- Tova Traesnaes
Tova Traesnaes, or Tova Borgnine is a
Norwegian-American business-woman, the founder of the "Beauty By Tova" cosmetics featured onQVC shopping network since 1990. She emigrated fromNorway as a small child. She is the fifth and current wife of theactor Ernest Borgnine , whom she married in 1972.cite news|url=http://www2.una.edu/library/borgnine/bio.htm|title=Ernest Borgnine Biography|publisher=University of North Alabama Library] She currently spends her time living between Beverly Hills, CA and West Chester, PA, home of QVC. According to QVC, as of 2001, her perfumes had been featured on the network for over ten years, with sales continuing to grow, making her "a steady presence at QVC and its biggest fragrance vendor". [cite news
url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27273236_ITM
title=Direct Sellers Make Fragrance Personal
author=Laura Klepacki
date=December 14 2001
publisher=Women's Wear Daily
accessdate=2008-05-12] She is also the frequent butt of jokes on E! network's 'The Soup'.]Awards
IN 1998, Tova was awarded the FiFi award for the "Women’s Fragrance Star of the Year (Non-Store Venues)" cite news|url=http://www.fragrance.org/FF_past.html|title=Past FiFi award winners|publisher=The Fragrance Foundation] On April 25, 2008, she was nominated for the 2008 FiFi awards.cite news|url=http://www.fragrance.org/cgi/fetch_news.cgi?thing=2842317|title=FiFi Finalists announced|date=April 25, 2008 |publisher=The Fragrance Foundation]
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External links
* [http://www.qvc.com/cgen/render.aspx?qp=class%7C5497&rewrite=no Beauty By Tova on QVC]
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