Zhanna Badoeva

About

Ukrainian TV personality and producer best known as the host and onscreen moderator of the travel program Oryol i Reshka. She has 30,000 followers on Facebook, 1.8 million on Instagram, and 600,000 subscribers on YouTube. Her YouTube travel show is called The Life of Others.

Before Fame

She was the first female resident of the popular show Comedy Club U.A. She developed various TV projects and conducted an acting class at the University of Culture, in Yangon, Myanmar.

Trivia

The title of her show, Орёл и Решка, literally means "eagle and tails," a reference to pre-revolutionary Russian coins with an eagle on the heads side. In 2016, she launched her shoe collection, Zhanna Badoeva, in cooperation with Italian designer Ernesto Esposito.

Family Life

She was born in Lithuania, in what used to be the Soviet Union. Her family moved to Kyiv in her teens. She has been married three times. Her first husband was Igor Kurachenko, with whom she had a son, Boris. They divorced in 1998. In 2003, she married her former Oryol i Reshka cohost Alan Badoev. They had a daughter, Lolita. They divorced in 2012. In 2013, she moved to Italy with her children. And in 2015 she married Ukrainian fashion businessman Vasily Melnichyn, who is based in Italy.

Associated With

On Instagram, she has posted snippets of interviews she has done with various couples, including Eric Roberts and his wife Eliza.