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Joy Mangano Leaving HSN
One of HSN‘s highest-profile and most inventive on-air celebrities, Joy Mangano, is leaving the home shopping spotlight.
“She has been an important part of the family for many years, and her creativity has influenced us all,” said Mike Fitzharris, president of HSN. He said Mangano is “departing to pursue other professional opportunities.”
Mangano, a self-made millionaire, is best known for inventing the Miracle Mop and launching it on QVC in 1992. She continued with QVC until HSN acquired Mangano’s company, Ingenious Designs Inc. in 1999. Mangano was the subject of the 2015 movie “Joy.” She was played by Jennifer Lawrence.
At HSN, which like QVC is part of the Qurate Retail Group, Mangano introduced a stream of innovative products, such as Huggable Hangers, My Little Steamer, Shades Readers, the Forever Fragrant line of cleaners and fresheners, the Ultimate Closet line of organizers, and she collaborate
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10 Things You Didn't Know About the Real Woman Behind "Joy"
1. She started inventing young.
At 12, the Long Island, New York, native tinkered with her family's toaster in an attempt to get it to roast as well as toast. "It kind of blew up," she told us in a recent interview. Then, while working at an animal hospital as a teenager, she thought up a fluorescent flea collar for cats and dogs to make them easily visible to cars at night. (When Hartz put a similar product on the market a year later, Mangano vowed to bring her next idea to the market first.)
2. The billionaire once struggled to make ends meet.
In 1989, the divorced single mom waitressed nights and weekends and worked in airline reservations while her mother watched her three children. She even sold homemade grapevine wreaths to scratch together enough money.
3. Housework inspired her big break.
Mangano used her frustration with mopping to develop the product that would change her life —
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Joy Mangano
1956-present
Who Is Joy Mangano?
Frustrated with household mopping, Joy Mangano invented a new kind of mop, the Miracle Mop, and when she appeared on QVC to sell it, the mop served as a launchpad for success. She went on to invent several other products, and in 1999 she sold her company, which has hundreds of millions in sales, to HSN.
Early Years
Joy Mangano was born on Long Island, New York, on February 15, 1956, and raised in Huntington. Mangano would go on to be known as an inventor of practical household products, and she got started with her ideas at an early age: While working at an animal hospital as a teenager, Mangano devised a fluorescent flea collar for cats and dogs to make them easily visible to cars at night (Hartz put a similar product on the market a year later).
After high school, Mangano went to Pace University in New York, graduating in 1978 with a BA in business administration. After college, she went on to hold a variety of jobs while gett