Jakub Władysław Wojewódzki known as Kuba Wojewódzki (; born 2 August 1963 in Koszalin, Poland) is a Polish
journalist
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,
TV personality
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,
drummer, and
comedian.
Career
Wojewódzki was a judge on the Polish ''
Idol
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Religion and philosophy
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''. He also was the Polish representative on the ''
World Idol
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'' on 25 December 2003.
In the 1980s, he was a member of punk bands called ''System'' and ''New Dada''. Currently, he is a drummer in the band called ''Klatu''.
Since 2006, he has been working for
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.
He has his own TV show called ''Kuba Wojewódzki'' and is a judge on ''
Mam talent!
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'', the Polish edition of
Britain's got talent
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and since 2011 also on ''
X-Factor
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''.
Controversy
He was criticized for being extremely harsh on ''X Factor'' contestants and for making racist comments. While translating for
Nigeria
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n-born auditionee John James Egwu who spoke limited Polish, he claimed that contestant had answered "I married a white woman and then ate her" when asked what he was doing in Poland, and mistranslated "I studied here" as "She was a bit gristly." Wojewódzki then encouraged the audience to laugh at the contestant.
In his talk show, he explores numerous controversial issues. On one of his shows (aired on 25 March 2008), a cartoonist
Marek Raczkowski inserted the Polish flag into dog faeces, in the protest against littering public places and criticizing owners who do not clean after their pets. He tried to send a message that other nations are more responsible in that matter. The incident was widely discussed by the media. On his morning radio show for radio
Eska Rock, in June 2011, he said that perhaps there should be "a national register of
negroes
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" and stated that that day's show was sponsored by the Warsaw branch of the
Ku Klux Klan. His comments were condemned by members of ethnic minorities in Poland. The radio station was fined 50,000
zlotys and Wojewódzki's comments were described in the report of the radio authorities (
Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji
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) as being "unambiguously racist" ("jednoznacznie rasistowskie").
In October, 2013, Wojewódzki claimed to be hurt by an unknown assaulter who burned his face and neck with acid. As revealed later by the police, the fluid was not acid, it was a non-corrosive substance.
[Piotr Halicki]
Są wyniki badań cieczy, którą oblano Wojewódzkiego
25 paź 2013
TV Show
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wojewodzki, Kuba
1963 births
Living people
Polish journalists
People from Koszalin
Polish atheists