Andrey Malakhov is one of the main presenters of Channel One. He has been working at the TV channel for about 25 years. He began making his first stories - then for Ostankino Channel 1 - in the early 1990s.

Several media outlets immediately reported on the possible departure of Andrei Malakhov from Channel One.

However, today, August 10, 2017, it became known that Malakhov will return to Channel One after his vacation.

TV presenter Andrei Malakhov will return to Channel One on August 10 after his vacation. Gazeta.Ru writes about this with reference to his friend. According to the publication, Malakhov did not submit a letter of resignation from Channel One. Earlier, a source reported that the host of the “Let Them Talk” program wrote a letter of resignation. On July 31, the media reported that Malakhov was leaving Channel One to work at VGTRK. The press service of VGTRK did not confirm this information.

Malakhov will become the new host of the talk show “Live”?

Andrei Malakhov’s team, following the presenter, packed their things into boxes and left the Ostankino television center.

Until recently, it was not clear whether Malakhov would make a “transfer jump” to another TV channel. For more than 15 years, the showman hosted the “Let Them Talk” program, which aired on Channel One under different names, but the essence of the program did not change. Guests and talk show experts have repeatedly said that Malakhov managed to maintain his reputation and not get his hands dirty by delving into the dirty laundry of Russians for many years.

Together with Andrei Malakhov, his colleagues on the set, editors and assistants, who were looking for heroes with incredible stories, were moving to “Russia 1”.

Malakhov signed a letter of resignation from Channel One - media

It was previously reported that one of the possible reasons for Andrei Malakhov’s departure from Channel One is a conflict over maternity leave. As Elle magazine reported, citing sources, the TV presenter’s wife Natalya Shkuleva is pregnant, and the leadership of the First refused to let Malakhov take care of the child.

The essence of the conflict lies in the fact that the new producer of “Let Them Talk” extremely sharply commented on Malakhov’s desire to go on parental leave. He said that talk shows are not a nursery, and the TV presenter must make a choice about who he wants to be in the future.

The leading account is that such a formulation of the question is absolutely unacceptable and even cynical. According to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, parental leave can be granted not only to the mother, but also to the father.
Malakhov hinted who is to blame for his departure from Channel One

Malakhov leaves “Let Them Talk”: the media found out the reason for the presenter’s departure. One of the most popular TV presenters in Russia, who has been the permanent host of the Let Them Talk program for several years in a row, is going to leave Channel One.

This news simply shocked fans of this program, because it is already difficult to imagine that someone else will be its host.
And although this information has not yet found official confirmation, a source close to Malakhov said that all this is true.
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As it turned out, the reason for all this was a change in the leadership of the program, with which not only Malakhov, but almost his entire team could not find a common language. Now we are talking not only about replacing the presenter, but also the team as a whole.

The new producer of the program, who held this post several years ago, was returned to his previous position, and Malakhov strongly disliked the innovations that they decided to introduce into the program, and since a compromise could not be found, he decided to take such a radical step.

There is already talk that VGTRK has announced a casting for a new presenter.

But there is a completely different opinion on the Internet that this is all just PR, and thus the ratings of what was already one of the most popular programs rose even higher. Malakhov himself does not comment on the current situation in any way, and simply avoids talking with journalists.

Malakhov leaves “Let Them Talk” 2017, why

There are rumors that a new addition is being prepared for the family of the popular TV presenter and his wife Natalya Shkuleva. On this wave, Malakhov decided to pay attention to his family by working on Channel One. Insiders have been talking about Natalya Shkuleva's pregnancy for a long time, but now no one from the family is going to deny this fact. In the photographs from the island of Sardinia, where the couple are vacationing, Natalia’s belly is clearly visible, but there is no talk of comments from her husband yet.

At work, Malakhov was clearly given to understand: either work or child care, there is no third option. Offended by Nikonova for the word “babysitter”, with which the producer decided to get at him, in response, the TV presenter decided to use the law No. 256, paragraph 2 of the Labor Code, which allows not only the father, but also any other relative to take parental leave.

Although maternity leave to care for a child is not a rule for fathers, there are already many of them among the famous and famous. Upon registration, the parent receives 40% of the average salary, but no more than 17 thousand 990 rubles, which is already a considerable increase to the family budget.

Some dads cope quite well with their babies no worse than mothers, and at the same time find home work, as Alexey Afanasyev, manager of the purchasing department of one of the large retail chains, did. Moreover, Alexey registered his new business (selling products via the Internet), as well as his maternity leave, in accordance with the law.

For others, family income is not important: they want to lend their courageous shoulder to her in a difficult moment for their wife. This is what Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg did. After being with his little daughter for two months, he calmly went to work, knowing that his “family ship” could already set sail on its own.

Andrei Malakhov was one of the permanent showmen of Channel One, where he worked since 2001. “The Big Wash”, “Let Them Talk”, scandals, quarrels and squabbles - all this gathered viewers in prime time on TV from year to year. The unknown graduate of the journalism department owes his popularity to “First,” on which he became the star presenter he is now.

It would seem that nothing foreshadows problems, and an evening with Andrei Malakhov is an unshakable program that Konstantin Ernst will not dare to remove from the air. But everything has an end - and the scandalous presenter’s program was no exception. On July 31, reports appeared that Malakhov was leaving “First” and moving to “Russia”.

And he doesn’t leave alone, but along with the entire team that worked on the talk show. The exact reasons are still unknown; the presenter himself is escalating the situation, stating only that “he has already made a decision.” Let’s try to consider all the versions of why we won’t see new stories on “First” about the rape of Diana Shurygina and gatherings with the stars in “Tonight” with Andrei Malakhov.

Conflict with producers

Immediately after the news about the showman’s possible departure, information began to appear about a conflict with producer Natalya Nikonova. This woman once worked on this show, then changed jobs, but eventually returned to the first button. Rumors are being spread, as the media say, by a certain anonymous editor of “Let Them Talk” with Andrei Malakhov. The source calls her a dictator and claims that she strongly recommended that the showman move away from everyday topics towards the political sphere. The presenter did not like the proposal at all, which led to his departure.

Conflict with Ernst

Other sources say that Andrei Malakhov is leaving due to disagreements with the general director of the channel, Konstantin Ernst. Allegedly, the showman asked the manager for permission to do his programs for several years, to which he did not receive a positive response. Ernst noted that it was to him that the presenter owed his stardom, and recommended that he do what was necessary. Lately, the showman has been really trying to attract public attention with activities outside of his work on First, so the version has a right to exist.

Maternity leave

The Elle magazine website, citing anonymous sources, shared its version. Reason for leaving: maternity leave. Andrei Malakhov’s wife, with whom he is now vacationing in Sardinia, is pregnant, and this is what prompted him to take such a radical action. Let us remember that she is a brand director and publisher of a magazine in Russia.

In response to the presenter’s decision to go on maternity leave, the management reacted sharply, saying that “Let Them Talk” is not a nursery, and the showman must choose between his family and the show. He considered such a formulation of the issue extremely cynical and contrary to the Russian labor code and decided to say goodbye to “First”.

What's next?

If you believe information from RBC, in the fall we will see the scandalous presenter on Rossiya 1, where he will host the Live Broadcast program. Many people are leaving with him, so “First” will soon have open vacancies. So far this is unconfirmed information, and some claim that the showman decided to go free and become a blogger. Let us remember that last year the presenter registered on Instagram and collected a million subscribers there, and a few months ago he acquired his own channel on YouTube, which cannot yet boast of popularity.

In the meantime, you have a chance to watch the latest programs with Andrei Malakhov on First. It is expected that Dmitry Borisov, the evening news anchor, will take his place with his own show. The showman’s departure became a high-profile event - actor Stanislav Sadalsky wrote that in honor of Andrei Malakhov a special episode “Goodbye, Andrei” was filmed, which will soon air.

1 August 2017, 12:07

This program most clearly demonstrates to us that, it turns out, putting up for sale someone else’s pain, tears, troubles, digging through dirty laundry in full view of the whole country without any moral right today is called the simple word “format”. Or rather, a format that brings good money. The degree of cynicism simply boggles the mind... What do you want?! Of course this will be in demand! Toilet paper, for example, will always be in greater demand than Dostoevsky's manuscripts! And stupid reality shows, in which participants endlessly sort things out and sleep with everyone, will a priori have a higher rating than a Tarkovsky film.”

Alexey Serebryakov

For almost a day now, the Internet has been buzzing with reports that the country’s main TV channel, First, will soon be left without a face, or rather, without its most famous presenter, Andrei Malakhov. Since Malakhov goes to work for VGTRK - according to some sources, due to a conflict with the team of the talk show “Let Them Talk”, according to others - due to the return to Channel One of Dmitry Shepelev, the ex-husband of the deceased singer Zhanna Friske, who allegedly occupied Malakhov’s studio

The first more or less clear and informative explanation has appeared why Malakhov left Channel One.

History of events from one of the employees of Russia 1 (cannot be quoted directly, so it’s very short):

Malakhov is being dragged to Russia 1 out of a sense of revenge.

Recently, Russia 1 producer Natalya Nikonova left for Channel One.

And so, she developed a vigorous activity, decided to direct Malakhov’s program, while simultaneously offering the management ideas for new projects, including the recently launched show of Dmitry Shepelev.

And Malakhov didn’t like it.

He has been running “Let Them Talk” for many years and believes that he does not need a boss. And for “Russia 1” his candidacy is very beneficial: the ratings of “Let Them Talk” have always been higher than those of “Live Broadcast”. And who will miss the opportunity to beautifully wipe the nose of both Nikonova and Channel One in general. And it just so happened that he was offered more favorable conditions.

Natalya Nikonova, twice winner of TEFI-2007, was the head of the Studio of Special Projects of Channel One, without any irony, the founding mother of the genre of Russian talk shows for housewives.

At one time, it was Nikonova who launched Andrei Malakhov’s show “Let Them Talk”, “Malakhov+”, “Lolita. Without Complexes”, “Judge for Yourself”, etc.

Judging by the leaked information, Natalya Nikonova left Russia 1 after a financial audit was carried out.

Alexander MITROSHENKOV, president of the Transcontinental Media Company, which includes the New Company, the producer of this program, discovered financial irregularities. As it turned out, presenter Dmitry SHEPELEV was paid a salary for six months, but he never went on air. When they were looking for a replacement for Boris Korchevnikov, Shepelev was proposed, as we all remember.

Shepelev never went on air on Rossiya 1, the talk show was still hosted by Korchevnikov, but for more than six months Dmitry received money for nothing.

When the results of the financial audit were reported to Mitroshenkov, he suggested that the leaders of “Live Broadcast” Nikonova and Petritskaya resign.

Natalya Nikonova and Marina Petritskaya once came to “Live” from Channel One.

They managed the show for several years: they decided on creative and financial issues, what topics to air, and which participants should be paid how much.

These are the passions that go on on our television.

What Malakhov can bargain about, reports the Methodichka telegram channel: “The real reason Malakhov left for VGTRK is that for several years he asked Ernst to allow him to produce his own programs. But Konstantin Lvovich sent him to f..., motivating the refusal by the fact that “I made you a TV star - you will earn your money at corporate events.”

Well, a completely fantastic version, however, which has the right to exist, that no departure was planned, and all the noise was created deliberately with the aim of pumping up ratings during the summer off season. The fact that Channel One has not yet played such dirty games is not in favor of the version.

With Malakhov's departure, the First would have lost a lot. Malakhov is the channel’s key media personality, the goose that lays the golden eggs of the ratings; despite all the immoral distortions, his talk show is the best in its genre. Dmitry Shepelev, who, although younger, is also quite a professional, as they say, has less charisma. Pug against elephant.

The aesthetics of scandalous shows, which is promoted by producer Natalya Nikonova, is somewhat traditional: endless Alexey Panin, DNA tests, staging, etc., without unnecessary reflection.

At the same time, Malakhov in recent years, despite the fact that he works in an identical vein, is drawn to journalistic generalizations and monologues full of morality. Probably, the conflict, if there was one, really arose somewhere here. They tried to cut off the wings of an artist claiming to be a demiurge and put him in a cage; the management did not listen and... The dramaturgy came out completely in line with the talk show “Let Them Talk.”

Don't switch.

Take care of yourself and your loved ones.

Conversations about the departure of TV presenter Andrei Malakhov from Channel One actually proved one thing: it is too early to discount television as a factor determining public opinion. A simple replacement of a popular presenter, his transition from one channel to another can cause something close to panic in society and the media. What happened, why did Andrei Malakhov suddenly decide to leave Channel One? There are so many rumors and speculations about this matter that we decided to look into it.

I do not rule out that the “trigger” of Andrei Malakhov’s conflict with the leadership was some careless word, a hint, or simply a tough conversation. This happens in a creative team. Colleagues from the “Let Them Talk” team with whom I had the opportunity to talk confirm: “Yes, there is a conflict. But the details are known only “at the top.” Perhaps they want to lure Andrey with money to another channel or there is a human factor. There are only two options. Either everything is resolved peacefully and Malakhov remains, or he switches to another channel - most likely to “Russia”. Several people from his team, who once started the “Big Laundry” with him, have already moved there.

The new producer put an end to Malakhov’s plans

It all started with the fact that Konstantin Ernst appointed a new producer of the talk show “Let Them Talk” - Natalya Nikonova. Nikonova is a famous person on TV. Twice winner of the national TEFI award, founder of the programs “Let them talk”, “Lolita without complexes”, “Malakhov+”, “Judge for yourself”. In general, a kind of “godmother” show for Russian housewives. Recently, she produced the show “Live” with Boris Korchevnikov on “Russia-1”. However, sources at VGTRK confidentially reported that Nikonova may have left “at the behest of a pike” after a financial audit. The violations were allegedly discovered by Alexander Mitroshenkov, president of the Transcontinental Media Company, which includes the New Company, the producer of Live Broadcast. Allegedly, Nikonova for a long time accrued the salary of her protégé, Dmitry Shepelev, who in fact did not go on air. If so, what serious ideas could Nikonova offer to the leadership of First in order to be taken to a leadership position after such a scandal?

It is no secret that Malakhov for a long time asked Ernst for the opportunity to produce his own programs. Indeed, at the age of 45, running around the hall with a microphone and cutting your hair “like a boy” is somehow no longer respectable. But Ernst stubbornly did not meet the “face of the channel”, and the arrival of Natalya Nikonova on “First” finally put an end to Malakhov’s plans to produce the program independently. One of the editors of First commented on the situation: “The channel returned to the program the producer who worked there nine years ago, hoping that she would help raise the program’s severely fallen ratings. But Malakhov did not work well with her and demanded the return of his previous colleague. Since the channel did not make concessions for a long time, the presenter began to declare that otherwise he would leave.”

And indeed: back in 2013, the rating of the Malakhov talk show was 9%, it was ahead of the program “Voice”, “Time”, “Let’s Get Married”, “Vesti” and “Ice Age”. However, recently “Let Them Talk” has been heavily criticized for the monotony of topics and some kind of morbid interest in finding out the authenticity of the paternity and motherhood of other people’s children (evil tongues even dubbed “Let Them Talk” a “branch of the DNA laboratory”). Ratings decreased accordingly - for example, in April they were only 6.2%.

Politics for housewives?

I have never been to the “Let Them Talk” program, despite the annoying invitations of the editors. The fact is that I know the technology of this project too well. Once there, the unfortunate “invitees” fall into a trap. An accompanying person is required to leave the studio. The invitee, who has undergone “psychological processing” by the editors, is sent to share his misfortune under the camera lenses and can no longer leave the studio. And so that the hero would not find out that his illegitimate children, neighbors and colleagues were called to the show, they were escorted through other entrances. The effect of surprise turned out to be very strong, but not always pleasant and, you see, correct. Now the program will be filmed in a former factory workshop on Liza Chaikina Street. In the so-called “Teledom” there will be fewer “set-ups”. They say that Andrei Malakhov was categorically against moving the studio, and this became one of the reasons for the conflict.

However, there is another reason, which is talked about in whispers on the sidelines of television, but is widely discussed on social networks by people close to political structures. For example, political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky writes on his Facebook: “It is absolutely obvious that I should host the “Let Them Talk” program instead of Malakhov. In turn, I am ready to give up my places to Andrei Nikolaevich in the Direct Line and Panopticon programs on OTK Dozhd. This is a subtle hint that the show for housewives "Let Them Talk" will now, if rumors are to be believed, give preference to politics. However, according to our information, Andrei Malakhov spoke out categorically against this, using harsh expressions in relation to a person about whom the host of the country’s main channel clearly should not have spoken. But, as you know, “he who lives in a glass house should not throw stones.” This proverb is very popular on TV, where any careless word can cost a person his career. By the way, the fact that “Let Them Talk” is going to be politicized is indirectly confirmed by another fact: Andrei Borisov, the news editor’s “News” presenter, was tried for the role of the new leading project. However, according to reviews, it left a weak impression. As for Malakhov, then, again, according to rumors, his careless words cost him not only his work in “Let Them Talk” - it is even stated that he will supposedly not be on the screen at all.

There are other points of view on the situation. Malakhov’s colleagues, for example, express the version that, they say, the presenter “got starstruck” - 25 years of television fame “blew the roof off.” Maybe. But all these are accompanying circumstances, as well as Andrei Malakhov’s declared desire to go on maternity leave (his wife Natalya Shkuleva is in the last months of pregnancy). Something else is alarming. As it became known, at the same time as darling Malakhov, the handsome Alexander Oleshko, the host of “Minute of Glory” and “Just the Same,” was fired from “First.” No matter how we treated these people, they were the “faces of the channel.” The conclusion suggests itself: “First” is weakening its position against the background of VGTRK. Is this a coincidence? In professional circles, it is not ruled out that the transition to the “second button” of strong personnel is only the beginning of Konstantin Ernst losing ground. Whether VGTRK "First" will be absorbed or not - this issue is now being discussed in the television environment with might and main. On the eve of the elections, as we know, anything is possible.