Valdis Eizhenovich (Evgenyevich) Pelsh (born 1967) - Soviet and Russian TV presenter, TV producer, TV director, theater and film actor, singer and musician. One of the founders of the "Accident" group. Director of children's and entertainment broadcasting of the First Channel (2001-2003).
He gained the greatest popularity thanks to the projects "Guess the Melody", "Russian Roulette" and "Raffle".
There are many interesting facts in Pelsh's biography, which we will talk about in this article.
So, before you is a short biography of Valdis Pelsh.
Biography of Pelsh
Valdis Pelsh was born on June 5, 1967 in Riga, the capital of Latvia. He grew up in the family of the Latvian journalist and radio host Eugenijs Pelsh, and his wife Ella, who worked as an engineer. The artist has a half-brother Alexander (from his mother's first marriage) and a sister Sabina.
Valdis studied at a school with in-depth study of the French language, from which he graduated in 1983. After that, he went to Moscow, where he entered the philosophy department at Moscow State University.
At the university, Pelsh began attending the student theater, where he met Alexei Kortnev. Together, friends founded the musical group "Accident". In addition, Valdis played for the student KVN team.
Later, the team was invited to perform in the Higher League of KVN. It was then that Pelsh was first shown on TV.
Music
While studying at Moscow State University, Valdis's main hobby was music. He wrote lyrics for songs and also played and sang at Accidental concerts. The guy took an active part in the group until 1997, after which he performed only at significant concerts.
In 2003, Pelsh began to collaborate with musicians with renewed vigor, having recorded together with them the anniversary disc “Last Days in Paradise”. After 3 years the release of the new album "Prime Numbers" took place.
In 2008, "Accident" gave several concerts in honor of the 25th anniversary of the rock band. The last time in the band Valdis appeared in 2013 - during the presentation of the new disc "Chasing the Bison".
Films and television
Over the years of his creative biography, Valdis Pelsh starred in dozens of feature films and documentaries. And although he mostly got minor roles, he appeared in such famous films as "Turkish Gambit", "Love-carrot", "What else are men talking about" and "Brother-2".
Having become a certified philosopher, Valdis worked for about a year as a junior researcher at a research institute at the Academy of Sciences.
In 1987, after appearing in KVN, Pelsh became the director of the humorous program "Oba-na!" However, they soon decided to close the program due to "mockery and distortion of the appearance of Channel One."
Then Valdis Pelsh participated in the creation of other television projects that did not have success. The turning point in the artist's biography was a meeting with Vlad Listyev, who invited him to host the newly-minted musical show "Guess the Melody".
It was thanks to this project that Valdis suddenly gained all-Russian popularity and a huge army of fans. An interesting fact is that in 1995 the program "Guess the Melody" was in the Guinness Book of Records - it was simultaneously watched by 132 million viewers.
After that, Pelsh was entrusted with leading other rating programs, including "Russian Roulette" and "Raffle".
In addition to the work of a TV presenter, he often became a participant in other projects. The audience saw his programs "Field of Miracles", "What? Where? When? ”,“ Two Stars ”,“ King of the Ring ”and many others.
Also, Valdis was repeatedly invited as a jury member to various shows. For example, for a long period of time, he has been in the refereeing team of the Higher League of KVN.
In the fall of 2015, the premiere of the TV project Together with Dolphins, hosted by Valdis Pelsh and Maria Kiseleva, took place on Russian TV. After some time, the showman became seriously interested in documentary filmmaking.
In the period 2017-2019. the man acted as a producer, presenter and author of the idea of two documentaries - "Gene of height, or how sorry to Everest" and "Big White Dance". During that time, he also presented works such as The Polar Brotherhood and The People Who Made the Earth Round.
Personal life
Over the years of his biography, Valdis Pelsh was twice married. His first wife was a lawyer Olga Igorevna, who was the daughter of the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In this union, the couple had a girl named Eigen.
After 17 years of marriage, the couple decided to leave. The next wife of Valdis was Svetlana Akimova, with whom he began dating even before his divorce from Olga. Later Svetlana gave birth to her husband a girl Ilva and two boys - Einer and Ivar.
In his free time Valdis Pelsh is professionally engaged in diving and parachuting (CCM in parachute jumping). An interesting fact is that his daughter Eigena got into the Guinness Book of Records in the category - the youngest diver to dive off the coast of Antarctica (14.5 years).
In 2016, news appeared in newspapers and on TV, which talked about Pelsh's hospitalization. There were rumors that his pancreatitis, which had plagued him for the past ten years, had worsened. Later, the man said that nothing threatened his health, and that his treatment in the hospital was a planned matter.
In the same year, Pelsh publicly stated that he looked positively on the policies of Vladimir Putin and the development of the Russian Federation. He also agrees with the president on the issue of the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation.
In 2017, Valdis told a lot of interesting facts from his biography related to climbing Everest. According to him, the members of the expedition managed to climb to a height of 6000 m, after which the ascent had to be stopped.
Pelsh and other climbers no longer had the strength to continue their way to the top, as the documentary film "The Gene of Height" was filmed simultaneously with the ascent.
Valdis Pelsh today
Valdis continues to lead rating television projects, makes films and is fond of sports. In 2019, he visited Kamchatka, where he opened the famous Berengia dog sled competition.
In 2020, Pelsh presented a new documentary titled Antarctica. Walking beyond 3 poles ”. A team of 4, led by a showman, traveled to the southern continent to make the first ever transantarctic crossing across the 3 poles. This wonderful film can be viewed on the official website of Channel One.
Few people know that the TV presenter collects soldiers' helmets from the First and Second World Wars.
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