Posner and Litvinov apologized to the participant disabled on the “Minute of fame”
The jury called his speech a “prohibited technique”, and the actress advised the dancer to fasten the second leg.
MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/. The jury of the program “Minute of fame” Renata Litvinova and Vladimir Pozner apologized to the student with a disability to Evgeny Smirnov for his remarks after his speech, but was unable to convince him to continue to participate in the project. Video with their apologies on the “Minute of fame” was posted on the website of the First channel.
In an episode of the show, the party Evgeny Smirnov from Sochi, invalid without one leg, appeared with dance partner Aliona Shineway. Then Posner called his speech a “prohibited technique”, and Litvinov called the party “a human amputee” and advised him to fasten the second leg.
“You understand that I did not want to offend you when I said what I said?” asked Smirnov Posner went out to party on stage. He said he understands, but “it ran”. “I know one thing — now to participate in this project, I can not continue, just because an objective opinion in my party to not be”, — said the participant of “Minute of fame”.
In turn, Posner Smirnov advised not to take such a decision. He noted that he admires the party and wants to see him further in the project. “I just still want to apologize, not for what I said and what I said that was not understood correctly. I beg you to still participate in the project,” he said.
Litvinov said that he did not want to offend the party’s word and therefore “used the medical term”. As for advice to fasten the leg, she explained that she tried as a Director to find a solution to Smirnov could continue to speak on equal terms with other participants. “All the reason in the first place you see that, and I saw you as a talented person who was doing your dance,” she said. “You told me to keep going, not give up, to fight. So I go through life I go, I’m here on this stage,” said Smirnov, refusing to further participate in the project. However, he noted that it will continue to dance in the framework of the project.