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Leonid Arkadyevich Yakubovich is a popular Russian showman, the permanent host of the capital show “Field of Miracles”, co-host of Alexander Strizhenov in the program “Star on Star”.

The childhood of Leonid Yakubovich

Amazing events have accompanied Leonid Arkadyevich Yakubovich literally since childhood. Why, take at least the story of how his parents met!

During the Great Patriotic War, Rimma Semyonovna Shenker was engaged in sending parcels to the front. The girl collected warm clothes, knitted something herself, and sometimes got sweets and canned food. All parcels with gifts were sent in random order, that is, no addresses were indicated on them. One of them went to captain Arkady Solomonovich Yakubovich. The bundle contained knitted mittens, both for one hand. The officer was moved and wrote a response to the needlewoman, and a correspondence began. A little later, Rimma Semyonovna became his wife.

Immediately after the war, Leonid Yakubovich was born. Parents began to teach their son to be independent from early childhood. Once Lenya asked his dad to check the diary, to which his father sternly replied: “I don’t need it, it’s up to you how to study. If there are problems, then contact me.”

However, Leonid did not have any special problems; the young man especially liked the lessons of history and literature. True, in the eighth grade he was expelled from school because he was absent for three whole months. Then, during the summer holidays, Yakubovich and a friend saw an advertisement on the street: young people were needed for an expedition to Eastern Siberia. I didn't have to think long. On the same day, Leonid told his parents that he was leaving for Siberia.

The work turned out to be quite strange - the guys worked as live bait. They sat on a stump in the taiga, wearing only shorts and a padded jacket, and wrote down at what time, who bit them and where: “10.50 – bite on the right leg. 10.55 – bite on the left leg.” The teenagers' feet were smeared with various mosquito repellents - their effectiveness was precisely tested during the expedition. Summer holidays have come to an end, but the expedition has not. Leonid had to stay in the taiga forests, and upon returning to Moscow he learned that he had been expelled. Young Yakubovich had to go to evening school, and at the same time work part-time at the Tupolev plant as an electrician.

Having successfully completed evening school, Leonid Yakubovich unexpectedly passed a competition into three theater universities at once. But his father asked him to first get a “livable” specialty, and then go anywhere. Therefore, Leonid Arkadyevich decided to enter the capital’s Institute of Electronic Engineering. But he did not bury his talent and soon made his debut at the Theater of Student Miniatures. A little later, he transferred to the Kuibyshev Institute of Civil Engineering (modern MGSU), because there was an excellent KVN team there.

Vivid performances, true friends, traveling around the country, meeting with the soloist of the ensemble “Gorozhanki” Galina Antonova - Yakubovich always noted that these years were the happiest in his life.

The creative path of Leonid Yakubovich

In 1971, Yakubovich graduated from the institute, becoming a certified ventilation and air conditioning engineer. Until 1977, he worked at the Likhachev plant, after which until 1980 he was listed as an employee of the commissioning department.

Leonid Yakubovich in the program “Alone with Everyone”

But the soul of the future artist did not lie in “technical” work. Since his student days, Leonid has been interested in writing scripts with an emphasis on the humorous genre. In 1980, he was even accepted into the professional committee of Moscow playwrights. Since then, Yakubovich has written more than 300 works for pop performers. Vladimir Vinokur brilliantly performed “The Sergeant Major’s Monologue,” written with the participation of Leonid Arkadyevich (according to many, it was this humorous sketch that made him famous). The works of Leonid Arkadyevich were performed by many masters of domestic humor, in particular, Evgeny Petrosyan.

He also wrote several plays for stage production (“The Gravity of the Earth”, “Wider Circle”, “Parade of Parodists”, “We need victory like air”, “Hotel with Haunted”, “Peek-a-boo, man!”, “ Tutti").

Also in 1980, he played a minor role in Yuri Egorov’s thoughtful drama “Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later,” starring Natalya Gundareva and Viktor Proskurin. According to the plot of the film, former classmates gather for a graduation party. Yakubovich played one of his former school friends.

Leonid Yakubovich at the "Field of Miracles"

Real audience popularity came to Yakubovich after he began hosting the “Field of Miracles” program in 1991, replacing the first presenter, Vladislav Listyev.

The simple rules of the gambling program are known, perhaps, to every Russian viewer: three stages, three winners and a fight in the super final. And at the end, the winner had a choice - to lose everything or choose a super prize. Yakubovich's charisma and charm helped the program win people's love. All of his lines and actions were purely improvised without the help of writers or editors.

Leonid Yakubovich in the “Evening Urgant” program

A real legend of “Field of Miracles” has become the museum, which over the years of broadcasting has collected a truly countless number of exhibits donated to Yakubovich by the show’s players. Part of the collection was exhibited at VDNKh in Moscow, part - in Ostankino, and another part - in Tver.

Yakubovich’s mustache, following its owner, became a kind of symbol of the “Field of Miracles”. They were so inseparable from the image of Leonid Arkadyevich that even in his contract with Channel One there was a clause - not to shave off his mustache. However, the showman wore a mustache from the very beginning of his working career; he shaved it off only once, in 1971. Then he worked as an administrator at the Moscow Comedy Theater and, out of duty, went on tour with the troupe. Before an important meeting, he decided to clean up the mess and started shaving in the hotel room, but something didn’t work out: first one mustache was shorter, then another. “In the end, he turned into Hitler and shaved everything off,” the presenter joked. They almost kicked him out of the meeting - they simply didn’t recognize him.

Leonid Yakubovich's gushing energy knew no bounds. Therefore, the artist could not ignore the cinema, already being the star of the most popular entertainment show on Russian television. He showed his brilliant comedic talent in a number of significant films. Thus, the actor appeared as a policeman in the film “Moscow Holidays”, played himself in the series “They Don’t Kill Clowns”, revealing the other side of the alluring show business, and repeatedly appeared on camera in “Jumble”. But it is worth noting that the presenter received offers regularly and in large quantities, but Leonid Arkadyevich never accepted them if he did not like the role, although he liked the process of “acting” itself.

Leonid Yakubovich in "Jumble"

Leonid Arkadyevich was also the producer and screenwriter of the comedy “Grandfather of My Dreams,” which was released in 2014. He also appeared in the cast, playing a magical grandfather and host of the show “Field of Miracles.” The film was awarded two awards at the festival “Smile, Russia!”; one went to Yakubovich himself for best actor, the second recognized the film as “the kindest, funniest and wisest film.”

In 2016, the Zvezda TV channel aired the talk show Zvezda on Zvezda with Yakubovich and Alexander Strizhenov as hosts. Each episode they invited famous personalities to the studio: artists, painters, athletes, and had intimate conversations with them.

Personal life of Leonid Yakubovich. Hobbies and interests

Leonid Arkadyevich met his first wife, Galina Antonova, during his student years. He performed in KVN, and she was a soloist in the ensemble “Gorozhanki”. The first meeting of the future spouses took place at an outdoor concert near Issyk-Kul. The wedding took place in the fifth year, and in 1973 Galina gave Leonid a son, Artem.

The son of Leonid Yakubovich graduated from the same Kuibyshev Institute as his father, received a higher degree in economics at the Academy of Foreign Trade, and then got a job in television.

When Leonid Yakubovich turned 50, another passion appeared in his life: he became interested in flying sports aircraft. Yuri Nikolaev brought the artist to the flying club, and after the first flight, Yakubovich caught fire and began to study the profession of a pilot. Later, Leonid Arkadyevich was accepted into the Russian national team and the TV presenter participated in the World Aerospace Olympic Games.

Among the artist’s other hobbies was billiards (he was also a member of the presidium of the Russian Billiard Sports Federation for a long time). Other hobbies include alpine skiing, preference, cooking, numismatics, collecting reference books, car racing on safari.

Leonid Yakubovich now

In 2016, Leonid Yakubovich still greeted guests of the Fields of Miracles studio and captivated the audience with a wide smile and his signature charm. However, in August 2016, alarming rumors appeared in the media: the press claimed that Yakubovich was seriously ill and was undergoing treatment in Germany. He had to refuse to participate in the play “The Last Aztec,” where the artist was invited to replace the deceased Albert Filozov. However, it turned out that everything was fine with the artist’s health, and information about his illness was nothing more than rumors from ill-wishers.

In 2017, Yakubovich became the host of the new show “I Can!”, in which anyone could demonstrate their unique talent in the studio and receive a cash prize for it if they beat their own record.

The famous host of the capital show “Field of Miracles” Leonid Yakubovich was born in the summer of 1945 in Moscow. A romance broke out between his parents at the front: first the couple corresponded, and then met. The reason for the correspondence between two unknown young people was a curious incident.

The mother of the future TV star, Rimma Shenker, worked at the post office during the Great Patriotic War. She packed collected gifts and warm clothes knitted with her own hands into parcels for front-line soldiers. The parcels went to the front without a specific address. One day, captain Arkady Yakubovich received a parcel with gifts from Rimma. He was amused and puzzled by the fact that the unknown needlewoman, along with a touching letter, put two mittens for one hand into the box. Arkady Solomonovich decided to write to the unknown girl Rimma, and she soon answered him. The ensuing correspondence led to a meeting and a passionate romance. So the couple Yakubovich and Shenker had a son as soon as the fighting died down.

From an early age, the father taught his son to be independent and responsible for his actions. He never checked his diary because he believed that Leonid himself should decide how to study. Perhaps that is why the boy showed particular diligence in preparing his homework, but most of all he liked literature and history.

However, Leonid Yakubovich was expelled from school in the eighth grade. During the summer holidays, the guy and his friend went on a short expedition to Siberia: the guys responded to a street advertisement for work for young people. New mosquito repellents were tested on them: young Yakubovich with the same “volunteers” as himself simply sat in the taiga and wrote down when and how many mosquitoes would bite them. But the business trip dragged on, and the guy returned to the capital when his classmates finished the first quarter.

Yakubovich had to finish his studies at evening school, and during the day work as an electrical mechanic at the Tupolev plant.

Leonid Yakubovich decided who to be in the sixth grade. On New Year's holidays, the guys staged the fairy tale play “Twelfth Night,” in which he played the Jester. On the improvised theater stage, the boy experienced such a storm of pleasant emotions that the question of a future profession disappeared: of course, he would become an artist.

After successfully graduating from evening school, Leonid Yakubovich did not forget about his childhood dream: he successfully passed the exams at three metropolitan theater universities. But it was then that his father, who worked as a designer at one of the factories, intervened and demanded that his son acquire a “livable” specialty, and only then go wherever he wanted. For Leonid, dad was always the most authoritative person, whom he could not disobey. Therefore, the guy entered the Institute of Electronic Engineering.

Leonid Yakubovich in his student years

At a technical university, Leonid Yakubovich continued to do what he loved: he enrolled in the Student Miniature Theater and soon made his debut on its stage. But soon the young artist dropped out of the mechanical engineering institute, preferring civil engineering. The fact is that this university had a strong KVN team “MISI”, into which Leonid Yakubovich “fit in” perfectly. The guys toured all over the country, received applause from its farthest corners, found new friends, and fell in love. According to Leonid Arkadyevich, these were the happiest years of his life.

Thus began Yakubovich’s creative biography, which continues successfully to this day.

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In 1971, Leonid Yakubovich graduated from the institute and went to work in his specialty at the Likhachev plant. At the same time, he continued to write humorous stories and scripts, to which he became addicted during the years when he performed in the KVN student team. Many of the monologues he wrote were read by aspiring artists and.

Yakubovich is the author of several plays that were staged on the theatrical stage (“The Gravity of the Earth,” “Parade of Parodists,” “We Need Victory Like Air,” “The Haunted Hotel,” “Peek-a-Boo, Man!” and others).

In the early 80s, the cinematic biography of Leonid Yakubovich began: he first appeared on the screens in the famous film directed by Yuri Egorov “Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later,” where the main characters were played by and. It is unlikely that the audience noticed Yakubovich in this melodrama, because he played a cameo role: one of the classmates who gathered at the alumni meeting.

In his youth, Leonid Arkadyevich Yakubovich became famous as a screenwriter for the popular Soviet programs “Come on, guys!” and “Come on, girls!” In addition, he made successful steps in business, founding the first Auction House in the USSR in 1984.

In 1991, the artist was invited to the casting of the host of the entertainment television program “Field of Miracles” on Channel One, and already in November of that year Leonid Yakubovich appeared on the screens in the show beloved by millions. “Field of Miracles” enjoyed incredible success and popularity: people came to it from all over the former USSR, and the presenter himself became not only the face, but also the symbol of the rating project. Until now, most people associate the host’s surname with this show.

The principle of operation of the TV show was very similar to the American analogue of “Wheel of Fortune”, but Leonid Yakubovich brought a lot of his own to the show: he improved and came up with the main “tricks” of the project. The director and author of the show approved the appearance of the black box in the program, as well as the organization of the legendary museum of the “Field of Miracles” show, where numerous gifts were sent from the participants.

Even Leonid Yakubovich’s mustache became a symbol of the “Field of Miracles”; it was not for nothing that the artist’s contract with Channel One included a clause prohibiting shaving it off.

The famous presenter was often invited to other projects. In 1996, on the RTR TV channel, Leonid Yakubovich hosted the “Analysis of the Week” program. In the same year, he became the host of the television game “Wheel of History” on the Rossiya TV channel. In this game, participants had to guess the historical event that the actors were playing in front of them. But the show was not particularly successful, and was bought by the ORT television channel, where it existed until 2000.

Leonid Arkadyevich also authored the musical television game “Guessing Game,” where participants had to guess songs by melody. But the program had low ratings, although it turned out to be quite expensive, which is why it was soon closed. In 2000, Yakubovich returned to KVN as one of the jury members.

In 2005, Leonid Yakubovich was appointed director of the VID television company, which produced the show “Field of Miracles.” In the same year, he created a series of programs dedicated to the last hours of the life of famous artists - “The Last 24 Hours”. It was published until 2010.

In 2004, 2006 and 2010, Leonid Arkadyevich hosted the “Wash for a Million” program.

In the spring of 2015, the authoritative TV presenter delivered the opening and closing words in the program “Collection of Channel One,” and since March 2016, Leonid Yakubovich has co-hosted the program “Star on Star,” which is broadcast on the Zvezda TV channel. This is a talk show to which famous personalities are invited: artists, painters, athletes, with whom Yakubovich and Strizhenov have intimate conversations.

Today Leonid Arkadyevich is a star himself, so a huge number of people listen to his opinion. In connection with the latest events in Ukraine and the excitement that arose in the light of these events around the name, Yakubovich outlined his position quite clearly: he stated that he was outraged by the desire of some politicians and public figures to deprive Makarevich of all state awards.

Movies

The artist’s ebullient energy is enough not only to appear on screen as a TV presenter - Yakubovich has a considerable filmography, which includes three dozen film titles. Leonid Arkadyevich played the most striking roles in the films “Moscow Holidays”, “They Don’t Kill Clowns”, “Expedited Help”, “Russian Amazons”, “Paparatsa” and “Three Days in Odessa”.

Leonid Yakubovich in the film "Grandfather of My Dreams"

In 2014, Leonid Yakubovich tried his hand as a producer of the comedy “Grandfather of My Dreams.” He wrote the script for this film and played one of the key roles.

Leonid Yakubovich now

Today, the famous artist and TV presenter, despite his advanced age (Yakubovich will turn 72 in the summer of 2017), is full of strength and energy. He still hosts the show “Field of Miracles”, attends various events where stars gather, plays his favorite tennis and continues to build a career.

But Leonid Yakubovich is forced to abandon some plans due to his enormous workload. This happened in September 2016: the premiere of the play “The Last Aztec,” where one of the roles went to the actor, was postponed indefinitely.

Immediately, alarming rumors spread that Yakubovich fell ill and urgently went to one of the clinics in Germany, where he was supposedly scheduled to have an operation. According to some reports, this rumor was confirmed to journalists by Joseph Raikhelgauz, artistic director of the School of Modern Play theater.

Some fans of the star suspected their favorite had cancer, substantiating their suspicion by the fact that Leonid Yakubovich had recently lost significant weight. Others suggested that the star was in an accident and was struggling with its terrible consequences. There were still others who claimed that the artist had a heart attack (according to another version, a stroke).

The artist remained silent for a long time, not wanting to refute rumors and speculation, but when they started talking that Leonid Yakubovich had died, he had to break the silence and reassure his overly worried fans.

Leonid Arkadyevich explained that he was still healthy and full of strength. And he decided to lose a couple of tens of kilograms of weight because it became difficult for him to move due to excess weight. To this end, Yakubovich regularly visited the gym and tennis court, managing to get himself in the right shape in a short period of time.

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Every now and then, news flashes on the Internet about the death of Russian celebrities who are actually alive. We figured out how such ducks appear and who benefits from it. It turns out that dishonest people can make a lot of money from such news.

Yakubovich and a fatal accident

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In 2016, low-quality media circulated the news that Leonid Yakubovich was involved in a fatal accident. Some websites even reported that the famous TV presenter either crashed his car or died of a heart attack. Where did this “news” come from and what does the permanent presenter of “Field of Miracles” have to do with it?

The media failed attentiveness: in fact, the host of the “Field of Miracles” program did have an accident, but this happened about four years ago. It is noteworthy that many years later, Yakubovich allegedly repeated word for word the very words that appeared in media materials after the actual incident.

Nothing bad happened, they caught the bumper, scratched it a little, and that’s all,” Yakubovich assured journalists then, and four years later a number of publications reprinted the same phrase. They all referred to a suspicious source. The resource, which looks like a regular blogging platform, contains three texts at once, directing the reader to news about accidents and heart attacks, which are attributed to Yakubovich. The posts were posted on April 15, 2016, and these posts even have an author.

A user under the pseudonym vedeoo, on whose behalf the posts were posted, turned out to be very prolific in the sensation. On his behalf, “intimate photographs of Natasha Koroleva”, “photos and videos of Larisa Guzeeva’s son” and other bright headlines were also published, promising to plunge the country into shock.

All posts are peppered with a huge number of hashtags and keywords. Within the framework of contextual advertising, if a curious Internet user nevertheless clicks on a provocative headline, he ends up on resources literally full of similar materials and advertising.

So, on the way to the news about the fate of Yakubovich, the user may encounter miraculous methods of losing weight using kefir, ginger and an unknown third ingredient, magical ways to cure psoriasis and other garbage information that can never be reached, since it does not exist: task one is to artificially increase traffic.

Such fake news feeds take a very long time to prepare and are unlikely to be directed against (or in support of) a specific person. Probably, the people who spread the news relied on the experience of search engines four years ago in order to more effectively promote the resource and increase the desire of an inexperienced user to click on the banner and thereby earn precious traffic.

Analysis of media materials led to the fact that, in addition to a source in the form of a blog of an unknown person, the publications could not find official confirmation of the information. At the same time, data about the fictitious accident spread to social networks - in addition to numerous reposts from unknown portals, users began to actively discuss the non-existent tragedy. At the time of writing, no refutations regarding the “accident with Yakubovich” were found, and false information continues to remain on the publications’ websites.

Rastorguev and the tragedy at the ski resort

The vocalist of the group “Lube” is constantly being buried by low-quality media. Most often they write that the tragedy happened at a ski resort. The last time these rumors coincided with the death of the bass player of the same group. By the way, one of the reasons for the rumors is that several years ago the singer really became ill at a ski resort. Then he and his wife went to a Finnish ski resort. It was cold, pepper got very cold. Doctors diagnosed pneumonia, which caused complications to the kidneys.

As a result, the singer’s condition was quite critical, but not fatal. Even Wikipedia writes about this. At that time, the group’s tour was in jeopardy, and as a result, Rastorguev went only to cities where there was the necessary equipment for hemodialysis. The procedure then had to be carried out almost every day.

In 2009, Nikolai had a kidney transplant, but still, in his condition, he has to be examined frequently in hospitals. Most likely, it is all these facts that allow journalists to declare him dead at every opportunity. The singer himself regards this with irony. In one interview, he even said that this means he will live a long time.

Mikhail Zhvanetsky and the fatal accident

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To promote obscure sites and make money, Zhvanetsky was also buried. The famous comedian allegedly died in a terrible accident. Interestingly, the incident turned out to be partly true, because the star’s namesake actually died. This is, apparently, how they came up with this false news story. Many media outlets believed this news only because it was published on a Twitter account called gazetaru_news. But in the end, the myth about the death of the legendary comedian was quickly dispelled.

Valeria, anorexia and traffic accidents

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Valeria was “killed” on the Internet in two ways. News periodically appears that the singer died of anorexia, and this is understandable. “Valeria died of anorexia” is a popular query in search engines, but its reason is not our singer Valeria, but Valeria Levitina. At 39 years old, she weighed only 25 kilograms, although her height was 171 centimeters. This Russian girl worked as a model in the USA.

For the second time on the Internet, Valeria died in a terrible accident near Smolensk. Many resources referred to a site registered in Hong Kong, which was called “Ukrainian News Portal.” When the news appeared, the singer and her husband were on tour in London. They immediately refuted the fake information.

It turned out that calling this resource “Ukrainian” can be very conditional. As Gazeta.Ru found out, this site was registered at the end of 2013, when the political situation in Ukraine sharply worsened. The owner is the company Domain ID Shield Service CO., Limited, which specializes in providing intermediary services, thanks to which real owners of information resources have the opportunity to hide their name and location. The company acts as the owner of a number of resources with domains.com and others.

Thus, to say that this resource is somehow connected with Ukraine is, to say the least, incorrect. The name of the site and its subject matter in this case rather indicate its anti-Ukrainian orientation: deliberately fake and inadequate news in the information space is perceived by the average Russian reader as coming not from a specific resource, but from the “Ukrainian media.” This is exactly how Valeria and Joseph Prigogine perceived it. Such absurd lies, which can be found on other supposedly Ukrainian sites, can significantly reduce the level of trust among Internet users in any information coming from Ukraine with an anti-Russian overtones, including those that have a basis in reality. It is noteworthy that a number of large Ukrainian online publications reported on the falsity of the information about the singer’s death on Wednesday.

Johnny Depp

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By the way, not only Russian publications, but also their Western colleagues are guilty of using black methods of site promotion. Either Lady Gaga died in a hotel room, or Justin Bieber was found dead. One of the constant heroes of the ducks was the famous Johnny Depp.

Once even a very influential American news source talked about it. In 2010, news appeared there about the tragic death of Hollywood actor Johnny Depp in a car accident.

Journalists said that the accident occurred near the French city of Bordeaux. Police officers who arrived at the scene pulled the body of popular actor Johnny Depp out of the car. The article also indicated a possible cause of the tragedy - alcohol intoxication of the driver. It turned out that the article pointed to another site - angelfire.com, and the note itself was dated March 25, 2004.

Internet scammers posted news about the death of the Pirates of the Caribbean star on behalf of an American information portal. But in reality, the site turned out to be just a fake duplicate of the popular CNN channel. Upon learning of his “death,” Johnny Depp wrote to his friend: “Not dead, in France.”

Just recently, news headlines were filled with an alarming headline: “The people’s favorite, the permanent presenter of “Field of Miracles” Leonid Yakubovich has died.” A fatal road accident has allegedly claimed the life of one of the country's most recognizable faces. Is it true or fiction - the main question that worried the RuNet audience at that time.

Media virus: what is it?

At the very dawn of the Internet, many futurists naively believed that the global information environment would be used exclusively for the exchange of knowledge. As a result, even the average person will have access to a vast ocean of information and will be able to reach the truth much faster than in previous eras.

It turned out almost exactly the opposite. People, of course, are faced with a huge amount of data stored on the World Wide Web, but the reliability of this data is questionable. If previously the publication of a newspaper issue required at least minimal checking and editing, now everyone is their own TV channel, radio station, and magazine.

Thanks to the tools of social media, any idea that cannot be verified can be spread. This phenomenon is called a “media virus.”

There are the following types of media viruses:

• Artificial, created at the direction of an interested group of people;
• Arose by chance, but was immediately picked up by unscrupulous PR people;
• Having an absolutely natural nature of occurrence.

One of these media viruses is often news about the death of stars and other famous personalities that have no basis.

Is it true that Yakubovich died?

At the beginning of 2016, RuNet was shocked by the tragic news: popular presenter Leonid Yakubovich became a victim of an accident in which he received a fatal injury. As an investigation by Gazeta.ru showed, the news was first published by an anonymous person nicknamed vedeoo on a site whose main goal is to increase traffic with sharp headlines, in order to then “sell” another weight loss product.

The news was widely circulated by regional portals whose topics cover the lives of stars. Then this unconfirmed information hit social networks and began to accumulate details like a snowball. False witnesses and video recordings from the scene of the alleged tragedy began to appear. And the most cunning began to guess about the date of the upcoming funeral, which was about to take place.

Against the backdrop of all this information vinaigrette, Yakubovich himself gave an interview in which he made it clear that the rumors about his death were too exaggerated. Moreover, the TV presenter noted that this is not the first such case: he was “buried” this way several times.

Leonid Arkadyevich even made a joke on this topic: during a speech in Omsk, he said that he had already “died for 40 days,” which caused friendly laughter in the audience.

Is it true that Leonid Yakubovich crashed?

It must be said that the presenter did get into a car accident, but only a relatively long time ago - in 2012. Newspapers at that time were also full of guesses about the condition of the famous TV star, but they were quickly put to an end. Yakubovich himself categorically stated that he was alive and well, and only the bumper of the car was damaged.

This event was brought to light five years later and replicated with much more energy. As a result, almost all third-rate information portals were infected with this fake.

Along with the news about the tragic accident, rumors began to spread about the celebrity's health problems. Information from different sources was extremely contradictory:

• Allegedly, after the accident, the elderly man’s heart could not stand it, and he died from nervous strain;
• The TV presenter suddenly became very ill and needed to urgently fly to Germany for treatment;
• It is also not clear what kind of illness caused his “death”: both a heart attack and a stroke were put forward as versions.

Yakubovich's current state of health

Today we can say with confidence that the popular TV presenter, father of two children and thrice-married man is not going to die anytime soon. According to him, the rumors could have spread due to the fact that, due to his busy schedule, he was forced not to attend a number of important events.

He admitted that at his age (71 years old at the time of the interview), cardiovascular diseases are by no means uncommon, but he makes every effort to stay in shape.

Yakubovich’s excellent condition is confirmed by his relatives and colleagues. The hero of this story himself offers to visit the fitness club, where he is a regular, and see with his own eyes the excellent physical shape of the presenter.

In addition, he is regularly examined in one of the best private clinics in Moscow and constantly “keeps his finger on the pulse.”

Who benefits from this news?

There are several considerations about who could benefit from this newspaper “duck”:

• To Leonid Arkadyevich himself. In 2016, the popular presenter began touring throughout the country, and the terrible news was able to warm up the audience’s interest in the star of the 90s;
• This machinations of dishonest journalists, who cling to any news feed, even a fake one, in order to attract new visitors to dubious news portals. Other stars of domestic show business have suffered from such scribblers. The most resonant case is rumors about the death of the leading rap artist in Russia - Guf;
• Human rumor itself is to blame, which seized on the event of an accident and made mountains out of molehills. Such an incident would hardly have been possible if thousands of social network users had not published the “shocking truth” on their pages.

But we can hardly blame people for such behavior: many wonderful cultural figures pass away, and it is not always possible to verify the authenticity of hot news.

In the digital era, technologies for manipulating mass consciousness have reached incredible heights. Thanks to the efforts of specialists in the field of black PR, in 2016, when typing the letter “I” in Yandex, the search prompt “Yakubovich - fatal accident” began to pop up. An information bomb, artificially created to boost traffic, caused a lot of noise in the RuNet.

Video: fiction about the death of Leonid Arkadyevich

This video proves that Leonid Yakubovich is not dead at all, and is even capable of causing a scandal in the airport building in Moscow:

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The Internet today is full of rumors about the death of a famous TV presenter named Leonid Yakubovich. The network writes that Leonid Yakubovich died in 2017, 2017 took away the talented TV presenter, the famous Russian artist - Leonid Yakubovich. In fact, if you turn on Channel One, you will probably be able to see the new episode of the program “Field of Miracles”. The host of this program is none other than Leonid Yakubovich. Just the one about whom there are rumors of death.

Internet users, in fact, are already accustomed to the fact that various famous people are often buried alive online. Thus, the Diva of the Russian stage, Alla Pugacheva, has already become a victim of rumors more than once. Rumors of death circulated about her very often. Also, a few months ago, they wrote on the Internet about the death of the daughter of the Russian President. There are two causes of death written about the TV presenter. The first is a traffic accident, which the TV presenter suffered many years ago, the second is a stroke. Information about a major accident in which Yakubovich was involved really does exist. However, this was several years ago, and it cannot be called large. For the TV presenter, everything ended then without consequences. And the information about Leonid Arkadyevich’s treatment in a European clinic, where he ended up as a result of a severe heart attack, goes against the facts. So, at the same time, Yakubovich was on tour in the regions of Russia.

The actor himself is perplexed why his death is constantly attributed to him. According to him, he believes that it is about money. By posting news of his death, people hope to cash in on the publicity. And he is very upset by these messages. After all, if something really happens to him, people once again may simply not believe it.

However, as it turned out. Leonid Yakubovich is now in Omsk. There he took part in the filming of the program “Starry Afternoon” in the Channel 12 studio.

“Today is 40 days since I died. I had a heart attack, and this is the fourth time. The only thing I’m happy with is that they wrote that I died of a heart attack. It would be more unpleasant if they wrote that I died of hemorrhoids,” - Leonid Yakubovich joked.

Leonid Yakubovich

At the same time, the showman looks healthy and even a little thinner. According to the host of “Field of Miracles,” sports helped him lose weight, but he physically cannot attend all cultural events due to lack of time.

As MK notes, also in Omsk, Leonid Yakubovich decided to support the People's Hero project, initiated in 2016. Within its framework, residents are celebrated who contributed freely to the development of the city, as well as those whose actions are worthy of emulation.

According to Yakubovich, there should be as many awards as “People’s Hero” as possible, because every resident of our country is obliged to know their heroes.

One thing is clear that Yakubvich is alive and well, leads an active lifestyle, acts in films, plays in the theater, hosts everyone’s favorite program “Field of Miracles,” plays sports and even jumps with a parachute. Therefore, it is premature to talk about the alleged death of the TV presenter.

According to Leonid Arkadyevich, in 2017 he even intends to become more involved in all types of activities, especially to intensify the acting process. In addition, despite being 71 years old, the TV presenter actively and regularly plays tennis. “This sport keeps the heart muscles in good shape and perfectly stimulates the entire body,” noted Yakubovich.

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