Leading x factor. Oksana Marchenko: how a historian-teacher became a star of Ukrainian TV shows and the wife of a famous politician

Oksana Marchenko is a TV presenter who has become one of the cult figures of Ukrainian television thanks to entertainment programs and talent shows, especially X Factor and Ukraine Got Talent!

Oksana Marchenko was born and raised in Kyiv in a simple family of Mikhail Andreevich and Tatyana Grigoryevna Marchenko. Oksana grew up as a middle child: she has an older sister, Diana, and a younger brother, Andrei. The boy was born when Marchenko entered the medical school after the 8th grade. By the way, due to the birth of her brother, Oksana had to drop out of school and return to high school, as her mother needed help caring for Andrei.

Oksana decided not to get involved with medicine anymore, after receiving a matriculation certificate she became a student at the Kyiv Pedagogical University named after MP Drahomanov. The girl graduated with honors from the Faculty of History, but even in her student years she found a job as a TV presenter and showed a strong character, demonstrating her civic position at rallies of the student movement of the 90s.

Journalism

In 1992, a competition was held in Kyiv for the best non-professional TV presenter. Oksana Marchenko was only 19 years old when the girl decided to participate in this event and unexpectedly won, getting her first job on television in her life.

The girl hosted the programs “Good Morning, Ukraine”, “UTN-Panorama”, “Restrained Tuesdays”, “Person of the Year”. Later, the level of transfers Oksana increased. She became the face of the social entertainment show My Profession and the political talk show Vremya. On account of the host and the author's program "The Oksana Marchenko Show", in which a young woman, with advice and deed, provided real assistance to the guests of the studio who found themselves in a difficult life situation.

In 2000, Oksana Marchenko founded the television company Omega-TV, and three years later she initiated the creation of a cycle of documentary television films Names, each series of which is dedicated to one famous person whose life was related to the history of Ukraine. This project was named the most informative by the audience.

But the main fame came to the TV presenter after Oksana became an integral part, in fact on a par with the jury, of the most popular talent shows "X-factor" and "Ukraine has talent" ("Ukraine has talent"). About both shows, the TV presenter posted information on her own official website. Fans of these TV shows after the broadcasts heatedly discussed both the performances of the contestants and the incredible designer dresses of Oksana Marchenko.

For her professionalism and brilliance, Marchenko has repeatedly received awards and recognition from both viewers and experts. The girl was awarded a special prize “For the ability to attract stars to herself” of the Teletriumph festival, Oksana was also called the best TV presenter of the year, the favorite TV presenter of entertainment programs more than once, and in 2011 readers of the Viva! Ukraine" recognized Oksana as "The most beautiful woman in Ukraine".

Personal life

On the set of the first broadcasts, Oksana Marchenko met Yuriy Korzh, the founder and CEO of the Internet provider company Global Ukraine. His family also owned the Internet Media Group rating holding. Oksana and Yuri started dating and soon got married.

For the sake of the family, the young woman left her career as a TV presenter, gave birth to her son Bogdan and focused on the life and upbringing of the child. But after the divorce, Marchenko returned to the profession and began to appear on the UT-1 channel.

In early 1999, Oksana Marchenko hosted the Man of the Year awards ceremony and there she met for the first time the famous Ukrainian politician and lawyer Viktor Medvedchuk. Officially, the lovers became husband and wife four years later, and a year later, a little daughter, Daria, appeared in the family. By the way, the girl became the godparents and.

Oksana Marchenko is trying to keep her figure in good shape. To do this, a woman goes in for active sports - swimming, rollerblading and the like. As a result, the figure of the TV presenter attracts increased attention, which causes unpleasant situations, for example, fake photos with a naked TV presenter regularly appear on the Internet. At the same time, it is obvious that these are photo manipulations created from portraits of Oksana and the bodies of other girls. In addition, the TV presenter is regularly accused of having plastic surgery, but Marchenko does not comment on such rumors.

Oksana herself is distinguished by modesty and intellectual hobbies. A woman has more than one hobby. For example, Oksana collects works of art and rare books. The collection of the TV presenter contains lifetime editions of creations and. In addition, Marchenko realized herself as a landscape and interior designer.

In addition, the TV presenter felt a craving for prayer places. Oksana regularly visits the Zimnensky Svyatogorsky Assumption Convent near the city of Vladimir-Volynsky, and gives gifts to the nuns on big holidays.

Oksana Marchenko now

In the spring of 2017, the news appeared that Oksana Marchenko was no longer leading the X-factor project, the face of which the TV presenter had been considered until that moment. The journalist also ends cooperation with the STB television channel.

Oksana soon commented and confirmed this rumor. Marchenko said that she believes in the theory that you should not do the same thing for a long time and you need to look for new horizons.

Immediately after the appearance of this rumor about leaving the show, fans were concerned about the fate of the outfits in which Oksana Marchenko hosted the shows and regularly appeared in promotional photos and pictures in " Instagram". These are expensive designer dresses, and fans of the show were worried about whether the outfits would go to other TV channel projects or stay with the TV presenter.

Oksana replied to those worried that they were her own dresses, which the journalist took with her and planned to distribute some of them to her nieces and other relatives. In an interview, the TV presenter with a smile explained her own altruism by saying that graduations and weddings have not yet been canceled and these dresses will definitely come in handy.

After some lull in her creative biography, Oksana Marchenko reappeared on television. This time on the Inter TV channel in the reality show Time to Build. In this project, the TV presenter appeared in a completely new image. The journalist abandoned the feminine dresses familiar to the audience. Now, instead of long skirts, Oksana Marchenko wears comfortable pants, dark shirts and construction helmets, and the whole image of the TV presenter calls for action and change.

Time to Build is an adaptation of the American hit TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The reality show shows how four homeless families get the chance to find the home they dream of. The heroes of the show are a family with a difficult and tragic fate, so the TV project gathered caring viewers and helpers from all over Ukraine. Volunteers and sympathetic neighbors, countrymen and friends help the families of the main characters to build. Oksana Marchenko is sure that this reality show will not only help people with a dramatic past find a home, but will also make society more responsive and sensitive to those who have been visited by trouble.

Projects

• 1992 - "Streams of the second"
• 1992 - "Good morning, Ukraine!"
• 1999 - "People of Rock"
• 2003 -documentary cycle "Names"
• 2007 - Oksana Marchenko Show
• 2009-2014 - "Ukraine has talent"
• 2010-2016 - "X-factor"

For several years now, one of the most discussed and popular public figures in Ukraine has been TV presenter Oksana Marchenko, whose biography we will talk about in this article. We will tell you about her path to success, beauty secrets and recipes for happiness from the famous presenter, as well as what plans Oksana Marchenko has for 2013.

Marchenko Oksana Mikhailovna was born in the spring of 1973 (April 28) in Kyiv. She went to a regular high school, and after eight grades, she entered medical school, trying to make her dream of medicine come true. But it was not possible to finish it - after some time, Oksana's mother took Oksana's documents from the school, since her daughter had to help her with caring for her younger brother. Oksana returned to school, after which (in 1990) she entered the Faculty of History of the National Pedagogical University named after MP Drahomanov. In 1995, the future broadcast star graduated with honors from the university and received a diploma in history teaching.

By the time she graduated, Oksana had already gained some experience as a TV presenter - in 1992 she took part in a competition for non-professional TV presenters and won it. Already at the age of 19, she became the face of several national broadcasting channels: first UTAR, then UT-1 and UTN.

After several years of a fairly successful career, TV presenter Oksana Marchenko decides to create her own television company. In 2000, after 8 years of work on TV, she does it. This is how Omega-TV appeared. The debut programs were the show "My profession", and a little later "Hour".

In 2003, the Omega-TV company began filming a series of documentaries called Names, which covered the fates of prominent people who were in one way or another connected with Ukrainian history. Among the heroes of the cycle were: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Jolanta Kwasniewska, Nikolai Kasyan, Andrey Shevchenko, Baron Eduard Falz-Fein, Sergey Bubka - more than a hundred famous personalities in total. The documentary cycle was aired on the Inter and UT-1 TV channels.

Four years later, Oksana Marchenko becomes the author and host of her own "Oksana Marchenko Show", the purpose of which was to show that even the most difficult situations are not hopeless, there is always a solution. The motto of the project is "It's time to be happy!" perfectly reflected its purpose. An important part of the show was helping real heroines who got into difficult life situations, despaired and lost hope that their troubles would go away and their problems would be solved.

In 2009, the STB channel launched the project “Ukraine Got Talent!”, hosted by Oksana Marchenko. Since 2010, she has also been a permanent host of the X-factor vocal show, which also airs on the STB channel. At the talent show, one of the trump cards of Oksana Marchenko was her outfits and hairstyles. On each broadcast, the presenter demonstrated new gorgeous dresses, and her fans even created a rating of the best images of the star.

During her work on TV, Oksana Marchenko has received various awards more than once, including:

• "Golden Pen" for the project "Names" (2003);
• "Teletriumph" in the category "Best host of entertainment projects" (2010);
• "TV Star" in the nomination "Favorite TV presenter of the entertainment program" (2011);
• "The most beautiful woman of Ukraine-2011" according to the readers of the magazine "Viva!" (2012).

Oksana Marchenko - personal life

Oksana met her first husband, Yuri Korzh, while still a student, on the set of one of her first TV programs. Soon the couple had a son, Bogdan, after which Oksana temporarily stopped working on TV and devoted herself entirely to caring for the baby.

In 1999, Oksana was the host of the "People of Roku" ceremony. It was there that she met Viktor Medvedchuk, who later became her second husband. The wedding ceremony for Oksana and Viktor took place in the Foros church in 2003. A year later (in 2004) Oksana gave birth to her second child - daughter Dasha.

Beauty secrets of Oksana Marchenko

Oksana Marchenko is very fond of baths and various types of massage. The star also switched to separate meals a long time ago and admits that now it’s not at all difficult to give up meat from time to time or arrange vegetable fasting days for yourself. Oksana also notes that she does not consider fruits a good option for dietary nutrition. In her opinion, fruits increase appetite, and besides, store-bought “plastic” apples-oranges do not have all the necessary useful properties at all. Oksana is firmly convinced that only organic fruits, picked no earlier than a day before consumption, bring benefits. That is why the main part of the leading diet is vegetables, cereals, seafood and fish, as well as mushrooms.

Oksana Mikhailovna Marchenko was born April 28, 1973 in Kyiv.

Childhood and youth

A screen star was born on April 28, 1973 in one of the poor districts of Kyiv in an average family.

For a long time, Oksana dreamed of being a doctor, so after the eighth grade she entered a medical school. However, the girl failed to graduate from the medical faculty due to the need to help her mother with her newborn brother.

And yet, at the end of the school, she managed to get a complete education, entering the Faculty of History of the Mikhail Dragomanov NPU (then still the Kiev Pedagogical Institute named after O.M. Gorky), which Oksana graduated with honors in 1995.

Career and first husband Marchenko

Even before that, in 1992, Oksana Marchenko got on television. Having won the leading competition, her television biography began. A nineteen-year-old girl became recognizable on the UTAR channel. Later, Oksana hosted the morning program "Good Morning, Ukraine!" at UT-1, where she met Yuri Korzh. Marriage, public attention, disagreements in her personal life, combined with a desire for professional fulfillment, changed the success of the TV presenter and made this period one of the most difficult and turning points in Oksana's life, forcing her to quit her favorite job.

The condition improved only when Oksana Marchenko found out that she was pregnant. In 1997, the girl had a son, Bogdan. In her interviews, the presenter says that for several years after the wedding they could not manage to have children, but after a trip to Jerusalem, where Oksana wrote a note asking God, a stork with a gift looked into Marchenko's house. But despite this, the family life of a journalist with her first husband failed. Oksana lived with the child, and Yuri with her parents, after which a divorce followed.

Oksana decided to continue her career growth when her son was nine months old. The first debut after the decree was the Taurian Games. Oksana hosted the festival program, and backstage she nursed a child.

Things went up and already in 2000 Oksana founded the Omega-TV television company. She will make her debut on the air of UT-1, first from the social and entertainment show "My profession", later - from the political talk show "Hour". After that, in 2003, by producing a documentary series of programs "Imena", it was possible to broadcast them on the "Inter" channel. These stories about famous people are still being broadcast on the UTR satellite channel.

Oksana Marchenko and Viktor Medvedchuk

Having established business with the profession, Oksana, as according to the scenario, began to improve her personal life. While working as a host at the Man of the Year award ceremony, she met her second and unfailing husband, the famous Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. Three months after they met, they began to live together, despite the marital status of the politician. In addition, rumors about the prudence of the presenter added a lot of inconvenience to their relationship. But still in 2003, the second marriage of Oksana Marchenko took place.

In May 2004, Oksana and Victor had a daughter, Darina. The second marriage gave impetus to a larger career and participation in the leading projects. So, the presenter became the author of the Oksani Marchenko Show in November 2007.

Since 2009, Oksana Marchenko has been hosting the largest talent shows in the country - "Ukraine Got Talent" and "X-factor" on the STB channel. The format of the programs completely changed the image of the presenter, making her more modern. The second husband is simply delighted with the image of the star wife.

Interests

Oksana Marchenko is fond of landscape design, interior design, and loves to cook. The presenter respects punctual people and does not hesitate to admit that she is a romantic nature.

Spirituality occupies a special place in Marchenko's life; she constantly fasts, confesses and does charity work for monasteries.

Daughter Daria Medvedchuk (born May 20, 2004), her godparents: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva, she was baptized in the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg)