Thank you for leaving: Ernst appreciated Malakhov's departure from Channel One

Konstantin Ernst, Director General of Channel One, expressed no regret over the departure of such stars as Andrei Malakhov, Yevgeny Petrosyan and other famous personalities. He stated this in an interview with the portal KP.RU .

"Petrosyan, Malakhov, Kizyakov, and someone else, whom I can't even remember, left us once. I remember an old Nautilus song with a wonderful phrase: "Thank you for leaving," Ernst joked.

He added that "there are people who outgrow the channel, and there are channels that outgrow their presenters."

Recall that Andrei Malakhov left one of the most rated projects of the First Channel "Let them talk" in 2017. Then the fans put forward many possible reasons for his departure, but the TV presenter himself only thanked Ernst and former colleagues in an open letter, saying that at the age of 45 it was time to move on. Received for the program "Let them talk" in the same year, the statuette of TEFI Malakhov decided to leave the First Channel.