Alan Badoev

Childhood and adolescence

The young man was born in Beslan (Republic of North Ossetia) in 1981. But Alan spent his childhood in Ukraine, where the family moved almost immediately after the birth of their son. The Badoevs lived in Gorlovka. The city is located in the Donetsk region.

In early childhood, Alan Badoev did not show creative abilities, so he greatly surprised his relatives with his choice of university. He entered the Kiev National University of Culture and Arts in 1998. The young man shot his first works here; they were included in the cycle “Life, take two.” In his final years at university, Alan Badoev decided that what he liked most was making music videos.

Talented music video director Alan Badoev: biography, filmography and personal life

He is one of the most popular music video directors of our time. He is equally productive in working with Russian and Ukrainian performers, creates videos for foreign stars, and is also a regular on the pages of printed publications. They write about it, they film it, they talk about it. Badoev Alan Kazbekovich - this name is probably familiar to everyone!

Childhood

Alan Badoev was born in Beslan on January 10, 1981. However, being born in North Ossetia did not prevent him from spending his childhood in the Donetsk region. Alan grew up in Gorlovka, a small, quiet town.

It is impossible to say that the makings of a music video director were visible in Badoev in childhood. Then the boy did not think at all about art, but, like other children, dreamed of heroic deeds.

Relatives also did not observe the desire for beauty in little Alan, but fate decided everything in its own way.

Youth

Despite the absence of any reason to compare Alan's personality with art, already in 1998 he decided to go to Kyiv and try his luck at the local Institute of Television and Film. This is how Alan Badoev became a student at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.

Having started his training, Badoev firmly decided to become the best in the course. Even then, he began making documentaries that were used for the “Life Take Two” cycle.

Moreover, he felt the excitement that resulted in short film works: “Ears and Stubble”, “Trace 2000”, “Five Minutes, or Legends of Killed Time”. The time spent on studying was not in vain for Badoev. Over the years, he managed to discern within himself a desire to work in the field of music video.

This genre seemed fantastically interesting to Alan, allowing him to reveal his own inner world. Alan Badoev’s first work, which he did with Ukrainian producer Yuri Nikitin, was a video clip for Irina Bilyk’s song “Snow”.

It was at that time that Alan Badoev, whose biography is replete with frank facts, was beside himself with delight and pride, and today his collection includes more than two hundred clips, each of which looks truly fascinating, enchanting and unique!

First steps to glory

Despite the fact that the “Snow” video made a proper impression on the audience, real fame found Badoev in 2006, when he released the full-length film “OrangeLove”. The premiere screening of the film took place at the Cannes Film Festival. At that time, Badoev’s film was shown out of competition, but foreign critics were amazed by the director’s skill.

Participation in television projects

Despite his involvement in the filming of video clips for Philip Kirkorov, Gaitana, Svetlana Loboda and other equally famous performers, Alan Badoev, whose biography reveals a lot of interesting things to readers, expressed a desire to take part in larger-scale television projects.

In April 2010, Vladimir Zelensky made Badoev an offer that he could not refuse - the position of creative producer of a new humorous show on the Inter TV channel. This project became Alan's debut, and he put maximum effort into its promotion.

In May of the same year, Alan received another offer - to take on an unprecedented project for Eastern Europe. This meant a musical film, in which Lara Fabian was supposed to play the leading role. It is also noteworthy that the musical accompaniment of the film is the creation of Igor Krutoy himself.

Thanks to his participation in the project, Alan Badoev discovered another niche of his own talent. For some time, together with his ex-wife Zhanna, Alan hosted the show “Heads and Tails.” The show was broadcast on Inter, K1 TV channel and Channel Seven.

The essence of the project was as follows: weekly Alan and Zhanna had to travel to one of the countries of the world. Some people get the chance to live this time on a grand scale, without limiting themselves at all on their means, while others are entitled to only $100, which is a two-day budget.

The show, warmly received by the audience, has 8 seasons, the last of which still delights the audience on television. Badoev’s no less sensational project was the show “I want to go to VIA Gro.” Alan acted as the main director.

Badoev found his first award as a student. For his short films, Alan received a prize as best director.

Some time later, Badoev took part in the creation of the film “Angels Live Opposite” - he wrote the script, for which he was awarded the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary for his contribution to the art of Ukraine and participation in the social life of the country. In 2006, the music video director received the Kinoshock 2006 award for directing the film OrangeLove.

In 2008, Badoev’s video for Pugacheva’s song “I Invite You to the Sunset” was recognized as the best, for which the director himself received the “Soundtrack” award. In the same year, Badoev was named the best director of the year as part of the People of the Year award.

Personal life

Alan Badoev, whose biography is interesting in all respects, is such a busy person that he has practically no time for his personal life. Their union with Zhanna Badoeva was discussed for a long time, and there was never any doubt about the sincere love between the spouses. Unfortunately, in 2012, after 9 years of marriage, the couple officially announced their separation.

The reasons are carefully hidden to this day, but the media stubbornly insist that the ex-spouses are on more than friendly terms. According to Badoev himself, he and Zhanna became so close that even after the breakup they support each other. This is also evidenced by the pictures that the music video director often posts online.

Alan Badoev always signs his photos with warm words, once again emphasizing that he and Zhanna are not enemies! At the time the couple joined, Zhanna already had a son, Boris, and after some time the couple had a common child, daughter Lolita. Despite the fact that Zhanna is five years older than her ex-husband, they always understood each other and looked in the same direction.

It didn’t hurt the couple that both Alan and Zhanna Badoev, whose divorce is still being discussed, are public people.

The fact that Alan Badoev divorced his wife shocked fans of the talented music video director, and even more surprised admirers of Zhanna’s work. Recently, the public had the opportunity to question the lack of communication between divorcees. This was facilitated by a photo posted by Alan online.

The picture showed Zhanna lying in bed, carefully covering her face with her hands. Fans immediately suggested that the couple were back together, which Badoev later denied. But the music video director again emphasized that Zhanna is the most beautiful woman he has ever met.

Former partners not only spend free time together, but also manage to record the get-togethers on film. Alan Badoev, whose children mean a lot in his life, pays enough attention to them. The adopted son and his own daughter receive a lot of warmth from their dad.

Alan, unlike his colleagues in the shop, does not disown his children with expensive gifts, but spoils them with joint evenings. And recently the entire Badoev family visited the United States, where Alan spent an extracurricular vacation.

Producing

Today, producing is considered a fairly prestigious and profitable occupation. Many outstanding show business personalities have already managed to bring to light more than one performer who later became an idol of youth.

Badoev also succeeded in this area. In 2009, he took up the promotion of the aspiring singer Max Barskikh, after which the latter’s name began to appear in chat rooms and glossy publications. Today Barskikh is a star.

He has a lot of truly incendiary songs and enchanting videos to his credit.

Best clips

Badoev has a lot of excellent video clips to his credit, shot for both Russian and Ukrainian performers. Alan Badoev, whose biography is truly interesting reading, works with stars of different ages, and knows how to find the key to each.

But despite the enchantment of each of his creations, the public singles out his most worthy works, including the video for Tina Karol’s song “Tenderly”; video for VIA Gra “Hello, Mom”; the incendiary and dramatic story “I am a revolution” by Svetlana Loboda; a video called “Let Go”, filmed for the song of the same name by the group “NeAngely”.

By the way, the infamous video for Tina Karol’s song “Nochenka” also belongs to Badoev.

Interesting Facts

Badoev's life was never locked behind seven locks. The music video maker and director often tries to please his fans with fresh photographs and personal news.

Not long ago, he even “let” the public into his own bed, demonstrating that he was sleeping with a teddy bear. But Alan Badoev prefers to relax like an adult - in London.

According to the director himself, this place is associated with magic for him, and that’s what Alan misses...

Carier start

His first music video was a video for the then popular song “Snow”, performed by Irina Bilyk. The work was carried out in collaboration with Yuri Nikitin, a well-known producer in Ukraine. However, Alan gained popularity after the release of the film Orange Love. The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and was highly praised by European film critics. And although the film was shown outside the nominations, for Alan, positive reviews from professionals in his field were very important.

Producer activity

Alan Badoev works on an ongoing basis with such Russian and Ukrainian pop performers as:

Svetlana Loboda.
Ani Lorak.
Ruslana.
Gaitana.
Philip Kirkorov.
Vera Brezhneva.
Valeriy Meladze.
Polina Gagarina.

Critics also noted Badoev’s work with the group “Night Snipers,” for example, the video he shot for the song “Traffic Lights.”

He also took part in the creation of the TV show “Porobled in Ukraine.” Acting as a creative producer, Alan Badoev gathered around him professionals in his field. He devoted himself entirely to the creation and promotion of the program, as he considered this project his debut.

Almost in parallel with his work on the Ukrainian TV show, Alan begins filming the film Mademoiselle Zhivago with Lara Fabian. Igor Krutoy helped Alan in working on it.

Alan Badoev is also the producer of the famous Ukrainian performer Max Barskikh. He also took part in organizing the TV show “I Want Viagra.” Many of the project’s artists subsequently said that they would really like to work with the talented video director again.

Alan Badoev, a popular Ukrainian music video director, director, producer and TV presenter, is known to the general public for his stylish video clips. Their number over the years of fruitful work amounts to hundreds.

Video maker, director, producer and TV presenter Alan Badoev

The director works closely with Russian, Ukrainian and foreign pop stars, and is also the producer of several large-scale television projects.

Childhood and youth

Alan Badoev is Ossetian by nationality. He was born in January 1981 in Beslan, North Ossetia. This city is known to every Russian after the tragically famous events of 2004.

Soon the Badoev family moved to Gorlovka, a city in the Donetsk region, where the future music video director spent his childhood. Alan went to Gorlovka secondary school No. 2, where, according to him, he first became interested in art thanks to sensitive and caring mentors.

Alan Badoev in his youth

The oppressive atmosphere that reigned in a small mining town and a rather aggressive social environment strengthened the character of the future director and strengthened the desire to create beauty in contrast to the surrounding reality. Life in Gorlovka prepared the young man well for survival in the metropolitan metropolis.

Since Alan did not talk much about his passion for directing and filmmaking, his decision to enter the Kiev Institute of Culture and Arts after school came as a surprise to his loved ones. However, no one put any obstacles in the way of yesterday’s graduate, and in 1998 Badoev was successfully enrolled in the university.

Movies

Being a supporter of a practical approach to learning, Alan Badoev began making documentary films already in the 1st year of the institute, while his fellow students were taking general and introductory courses.

Even then, the persistence, hard work and amazing fruitfulness of the famous music video director were evident. The first works were subsequently combined into a single cycle, to which the director gave the name “Life, Take Two.”

The films of this series were awarded prizes at the Prosvita and Golden Knight film festivals.

Alan Badoev on the set

Having tried his hand at documentary filmmaking, the director begins experiments in the genre of short fiction.

Among Badoev’s works of that period, one can highlight the short films “Spike and Stubble”, “Trace 2000” and the film “Five Minutes, or Legends of Killed Time”. These films received a prize at the student film festival Fast Fest Weekend.

The jury especially noted Alan's professional directing work and innovation.

In 2002, Alan Badoev received his first recognition as a screenwriter. For the script for the film “Angels Live Opposite,” he, a 4th year student, was awarded the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary for his contribution to the development of art in Ukraine, as well as for depicting acute social problems in highly artistic language.

Still from Alan Badoev’s film “Orange Love”

A few years later, in 2006, the director filmed the melodrama “Orange Love.” This film was awarded the Kinoshock Open Film Festival of the CIS and Baltic countries. In addition, at the out-of-competition screening at the Cannes Film Festival, the film received warm reviews from film critics. The main characters were played by Alexey Chadov and Olga Makeeva.

In a creative union with composer Igor Krutoy, Alan Badoev directed the musical film “Mademoiselle Zhivago,” consisting of eight parts. The main role in it was played by the famous French singer Lara Fabian. About 30 kilometers of film were used in the production of this film, and the scenery of the Auschwitz concentration camp was built in the Kyiv region.

Igor Krutoy, Lara Fabian and Alan Badoev

In 2012, the director took part in the creation of the film almanac “Moms”, dedicated to International Women’s Day. Badoev owns one of the short stories called “Partner”.

Clips

At the final stage of his studies at the Institute of Culture, Alan Badoev finally decided on his calling: he decided to start producing music videos for songs of pop stars. At that time, this niche in Ukrainian video production was not occupied.

At the same time, new pop singers, singers and groups appeared every day, and they all needed to make themselves known loudly. The music video maker discovered “gold mines.” Thus began the bright creative biography of Alan Badoev.

But he was still several years away from international recognition.

Irina Bilyk – “Snow”

Badoev’s first notable work was the video for Irina Bilyk’s song “Snow” in 2003. At that time, the singer changed her image and language of singing songs, so the video had to be strikingly different from all her earlier works. Alan did an excellent job. Maintaining the desired style, he managed to emphasize the atmosphere and mood of the song with non-standard solutions.

The young music video director’s new vision, close to European and American, brought him increased attention from the stars of the Ukrainian scene. In 2004, Alan Badoev shot 6 videos, among which it is necessary to note the English-language song of the singer Ani Lorak “A little shot of love”. The composition is designed in turquoise tones that were fashionable that season, and the concept of the video sends the viewer to the American South.

Alan Badoev and Ani Lorak on the set of a video

The year 2005 was marked for Badoev by entering the Russian market and working with new stars.

The director shot two videos for Abraham Russo, a duet between Natasha Koroleva and her husband Tarzan, as well as a video for the song “The Cherry Orchard” for Sofia Rotaru.

Alan was the author of poignant videos for Andrei Danilko’s instrumental compositions “After You” and “Doll,” which revealed new and unexpected facets in the popularly beloved Verka Serduchka.

In addition to the pop scene, Alan Badoev shot videos for such popular rock bands as “Night Snipers” (the song “Traffic Lights”) and “The Brothers Karamazov” (the song “Space is Dead”).

Group “Night Snipers” – “Traffic Lights”

After Badoev’s bright and memorable video for the song “L.M.L” in 2006, the director developed a close collaboration with the VIA Gra team and its producer Konstantin Meladze. Since then, the group has been filming regularly with the music video director.

Among Badoev’s notable works, the video for Taisiya Povaliy’s composition “Tea with Milk” and the videos for Ani Lorak’s songs “Hold My Heart”, “Leave in English” and “Have You Loved” should be noted. All videos appeared in 2016.

Taisiya Povaliy – “Tea with Milk”

In the same year, a creative meeting between the music video director and singer Tatyana Reshetnyak took place. Previously, the girl sang as part of the group “Hot Chocolate”, and in 2015 she won 2nd place in the 5th season of the music television competition “Voice of the Country” (“Voice of the Country”). Potap was the artist’s mentor on the project. Alan Badoev noted the bright finalist.

Together they created a number of videos for the songs “9 Lives”, “Love”, “Autumn” and others. , hosted on the hosting, each time became hits, the number of their views reached several million in the first days after publication.

Alan Badoev and Tatyana Reshetnyak

The director never ceased to be amazed at the singer’s talent and musicality, while Tatyana reciprocated Alan’s feelings, marveling at his ability to reveal the artist’s image on the screen in a new way.

TV projects

Since April 2010, Alan Badoev became the creative producer and director of the humorous TV show “Porobleno in Ukraine.” In addition, he directed the talent shows “I want to go to Meladze” and “I want to go to VIA Gro”.

In 2011, Alan Badoev, together with his wife Zhanna Badoeva, hosted an educational program about travel called “Heads and Tails” on the Inter and K1 channels. The concept of the program was to reveal to the viewer the features of traveling in two options: luxury and budget holidays.

Alan Badoev in the show “Heads and Tails”

At the beginning of each program, two TV presenters determined which of them this time would become the lucky owner of a gold card, which would allow them not to limit their funds, and who would be forced to settle for an economical vacation with a budget of $100. The determining lot was the coin, and the popular name of its obverse and reverse gave the travel show its name - “Heads and Tails”.

After the 1st season of the show, due to a busy work schedule, Alan Badoev left the project, focusing his attention on directing.

Alan Badoev and Misha Romanova

Alan Badoev, among other things, is involved in producing. His first student was singer Max Barskikh in 2009, and 2 years later - Misha Romanova (soloist of the group “VIA Gra”).

Then Badoev began producing Vyacheslav Basyul, a participant in the TV show “I Want to Meladze”.

Alan Badoev now

Alan Badoev is still one of the popular music video directors in Ukraine and Russia. In 2020, he managed to work with artists NIKITA, Alekseev, Emin, Ani Lorak, Maria Yaremchuk, Elena Temnikova and others. The best videos of the director were the clips “For You NET” by the group PLAY, “Close People” by Vera Brezhneva, “February” by Max Barskikh, “Don’t Love” by Tatyana Reshetnyak.

Alan Badoev on the set of the video “Drunk Sun”

After the start of cooperation with Tatyana Reshetnyak, Alan Badoev began to be credited with an affair with his ward. Fans’ speculations were prompted by the words of the music video director himself.

Badoev does not hide the fact that he experiences a creative surge when communicating with the singer. Working with Reshetnyak, in just one day he managed to shoot 4 videos for the artist. And in 2020, the couple starred in a candid photo shoot for XXL and gave an interview to journalists.

Their notable collaboration was the video for the song “Fantastic Woman”.

Information about the affair with Tatyana Reshetnyak faded against the background of Badoev’s Instagram post, in which the director appeared in the company of a sultry brunette.

Alan Badoev with a girl (photo from Instagram)

In the picture, the music video director gently hugged his unknown companion and kissed her hair. Alan's fans suggested that this girl is the star's new chosen one. In addition, Badoev left a romantic inscription under the photo. The laconic phrase consisted of 2 words - “Rays of the sun.”

Now the name of Alan Badoev has again hit the front pages of the tabloids in connection with the provocative video for Anna Sedokova’s song “Shantaram”.

It turned out to be so bold that it was immediately banned from broadcasting on Russian television channels. Its placement on the singer’s personal channel is also in question.

Anna Sedokova told fans that, most likely, the video will be banned for broadcast on the hosting.

Sergey Lazarev – “Surrender” (premiere 2020)

Also in 2020, the collaboration of Alan Badoev with Sergei Lazarev (“Surrender”), Max Barskikh (“Make it Louder”), Polina Gagarina (“Above Your Head”) and others saw the light of day.

Filmography

2006 – “Orange Love”
2012 – “Moms” (short story “Partner”)
2013 – “Mademoiselle Zhivago”

Projects

"Heads and Tails"
“I want to go to Meladze”
“I want to go to VIA Gro”
"Porobled in Ukraine"

Isabelle Huppert

French film actress

"Heads and Tails"

Alan Badoev took part in this television show for some time. With his ex-wife Zhanna, he worked as the host of the “Heads and Tails” program.

In the story, Alan and Zhanna traveled to different countries, where one of them lived for a couple of days on $100, and the other could use a gold bank card.

The program was broadcast on both Ukrainian and Russian television channels. In total, the show has 8 seasons, but Badoev took part in the role of host in only a few of them.

Personal life of Alan Badoev

The producer, director and music video director does not like to talk about the details of his personal life. However, in the biography of Alan Badoev there is one marriage with the co-host of the “Heads and Tails” program Zhanna, who at one time even took her husband’s surname.

The relationship between the young people lasted 9 years. During the marriage, the couple had a daughter. The girl was named Lolita. The famous hosts of the popular travel program filed for divorce in 2012. The former spouses do not directly state the reason for the divorce, however, according to them, during 12 years of marriage they could not find enough time for each other. Also, Zhanna and Alan named a difficult work schedule as one of the reasons for the divorce.

However, divorce did not become a reason for a bad relationship. To this day, Alan and Zhanna speak warmly of each other and support each other in every possible way. The ex-spouses even vacationed together in America. At this time, photos of Alan Badoev and Zhanna often appeared on social networks. Fans of the couple already expected to hear information about their reunion, but this did not happen. Zhanna Badoeva recently got married for the third time; an Italian businessman became her official husband.

In recent years, journalists have often focused on the too warm relationship between Alan Badoev and Max Barskikh. The young people even vacationed together in Thailand. However, the producer himself does not comment on such rumors.

Alan Kazbeekovich Badoev: biography

We decided to thoroughly and finally understand the relationship of this star couple and understand: why did they decide to get a divorce? And to do this from Alan’s side: contrary to all those who consider the topic of divorce only from the perspective of Jeanne’s difficult story.

Alan Badoev and Zhanna Badoeva: a story of eternal love?

Alan and Zhanna got married in 2003 and divorced in 2012, respectively, having been married for 9 years. During this time, the world saw not only many wonderful creative projects that were the fruit of their joint cooperation. But they also gave the world a new life - the star couple had a daughter, who was named Lolita and who turns 14 this year.

Many say that the Badoevs lived beautifully - beautifully and divorced: without quarrels, scandals, dirty division of property. And even now, being in different countries, they maintain friendly relations... Although they are very unusual and very expressive people.

Alan Badoev: biography

Badoev Alan Kazbekovich was born on January 10, 1981. So at the moment he is 38 years old.

Today he is famous not only as a cool video director, but also as a director in the broad sense of the word, and as a charismatic TV presenter, and as a successful producer.

And once Alan was a simple boy from a very modest family who grew up in a godforsaken Ukrainian city, and nothing promised him any heights even in the future.

Alan Badoev: family

The future showman was born in Beslan, a small city in North Ossetia. Here is the answer to the exciting question: what is Alan Badoev’s nationality? Ossetian. However, he grew up in the Ukrainian eastern outback - in Gorlovka, where his family moved shortly after the birth of his son.

Alan’s family did not see any exceptional “artistic” talents in him, and therefore predicted a simple working future for him. However, the boy dreamed of great deeds from childhood.

Therefore, to the surprise of his loved ones, after graduating from school, in 1998, he moved to the capital and entered the Kiev Institute of Culture and Arts.

And there I set myself the first ambitious goal - to be the best in my course.

So Badoev began making his first films (they were documentaries) even then. These were the works “Spike and Stubble”, “Trace 2000”, “Five Minutes, or Legends of Killed Time”.

Even as a student, Alan was lucky enough to receive substantial director's awards for his short films. And then he already realized that the most interesting thing for him was shooting near-musical videos.

So Badoev decided to start his career as a music video director and choose this narrow directorial profile as his life’s work.

Alan Badoev: clips

So, already in his last year, the guy was filming a very talented video for the recognized star, Irina Bilyk, for the song “Snow”.

Despite the fact that the video work was shot by an unknown student, it was so amazing and professional that it became a turning point for the entire Ukrainian show business in this genre.

Here, qualitatively new approaches to filming videos were demonstrated, which turned them into a small, aesthetic and very stylish movie, and not a banal video series.

Literally after the first video, Badoev wakes up famous... The fame of his works spread beyond the borders of Ukraine - the brightest Russian stars (which is very rare) quickly wanted to shoot videos for their songs with him.

So in Badoev’s arsenal there are already more than 200 clips. These are vivid video works for Ani Lorak, Natalia Mogilevskaya, Svetlana Loboda, Gaitana, Viagra, Valery Meladze, Verka Serduchka, Andrei Danilko, Sergei Lazarev, Vera Brezhneva and many others, and even for Alla Pugacheva herself.

And last year, Alan Badoev even reached the world level: he became the director of the video for the duet song of the world famous singer Arash and Helena - “Dooset Daram”.

However, Alan Kazbekovich also achieved his dream as a film director. Back in 2006, he directed the feature film OrangeLove. Its premiere took place at the Cannes Film Festival out of competition.

But this did not prevent Badoev’s feature-length debut from receiving the most flattering reviews from European film critics, who boldly called this film the first real and full-fledged Ukrainian cinema.

Alan also received the Kinoshock film award for this film.

Alan Badoev: whose producer?

But the music video director did not stop at films; now he is also widely known as a show business producer. Which stars became such thanks to Badoev’s patronage?

First of all, this is Max Barskikh. Badoev also became the producer of singer Misha Romanova. Having won the show “I Want to Viagra,” she became one of the soloists of the group in an updated format, and later embarked on a “solo journey.” Also, recently Alan has gained great fame as the producer of the singer Tayanna (Tatyana Reshetnyak), whom he “promotes” with great success.

Alan Badoev: personal life

However, no matter how great the successes of a creative person may be, the public is most interested in his personal life.

But on the personal side, Alan is very closed and, it seems, has little success. Badoev is not particularly noticed in high-profile novels. There are only rumors about his connections with various representatives of show business, and factual information about his marriage to Zhanna Badoeva.

Alan Badoev: wife

Zhanna Badoeva is the first and only wife of Alan Badoev at the moment. It is known that this was already her second marriage. Even before Alan, Zhanna was married to the famous businessman Igor Kurachenko. In her first marriage, she gave birth to a son, Boris.

However, this family broke up so suddenly that Zhanna was left alone in her arms with a baby without a means of support. The ex-husband did not even help financially to support their 7-month-old son.

Therefore, when the girl married Alan Badoev, he happily accepted not only her, but also her son as his own, even legally adopting him. So to this day Boris bears the last name - Badoev.

During that difficult period, Zhanna, with the support of her parents, gathered the strength to start a new life. So she continued her studies at the directing department of KNUKI, which her first husband strongly protested against.

At this moment, the biographies of the future spouses intersected: the already experienced Zhanna met the young, ambitious and promising student director Alan Badoev at the university. At first they sat for a long time, discussing the subtleties of cinema, then they became strong friends, and then a spark arose between them.

Zhanna recalls that at some party she and Alan danced a fiery Latin American dance together - then she felt that a real passionate attraction arose between them. And away we go - a passionate student romance began.

Although Zhanna even then had many fans, including very wealthy ones, she fell in love with Alan so much that she wanted to marry him. Then, as Badoev himself says, he did not have a penny to his name and lived from hand to mouth on art alone.

The lovers paid absolutely no attention to everyday trifles - they lived easily, enjoyed each other and also got married carefree and without officialdom. Now it’s hard to believe, but the wedding of such now famous people was simple to the point of impossibility. They decided that they wanted to be together - they took and signed their tracksuits.

It was only later, when both began to implement successful projects and got on their feet, Zhanna gave her husband an unusual gift - a real wedding. A beautiful wedding dress from Lilia Pustovit, a luxurious limousine, many friends and an outdoor summer party.

Even then, for Badoeva, it became a kind of sign that on this sunny, hot summer day, a hurricane unexpectedly blew in, demolishing the laid tables, and covering the entire celebration with a terrible downpour. As the couple now say, their rather long family life was just as bright and stormy.

The Badoevs' marriage was filled with crazy love and passion. They are both hot-tempered, emotional and sensitive, so they quarreled often and passionately. Then they made up just as brightly. Both Alan and Zhanna say that they always trusted each other incredibly, felt the kinship of their souls and were not just halves, but a single whole living organism.

And now the Badoevs are delighted with each other. Alan thinks that Zhanna is crazy, the most feminine and amazingly smart woman. He says she was the best wife he could ever imagine. And Zhanna calls him nothing less than a creative genius.

Both are confident that they will be special people to each other forever and will support each other for the rest of their lives.

However, the further into the forest, the more firewood there is. With the rapid rise of both their careers, Zhanna and Alan had less and less time for their personal lives. She began acting in the travel show “Heads and Tails” and flew off on long business trips. He shot more and more videos and opened new projects, disappearing for days on set.

In a word, according to the spouses, in the last years of their family life they practically did not see each other, because each of them was immersed in work and was rarely at home. There was less and less intimacy, and more and more alienation.

This went on for a year and a half, until they grew so distant from each other that they decided to divorce...

Alan Badoev: divorce - reasons

Before everyone found out in 2012 that Alan and Zhanna were getting a divorce, they had already been living in different apartments for six months.

They took this step after jointly participating in the program “Heads and Tails,” where Alan joined his wife as the new host, who hosted this show from the very first season. So they hoped to save the relationship and looked for opportunities to be together more. But that didn't help either. According to them, routine crept into their love and killed it.

Then both realized that they had come to a point when work became more valuable to them than communicating with each other, and romance was no longer in sight and could not be. When both realized this, they talked honestly about divorce.

However, before that, the couple struggled with the realization of this for about two years, trying to somehow revive the relationship, blaming everything on chronic fatigue and depression from it.

Both Alan and Zhanna believe that marriage and family cannot rest on habit, convenience and friendship; the main condition for them is love.

They did not divide property. Alan, like a man, left everything to his wife and children. Zhanna, in turn, encourages communication between the children and their father - they often spend free time together as a family, already with her new husband.

But there are still active rumors that the reason for Alan and Zhanna’s divorce does not lie in such trivial things. Evil tongues say that they actually divorced because of Alan’s unconventional orientation...

Alan Badoev: orientation – wives as a cover?

Even when the Badoevs were spouses, in their circle no, no, but someone would say: they say, they are an unconventional couple. Because Alan has relationships on the side, not with girls, but with guys.

When Badoev began producing Max Barskikh, everyone started talking that there was an affair between these sexy guys. It would seem like ridiculous rumors. But to this day they say that Max and Alan are connected not only by business and friendly relations. They are together everywhere: at events, presentations, social gatherings.

The public was especially convinced of this when Barskikh and Badoev, abandoning New Year’s corporate parties, arranged a joint vacation in Thailand.

Give up your main source of income for the year to soak up the sun with a friend! A man with a traditional orientation would prefer the company of a girl in such a situation, wouldn’t he?

And even now, at one of Zhanna’s last interviews, she was persistently asked the question: did you divorce Alan because he is homosexual? To which the girl replied meaningfully: ask Alan - I can only talk about my sexual orientation.

Alan does not comment on such questions. So his orientation remains a mystery. True, his girlfriend never appeared after his marriage to Zhanna...

Social media

The artist actively shares moments of everyday work on the social network Instagram. In the photo, Alan Badoev often appears with his colleagues: Vera Brezhneva, Ani Lorak or Svetlana Loboda.

On the social network, almost half a million subscribers follow the photographs of the popular music video director. Each photo of Alan collects tens of thousands of likes and hundreds of comments.

At the moment, Alan Badoev is one of the most sought-after directors of music videos and TV shows. Alan's clients include Ukrainian, Russian, and European pop artists. The number of Badoev’s works has exceeded 300, but the music video director begins filming new videos and television programs with the same passion as at the beginning of his career.