QVC Host Jennifer Coffey Celebrates 13-Year Friendship With Kerstin Lindquist After Leaving Network
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00:00Okay, so let's be real and candid.
00:02You're entering a job in television.
00:06You're gonna be in front of the cameras.
00:08And out of 8,500 people, they hired you and one other person.
00:14Okay, so you're already like, well, if you're me
00:18and you had almost no TV experience,
00:19you're like kind of freaked out and a little bewildered
00:21because you can't believe they actually hired you,
00:23but you're scared and you're bringing your daughter
00:26across the country, it's just the two of you.
00:28And there's a lot of emotions that you're processing.
00:32You meet, because I did not meet Kirsten in the audition.
00:36There was two days.
00:37I was on one day, she was on the other.
00:38So I had no idea what to expect.
00:40But I had already kind of invested a lot of sisterhood
00:43into this woman before I even met her.
00:45Because I'm like, we're going through this host bootcamp
00:47together, I'm scared.
00:50You know, what if she's just, I don't know what TV is like.
00:53Like, what if she's competitive?
00:55What if she's catty?
00:56What if she's, you know, wants nothing to do with,
00:58like, I don't know what to expect
00:59because I didn't have a history in TV.
01:01And so, you know, we all have in our head,
01:03we watch soap operas or whatever.
01:05And we're like, is it, what's it like?
01:07Well, she shows up, we actually met each other
01:10for the first time at the Westchester Chili Festival.
01:14So that's about as real as it gets, right?
01:16And she's there with her two very young daughters
01:21and her husband, and she's got like workout clothes on.
01:24Neither of us have any makeup.
01:26And we, because I guess we were texting.
01:28It's like, hey, we're at the same place.
01:30And gave each other the biggest hug.
01:32And you have those moments with people sometimes
01:36where you meet them and they either give you a feeling like,
01:40I don't know about you.
01:41And then, you know, that intuition.
01:43And then you meet people where you go,
01:45I love you and I don't even know why yet.
01:47And with Kirsten, it was this, I love you
01:50and I don't even know why yet.
01:51And not just because I really hope you're amazing
01:53and I'm like just imposing that on you.
01:56It was just this kindred spirit kind of feeling.
01:59And that never altered.
02:02It never failed.
02:03And so again, going back to, all right,
02:07you would think these two gals are starting
02:08at the same time.
02:10They have the same expectations.
02:12Is it going to be cutthroat?
02:14You know, are they both going to be like,
02:16boy, I hope I get prime time before she does.
02:19And for 13 years, all we ever did
02:23was again, as I'm saying,
02:27and it sounds like I'm being hyperbolic
02:29or I'm, but it's the absolute truth.
02:31We would lift each other up.
02:33We would celebrate each other's achievements.
02:36You know, if one of us got a really great show
02:39or got to work with a celebrity,
02:40you know, for the first time,
02:42it was like the other person was experiencing that as well.
02:45And so it was this volley of support over 13 years.
02:50And that included when she adopted her son
02:53and I finally found the love of my life.
02:55And, you know, those celebrations
02:58that we had on a personal note,
03:00we got to celebrate those together too.
03:02So if I were to count, you know,
03:04top five things I love that I'm taking away from QVC,
03:08friendship, my friendship with Kirsten
03:09is absolutely one of those.