Unvaccinated French TV twins, Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, died from Coronavirus within a week in separate days, media outlets reported on Tuesday.
They died of coronavirus in separate days in the hospital, Grichka on 28 December and his brother on Monday. They were 72.
The twins were convinced that their healthy lifestyle would protect them and they do not need the vaccination, according to their friends' statement.
Although their families did not specify the cause of their deaths, their lawyer Edouard de Lamaze confirmed they had both contracted the deadly virus.
Family friend Pierre-Jean Chalençon said they had left it too late to seek hospital treatment, deciding it was similar to flu. "People have said they were anti-vaxxers but they absolutely weren't," he told BFMTV. "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."
Before they were admitted to the hospital, the twins had been working on a pilot project to resurrect their old TV show, again set on a spaceship and planned for broadcast on another channel in the near future.
In a statement on Monday, Igor Bogdanoff's family said he had "gone towards the light", surrounded by his children and family.
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