F
orbes Riley is one of the top sellers on the Home Shopping Network and GSN and she
just launched her first fitness product into the national market, the SpinGym. That’s why celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Mario Lopez and Vanessa Hudgens say Forbes Riley is their “go-to gal for fitness.” Recently inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame, she also just turned 50, but indeed there’s no stopping her anytime soon.
ADS: You are the Julia Roberts of infomercials—what does that mean and how are you living up to that name?
While it’s a great honor to be associated in any way with such an amazing industry icon, I think the
reason Bill Geist of CBS Morning News gave me this moniker is that Julia represents a trustworthy, vulnerable and highly successful bankable woman—and also a mother of twins (though not at the time he said it, I think she copied me!) In the world of infomercials I was lucky to be in the right place at the birth of the industry and have had the opportunity to work with some of its giants and be the face of some of the its most popular campaigns grossing more than $2 billion dollars.
ADS: Tell me what you are working on now.
One of the more daring moves in my career is to create the Forbes Riley brand—fit, fearless and FUN—to take a stand for what I believe in,
and create products, articles, book and clothing that promote that and have a strong impact on women's lives. We have successfully launched the SpinGym and in June we launched a line of fit/activewear for women on HSN called Love My Body by Forbes Riley. There's an exciting new talk/reality show in the works that will hopefully help me cross back over into more mainstream television! You know it’s funny, but what I do has become more mainstream acceptable. People used to look down on QVC and HSN and now I'm working with Fran Drescher, Sarah Jessica Parker; also appearing on the network have been Serena Williams, P. Diddy, Molly Sims, and Whoopi Goldberg. AND a little known fact, but I got Kim
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