In the winter of 1991, Russian viewers saw on their screens the uninhibited game show "Love at First Sight" - the Russian version of the English television game Love at first sight. Its leaders were the smiling Alla Volkova and the thorough Boris Kryuk.
Even then, the country noticed that this chubby, handsome man with glasses can joke and improvise in front of the camera perfectly. But few knew that the charming Hook specialized more in intellectual games than in romantic shows. A year before the release of this program, he developed a scenario for a youth brain tournament called “Brain Ring,” which was to become its host. As a teenager, Boris Kryuk, next to Vladimir Voroshilov, lived in the cabin of the host at the famous intellectual casino “What? Where? When?". At the beginning of the new millennium, he became the host of this fascinating and gambling television program.
Some biography
Hook Boris Alexandrovich was born in the summer of 1966 in Moscow. He was, as he himself says, a quiet man with big eyes and a curly head. Once on the street, Boris’s grandmother, who was already proud of her grandson, was respectfully told that her boy had “Lenin’s head”. Parents trusted their child; they never conducted personal searches and interrogations with addiction. The boy’s life schedule was free.
Mom wanted Borya to study as a doctor, but he chose a technical university, although he was always, as it is recognized, a pure humanitarian. Just a teacher of literature, who put deuces for independent thinking, completely discouraged the pursuit of humanitarian subjects. After graduating from school, Hook went to the University. Bauman was educated as an engineer. Boris left the technical profession immediately after undergraduate practice. Now it is obvious that fate was destined for him to work in the bowels of the television studio, where he spent his entire conscious childhood.
Intelligent casino croupier
His parents Natalya Stetsenko (TV director) and Alexander Kryuk (builder) separated when Boris was about four years old. Mom married again - to Vladimir Voroshilov, the "inconvenient" and brilliant director, who worked, like her, on television. Together they came up with the game “What?” Where? When? ”, Which appeared on blue screens in the fall of 1975. Voroshilov remained incognito for a long time, viewers and program participants heard only his voice. This became a peculiar highlight of the program, although it was dictated by the censorship considerations of the television leadership. When in 2001, after Voroshilov’s death, the voice of an invisible announcer came from the leader’s wheelhouse, everyone was astonished: the similarity in timbre and manner of playing the game was striking. So Boris Kryuk became the successor and author of the program. Photos and recordings of the program, where it can be seen in the frame, appeared later - in 2008.
Childhood on the other side of the screen
Little Boris witnessed the filming, and in some places also participated in the most popular Soviet programs: “You Can Do It” (at 4 years old), “Well, guys,” at 5 years old. At 10, he played on the side of viewers in “What? Where? When?" (His question fell to connoisseurs in the very first game). At age 12, he came up with a rule to exclude the losing team from the club. As a student, Boris Kryuk worked on this program as an assistant director. In 1989, Boris became a staff member of the Youth Edition of Central Television, and then became First Deputy General Director of Game-TV Television Company and Vice President of the What? International Club Association Where? When? ”, Where is her mother’s deputy Natalya Ivanovna. If Hook is asked about the “doom”, he cites the example of Fords and Rockefellers and notices that business dynasties around the world are successful precisely because their members can rely on each other in everything.
Mysterious voice
First program “What? Where? When?" after Voroshilov they looked like a detective. The hook, as everyone is used to, came to the set in jeans and a sweater, until the very beginning scurried among the people, preparing the studio for broadcasting. At that time, a stranger in a black tuxedo (this was a cousin of Vladimir Yakovlevich) was brought to a television studio on Voroshilov’s “Jaguar”, and he immediately went to the announcer. At the very last moment before the game, Boris went there. The mystification was supported by computerized voice processing proposed by Konstantin Ernst. All this was necessary in order not to bring down the psychological mood of experts before the game. Not soon, TV viewers learned that the real host was Boris Hook.
Personal life
Fans of the show “Love at First Sight” immediately married two pretty presenters - Volkova and Hook. But their relationship was business, moreover, Hook was already married to microbiologist Inna. Boris and Inna have two children - Mikhail and Alexandra. The second time, Hook married Anna Antonyuk, from this marriage he has two daughters - Alexander and Barbara.
In addition to mental contests, Boris Kryuk is passionately interested in football, which only helps him to improve the intellectual show, the horse of which he has successfully saddled for a long time.