The host Laurence Boccolini had apparently forged strong links with the Bogdanoff brothers. She did not hide her emotion after the death of Grichka Bogdanoff at 72, announced by her family this Tuesday, December 28.
This Tuesday, December 28, Grichka Bogdanoff died after a stay of nearly two weeks at the Georges-Pompidou hospital in Paris where he had been admitted after contracting covid-19, information confirmed by his lawyer. The former presenter of Time X with his twin brother Igor in the 1980s was 72 years old. During the day, the messages of homage multiplied, coming from personalities of the small screen such as Christophe Beaugrand who frequented him on television and on the radio, the Bogdanoffs having been for a time members of the Big heads from RTL, or former TF1 science journalist Michel Chevalet.
Laurence Boccolini about Grichka Bogdanoff: “Sadness to see you go “
Laurence Boccolini, who has hosted for a few months on France 2 Everyone wants to take his place following the withdrawal of Nagui, has also posted a tender message on her Instagram account. “Sad to see you go Grichka. So many years and so many years since we first met Igor. Unforgettable memories of sometimes surreal interviews, always tinged with poetry and humor, yours “, writes Laurence Boccolini, who first discovered the Bogdanoff brothers like many others, as a viewer of Time X, before meeting them on television sets when she in turn became a pillar of the PAF.
“There was a lot of kindness and kindness”, recalls Laurence Boccolini.
The host continues about the one who was officially single and childless: “I counted, I went back in time: 30 years since our first exchanges, after having rocked my adolescence with Igor on board this spaceship which fascinated me.” Far from those who would confine the Bogdanoff brothers to the controversies aroused by their scientific theories, their sometimes contested diplomas or their legal disputes, Laurence Boccolini evokes the multiple qualities with which Grichka Bogdanoff was endowed. “There was a lot of kindness and caring in your words. Never flatness or condescension. There was your universe. Whoever he was, he was yours, unique“, writes the host before concluding nicely: “I wish your trip was sweet to you. Sweet rebirth Grichka. I send stardust wherever you are. “