French TV star twin Igor Bogdanoff dies of Covid six days after brother
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- 06 Jan 2022
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The death of Igor was confirmed on Monday evening by his lawyer Edouard de Lamaze, as well as his agent.
A father of six children from several relationships, Igor had been hospitalized with a Covid-19 infection since mid-December, as was his twin brother Grichka.
Igor died just six days after Grichka passed away in a Parisian hospital, also of Covid, the lawyer confirmed.
Unvaccinated
Neither of the brothers had been vaccinated, their friend Luc Ferry, a former education minister, said last week.
Ferry told Le Parisien newspaper that he had urged both of them to get vaccinated "countless times" but they refused on the basis that they were "very sporty, without a gram of fat".
“Grichka, like Igor, wasn't an anti-vaxxer. He was anti-vax for himself,” Ferry said.
In a recent interview with journalist Darius Rochebin, the twins showed how close they were and joked about the impossibility of dying apart.
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff refusing, with a laugh, the very idea of ​​the death of the other. They spoke of the twinning experience with humor - “if we don't give a damn about the world, it's tender” - and vividly illustrated it, reciting hundreds of poems in two voices. pic.twitter.com/zwjSmfQ9X8
- Darius Rochebin (@DariusRochebin) December 28, 2021
Cryptocurrency fans
Instantly recognizable and hugely popular in France, the Bogdanoff brothers also claimed to have taken part in the creation of Bitcoin.
"We were implicated, very early, in the birth of the cryptocurrency," Grichka told French TV show Non-Stop People in June, basing their claim largely on their closeness and friendship with Japanese mathematicians behind Bitcoin. Read More…
