The famous TV presenter Sasha Zalepugin died last night in a hospital in Zagreb from the effects of a stroke. The former journalist and editor of Sunday Afternoon has died at the age of 91.

 

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Zalepugin was born in Sarajevo and was one of the most famous television presenters in the former Yugoslavia, especially becoming a trademark of the show Sunday Afternoon.

 

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At RTV Zagreb, Zalepugin started working in 1966, first as the editor of the Cultural Panorama, and from 1968 as the editor of the culture program of TV Zagreb.

 

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Zalepugin was the editor of the Entertainment program on TV Zagreb from 1971 to 1973, when he started editing and hosting the mosaic shows entitled Sunday Afternoon, which lasted 4 hours each. In 1983, this show was called "Meeting without an agenda", it is written in the biography of Sasha Zalepugin.