Tina’s father, Givi Kandelaki (1942-2009), a Georgian economist and the director of a vegetable depot in Tbilisi, moved to Moscow upon his retirement.

[5] In 2006, Kandelaki, together with Sergey Dorenko, presented a weekly political program on Echo of Moscow (Russian radio station).

Also in 2009, she dubbed Juarez, one of the guinea pigs of the G-Force movie produced by Walt Disney Pictures.

She was also a jury member of Bolshaya Raznitsa, a parody show hosted in Odesa (Channel One Russia).

From February 17 to June 2013, together with Margarita Simonyan, she hosted the political talk show "Iron Ladies" on NTV.

[8] On 18 March 2022, she spoke at Vladimir Putin's Moscow rally celebrating the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and justifying Russia's full-scale invasion.

[10] In January 2024, she was banned from entering Kazakhstan over her online comments alleging that the Russian language was being discriminated against in the Central Asian country.

[13] Kandelaki was the passenger of a Ferrari Enzo driven by Russian businessman and oligarch Suleyman Kerimov when the car went off road and crashed into a tree.

[14] Some of her critics in Russia pointed to her pro-war stance and asked why her 20-year-old son Leontyi Kondrakhin did not volunteer to fight in Ukraine.