, you could somehow laugh, but when she voiced what they were prompting in her ear, she felt sorry for her. But on the other hand, the romance she played out with Tsiskaridze, due to the lack of action between the jury and the participants, threatens to move from the television screen (if it is left on the air) to the pages of the yellow press.

In short, the project is quite successful and spectacular, and sometimes even exciting live. But I can’t imagine how the program will be filmed when, for example, there are only three participants left - yesterday it all ended at half past one in the morning.

Yes, yes, I know that there should be a letter “b” in front of the title, this is what makes this TV project famous, that if you make a post about who is there, with whom and how, then I will never finish this post (especially since at least one post about it here already).

But I wanted to make a post not only about so-called novels. The fact is that, to be honest, I watched the first couple of seasons avidly. Then, of course, I got tired of it:) and then I was no longer on the ice, or in the circus, or with the tower, or wherever else they were - such projects did not interest me. But about figure skating I was captivated then because I had been an FC fan since childhood. She was rooting for Viktor Petrenko, was in love with Phillip Candeloro, cut out articles about Katya Gordeeva from Pioneer Pravda, admired Evgeny Platov, worried about Ilya Averbukh and admired Evgeni Plushenko (whatever).

In general, the idea of ​​the project – to take all sorts of celebrities and “cross” them with outstanding figure skaters – was interesting to me. But there have been so many of these projects since 2006 that I will be tired of describing them, and you will have to read them. Therefore, I just want to recall a little the most interesting couples and memorable performances. And if I don’t remember anything and didn’t watch, just champions. So, let's go.

“Stars on Ice” (ORT, 2006)

The first project of this kind, mega-successful, it was there that Navka got involved with Basharov, and they became the winners of the project. It was after this project that I understood the basic scheme: this is a TV show, therefore, this is not a sport. The jury praises almost everyone. 6:0 are distributed left and right, anyone can sit on the jury (like Gennady Khazanov or Nikolai Baskov) and evaluate the artistry, if in a pair there is a male figure skater, he will drag his partner across the ice (good, if she is not too big and old, great if she is beautiful), if on the contrary, the skater will circle around him, and he will try not to fall and win with charm and artistry. Yes, if one of the celebrities played sports as a child, this is a big plus, but if it’s FC, he will hide it until the last moment in order to surprise everyone. And age and general physical fitness are also very important. Subsequently, there were such anecdotal participants that I don’t know why they were called at all...

Everything was already like that here.

The winner was the pair Tatyana Navka - Marat Basharov. Here's their star dance.

And I really remember the couple that took second place - Alexander Zhulin - Ingeborga Dapkunaite. They had really very interesting programs, and I liked Zhulin, he seemed very charismatic. Even before this post, I thought that they took first place, but it turned out that they took second.

In general, in this project, because it is the first, I remember all the couples, I remember how insulting it was that Lesha Yagudin was given this sad aunt Oksana Pushkin, with this they automatically deprived him of a chance to a good place. I remember how good Anna Semenovich looked on the ice; I really began to respect her after this project.

Here are all the participants by final scores

1.T. Navka - M. Basharov
2.I. Dapkunaite – A. Zhulin
3.A. Bolshova – A. Tikhonov
4.O. Pushkin - A. Yagudin
5.E. Guseva – R. Kostomarov
6.M. Petrova – I. Butman
7.Yu. Barsukova – A. Sikharulidze
8.I. Lobacheva - V. Syutkin
9. A. Semenovich - V. Razbegaev

"glacial period" (ORT, 2007)

RTR messed up its show “Dancing on Ice”, so the project was renamed. Since then, both shows have exchanged skaters and presenters (it happened that famous couples competed separately on different channels). However, the ORT project was much more popular, this can be seen even on YouTube, and I barely found anything about RTR, let alone about LP. And I didn’t even look at the second one, I just wasn’t looking at it enough anymore.

What do I remember from this? Anastasia Volochkova went to Anton Sikharulidze, it was a circus, but I won’t post the video. She's tired of her. And the winner was the pair Chulpan Khamatova - Roman Kostomarov. I was very happy for Roman that he got such a wonderful partner, Chulpan captivated me - light, small, very artistic, it was a pleasure to look at them.

Here's their victory dance.

Chulpan Khamatova - Roman Kostomarov (coach Averbukh)
Tatiana Navka - Ville Haapasalo (coach Zhulin)
Alisa Grebenshchikova - Alexey Tikhonov (coach Averbukh), but Alexey gave his bronze medal to Mikhail Galustyan
Victoria Daineko - Alexey Yagudin
Margarita Drobyazko - Alexander Dyachenko
Anastasia Volochkova - Anton Sikharulidze
Larisa Verbitskaya - Povilas Vanagas
Maria Petrova - Mikhail Galustyan
Irina Lobacheva - Dmitry Maryanov
Anna Semenovich - Alexey Makarov

"Ice Age-2" (ORT, 2008)

There were also many interesting couples here (Maria Petrova was especially “lucky”, she is generally “lucky” in her partners, then she has Igor Butman, then Mikhail Galustyan, then Kostya Tszyu this time). Among the high-profile romances - it seems like Dmitry Maryanov started an affair with Irina Lobacheva.

The winners were the couple Egor Beroev - Ekaterina Gordeeva, and this is probably my favorite couple of these TV shows. They look very beautiful on the ice, Egor is just the man of my dreams, and Katya is a beauty. Although even at first glance you can see where in terms of skating level Katya, who has been in public all her life, and where Egor is. She made almost all the elements herself. But a beautiful couple. They wrote a lot about their romance, I’m not sure that it happened, but on the ice it certainly happened. I sometimes review their performances. I think this is a well-deserved victory. For example, this.

I really liked this couple, so I can’t resist putting on a few videos

More complete list:

Winners

Ekaterina Gordeeva - actor Egor Beroev
Tatiana Navka - actor Vadim Kolganov

Finalist couples

actress Alena Babenko - Roman Kostomarov;
actress Ekaterina Strizhenova - Alexey Tikhonov;
Ekaterina Gordeeva - actor Egor Beroev;
actress Ksenia Alferova - Povilas Vanagas;
Margarita Drobyazko - actor Dmitry Miller;
actress Valeria Lanskaya - Alexey Yagudin;
Irina Lobacheva - actor Vladimir Shevelkov.
actress Olga Arntgolts (in the finale she replaced the pregnant Tatyana Arntgolts) - Maxim Stavisky;
singer Zhanna Friske - Maxim Marinin (Vitaly Novikov was unable to continue participating due to being busy);
Maria Petrova - boxer Konstantin Tszyu;
Tatiana Navka - actor Vadim Kolganov;
Irina Slutskaya - choreographer Gediminas Taranda.

"Ice Age-3" (ORT, 2009)

Yulia Kovalchuk - Roman Kostomarov won. I think Roman is lucky again with his partner. Yulia had previously won a similar TV show on RTR, and then calmly went to study on Channel One.

Tatyana Navka - actor Marat Basharov/actor Egor Beroev
Anna Semenovich - actor Vadim Kolganov
Margarita Drobyazko - actor Pyotr Krasilov
Elena Berezhnaya - showman Mikhail Galustyan
actress Valeria Lanskaya - Alexey Yagudin
actress Alisa Grebenshchikova - Maxim Stavisky
ballerina Anastasia Volochkova - Maxim Marinin
actress Alena Babenko - Alexey Tikhonov
Anzhelika Krylova - actor Vyacheslav Razbegaev
actress Anna Bolshova - Povilas Vanagas
singer Yulia Kovalchuk - Roman Kostomarov
Albena Denkova - jazzman Igor Butman
actress Ksenia Alferova - Pyotr Chernyshev
Irina Lobacheva - actor Dmitry Maryanov

Winners

singer Yulia Kovalchuk - Roman Kostomarov
actress Valeria Lanskaya - Alexey Yagudin
actress Alena Babenko - Alexey Tikhonov and actress Anna Bolshova - Povilas Vanagas

"Ice Age-4" (ORT, 2013)

I didn't watch it at all. Oksana Domnina - Vladimir Yaglych won, it seems they even had an affair.

Results:

1 O. Domnina - V. Yaglych
2 A. Tsoi - A. Tikhonov
3 L. Gryu - M. Marinin
4. A. Denkova - P. Kislov
5 T. Navka - A. Mikhalkov
K. Spitz - M. Stavisky
7 I. Medvedeva - P. Vanagas
8 M. Zykova - R. Kostomarov
9 Yu. Zimina - P. Chernyshev

And at this time, RTR started, as I said, its own project. I haven't watched it at all, but summary results I'll give you

"Dancing on Ice" (RTR, 2006)

Petr Krasilov - Oksana Grischuk won. Here is one of their performances.

Participants:

Anna Azarova - Evgeny Platov
Sergey Galanin - Maria Butyrskaya
Irina Chashchina – Ruslan Goncharov
Tatyana Dogileva - Alexey Urmanov
Sergey Lazarev - Anastasia Grebenkina
Pyotr Krasilov - Oksana Grischuk
Lika Kremer - Arthur Dmitriev
Lada Dance - Vazgen Azroyan
Sergey Selin - Oksana Kazakova

"Dancing on Ice. Velvet Season" (RTR, 2007)

Winners: Yulia Kovalchuk - Petr Chernyshev (well, you remember what I wrote above, a year or so ago!)

Participants:

Petr Dranga - Oksana Grischuk
Nikita Dzhigurda - Marina Anisina
Olga Brusnikina - Sergei Ponomarenko
Amalia Mordvinova - Ruslan Goncharov
Elena Biryukova - Artur Dmitriev
Irina Lachina - Victor Petrenko
Anatoly Zhuravlev - Marina Klimova
Oleg Gazmanov - Oksana Kazakova
Natalya Antonova - Alexey Urmanov
Alexey Chumakov - Tatyana Basova
Yulia Blestyaschaya - Pyotr Chernyshev
Mikhail Zelensky - Elena Grushina
Anastasia Mikulchina - Arkady Sergeev

"Star Ice" (RTR, 2008)

The winners are Lera Kudryavtseva and Gwendal Peyzera.

Participants:

1 Thekla Tolstaya - John Zimmerman
2 Lera Kudryavtseva - Stephen Cousins
3 Pierre Narcisse - Violetta Afanasyeva
4 Alexander Belov - Anastasia Gorshkova
5 Yulia Savicheva - Jerome Blanchard
6 Victor Loginov - Oksana Kazakova
7 Yana Rudkovskaya - Ruslan Goncharov
8 Dima Bilan - Elena Berezhnaya
9 Maxim Averin - Anastasia Grebenkina
10 Dana Borisova - Sergei Sakhnovsky
11 Nastya Zadorozhnaya - Sergei Slavnov
12 Alexander Peskov - Julia Obertas
13 Mitya Fomin - Elena Romanovskaya

Here I was already exhausted, and so was the show, there were also some professional competitions, but I won’t include them, this is definitely from another opera.

Nevertheless, if, after watching this enough, someone still got on skates, I think that their efforts were not in vain. Well, we made money. And some even personal life arranged with varying degrees of longevity and success.

Ice reality shows have been airing on two main channels for several months. Stars compete with professionals, RTR with the First, and fans with fans. Weekend ratings are off the charts, and Petrosyan nervously smokes on the sidelines.

Did the fact that on RTR play a role? ice show launched earlier, or the fact that over the last television season viewers managed to get used to “Dancing with the Stars,” which was not the case on First, but nevertheless, “Dancing on Ice” beat the ratings of “Stars on Ice.”

The first one put Olympic champions in the role of presenters. RTR relied on the soulfulness and relatively real inability of the stars to skate. The first one made a tracing paper from professional competitions - double score, sofa with a coach. On RTR, Anastasia Zavorotnyuk joked with all her might, and the fall of the stars was not re-filmed. The “Stars on Ice” show for me personally ended with the commentator’s phrase: “Today we will find out who became the loser of our show.” Well, I don’t like rudeness, especially pretentious ones. That's why I only watched Dancing on Ice.

Ten Little Indians

The first couple to leave the ice was world champion Maya Usova and film star Ivar Kalnins. Ivar was injured during the preparatory training, but, having courageously skated the first round, he refused further participation. Who the judges would have removed will forever remain a mystery. But obviously not Kalnins.

The second couple is pop singer Lada Dance and European Championship participant Vazgen Azroyan. It was hard for Lada, she couldn’t tie her shoelaces or drive confidently. The judges took pity on her and released her. But for herself personally, she certainly accomplished a feat.

The third couple to leave the project was world champion Maria Butyrskaya and singer Sergei Galanin. Galanin was a gentleman, but Butyrskaya showed herself to be a very uncultured person. She scolded her partner, scolded the judges. Everyone felt sorry for Galanin, but no one wished the couple success. The judges voted unanimously against it.

The fourth couple left amid tears from the jury and spectators. Actress Tatyana Dogileva twice asked the jury to let her go. My health did not allow me to maintain the rhythm of the competition. Her partner, Olympic champion Alexey Urmanov, asked permission to skate alone. Dogileva stood, looked and cried: “He put his talent under my belt.”

The fifth couple, on the contrary, left with a scandal. Fashion model Anna Azarova quarreled with the judges in front of the cameras, accusing them of hating her personally. And as a result, she and two-time Olympic champion Evgeniy Platov left the ice.

The sixth couple evoked strong reactions from both the jury and the audience throughout the competition. The presenter of the RTR TV channel Lika Kremer and two-time Olympic champion (as well as Olympic silver), two-time world champion and three-time European champion Artur Dmitriev were “nominated” four times for the program roll. For the fourth time, having been paired with the teenagers' favorite Sergei Lazarev, they lost. It should be noted that Lazarev fell on a roll, while for Kremer and Dmitriev it was best dance. This time the judges were afraid of themselves and gave the right to decide to the audience. And at the daytime recording of the show, teenagers who were exempt from school especially for filming sat in the hall.

Four couples reached the semi-finals:

This weekend on Saturday's broadcast we learned that Sergei Selin gave up wrestling due to illness. Oksana Kazakova danced alone. And everyone thanked Selin for the fact that everyone who remained entered the finals without rolling over.

On Sunday we will watch the remaining three couples dance two dances each. The famous “Gypsy Girl” by Natalia Bestemyanova and Andrei Bukin and her best dance in the project. We learn that the jury will put Lazarev in first place, Krasilov in second, and Chashchina in third.

Fans of Lazarev will rejoice, and fans of Krasilov will scold the jury for not “noticing” Lazarev’s mistake, but noticing Chashchina’s mistakes. But everyone will rush to their phones to call and write SMS messages in support of their favorite stars.

The winner is still unknown, and the finish is not the finale.

Who are the judges?

The jury of the TV show chose a stellar one. Famous figure skating champions and coaches Igor Bobrin, Irina Moiseeva, Andrei Minenkov, Elena Tchaikovskaya and ballet star Nikolai Tsiskaridze.

In the beginning, when weak or undesirable couples were clear even to the audience, the judges harmoniously pressed the buttons, pardoning them with one hand and kicking them out of the show with the other. But closer to the end we became more and more lost. Either the viewer will be given the right to decide, or they will hold an action called “6.0 to all couples.”

And the assessments were sometimes timid, sometimes too generous. Some were rewarded for their personal merits and progress, while others were persistently compared with others. Although it was clear to the naked eye that Sergei Selin, having stepped over himself, did the almost impossible. But he cannot be compared with the previously eliminated Lika Kremer, who skated several orders of magnitude better.

Unfortunately, the jury turned out to be nominal and closer to the final they tried to judge not according to sports rules. Rather, these were the rules of the show - maintaining balance between couples, regardless of skating.

What is the power, viewer?

The viewer voted with rubles and insults on the RTR website. No one will ever know exactly how the audience's votes were distributed. According to the agreement with the company that sold the license, only summary results were announced. But in vain, a Russian person cannot be fooled by such chaff; he will always be sure that the results are rigged. Although even if they showed it, I still wouldn’t believe it.

Therefore, the RTR forum is replete with terrible insults against those who, in the opinion of certain viewers, could not get votes. Sergei Selin suffered the most, as he almost had a heart attack when he entered the forum. It is quite possible that his refusal to show was dictated not only by sick leave.

Lika Kremer was also discussed tirelessly. At first she was accused of RTR promoting its “face of the channel”, and they called on her to get out herself. But after departure, on the contrary, they wrote letters of consolation and demanded to return us back.

Fans of Sergei Lazarev did nothing but throw mud at Pyotr Krasilov. Krasilov also went to the forum to read, which he later said on air, thanking the spiteful critics for their sporting anger.

However, I won’t retell all the nonsense of online communication. But the RTR website has never attracted so much attention from viewers. Maybe on the topic of TV series, but then in two years, not two months.

I really want to tell the presenters: you need to be more subtle, more subtle. To the judges: you need to be more honest, at least to yourself. To the audience: you need to be kinder, kinder. And to all the stars - silently erect a monument for heroism on ice. This is probably why I wanted to watch the show on RTR. Why aren't we people?