French twins and former TV stars Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff died of COVID-19 just days apart, according to several local reports. They were 72.
Grichka, the younger twin, died in intensive care on Dec. 28. His brother Igor died six days later, on Monday, at the Georges-Pompidou hospital in Paris.
According to Le Monde, the two brothers were admitted into the hospital on Dec. 15. Even though their relatives didn’t reveal their cause of death, their lawyer, Edouard de Lamaze, confirmed that Igor had “of course” died of COVID-19.
They were reportedly never vaccinated against coronavirus.
“In peace and love, surrounded by his children and his family, Igor Bogdanoff left for the light on Monday January 3, 2022?, his family wrote in a statement shared by his agent, according to French news station BFM TV.
Family friend Pierre-Jean Chalencon said that the brothers didn’t seek treatment until it was too late, deciding that their symptoms were similar to the flu.
“People have said they were anti-vaxxers but they absolutely weren’t,” Chalencon told BFM TV.
“Several friends told them to get themselves vaccinated but they felt because of their lifestyle and their [lack of] comorbidity, they weren’t at risk of COVID,” he added.
The brothers rose to fame in the 1980s, as the hosts of the popular science show “Temps X.”
The show, which ran from 1979 and 1987 and was shot on a spaceship set, introduced series like “The Twilight Zone,” “Star Trek” and “Doctor Who” to French audiences.
Years later, in the 1990s, the brothers dramatically changed their features, although they denied ever having had “what people call cosmetic surgery.”
“We are proud of having faces like extra-terrestrials,” they once said, according to the BBC.
