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– I have almost always said yes, says host Gry Forssell in his Summer. Sometimes it has been a success and sometimes it has been a failure. And, she says: If you drive on, say yes, test different things and jobs and then maybe make the wrong decision at some point or do away with yourself, then the one who cares the most and remembers it best is himself. But you yourself learn from testing, failing and succeeding.
Gry Forssell has worked as a radio and television presenter for almost 30 years. In her Summer, she remembers when Adam Alsing contacted her in the summer of 2004 to ask if she wanted to join and start a new morning show on Mix Megapol. Although she is tired in the morning, she decided to give it a try.
– For seven years, Adam Alsing was my best friend. We spent the most fragile and skinless hours of the day with each other. Monday to Friday and we got to know each other very well.
Adam Alsing died earlier this year in corona and Gry Forssell says in the program that it is incomprehensible.
– I still find it extremely difficult to understand that this is actually the case and I find myself still saying or thinking that Adam is so or so or that he likes this or that.
Gry Forssell takes us to growing up in Luleå and how she loved to follow her mother’s job at Radio Norrbotten. She talks about her many different program manager jobs and how one led to the other. She remembers when TV4 had bought the program Sommarkrysset and how she immediately felt that she wanted to do that program. But then men dominated the entertainment industry.
– The men filled the tableau and I could bet on eating my fictitious hat, that TV4 asked every single male presenter in the register before the question of spending the summer at Gröna Lund landed with me and I said without hesitation a second: yes.
About Gry Forssell
Host, 47 years. Born in Växjö, raised in Luleå, living in Stockholm. Debuts as Sommarvärd.
Been a presenter for TV shows like Fort Boyard, The Gladiators, The driving team and Silicone, but also led the Grammy Awards twice. Was for five summers host of P3’s Summer peak.
Named by the Swedish people as the Female presenter of the year on the radio two years in a row.
Started as a 19-year-old at SVT’s youth editorial office in Växjö. Has his own horses, competed during his teens in jumping and dressage.
My Summer will primarily be about my 30-year professional life in the service of entertainment. About my love for the radio and the quirk that I never, until now, understood that it was always obvious that I should work with just that. I usually meet with misunderstanding when I say that I have never had anxiety so this will probably be my first therapy call. With myself as a therapist – so it will be perfect!
Producer: Erika Strand-Berglund
Source: ICELAND NEWS