Tove Lill Løyte
Quick Facts
Biography
Tove Lill Løyte (born 14 August 1976 in Kristiansand, Norway), also known as Tove Lill, is a Norwegian model and politician. Her personal life is regularly featured in Norwegian tabloids and celebrity-based magazines.
Modelling
Tove Lill was one of the finalists in Miss Norway (Not to be confused with the Frøken Norge pageant, sometimes translated to Miss Norway in English) 2007 and won the finale. After that she has travelled around the world as Miss Norway in international beauty competitions such as Miss Tourism Queen International, Miss Peace International, International Union of Beauty pageants, Miss Globe International and Miss Pearl. She had her first modelling job at age 19 for a friend just for fun, doing a music video with a Norwegian rapper band. She realized modelling was what she wanted to do, and she sent the photos to a photographer, and a few weeks later she was on the cover of one of Norway's biggest magazines.
A famous model scouter saw Tove Lill's photos, and wanted to bring her to Los Angeles for work. They started a reality show called Glamour of Sweden with 5 other models, where they were competing with Playboy's Girls Next Door.
In The United States, Hugh Hefner noticed the Norwegian beauty, and after Tove Lill moved back to Norway, he called her and invited her to the Playboy Mansion to do a Playmate shoot. Tove Lill stayed for a while, and Hefner wanted Tove Lill to be his girlfriend.
Tove Lill has been on the cover and featured in magazines like Playboy and FHM.
Politics
In addition to be a model, Tove Lill is also a politician. She is the leader of the Norwegian political party Progress Party's Youth Organization the Youth of the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiets Ungdom in Norwegian) in the county of Vest-Agder.