Laura Chuguevskaya

Columnist for Tricolor TV Magazine

TV presenter and blogger Vlad Chizhov about beatings and scandals, work on the Che channel and the reality show Decided

TV channel "Che" launched on November 27 about the fight against scammers with the tough name "Decided". One of the most mysterious modern TV presenters, Vlad Chizhov, slightly lifted the veil of secrecy over television production and his worldview. He prefers to just do good, he ended up on television by accident and offers to rely on« feel» to avoid danger.

The host of the project, Vlad Chizhov, is a well-known blogger who became famous on the Internet thanks to his exposure of scammers.

Is being a "decisive" - ​​is it to be a TV star or a knight of the 21st century?

You have put me in a dead end. I wouldn't choose either one or the other. What I do, if I may say so, is a dirty job. Do stars do the dirty work?

Did you receive an offer from the Che TV channel or did you offer him the idea of ​​a program?

I was offered cooperation by the producers of the Che TV channel. They liked my blog on the Internet. They felt that it would be useful for their audience to learn how not to fall into the hands of scammers. I am a person with a heightened sense of justice. This topic is very close to me - to warn people from danger and « kidnyakov”, to tell how not to get stuck in all sorts of stories.

Beatings and scandals - costs of production?

What do beatings and scandals mean? I don’t seem to be a scandalous person and I think that people who make scandals are stupid and unrestrained. As for the beatings, this is not at all the right place. I never go where you can catch beatings, I can only find myself in a situation in which I will not lose, but will be at least equal with a person. The use of violence is the absence of verbal arguments. Therefore, if we are talking about some current issues within the framework of the project, I can say that at the moment there are enough negotiation processes to deal with the problem. And only if people do not know how to talk or are not responsible for their words, the only way to get them to talk is to use force.

What story of exposing scammers do you remember the most and why?

I'm not a collector, I don't collect or memorize stories. All of them are very important. I don't want to focus on just one.

What was a surprise during the work that you did not plan?

There is only one surprise - the working day has become endless. I have no days off, free evenings and pleasant breakfasts. Now I only have a job.

"Che" is your first TV experience? Where did you get used to the camera?

Before the channel "Che" "in the TV » I have never been. Everything turned out somehow organically. I still don't consider myself a television person. It feels like you just live next to people with cameras.

What dangerous adventure did they help you escape from?

The best assistant is your "sense", your mind. The best warnings are an inner voice, a sense of the situation and life experience. Now I see hundreds of cases where people get into some kind of stupid story, and I begin to understand that with age the phrase "become experienced" literally takes on a material embodiment. There is a feeling that this is not very good, there is no need to climb here.

What for you is the main gratitude for the successful solution of the problem?

I never expect gratitude, I live by the principle of "do good and throw it into the water." He did good - and then immediately forgot it, without telling anyone about it and without boasting. As soon as a person begins to expect gratitude from the good done, it becomes not a good, but a service.

Was television your childhood dream or a lucky coincidence?

Television has never been the limit of my dreams, I never even thought about it. Like many guys, I wanted to become a pilot, but my childhood was in the difficult eighties, my youth in the nineties, so I earned as much as I could, in the end I came to the conclusion that real money is money that you earned with your own hands.

What are your expectations from the project?

At Reshal, we do our best to choose the most important, most relevant stories that can happen to everyone, but from which not everyone can get out. The main thing is that the project helps people. Just open my blog and read the reaction of the viewers. My expectations began to be justified when I began to read more and more often: “We watched the program and saved our money”, “If it were not for your program, I would have been thrown.” I began to understand that I was doing something really necessary.

Vlad Chizhov is known as a blogger and host of the TV show "Decided", the main goal of which is to teach viewers not to be baited by insidious scammers. People who have become victims of swindlers turn to Chizhov to help solve their problem and restore justice. Unfortunately, there is no reliable information about childhood, place of study and personal life of the TV presenter in the public domain. We learned the crumbs of information about Vlad that we publish in this article from the reviews of people who knew this person even before his all-Russian fame.

Difficult youth

Vlad Chizhov was born in Moscow in 1972. His parents are scientists of one of the universities of the capital. Every summer as a child, he spent with his grandparents in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). As a child, the boy went in for sports - he has youth ranks in basketball and swimming.

At the turn of the 80s and 90s, the capital of the Urals, following the whole country, became the epicenter of criminal "showdowns". It was these years that became the time for the formation of the guy's personality. There is evidence that Vlad was sympathetic to the activities of Evgeny Roizman, who saved the city from drug dealers, and not always by legal methods.

The acute situation in the country did not prevent the TV presenter from getting a good education - he graduated from one of the Moscow universities in the direction of "Jurisprudence".

Vlad's classmates wrote that he did not manage to become a student the first time, allegedly immediately after school he failed in the entrance exams and prepared for admission for a year, while simultaneously working as a conductor on the railway.

After graduating from the university, Vlad worked for a short time in the internal affairs bodies, but quickly became disillusioned with the system and tried himself in various fields for several years - from working as a fitness trainer to entrepreneurship.

Also in his few interviews, Vlad notes that in the 90s he had to communicate a lot with people from the criminal world, to solve problems associated with scammers. The latter, according to him, “he sees through” and can calculate in a matter of seconds.

TV career

Popularity came to Vlad when he started a blog on social networks. At first, knowing his ability to resolve conflicts and a good heart, numerous acquaintances turned to him with requests for help. His fearlessness and willingness to help not only in word, but also in deed, attracted more and more subscribers to the blog - the glory of the “solver” spread like wildfire.

Vlad Chizhov in the show "Decided". How money is stolen from your bank card

In 2017, the general director (at that time) of the Che channel, Lev Makarov, invited Vlad to host a new unique reality show on the channel. Reality topics are topical - the sale of fake phones, real estate fraud, lawlessness of collectors. You can invite the “decider” and his team to help by writing to the mail of the TV program or personally to Vlad.

I have no clout on the show. All requests come through my blog or you can fill out a special form on the program page

Often, those who are taken to "clean water" react aggressively. For example, in August 2017, a person whom Vlad came to under the guise of a buyer who decided to purchase an iPhone at a suspiciously low price got worried and tried to stab the host with a knife. And in February 2018, the presenter was ambushed, apparently by the sellers of “gray” phones exposed by him: they blocked the road for his film crew with an SUV, broke Chizhov’s collarbone and smashed the windshield on the car of the TV people. Companion Chizhov recorded what was happening on camera.

The host of the program Vlad Chizhov "Decided" was beaten in Moscow

Personal life of Vlad Chizhov

For obvious reasons, Vlad carefully hides his family from the press. He was never seen with a lady of the heart or children. It is known that the TV presenter has a pet - a cat.

Is the high number of fraud reports in Russia due to the increase in the number of crimes or the increased frequency of such news in the media?
- Nothing changes in the world. The number of scammers as it was before, and remains. But 20 years ago, when you live in a five-story building and an old woman is deceived from your entrance, you learn about it from your neighbors. Now, with the Internet, television, newspapers and other media, the information flow collects all cases of fraud. And all this passes through us. Therefore, it seems that there are more such cases.

- What do people most often come across?
- The most common vices of people who are played by scammers are greed and greed. If a person is promised a freebie, his thirst for profit is triggered, he drives himself into the clutches of scammers and he is very easily undressed. 90 percent of such divorces reach the final, people get money. I lived abroad for a long time and I can say that the story is about the same all over the world. Except that fraud based on trust - for example, when people are asked to lend money, to pay in advance - is peculiar only to Russians. I don't speak to Russians, to Russians. We are kinder, we are more sincere than in other countries. For example, it is almost impossible to breed for trust in England.

- How is the shooting of "Reshala" going?
- Difficulties that the viewer does not need to see are not included in the final editing. This is hard work, which is connected with analytics, with security issues. So there is an erroneous feeling that everything is simple and easy. The program itself is removed, of course, not in one day. It takes time for preparation and for the actual shooting, time for editing. All the hard work is behind the scenes. I can’t tell you about the technology of the program, since it is a trade secret. All topics are right here in my head. I find confirmation of their demand in my blog, where people constantly write about what interests them more. We all carefully read and select messages, which we then work out. As for the swindlers, due to my age, I perfectly understand who plays what instruments and on what instruments. Therefore, when I see a scammer who is working right now, I already figure him out by the tone of the conversation, by certain words. I immediately calculate it to the very end. But since we are filming a program, in the show we gradually decompose any fraud scheme into elements so that everything fits into the viewer's head. In particular, signs of fraud, how to behave if you got into a bad story, how to get out of it, what could be the consequences.

- How not to fall for the bait of a scammer?
- Universal advice does not exist. I always say: everything in life should be without fanaticism. If you are now determined to live like a minefield, your life will turn into hell. What for? You have to live the way you lived. But at the same time, if you live too relaxed, then every brat will climb into your pocket. So the truth is somewhere in the middle. Enjoy life, but don't lose your scent. Listen to events around you. If you start to offer something profitable, you should tense up and understand that someone is hunting for your wallet.

Fraud has become one of the most widespread types of crimes, and at the same time, the detection rate of such cases is only 25%. It seems that people increasingly have to rely only on themselves. So it's useless to call the police in the 21st century?
- I saw what was happening in the country in the 80s, 90s, in the 2000s, I see what is happening now. I can say: the state machine is working, the police are working. You are not afraid to walk around the city in the evening. They don’t take off your hat, they don’t poke you in the ribs with a knife, they don’t throw you out of cars. The government has done something very powerful to keep you safe. Another issue is that I never communicate with the police in terms of my case. It is my choice. At the same time, I understand that people who write to my blog: “Vlad, help me,” even 10 percent do not work out the resource of the state machine. Therefore, I always advise you to contact the police, the courts, fill out applications correctly, tell you how and where to complain. Unfortunately, the situation with legal literacy among people is not very good.

Russian TV presenter, blogger, who became famous for exposing scammers. Host of the program "Solved" on the channel " Che».

Vlad Chizhov. Biography

Youth Vlada Chizhova fell on the dashing 90s, and he more than once found himself in extreme situations: he encountered dishonest sellers and swindlers who fraudulently lured money. There is no information about Vlad Chizhov's family on the Web, if he has a family, then he hides it very well. It is only known that Vlad lives in Moscow, and at the time of the start of the "Decided" project, he was 45 years old.

August 21, 2017 on the television channel " Che"The reality show" Decided ", hosted by Vlad Chizhov, started. The program is designed to teach viewers to expose scammers and defend their rights.

During the filming of one of the episodes of the program, Vlad Chizhov was attacked. A counterfeit mobile phone salesman attacked Vlad with his fists. Fortunately, the host was not hurt. When the shooting of the second season of "Reshala" was going on, in November 2017, Vlad Chizhov's life was again in danger: an unknown person tried to set fire to Vlad's "lair". Fortunately, the incident was averted.

“In our profession, you have to be ready for anything. When you fight against scammers every day, sooner or later you will make enemies and learn to take a hit, ”the host of the show“ Decided ”admitted.

On February 6, 2018, Vlad was attacked again when he was returning from the filming of new episodes of The Deciders: a black SUV blocked traffic, three people got out of the car and attacked the TV presenter. A fight ensued, one of the attackers broke the windshield of the car. According to Chizhov, everything is in order with him, and his car took the brunt of the blow.

“Everything is under control, I know these freaks, we will still talk. I only regret that I was not alone, ”commented the presenter.