It’s the top of an period for Kerstin Lindquist, who’s exiting QVC after 13 years with the procuring community. She obtained emotional in the course of the December 28 episode of Saturday Morning Q. Lindquist mirrored on her greater than a decade run to co-host Alberti Popaj. “It’s all been so good,” she mentioned.
“I believe a few of the funniest instances we’ve had have been after we can’t cease laughing the place we’ve needed to stroll off set,” Lindquist reminisced. “The Halloween exhibits are at all times my absolute favourite as effectively.”
She went on to share how a few of her favourite instances occurred in the course of the pandemic, including, “We have been making an attempt to remain on the air for you and the way we might nonetheless be collectively for you as a result of that’s what this present is all about and we did it.”
Lindquist expressed gratitude to the crew, in addition to how a lot she’d miss the viewers. “ Each Saturday, I obtained to take a seat with you,” she mentioned tearfully. “We obtained to have nearly like a chat present and we might really feel you guys on the market. … I’m going to overlook that household feeling with our viewers each morning.”
Lindquist initially introduced the information of leaving QVC throughout a December 21 Instagram submit. She wrote, “After a prayerful yr God has led me to such a time as this. It’s time for me to step again from my place at QVC. It’s time for me to have extra time for my teenagers & household. It’s time for God to make a higher influence by me by specializing in religion & wellness in ladies’s lives.’
She continued, “I make this transfer with all of the love in my coronary heart for QVC. After I determined to return to QVC greater than 13 years in the past, it was due to the way in which I used to be in a position to join with you in an trustworthy, susceptible method, not like every other job in TV or retail. You have been with me after we introduced residence my son, misplaced my mother, moved to be missionaries and all of the heartbreak and pleasure in between. That is greater than procuring, it’s a relationship, and we’ll at all times be household. That is greater than procuring, it’s a relationship, and we’ll at all times be household…”
This bitter-sweet second isn’t fairly the top for Lindquist on the community. She nonetheless has just a few extra exhibits to do into January 2025 earlier than absolutely reducing the wire. Throughout a weblog submit, Lindquist revealed her subsequent strikes. A busy plate of initiatives that features engaged on her “StRest” podcast, well being teaching, talking at conferences, and a two-book take care of Zondervan/Harper Collins. She joins one other QVC star Jennifer Coffey, who introduced in November her departure on the finish of the yr.