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| Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff had tried in recent years to relaunch their media careers. The brothers later tried their hands at academic work, writing doctoral theses in mathematics and theoretical physics which were both panned by their peers.(Photo by=Getty Images) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff became France's most famous twins, hosting a TV science and science-fiction show in the 1980s on a spaceship set. BBC said that they died of coronavirus within days of each other in the hospital, Grichka on 28 December, and his brother on Monday.
Aged 72, the brothers hadn’t been vaccinated against Covid-19. Their friends said they’re convinced their healthy lifestyle would protect them and they were admitted to the hospital in mid-December. Although their families didn’t specify the cause of their deaths, their lawyer Edouard de Lamaze confirmed they had both contracted the virus. Family friend Pierre-Jean Chalençon said they had left it too late to seek hospital treatment, deciding it’s similar to flu. The Bogdanoff brothers were a pair of eccentrics, descended from Austrian nobility. Feted for their initial Saturday afternoon TV program Temps X which ran from 1979, they were synonymous for years with popular science and were part of public life for the rest of their lives.
Before they were admitted to the hospital, the twins had been working on a pilot project to resurrect their old TV show, again set on a spaceship and planned for broadcast on another channel in the near future. In a statement on Monday, Igor Bogdanoff's family said he had "gone towards the light", surrounded by his children and family.
