Elżbieta Dzikowska and Tony Halik met in person in 1974. Dzikowska was to interview him for the “Six Continents Club” program. However, she saw him for the first time a few months earlier on the Wisła TV screen. – He talked about crazy jumpers from Acapulco. I thought to myself: what a funny guy, and turned it off – she recalled in the conversation
They met during an interview in 1974. She had no idea that the meeting would change her life
They almost didn’t meet at all. Just before leaving for Mexico, it turned out that Dzikowska’s scholarship awarded by the Peruvian Minister of Culture had been annulled. By chance, the president of Mexico offered her a scholarship almost immediately, and Elżbieta Dzikowska was able to go to a meeting with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Halik. As she recalled in the interview, she had no suspicion that the interview would change her life. – I had a husband in my homeland, Andrzej Dzikowski. And he was a good husband. I always praise him, she emphasized. They had been married for 17 years, Tony Halik had a wife, Pierrette Courtin.
Elżbieta Dzikowska and Tony Halik quickly became inseparable. “He was always Coco-Loco”
After the first meeting, there was no immediate spark. – Tony wasn’t particularly handsome, but he had incredible charm and a sense of humor. Also intelligence and incredible organizational talent – recalled Dzikowska. – He was always Coco-Loco. Crazy. And he always liked to talk about his successes, sometimes too much – she added. The interview was conducted at Halik’s house, and for dinner he served his favorite veal steak and… red borscht from a bag, brought from Poland. Soon they were inseparable.
Elżbieta Dzikowska returned to Poland, having already married her husband. She was soon joined by Tony Halik, who gave him an ultimatum before returning to his homeland: if he wanted to be with her, he would only do so in Poland. They lived on Inflancka Street in Warsaw, later in a house in Międzylesie, and were inseparable. As a duo, they appeared in the program “The Six Continents Club”, and above all, they hosted the series “Pieprz i vanilla”, a cult travel program broadcast on TVP. They introduced themselves as husband and wife, so everyone was convinced that they were . The truth about their relationship came to light after many years.
The truth about their relationship came to light after many years. “Tony was very embarrassed.”
It turned out that they had never had a formal wedding. Tony Halik also never divorced Pierrette. As Elżbieta Dzikowska admitted, they did not need formalities to be happy. – Tony and I trusted each other, we loved each other and treated each other like a married couple – she explained in “Vivy!”
He kept saying everywhere that we were married, and I didn’t deny it. In an interview he even told us where we were getting married and what was on the wedding table. Tony was very embarrassed that we were in an informal relationship
– she revealed in the book “I was here. Tony Halik” by Mirosław Wlekły. It turned out that Halik did not decide to divorce his wife because of their son, Ozan.
Source: Gazeta
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