At 32 years old, I have already seen and experienced a lot. But at the same time, to be honest, I was always afraid to start romances. Because I didn't have an example of a long, happy, Great love. Mom and dad separated, I never saw my father in my life. But my mother still loves him to this day, and there wasn’t a day when she didn’t think about him. And I was afraid that my children would be left without parents. In general, I was afraid of this topic.
We lived in Novomoskovsk, in Tula region, my mother raised me until I was seven years old alone. She read books and poems to me - I knew a lot of them. I remember the first time I was brought to kindergarten and I read: “And he killed you so sincerely, so snowily, as God forbid you to be different.” But there were other lessons in childhood that life itself taught. I was about five or six years old, I was walking from kindergarten and in the yard I saw older children who had come from fishing. They were sorting out fish near the swing, I ran up to them: “Show me!” And they threw a rotten crucian carp down my shirt, crushed me, kicked me - in short, they had fun. I shouted that now I’ll tell dad everything, but they rushed after me: “Get out of here, orphan. You don’t have any father.” It was then, on the way home, that I realized that if I didn’t achieve something in this life myself, then no one would do anything for me. Then I decided to actively engage in sports.
With mother Tatyana Mikhailovna (September 2011). Photo: From personal archive Ilya Glinnikov
At the age of seven I had a stepfather, Oleg Albertovich, a member of the Union of Artists, a man who gave me a lot. He instilled in me a taste and taught me how to draw. He insisted that I enter the gymnasium and took me to the wushu section, where I studied for four years and later won the Tula region kickboxing championship.
I remember the sad holiday of September 1, when I went to first grade. The circumstances were such that no one could accompany me to school on the first day of school and I was completely alone, while all the children came with their parents. Mom was pregnant with her brother and apparently did not feel well. But when my younger brother Vladik was born, I was the most happy child in the world. I was really looking forward to my brother, and when I found out that my mother had given birth, I didn’t go to school that day, but ran to the maternity hospital. Mom told me later how it happened. The roommates started discussing: “Whose guy is running around there? It’s winter outside, and his hat is askew, his collar is wide open.” Mom looked out the window and saw my backpack, notebooks scattered in the snow, and me throwing snowballs at the window shouting: “Show your brother!” Mom was alarmed: “Ilyusha, why aren’t you at school?” But she showed the baby through the window, of course.
I immediately fell in love with my brother with some kind of unconditional love. I really wanted to share everything with him, I dragged him with me everywhere, overturned his stroller, rolling him through the snowdrifts, dropped him from the trunk of a bicycle... Once I stole him from a kindergarten and took him to the river. Mom came to pick Vlad up at kindergarten, and they told her: “Well, Ilya took him in his quiet hour.” On the way back, he carefully instructed: “Vlad, the main thing is don’t say that we were on the river.” We’re coming off the train, and there my mother and stepfather have already raised half the city’s ears, we approach, and the first thing Vlad says is: “Mom, I didn’t swim!”
With his mentor - actress Marina Golub (2011). Photo: From the personal archive of Ilya Glinnikov
- At what point in your life did the dream of acting appear?
Not right away. I dreamed of playing football for Manchester United or Barcelona. But one day I saw the guys breakdancing and disappeared. I started writing hip-hop, rap, some lyrics, drawing graffiti, and organized my own team. We took part in the Russian dance championship and took second place. My stepfather educated person, did not approve of these hobbies, forced me to listen The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, for which I am, of course, grateful to him now. In general, his methods of education were quite radical. I remember he threw away the video recorder because he thought reading books was more important than watching movies, and he threw a volume of Arthur Conan Doyle on my table. And for this I am also grateful to him now.
- Did he also teach how to build relationships with girls?
This was the most difficult moment in my life. As a child, I had to pretend to be someone other than who I was in front of girls. Because I was embarrassed and did not accept the fact that my parents were not oligarchs, but modest intellectuals. And girls, as I realized as a child, need cars, money and all the other blessings of the world. It was difficult with girls, I had to constantly win their attention, so I chose dancing, football - in a word, everything related to realization through an external image.
- Why did you decide to move to Moscow?
I was 16 years old when a friend invited me to the capital with him - I was sure that it was literally for a week, no more. And, walking around VDNKh, I saw the guys dancing. I approached them and said: “Can I come with you?” While he was dancing, a small group of spectators gathered. And the guys suggested to me: listen, maybe you’ll stay? And I made up my mind. My first summer in Moscow was spent on the streets: I danced at VDNKh, on Arbat, on Okhotny Ryad. And I really liked it all.
- Where did you live and what did you eat?
Oh, it's always different. Mom calls: “Ilyush, where are you? How are you?" “Yes, mom, there are kebabs and mashlyks here, everything is great,” I answer, spending the night in the entrance with an equally homeless friend. Then at six in the morning the metro opened, we went to the “Ring” line and rode, and at eleven - again to VDNKh. But even then I understood that I wanted to connect my life with creativity.
Then, on the street, I met Vitalik Limon. This was the best dancer in the country, whom the elder Raikin noticed when he was dancing on his native Bryansk street. He took Lemon to Moscow and helped him enter the circus school. When we met, Vitalik already had his own team and popularity. He was an example for me, he showed me that you can make a living doing what you love and be happy man.
I was noticed and invited to audition for the dance and theatrical group URBANS, organized by Limon. At the age of 17, I signed my first contract and have already firmly established myself in this city. Mom was wildly unhappy that I was leaving, she said: “What about studies?” But I convinced her, she believed and, with an uneasy heart, let me go.
I remember how I arrived in Moscow with a can of my mother’s tomatoes, a bag of rice, and some other cereals. I rented an apartment in Altufyevo with Igor Burnyshev, the lead singer of the group Burito. Then, having separated from URBANS, we made our own show and toured for several years. Then there were us, URBANS, “Street Jazz”, “Mirage”, “Capture Group” - the most iconic groups in the dance culture in our country. And then they started inviting me to auditions for all sorts of advertisements and even films. I attended the casting of the film “Wolfhound of the Gray Dogs” directed by Nikolai Lebedev.
- Without yet having a theater education?
Having nothing. And all the directors asked with one voice: “Well, who did you study with?” I said that no one has, but I can do everything, I can do everything. They smiled sweetly and promised to call. One day, a friend invited me to a training session with the Starko pop star football team. Vladimir Presnyakov Sr. appreciated my football talent, I was invited to play for the team, and we began to play in charity concerts"Under the flag of Good."
After one performance, Dmitry Kharatyan came up to me and said: “Boy, if you don’t go to theater school, you’ll be a complete idiot.” And soon after that I received a letter from the creators of “Wolfhound...”, it began: “Hello, dear Ilya!” I almost flew up with happiness, thinking that I was being hired for the project, but then there were the words: “We hope that we will collaborate with you a little later.” I was very upset and realized that, probably, the whole universe was telling me that it was time to go study to become an actor.
Ilya Glinnikov. Photo: Arsen Memetov
But I didn’t just refuse to study - there were circumstances. One day my mother called and said that my brother jumped from the garage and broke his heel. He was eight or nine years old at the time, and I realized that I had to take responsibility for him before he did something even worse. My brother loved me very much. Each of our meetings and farewells ended in tears. And I, having made the decision for myself that we would live together, moved my family to Moscow in 2005 (my mother had separated from my stepfather by that time). We rented housing first in Krasnogorsk, then in Mitino, we lived in a small apartment: me, my mother, my brother.
When I decided to study theater education, I understood that I had to study there from nine in the morning until eleven at night and I would not be able to work and support my family. And then my mother helped me a lot. She was (and is now) friends with a man - right hand Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov. And my mother so carefully suggested to me: “Would you like to meet Vladimir Mashkov or Marina Golub so that they can see you?” Of course I didn't refuse. Prepared a program and poems. We came to Marina Grigorievna Golub for the performance, and then went into the dressing room. We talked, I told her something and then I said: “Okay, I’m ready to read.” And she replied: “You don’t need to read anything, everything is clear to you. I'll take you." And she began to prepare me for entering college. Marina Grigorievna lived outside the city, in the Kyiv direction, and I went to her by train. She gave me “Dubrovsky” to read, Blok’s poem “The Twelve”, and much more. In general, if it weren’t for Marina Grigorievna, perhaps I would not have become an artist... She is mine godmother in the profession.
As a result, at the age of 22 I entered GITIS. They take me to the 2nd year, with Valery Garkalin, but you can only study there for a fee. After tormenting myself all night in doubt, I call and say that I will not enroll because I do not have the money to pay for training. I told Kharatyan about this, with whom we became friends on the “star” football team, and he said: “No, you go to study, I’ll give you money.” I categorically refused, because I did not understand how I would return such an astronomical amount at that time, and hung up.
Ilya Glinnikov. Photo: Arsen Memetov
And then a miracle happens: they call me with an offer to star in an advertisement for a famous telephone operator. I call Garkalin: “They’re offering me advertising. How much money should I announce to them?” Garkalin replies: “Declare how much you need to pay for the institute.” I say: “Valery Borisovich, they will pay you so much, but never me.” And he laughs: “Announce it, announce it!” And so I pluck up courage and say: “This is so much.” At the exchange rate it was $3 thousand back then. And what do you think? They agreed! I immediately called Dmitry Kharatyan: “I don’t need money, I’ll do it myself.” I remember giving this money to the bank. And the cashier tells me: “And we still have a commission of 586 rubles.” I pour out everything I have, and I have 3 rubles left in my wallet.
And that's it, school began. Here I understood why all the directors smiled so sweetly at the castings and said “we’ll call you back.” Theater changed my life once and for all. For some reason, instead of the history of theater, I became interested in the history of religion and the philosophy of aesthetics. I was an excellent student and a favorite student of the honored teacher Galina Sergeevna Arapetyants, I prepared a report with her on the elders of Optina Pustyn. I went to Optina Pustyn, lived in a monastery, in a monastery, read synodics, this was still in the first year of my 2nd year of study. I devoted a lot of time to acting; my acting teacher, Philip Grigoryan, already in the second semester took me to the theater to stage the play “The Third Shift.” And for this performance we were nominated for the Golden Mask.
It was not easy to study, because at the same time I was also working at night. And sometimes after work I had to come to the institute at six in the morning - I negotiated with the security guards, they opened the locker for me. I went to bed from six to nine, then my classmate Andryukha Samoilov woke me up, and at nine o’clock I went to a stage speech.
But, as they say, the darkest time is always before the dawn... Unexpectedly, I was invited to the shooting of the film “The Fog”. The casting took place, I was approved, and immediately my friend director Hovhannes Petyan called me to audition for the TV series “The Office.” I come to him, and next to him is a door with the word “Doctors” written on it. A girl comes out from there, saw my audition for “The Office” and suggests: “Ilya, don’t you want to come to us? We are launching the series “Doctors” here.” I asked to read the script, and the first thing I see: some kind of intimate haircut pubis He immediately refused: “Are you crazy, what kind of “Medicians”, no!” They began to convince me that a good team was emerging, headed by Ivan Okhlobystin. I still tried out, then a second time, a third - with Kristina Asmus, with the guys. And for the fourth time I come to audition with Ivan Ivanovich Okhlobystin, they try us out for a long time, and tomorrow I have to fly to Sevastopol to film a military drama, and I’m in a hurry.
- Could you then imagine that these “Medicians”, aka “Interns”, would shoot like that?
I had no idea! Well, some kind of series on TNT. I believed that this was not what I studied for. In general, we have been trying out for four hours with Ivan Ivanovich, I say that I don’t have any more time. And they tell me that I need another hour. And I flared up: “No, that’s it! I'd like to check out". In response I hear: “Ilya, you are now deciding your destiny.” I decisively answer: “You know, I accomplished it, goodbye!” He turned around, slammed the door and left. And what do you think. Week two, I’m in Sevastopol, filming “The Fog,” and then I get a call: “Ilya, congratulations, you’ve been cast in the TV series “Interns.”
Still from the TV series “Interns”
- You are often associated with your hero Gleb Romanenko, a major and adventurer. How accurate is this comparison?
I told you the story of my life, which is completely at odds with the life that Gleb Romanenko lived. I asked myself the question: why do I play these particular majors and womanizers in films? Probably because as a child I wanted everything to be easy: to go to the sea, to have cool clothes...
But now, looking back, I wouldn’t trade the path I took in life for anything. Because I know the price of everything, and if happiness could be bought, then I probably would have done it already. But only love makes me happy, probably thanks to my life experience, the people I met, my parents who instilled the right values in me.
And thanks to my profession, I found my roots. My own father is Georgian. Once, while filming in Prague, I met Georgian actors. He asked me to find my family, gave my father’s last name, and they found me. My friend, the famous Georgian actor Vano Tugushi, called me (we filmed together in the Czech Republic) and said: “We found your relatives, but I have bad news - your father is no longer there, but there is a grandmother, grandfather, sister from sibling dads." I immediately flew to Georgia and, like Mtsyri, I found out that I had, it turns out, my homeland. Something turned upside down in me, I realized that I wanted to live in Tbilisi. There I feel whole, there I live, not run. So, I hope I will be able to work here and live in Georgia.
- Something turned upside down in me, I realized that I wanted to live in Tbilisi. There I feel whole, there I live, not run. Photo: Arsen Memetov
- Why did you need to participate in the “Bachelor” project?
It was a war with myself and with the people around me. Three times I refused. The first time my agent called me and said that I was called to “The Bachelor.” I didn't know what it was. I get home, turn it on, watch 6 minutes 53 seconds, and I almost vomited on my own shoes. I call the agent and shout: “Are you crazy!” The second time they called and asked “just to come talk.” I resisted for a long time, but they finally persuaded me. I arrive at the producers’ office and immediately start asking questions: “What does your show teach? How will it be useful? What is it for? They say, “Our show teaches hope.” I explode: “What hope are you talking about?” The producers then answered me: “The hope is that there is worthy men and women in our country." Me: “So you will watch as 25 women swing me in different directions?” They, rubbing their hands: “Yes!” I decided that I wouldn’t look for easy ways, and took a break to think.
For me, one of my biggest fears is getting into a relationship with a woman. With just one. And here there are 25 of them at once! In general, I refused, I didn’t even want to listen. But an incident happened. I go to the store and on the way I talk on the phone with the director about the show, sit down on a bench for a minute, look at the temple. And my wallet is on my chain belt. I got up and, continuing to talk on the phone, went to the store. I go to the cash register and see that there is no wallet. I leave everything, run out into the street - there is no wallet... I haven’t lost anything for three years. There was no money in the wallet, only cards, but there was a very expensive thing for me that had been with me since I was 16 years old. And I thought: maybe I’m losing something...
I called the director back and said that I finally decided to go to a meeting with the head of the TNT channel, who all this time wanted to talk to me about “The Bachelor.” I was asked to write on a piece of paper exactly what I would not do. I said that I would come up with dates myself, and no pornography! At the institute, we were taught to avoid vulgarity in creativity in any of its manifestations, be it cinema, theater, the show “The Bachelor,” whatever.
- “The Bachelor” helped me part with some illusions. Photo: Arsen Memetov
- What was fundamentally important for you?
I wanted everything to be fair. I checked myself too. I really am a bachelor, and really, maybe God willing, a miracle will happen? I essentially began to think through the program script myself. I saw that the girl had a certain talent, and I figured out what kind of date we would have in order to reveal this talent of hers. And if there is no talent there and she doesn’t do anything, then reveal her as a woman, as a person. On the sixth episode, I realized that there was no need to invent anything, that real relationships and real feelings had already begun.
- Do you remember the first day on the project?
Honestly, when I went to the thousandth Tchaikovsky Hall to play in the oratorio “Joan of Arc at the stake” with Chulpan Khamatova, I was less worried than then, on the first day on “The Bachelor”. I experienced the whole range of feelings - surprised, upset, nervous, worried. Then at some point I thought: yes, this is interesting, cool, here we can talk about something serious. And some moments opened up already on the very first day. It was then that I asked one girl a question: “Do you have anyone?” And from the first day I felt that she was not alone, that it was all pretend and she was not who she said she was. As a result, this is what happened: she clearly didn’t tell me something and left the project in a very strange way.
And I told only one girl on the very first day: don’t fall in love! Because I felt that there could really be very strong feelings there. I also understood this immediately. Heart and intuition. Of course, I got burned, made mistakes, got tired to the point of complete exhaustion. I almost quit this project! But I am grateful to “The Bachelor” for helping me part with some illusions.
The final of our the show will take place in Georgia, and there I already have heavy artillery: my mother, grandmother, Georgian women who will help me in any case. And I hope that they will approve of my choice. I need a creative, charismatic person endowed with some kind of natural talent, with whom I will be interested.
With project participants Ekaterina Nikulina... Photo: TNT Press Service
- In the end, did you find your muse on the project?
I met a woman with capital letters, which tends to give rather than consume. I hope we get to the last station. We are just at the beginning of our journey, and we have a lot to learn. Relationships are work on both sides. Love is delicious porridge in the morning and peeling pomegranates together... Everything seems simple and mundane. But this is the only thing that really matters.
- Did she conquer you with delicious porridge?
She captivated me with her depth. She's an alien, she's from the moon, she's a galaxy. Do you know, grains of sand can lie nearby, but galaxies are at such a great distance from each other that the human brain cannot understand, because when they touch, nuclear explosion. And we met halfway, walked through thorns, and then it happened. How Tunguska meteorite- it just covered me. It was as if they put a basin on top of us and hit it with Thor’s hammer, and everything around us began to ring.
...and Madina Tamova. Photo: TNT press service
- Ilya, you doubted almost all the participants, you felt there was a catch. Did you also doubt the girl you chose?
Certainly. Moreover, in order to make a choice in this direction, I had to defeat myself. I had my doubts. I spent the whole night in the temple, prayed and made a choice with my heart. I just realized that I could no longer live without this person.
The girl I chose is the most sincere, honest and noble person. This is a woman of blood and flesh, she did not speak, but acted. We went through all the stages: mistrust and trust, respect, care. And now we are together. Not on the screen - we are already together in life. I'm writing a script that describes our story, something like "Life after the show." Maybe this will later turn into a play, maybe a film, I don’t know. You have no idea what we had to go through, what we faced. But I don't regret a second. And how can I regret it when I am the happiest person in the world! I found what I dreamed of.
-Are you saying that you are thinking about getting married?
I don't want to say anything. I've already shared a lot. I have never advertised my personal life, and here I even brought a show to Georgia, only because real feelings happened.
In the finale we will find ourselves in the Rabat fortress in Meskheti. My family began there. And there is no one to continue it but me. All year my grandmother tried to convince me to take my dad’s last name – Meskhi. Mom gave her permission and said that it was time to become his father’s son.
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Ilya Glinnikov
Education: graduated from GITIS (workshop of Valery Garkalin)
Career: his first film work was a small role in the series “Club”, since then the filmography has been replenished with such projects as “Interns”, “First Love”, “Fog”, “Zaletchiki”, “Roof of the World”, “Love with Limits” and etc.
// Photo: Photo press service of the TNT channel
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“There are very few women who like their appearance. I know fellow artists incredible beauty and talent, but film set they behave like this: “My ears and nose are a disaster, so you can’t film me close, or better yet, I’ll play everything with my back.” I’m not lying for a second when I say that I’m not afraid to look ugly on camera.” Actress Yulia Snigir openly answers readers' questions during a direct line. The entire text was published in the printed version of the magazine “Antenna-Telesem. South Region".
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The fifth season of the show “The Bachelor” has ended, and main character program told the Antenna-Telesem magazine about his girlfriend and plans for life.
Last week Keanu Reeves came to Russia. The actor tried to visit St. Petersburg secretly, but the mission failed. The Hollywood star was spotted on the plane. He sat modestly in business class alone, without security or accompanying persons. The plane had not yet managed to turn off the engines after landing, and the first selfies with Keanu started pouring into Instagram. In the latest issue of the magazine “Antenna – Telesem”
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", Season 5, started on social networks heated discussion whether the main character of the project Ilya Glinnikov made the right choice. Many criticize the winner of the show Ekaterina Nikulina, and some doubt that the couple remained together after the cameras were turned off. The TNT channel has officially confirmed that now Ilya and Katya continue to build a relationship. Glinnikov and Nikulina, having found love in the fifth season of the show “The Bachelor” in front of millions of viewers, are together and happy.
Ekaterina Nikulina now, after the show, admits that for her everything became clear after the first date with Ilya: “I always pay attention to inexplicable symbols, circumstances that make it clear that someone brought this person to me, we met for a reason...” However, the girl believes that the reality show - the strangest place to meet a young man. By the way, at the casting Katya said that she decided to take part in the show , because she wants to find a husband and “quickly start a family in order to become a young mother.”
In turn, Ilya Glinnikov still does not hide his surprise, since, in his words, he saw next to him a person whom he did not expect to see at all: “I have a feeling that I dreamed her up, met a woman who is ready to give and not consume. My mind refused to believe it - this simply cannot happen! Well, maybe! I hope we can get to the last station. If this happens, then I will be the happiest person in the world!”
It's no secret that filming of the fifth season of the show “The Bachelor” was completed long ago. Moreover, Ilya Glinnikov even got into the lenses of paparazzi cameras along with his chosen one. The couple blessed Easter cakes in the church on Easter. It was there that photojournalists waylaid them. True, the shots that we managed to take were very blurry, but Ilya’s companion could be seen as Ekaterina Nikulina. The actor then came up with a rather strange excuse: they say, he blessed the Easter cakes together with Ivan Okhlobystin’s daughter Varvara. She was quite surprised by this information.
As a result, Ilya Glinnikov actually chose Ekaterina Nikulina in the fifth season of the show “The Bachelor”. Yesterday, everything secret finally became clear, and the couple no longer needs to hide their relationship. Madina Tamova, to whom Ilya Glinnikov preferred Ekaterina Nikulina in the final, could not hide her resentment towards the actor. By the way, Lesya Ryabtseva, who left the project one step away from the finale, does not hold any grudge against the Bachelor. Moreover, in an interview with Vokrug TV, she admitted that she managed to maintain friendly relations with Ilya Glinnikov. The actor and journalist continue to communicate after the project.
Ilya Glinnikov and Ekaterina Nikulina are together, happy and continue to build relationships
"were completed long ago. Moreover, Ilya Glinnikov even got into the lenses of paparazzi cameras along with his chosen one. The couple blessed Easter cakes in the church on Easter. It was there that photojournalists waylaid them. True, the shots that we managed to take were very blurry, but Ilya’s companion could be seen as Ekaterina Nikulina. The actor then came up with a rather strange excuse: they say, he blessed the Easter cakes together with Ivan Okhlobystin’s daughter Varvara. She was quite surprised by this information.
As a result, Ilya Glinnikov actually chose Ekaterina Nikulina in the fifth season of the show “The Bachelor”. Yesterday, everything secret finally became clear, and the couple no longer needs to hide their relationship. Madina Tamova, to whom Ilya Glinnikov preferred Ekaterina Nikulina in the final, could not hide her resentment towards the actor. By the way, Lesya Ryabtseva, who left the project one step away from the finale, does not hold any grudge against the Bachelor. Moreover, in an interview with Vokrug TV, she admitted that she managed to maintain friendly relations with Ilya Glinnikov. The actor and journalist continue to communicate after the project.
Meanwhile, Ilya Glinnikov and Ekaterina Nikulina have already managed to give joint interview magazine "Antenna" and tell about the secret life together after the show, wedding, plans for the future. “We want to get away from everyone. Only now are we beginning to truly feel happiness. And for us it means peeling pomegranates together in the morning, being late for work because you can’t get away from your loved one. Finally, the two of us can walk hand in hand through our favorite places, without seeing or hearing anyone around,” the publication quotes Glinnikov’s words from an interview with Wday.ru. Ilya is completely satisfied with his choice and is already making big plans for the future with his beloved.
Let us remember that Glinnikov was initially skeptical about the “Bachelor” project. The actor refused the producers' offer three times, but in the end they managed to persuade him. “When I once again talked to my director on the phone about participating in the show, I forgot my wallet, which contained the icon, on the bench. With her I went all the way in Moscow. I run out into the street - there is no wallet. I call my director back and say: “I lost my icon, and she has been here with me all my life since I was 16 years old. I think we're just missing something." That’s how I agreed to participate in the show “The Bachelor” and, it seems, I found the most important thing in life...”, Ilya Glinnikov said in an interview with “Around TV” on the eve of the start of the fifth season of the project. Even then, the actor said that he had found love.
“According to statistics, in the 20-year history of the show “The Bachelor” there have been only two weddings in the whole world, and one of these married couples fell apart. It seems to me that the point is that both girls and bachelors, when they are in a project, are in illusions. The heroes come out into life after this show, and it turns out that everyone needed something completely different. And that's okay. And I, it seems to me, managed to separate illusions and reality in the project. I lived it all. It was very painful. I saw reality...” summed up Ilya Glinnikov.
Ilya Glinnikov and Ekaterina Nikulina in the fifth season of the show “The Bachelor”
Ilya Glinnikov and Ekaterina Nikulina in the fifth season of the show “The Bachelor”
Ilya Glinnikov and Ekaterina Nikulina in the fifth season of the show “The Bachelor”
