Verka Serduchka (Andrei Danilko) In the Spotlight

The Moskow Times reports:

Andrei Danilko revealed that he grew up without a bathroom and never takes off his baseball cap.
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The love life, and orientation, of Andrei Danilko, aka Verka Serdyuchka, is much more mysterious.

"Something happens about once a month, but I'm happier on my own," he commented obliquely in OK! magazine last month. The intriguing interview also revealed that the reclusive comedian grew up in a house without a bathroom and never takes off his baseball cap.

Far more predictably, newspapers have been reporting on a conspiracy against Serdyuchka after she possibly sang "Russia Goodbye" at Eurovision.

Various reports have said that she was disinvited to festivals in Sochi and Latvia and edited out of a concert shown on Channel One -- which happens to broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest.

It's all rather baffling. In an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets on Wednesday, Danilko was noncommital, saying dismissively that "Russian television shows are reporting on an alleged ban on my concerts" but going on to hint at a negative attitude from "people from a certain channel."

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