Biography. early years
The future TV presenter was born into the family of the dean of the philological department of Rostov State University (RSU) Alexander Afanasyevich Dibrov and his wife Tatyana Valentinovna Pokidova. At some point, his parents divorced, and Dima was raised by his stepfather Nikolai. Later, father and mother got back together and remarried.
Already in his mature years, the media often asked Dmitry Dibrov about his nationality. He replied that among his ancestors there were both Don Cossacks and Jews.
After graduating from Rostov school No. 80, the graduate went to the journalism department of the philological department of the Russian State University. After university, he got a job at the newspaper “Prizyv”, published in the Domodedovo district of the Moscow region.
Son of Dmitry Dibrov - Fedor
The son of Dmitry Dibrov, Fedor, was born three years after his brother Alexander. The Dibrovs' second child was born a real hero - the child's weight was four kilograms. This is surprising, because Polina is such a fragile and graceful girl.
Fedor is just starting to chat and sometimes not all the words can be understood correctly. But even today, parents notice his desire for long retellings and poems and do not rule out the fact that their child will follow in his father’s footsteps and become a famous TV presenter or popular musician.
Television career
From “Call” Dmitry Dibrov moved to “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, where he worked for a year, after which he ended up at TASS. In 1987, he left his job at TASS, moving to the youth editorial office of Central Television. At this time, he collaborated with Vzglyad, for which he prepared stories on music.
In the early 90s, Dmitry got a job at Ostankino Channel IV, whose place would later be taken by NTV. In addition to NTV, he managed to work on Channel Five, where he produced “Good Morning,” and on the private channel Teleexpo, where he produced the program “Anthropology.”
In the spring of 1998, at the invitation of Leonid Parfenov, Dmitry ended up on the NTV channel. There he hosted the programs “Old TV” and “Anthropology”, as well as the television game “O Lucky Man!”, in which 1 million rubles were raffled off.
After Dibrov was lured to Channel One by Konstantin Ernst, the TV game “O Lucky Man!” also moved there. It changed its name and became known as “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
For a long time, the entertaining quiz was hosted by parodist Maxim Galkin, but in 2008 Dibrov was returned to the program “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” By that time, he had already managed to make his mark by hosting another TV game, “The People Against,” on Channel One.
His return to the TV quiz show coincided with his return to Channel One, from which he left in the spring of 2004. Then he moved to “Russia” at the invitation of the general director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev. After returning to “First,” he also hosted the first season of “Cruel Intentions,” his co-hosts were Yana Churikova and Kirill Nabutov.
Dmitry is widely known thanks to the TV quiz show, so when in Russia they dubbed the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”, where a poor illiterate young man wins a million, in an analogue of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” It was Dibrov who was invited to voice the quiz host.
Biography
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dibrov was born on November 14, 1959 in Rostov-on-Don. In 1981 he graduated from the journalism department of the philological department of Rostov State University. In 1982, he began working in his specialty at the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. In 1991 he worked at the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, where he became a director and presenter of many programs. Afterwards he went to work at ORT, where he created many bright projects, one of which is the morning channel “Good Morning”. In 1999, he became the host of the program “Oh, Lucky!”, which became beloved by many television viewers. After leaving NTV, he headed the Night Broadcast Directorate of Channel One. On the same channel he hosted the TV game “The People Against”, but soon moved to the “Russia” channel. This was followed by a break in the presenter’s television career, and in 2008 he returned to Channel One, replacing Maxim Galkin as the host of the game “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
Dmitry is married and has four sons and a daughter.
Personal life
There were four marriages in the life of the TV presenter. Dmitry Dibrov's first wife was Elvira, they were married in 1983-1986. The wife worked as a secretary in the editorial office of Politizdat and studied at the Historical and Archival Institute (now Russian State University for the Humanities). Dmitry himself later admitted that he got married because his wife became pregnant.
Dmitry's next wife's name was Olga, the marriage with her lasted seven years. Olga worked at TASS. After her divorce from Dmitry, she left with her daughter for Paris.
After this, the TV presenter did not marry for a long time, but in March 2008 he gave up. His third wife was Alexandra Shevchenko. She was from Rostov-on-Don, 26 years younger than her husband. This marriage did not last even a year. The relationship between the GITIS student and the TV star broke up due to her husband’s jealousy, Alexandra later stated. Shevchenko herself married actor Jan Ilves in January 2017, to whom she gave birth to a son, Theodor.
The last wife of the TV star was fashion model Polina Dibrova (nee Nagradova). Like the previous wife, she comes from Rostov-on-Don. The age difference between the spouses is 30 years. Dmitry began courting his future wife back in 2006, when she was 17. The marriage took place at the end of March 2009.
The TV presenter had a brother, Vladimir, who died in 2012, according to Wikipedia. He worked as a journalist in Rostov-on-Don, hosted the program “Day of the Don,” and Vladimir Dibrov gave over 30 years of his life to local TV.
The TV star has his own Instagram account, where he posts his photos. His page has almost 12 thousand subscribers. But the Instagram of his wife, who won the Mrs. Russia contest in 2017, is much more popular (140 thousand people follow him).
Photos in childhood
Dmitry repeatedly emphasized in interviews that he is a Don Cossack. The TV star always praises his small homeland - Rostov-on-Don. He was born in 1959 into an intelligent family. Dmitry's father was the dean of the philological faculty of a leading Rostov university, knew 12 languages, and hosted a program on local television.
The mother is a housewife and raised two sons. The family broke up early, and Dmitry was raised by his stepfather. Dibrov’s parents, uncles, grandfather, and great-grandfather had creative or near-creative professions, which had a great influence on the boy’s development.
Childhood photographs of the future star are filled with sun, happiness, and prosperity. The chubby boy already in his youth dreamed of making a revolution on television. He was supported by his own father and older brother, who held positions on Rostov television channels.
Dima's appearance clearly shows a Jewish trace - dark eyes, curly hair. However, Dibrov later said that he had a lot of things mixed in him, so he does not have a specific nationality. Since childhood, the TV presenter had a heavy, drooping eyelid, which later resulted in ptosis and a heavy look.
Early photos also show that Dmitry has a voluminous face and plump cheeks, which later changed greatly and caused the TV presenter a lot of age-related problems.
Children of Dmitry Dibrov
The TV presenter has five children - four sons and one daughter. The eldest son Denis was born in 1984 in Dibrov’s first marriage. He graduated from the Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting and at one time worked in the news department of one of the TV channels. His father doesn't communicate with him.
In his second marriage, in 1989, Dibrov had a daughter, Lada, who now lives in France. She went to Paris with her mother in the mid-90s. There she graduated with a degree in digital communications.
Now Dibrov’s daughter works as an assistant at the film market of the famous Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, she married businessman Rudolf Fuhrmann, an Armenian by birth. In January 2019, Dmitry became a grandfather, Lada gave birth to a daughter, Mia, the granddaughter of a TV presenter.
Polina gave birth to three more sons. Alexander was born in February 2010, Fedor in December 2013, and Ilya at the end of May 2015.
Biography of Dmitry Dibrov
Dmitry Dibrov is one of the most charismatic and memorable characters, first on Soviet and then on Russian television. Journalist and TV presenter, director and producer, musician and actor - the palette of talents and abilities of this person is impressive. He was the presenter of various projects of five federal channels. Knows four foreign languages.
In the photo: Dmitry Dibrov
Together with Andrei Stolyarov, he created Moscow Melodies, the first Soviet feature film using high-definition television technology, for which he received the main award at the World Electronic Film Festival in Montreux. Winner of the national Russian television award TEFI. These days he is known as the host of the TV quiz show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
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According to eyewitnesses, Dmitry’s first aid was provided by his colleague, the host of “Field of Miracles” Leonid Yakubovich. Later, Dmitry said that Leonid not only helped him and asked him to call an ambulance, but also called his colleague’s wife and teledoctor Elena Malysheva.
At first, the news about the TV presenter’s hospitalization included an epileptic attack, but he himself denied this information, saying that it was just a fainting spell.
However, the Mash Telegram channel reported that the host of the program “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” suffered a stroke. Doctors at the Botkin Hospital also discovered hypertension in the star patient.
Biography of Dibrov
Dmitry Dibrov was born on November 14, 1959 in Rostov-on-Don. He grew up in the family of philologist Alexander Afanasyevich and his wife Tatyana Valentinovna. When he was 4 years old, his parents decided to divorce.
As a result, Dmitry's mother remarried a man named Nikolai Ivanovich. It was the stepfather who raised his stepson. It is worth noting that Dibrov had an older brother, Vladimir, who worked as a TV correspondent.
Dmitry was proud of his brother and tried to follow his example. As a result, he also began to dream of becoming a journalist. After receiving the certificate, he successfully passed the exams for the journalism department of the philological faculty of Rostov State University, where his father was the dean of the philological department.
Journalism and television
At the age of 22, Dmitry Dibrov became a certified specialist, as a result of which he began working as a correspondent for the newspaper “Prazyv”. He soon moved to a more well-known publication, Moskovsky Komsomolets, where he worked for less than 2 years.
During the biography period 1983-1987. Dibrov was listed as a correspondent, and later as deputy head of the youth editorial office of TASS. At the same time, he was one of the creators and participants in the entertainment television program “Jolly Fellows.”
Then Dmitry was a participant in such television projects as “Vzglyad” and “Montage”. After the collapse of the USSR, he continued to climb the career ladder and by 1993 he became deputy general director of Ostankino Channel 4.
In the mid-90s, Dibrov became the head of the newly formed TV channel “Fresh Wind”, the creator of the TV show “Good Morning (Channel Five), as well as the artistic director of the channels “Podem” and “NTV-Plus”. The turning point in his biography occurred in 1997.
It was then that Dmitry Dibrov’s famous musical program “Anthropology” began to air on Russian television. Famous figures of culture, politics and science became its participants. During the program, viewers could ask the guest questions by phone or via pager.
Very often the guests of “Anthropology” were rock bands: “Agatha Christie”, “Spleen”, “AuktYon”, “Chizh”, “Time Machine”, “Resurrection”, “BI-2” and many other performers. In 1999, Dmitry began hosting the highly rated television game “Oh, Lucky!” (later “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”) which brought him a new wave of popularity.
The program received such great recognition that in 2000 it was awarded the prestigious TEFI television award. In subsequent years of his biography, Dibrov left this project, but later returned again. As of 2021, he continues to be the permanent host of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
In 2003, Dmitry Alexandrovich created the Chimes radio station, where priority was given to rock and hits of the 60s. However, after about a year, the radio ceased to exist. At that time, he was the host of such television programs as “The People Against,” “ProSvet” and “I’m Ready for Anything!”
However, these television projects did not have high ratings. During the biography period 2008-2015. Dibrov hosted the “Temporarily Available” program, which was a success and in 2014 was Fr.
Later, the man was the host of the programs “XX Century with Dmitry Dibrov” and “Secret Folder”. In addition to success on TV, he was also able to express himself in music and cinema. In 2001, together with the group “Anthropology”, he recorded the album “Rum and Pepsi-Cola”.
It is important to note that these were cover versions of Mike Naumenko's songs. Over the years of his creative biography, Dmitry Dibrov starred in several films, in which he always played himself.
