Yulia and Lena won’t return to Shapovalov (Komsomolskaya Pravda - Russia)Time of publication: 13.03.2004 |
A party, dedicated to the final of the reality show t.A.T.u. In Podnebesnaya took place in the Pekin Hotel. All the attention was drawn to the former t.A.T.u. producer Ivan Shapovalov. “The former” – because it all became clear that there won’t be any return. The t.A.T.u.-girls didn’t even bother to show up. Ivan himself, tried not to show that the absence of Yulia and Lena touches him in any way. “There’s no past and there’s no future”, repetitively said Ivan. Just not to put a bad spell with his “no future” – as Ivan is on his way to launch a new project, which was presented to the audience. The new image is a shy, 12-years old girl Helya.
- I like what Ivan is doing, said Helya confused. – Of course, it’s pity that there’s no more t.A.T.u. but I’m sure that everything will be fine between me and Ivan.
The presentation of the compilation CD was arranged in a form of “let’s get known each other”. From one side Shapovalov was demonstrating the compilation CD, from another – a special person was interrogating the guests who and what they were. Ivan was sitting all the evening by the control panel of a studio mixer, speculating about new songs and the legalisation of drugs.
Having languished of beers and tequila, close to Shapovalov people were whispering secrets standing by the windows of the penthouse. They were speaking about that no one of the Russian artists had managed to get such money (the girls and Shapovalov brought 2 millions dollars fron Japan). They said that such money was enough for recording the new album and much more. Instead, Shapovalov started to play games and went too far. Right after their return from Japan it all became clear that the girls will leave Shapovalov – recording of the album failed, the TV show turned boring and another projects suffered a fiasco. One of the close friends of Shapovalov’s told a killing story. Ivan hired an OMON platoon to lead the “presidential” action. When everything failed there, he decided to go together with platoon to an auto-salon to get his newly purchased BMW X-5 series. As a result, the store personnel got that much scared of OMON, that they began to destroy some documents. Anyway, Ivan got his car.
Sam Vitalkin, March 12, 2004 |
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