BOGDANOFF. The funeral of the Bogdanoff brothers took place on January 10, 2022, at the church of La Madeleine. Relatives and anonymous were invited to this tribute, before a burial Wednesday in the strictest privacy.
[Mis à jour le 10 janvier 2022 à 18h12] A final popular tribute was paid to the Bogdanoff brothers. The funeral of Igor and Grichka Bogdanov (as it could sometimes also be spelled) took place this Monday, January 10, 2022, at the Church of the Madeleine. Mass began around 3 p.m. in the presence of relatives, but also hundreds of anonymous, according to AFP. Among the personalities who came to bid farewell to the scientific twins, note the presence of Cyril Hanouna, Julien Lepers, Luc Ferry and Raphaël Enthoven.
“You are no longer there but living forever in our heart,” Amélie de Bourbon-Parme, former wife of Igor and father of his children, AFP reported during the ceremony in tribute to the Bogdanoffs. Following this popular tribute, Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff will be buried in the strictest privacy on Wednesday January 12, 2022, in the cemetery of Saint-Lary in the Gers, where they come from.
Inseparable in life, Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff followed each other in death, swept away by Covid-19 at the age of 72. Died on January 3, 2022, Igor Bogdanoff followed shortly after his twin, who died six days earlier. Their sister, Véronique, confided in an interview to Gala on the last moments of Igor and Grichka: “My brothers died six days apart almost at the same time. Grichka at 13:38 and Igor at 13:20”, she remembers. The Bogdanoff brothers were accompanied by their family until their last breath. Véronique also said she was relieved that they left together, without one knowing of the death of the first: “Even if it seems terrible to say, I am relieved that they left us together. I can’t imagine Igor’s beautiful brown eyes following his brother’s coffin. One did not go without the other. “
The PAF scientific twins were swept away by the coronavirus. They were both 72 years old. Known for their popular science and science fiction broadcasts, especially in the 1980s to 2000s, the two scientists had been hospitalized since mid-December at the Georges-Pompidou Hospital. Grichka Bogdanoff succumbed to the disease on December 28, 2021, while her brother was in a coma. Igor Bogdanoff died on January 3, 2022.
According to World news, confirmed in particular by the Bogdanoff’s lawyer on BFMTV, the two brothers were hospitalized on December 15 in the intensive care unit of the Georges-Pompidou hospital, after both having contracted Covid-19. Their relatives have nevertheless remained discreet about the causes of their death. “In peace and love, surrounded by his children and his family, Igor Bogdanoff left for the light on Monday January 3, 2022”, they contented themselves with writing in a message sent by his press officer. A message of the same content as six days earlier to announce the death of Grishka Bogdanoff on December 28, 2021.
Non vaccination of the Bogdanoff brothers to the coronavirus has been the subject of speculation since the death of Grishka Bogdanoff on December 28. Their lawyer assures him to franceinfo: “they were not anti-vaccines. It was not at all an obstacle for them.” However, he did not give a reason for not vaccinating the fellow scientists with the coronavirus. For his part, the former minister Luc Ferry, close to the twin brothers, recently indicated in Parisian that this choice was more personal than political. “Grichka, like Igor, was not antivax. He was antivax for himself”, indicated the philosopher who explains that “being very athletic, without a gram of fat, they believed that the vaccine was more dangerous”. Luc Ferry assured to have asked several times to the Bogdanoff brothers to change point of view, in vain. Their press officer assured in TPMP that they “thought they were unsinkable. They considered that they were in good health, that they were doing sports, that they were doing very well. Igor and Grichka were in a different world from the common one. mortals. “
In Le Parisien, Luc Ferry confirmed that Igor Bogdanoff had been placed in intensive care like his brother and was even in a coma when Grishka Bogdanoff died. “Three-four days ago, I found out that he was still in a coma. If he wakes up, can you imagine the pain to learn that his brother is dead? It’s unmanageable”, lamented the former Minister of Education.
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff (whose name is sometimes referred to as “Bogdanov”) are television hosts specializing in the popularization of science. Born on August 29, 1949, the twins were passionate about aeronautics, science and science fiction from their teenage years. Igor Bogdanof holds a doctorate in theoretical physics, and his brother Grichka Bogdanoff a doctorate in mathematics.
Eager to share their passions, Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff contacted TF1 and Yves Mourousi, then presenter of TF1’s 13-hour newscast, to present their book “Keys to science fiction”. The doors of the small screen are then open to them. Much of the Bogdanoff’s career has taken place on television. Their science and science fiction show, Temps X, is scheduled on TF1 from April 21, 1979 to June 26, 1987. After embarking on a doctorate in primordial cosmology, they returned to television in 1999, with “Project X 13 “(13e Rue), then the scientific magazine” Rayons X “(France 2). In 2008, they launched their show, “Science X”, still on Channel 2. We find them later in 2010 in “A deux pas du futur”. They can also be seen on the Fort Boyard game show and on the radio in Les Grosses Têtes on RTL. After being columnists in Touche pas à mon poste in 2017, Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff are participating in their last TV show, Mask Singer, in 2020 as candidates.
Igor Bogdanoff has had several companions in his life. The scientist first had a relationship with actress Geneviève Grad in the 1970s, before marrying in 1989 with Ludmilla d’Outremont. The couple eventually divorced in 1994. In 2009, Igor Bogdanoff with Amélie de Bourbon-Parme, writer. In 2017, we learn that the TV host has had a secret relationship for two years with a model and neuroscience student, Julie Jardon, who is 44 years younger than him, for two years already. Igor Bogdanoff leaves behind six children born to three different unions. For his part, Grichka Bogdanoff was officially single and had no children. He has always been more discreet about his private life than his twin brother.
The iron health of Igor and Grishka Bogdanoff is obviously the main reason that led them not to be vaccinated. “They never got sick. Even their chin, it’s not a disease. It was just botox, they told me,” also assured Luc Ferry to the Parisian, delivering in passing an impromptu revelation on The singular faces of the two twins.The physical appearance of the Bogdanoff twins has long been the subject of questioning. Many rumors, such as having plastic surgery or taking growth hormone, are fueling the media. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff themselves fuel the ambiguity, refusing to answer questions about their physique.