About me

Debbie's career in broadcasting began back in 1984 with Granada television, and since then she's been on a host of programmes, including BBC's Breakfast Time. After joining QVC in 2001, Debbie's become one of the most popular presenters, although she still claims not to have mastered the complexities of the QVC ruler!

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Beating the summer holiday rush

Hi Peeps

What is going on with this rain? You can’t even go away to escape it – believe me I tried! Paul and
I had a week in Portugal and it pis...persistently rained apart from one sunny morning and it was freezing! Bikini? No chance, I was never parted from my Cashmasoft!

It was great to get a break though before the prices of flights go sky-high for the summer. The girls stayed with friends, so we only had to worry about Molly, our lovely fluffy, slightly less than average weight cat. (I say this as some people have been more than hinting that she is fat but this vicious slur was scotched by our vet on her last visit).

Easter's been and gone

Hi Peeps,

I can't believe it – Easter came and went as fast as the flash of the Big Bunny's tail! I had to work over the holiday but Mum and Dad (left) came down from Liverpool to visit, which was great.

There was no shortage of chocolate as you can imagine and Weesa made a banoffee pie in competition with the traditional family Challenge so it would've been rude not to have a slice of both!

We have very strict rules on the etiquette of these things at Greenwood Towers. I'd love to hear what you did over Easter. Take a look at both cakes in the picture to the left.

Incidentally, if you 've never caught sight of the Easter Bunny, Paul bumped into him at Zurich Airport.

Apparently he’s not white with a bobtail as we've all been led to believe. Au contraire he is giant, golden and goes by the name of Lindt (left)!

Take a look at Monday's TSV

Hi Peeps,

Hope you had a lovely Easter with ridiculous amounts of chocolate! I have some photos to show you soon but I just wanted to mention our TSV coming up on on Monday because I've had this beautiful vase of lilies at home for the past few days and they really are stunning!

I've put them in the alcove in our hall and you'd never know they weren't real when you look at them in the daytime. Then at night the clever thing is that they have a subtle illumination.

I'd tell you the price but then I'd have to kill you! Watch at midnight on Sunday night/Monday morning when we'll throw some light on the situation.

LOC

Debbie

Freddie Flintoff, Mother's Day treats and old friends

Hello lovely peeps!

How are you? I must say I am feeling full of beans now the weather seems to be so nice and I am determined to make the most of it because, if the last couple of years are anything to go by, THIS is our summer!

I have had quite a bit of time off work over the last month and it has been great to just chill out and do stuff like see my friends and go to the gym. Sometimes if you have a break from work you come back more exhausted than when you started! I had a “to do” list as long as my arm and have managed “not to do” most of it!

My working week and a little romance...

Hi Peeps,

The last few weeks have flown by again. I took a few days' holiday from work and boy was I glad as my daughter, Annalie, was ill with pneumonia. It was horrible, but she is almost back to normal now, thank heavens. 

Work has been really busy with a visit by the lovely Suarti who, as you might know, is wonderfully eccentric. She is always very sunshiny like every Balinese person I have ever met. I must confess that I don't always understand every single word she says, but that kind of adds to the exotic excitement of the shows and I do love colourful guests. Talking of which, did you see our new Quacker Factory guest, Patrick Hoy? He was quacktastic fun with great stories about the late Jean Bice.

Let me share some of my best-loved products

I have bought so much from QVC over the years, as you can imagine! Even sitting in my office at home now typing this I am using my Acer PC, which I bought from the Nation's number one Shopping Channel.

It is, of course, connected to my HP printer! I actually waited for about six months when I first joined the company before ordering anything because there was just too much choice and I was afraid of opening the floodgates. Too late now, eh?

These are some of the things I'd love to share with you...

Settling in to the New Year

Hi Peeps,

How are you? I still don’t feel like I am properly in the post-Christmas/New Year groove. Life has been busy here at Greenwood Towers, with Annalie having a couple of A-Level papers and Luisa part of her science GCSE to do.

I can’t believe how quickly time seems to pass. We are nearly at the end of the Christmas chocolate now – and thank you so much to Magda for the SCRUMPTIOUS Spanish chocolate, which we polished off with great glee! The diet is about to start!

We had a fab night out in the West End at 'Wicked', the prequel to 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', which is our family favourite. It is so good that we have seen it about seven times. Paul is a true convert now, having refused to go at first, which did surprise me as he’s very metrosexual with a penchant for pot pourri and a keen nose for Yankee candles.

Amanda Lamb is coming to QVC next Monday

Hi Peeps,

Happy New Year to you! I hope 2012 is kind and brings you all you need! You know that Christmas is over when the tree comes down, QVC starts talking about Valentine's gifts (to yourself) and the supermarkets stock up on Easter Eggs. I caught one of our back stage crew eating a Cream Egg on January 2nd! Mentioning no names... I like your style, Wendy!

January can be a grey old pessimistic month, which is why so many of us start thinking about our holidays now. I always thought it would be a dream come true to work for one of the holiday programmes and with dark skin (requiring less sun tan cream) and my flair for languages (escroto de macaco) I thought I would be perfectly qualified.

Christmas 2011

Dear friends,

What a year we’ve had.

After winning the Nobel Prize, Annalie turned seventeen this year and took her driving test. We are very proud and happy to say her examiner is now out of hospital, and hopes are high that his breakdown will soon be just a memory.

Two of the three elderly pedestrians who swerved their Zimmer frames into her car are now walking again. At school we’re delighted that Annalie is working really, really hard at getting to classes on time and she is now in the top five percent of her year alphabetically.

Christmas merriment and giant trees

Hi Peeps

Well, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, as the song goes!

On Friday we had a fun evening at home with Kathy, Ali, Claire and their other halves. It was a quiet, sober affair as you can see from the photos.

I prepared most of the food the night before and Luisa and her friend Millie helped out with waitressing and washing up, so I was able to relax on the night. Paul devised a pop quiz, which brought out the competitive streak in us all!

It was such a laugh, with Ali’s wig being tried on by all as if it were Cinderella’s slipper. I was forced to stand on a chair to do my Shania Twain. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

A little the worse for wear, we retired to bed at three o’clock in the morning. Well, it IS Christmas. Almost.