Timati and Alex

Lina Arifulina was a guest on the Fametime TV YouTube program and answered questions about the Star Factory project, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The director and producer was the director of the show for the first five seasons.

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about the project

Host Laura Dzhugeliya asked the guest if there was an explosion at the Star Factory, to which Lina responded positively, adding that individual participants “attended the show for various reasons”:

In past interviews, Arifulina has also mentioned Alexa when it comes to arrogance and nepotism at Star Factory. On Yana Churikova’s YouTube show, Lina stated that they “bring themselves” to the project:

About the sincerity of the novel Timati and Alexa

According to Arifulina, the show had a script, and the team could deliberately provoke the “producers” for the sake of interesting stories. The participants themselves did not know the script, as Lina said. The romance was staged between the stars of the fourth season of Timati and Alexa? Lina answers this question like this:

When Laura said she understood Timati’s hint, Lina replied:

About Alex

In addition, Alexa was remembered by Arifulina in a suitcase dress, which she brought to the star house. Producer says:

According to Lina, she constantly persuaded Alexa to “dress normally like an artist,” but the girl stood still.

Alexa and Yana Rudkovskaya

About Elena Temnikova

Arifulina admitted that Temnikova “made her very angry” on the project.

Elena Temnikova

About Julia Mikhalchik

The director of “Star Factory” says that in the finalist of the third season he directed (he came in third in the project final. – Approx. ed.), he had never seen “a special vocal talent”. producer Alexander Shulgin.

Arifulina recalled the “crazy love story” of Mikhalchik and Shulgin:

Recall that a major scandal was associated with the name of Alexander Shulgin: his ex-wife, singer Valeria, said that the producer systematically beat him. When “Star Factory – 3” started, the public was already well aware of this. As Arifulina predicted, Shulgin and Roman Mikhalchik really brought Yulia some good. During the last concert of the project, Alexander made the artist an offer, which he accepted live. Immediately after that, the couple went on vacation to Egypt, but broke up after returning. At first, Mikhalchik said that, according to Shulgin, he was “too young and inexperienced” and that “no one left anyone”. Then on vacation she admitted that the producer began to show aggression towards her, so she left him. At the time of the novel, Mikhalchik was 18, Shulgin 39.

About Timati

Laura asked if Lina was proud of Timati’s success, and she replied:

Timati

Arifulina forced Timati to rehearse for hours, criticized him and often used “military methods” with him:

Timati is the only one of the “manufacturers” that Arifulina subscribes to on Instagram *. According to him, they still communicate quite a lot.

The rapper has not long been limited to music: a few years after Star Factory, he opened his own music label Black Star (left in 2020), and also started chains of clothing stores, burgers, tattoo parlors. , barbers, an esports club etc. This summer, Timati became co-owner of the Stars Coffee coffee chain, which replaced Starbucks, which left Russia.

About Natalia Podolskaya

About Polina Gagarina

Polina Gagarina

about new stars

Arifulina says that although she follows what is happening in the music industry, she will not feature almost any of the stars of the new generation. The only person he finds interesting is the singer Niletto:

About Dan Milokhin

Danya Milokhin

About Morgenstern

After leaving Channel One, Lina Arifulina took part in the project “STS is burning a superstar.” She is now preparing for the premiere of the movie “Little Red Riding Hood”: she is one of the directors and producers of the tape shot in her favorite fantasy genre.

*Instagram (owned by Meta, a well-known extremist organization in the Russian Federation)