The scandal on Russian TV: a well-known member of 'What? Where? When?' accused of bribing on another show - ForumDaily
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The scandal on Russian TV: a well-known member of 'What? Where? When?' accused of bribing on another show

On February 12, the editor-in-chief of the television program “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” Ilya Ber accused the famous participant in the “What? Where? When” Alexandra Druz in an attempt to bribe, writes with the BBC.

Screenshot from the video of the First Channel

In his blog on LiveJournal, he told the following story: in November 2018, a few days before the recording of the program, one of the players, Alexander Druz, allegedly offered the editor to provide him with a list of questions and answers in exchange for a “share” of his three million winnings.

“He didn’t say it in those words, but the hint was quite clear,” Behr wrote.

"Who want to be a millionaire?" - an entertaining television quiz show, an analogue of the English program “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” The presenter asks questions to the player, for correct answers the player receives a certain reward; the more difficult the questions, the higher the amount. In Russia, the program airs on Channel One.

"What? Where? When?" - an intellectual show where teams of players - “experts” - answer questions from TV viewers. Alexander Druz is one of the most famous “experts” of the program and a multiple winner of the Crystal Owl award.

According to Behr's version, outraged by Druz's proposal, he decided to “try to catch” the player. To do this, he recorded telephone conversations where he allegedly negotiated remuneration and dictated questions and answers.

Ber laid out audio recordings and transcripts where bribery was allegedly discussed. Another audio, which he published in a post, clearly hears how he dictates the questions. The interlocutor on the other end of the wire can be heard badly and unequivocally to say who owns the voice is quite difficult, although Druz later admitted that this is indeed his voice.

Behr claims to have come up with the following scheme: he dictates questions and answers from the sixth to the fifteenth, but before the game itself he replaces the last five - the most difficult - questions.

During the game, Druz and his playing partner, another famous “expert”, Viktor Sidnev, reached the last question, but gave the wrong answer and ended the game with a fireproof sum of 200 thousand rubles (3 thousand dollars). Sidnev, according to Behr, “with a probability of 99,99%” knew nothing about the conspiracy.

Now the editor-in-chief of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” wants the leadership of the International Association of Clubs “What? Where? When?" disqualified Druz as a player.

At the same time, Druze Ber is not going to appeal to law enforcement agencies in connection with the alleged fraud.

“I believe that the issue of reputation is much more important here, and punishment in the “symbolic field” will be correct and sufficient,” Behr said.

Friends version

Druz himself responded by stating that Ber was allegedly trying to provoke him to dishonest play.

“The voice on Ber’s published recordings is really mine, and I’m not going to hide it, but Ilya Ber told the story exactly the opposite. It was he who offered me a deal with questions for the money that I would pay him from the winnings,” said Druz.

According to the “expert,” he was “surprised and even admired by this impudence,” but decided to see “how far this man could go.” According to Druz, Ber began to discuss the details of the deal with him, and he himself simply “diligently played along with him.”

After this, Druz allegedly informed his partner Sidnev about what had happened, and together they decided to “wait for what will happen next.” Going to the game, they allegedly agreed on the following: “if at the game there are those questions that Behr spoke about, then bring the filming to the 15th question, but never win it and report what happened to the management of “Millionaire.”

“However, everything turned out to be more complicated; the last five questions did not match. We just played them and won. To the last question, as Sidnev and I agreed, we did not give the correct answer,” said Druz.

At the same time, the “expert” emphasized, the correct answer to the last question was known to him, since earlier he “on this chess problem made a question for one of the tournaments on “What? Where? When?".

“Looking back, I realize how stupid I was in trying to outplay Beer. I’m sorry that this happened,” Druz concluded.

Shortly before this, Sidnev commented on the situation. He said that before filming the program he met with Druz in a restaurant, and he told him that “Ber called and offered to turn in the questions in exchange for part of the winnings.”

“I replied that we would not participate in this and that Sasha should under no circumstances call Beru about this,” Sidnev said. According to him, during lunch Behr called Druz twice, but he did not hear the conversation itself.

Sydnev stressed that he played fair, and the questions were not known to him in advance. As it turned out later, he clarified, Ber told Friends a few questions during a conversation before the broadcast, but the most difficult questions were others.

According to Sydnev, Ber accused Friends of attempting to bribe in order to discredit him.

Behr, in a BBC commentary, called Druz's version "baby talk."

“There are a lot of questions about this version,” he said.

According to Beer, the answer of Friends does not refute his words. At the same time, the editor acknowledged that he has no evidence that the initiative came precisely from the “expert”.

Channel One Reaction

Behr claims that he discussed the bribery attempt with one of the executives of the Igra television company (the company that produces What? Where? When?), but it was “to no avail.”

At the same time, according to him, representatives of the television company called him “a low, vile person who “does not act like a man.”

“I was told that this is a problem between me and Druz,” Behr added.

The general director of the Igra television company, Natalia Stetsenko, confirmed that she discussed the situation with Ber and Druz, and came to the conclusion that “everyone is wrong.”

“If you are provoked to do questionable things, shouldn’t adults, worthy, respected people give a worthy response to baseness?” she said in a statement. How exactly, in Stetsenko’s opinion, the participants in the scandalous story should have behaved, she did not specify.

Behr also claims that he discussed the situation with employees of Channel One and Red Square (the company that produces Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? under the Sony Pictures Entertainment franchise). According to Ber, he warned one of the leaders of the Red Square that he would write an incriminating post.

After the scandal that Ber’s accusations caused, the management of Channel One promised to look into the situation. However, in a statement, the press service emphasizes that there are “a lot of questions” about the story.

First, it is necessary to verify the accuracy of the records of telephone conversations. Secondly, the press service said, it is unclear why Ber made a statement just now, although the program was filmed last fall.

The statement of the channel emphasized that questions would be asked both to Friends and Beru, after which some decisions would be made.

The director general of Channel One, Konstantin Ernst, on Wednesday suggested that Ber and Friends could have a personal conflict.

“We have been looking into this situation from the moment we learned about its existence... For now, we can only assume that there is a personal conflict between the two participants in this story, given that they have known each other for a long time, both are “experts” and actively participate in the life of “What? Where? When?”, and to sort things out they didn’t regret using another television program,” he said.

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