Tina Kandeláki (born November 10, 1975) is a Georgian-born Russian journalist, public figure, TV presenter and producer.
TV and radio. Kandelaki worked for Radio 105, a radio station in Tbilisi, Georgia, until 1995, when she left for Moscow and started working on many TV and radio stations, such as M-radio, RDV, Silver Rain Radio, 2x2, Biz-TV, Muz-TV, Vremechko and TV-6. Since September 2002 Kandelaki has been hosting the talk show Details on the STS channel with Russian celebrity guests. In 2006 she received her first TEFI (the highest Russian TV award) for the “Best Talk Show TV Presenter” nomination. Since February 2003 Kandelaki has been hosting the TV show «The Smartest», the most popular version of “Britain's brainiest kid” quiz show. The show, as well as its host, received two more TEFIs — in 2004 and 2009. 2006 — Tina Kandelaki, together with Sergey Dorenko presented a weekly political program on Echo of Moscow (Russian radio station) 2008 —Kandelaki hosts Unreal Politics, a show that was aired on NTV. The show started as an experimental online project, in time Unreal Politics turned into one of the most popular talk shows on Russian TV with celebrity guests from politics, business and entertainment 2009 — Kandelaki hosts Two Stars, a TV show on Channel One 2009 — works as a producer of Infomania, a TV program on STS, a unique infotainment program for the thinking audience 2009 — dubbed Juarez, one of the guinea pigs of the G-force movie by Walt Disney Pictures 2010 — is a jury member of KVN Top-league (a TV game show) 2010 — is a TV-host for the show Perfect Man (STS Channel) 2010 - is a jury member of Bolshaya Raznitsa a parody show hosted in Odessa. (Russia One channel)
Interesting facts:
- Tina is naturally a left-hander, but was trained to be a right-handed.
- According to Tina, she forced herself to speak extremely fast in Russian in order to learn the language
- According to the opinion of her journalist colleagues, Tina is the epitome of glamourazation.
- Tina has two tattoos. A Reiki symbol Cho ku rei (it’s meanings vary, but the most common is “quick healing”) on her left wrist, and a Chinese hieroglyph on her left thigh, which means “mother”. These images were tattooed in the places of burns she received during a car accident.