Beginnings
Travis grew up in Rochdale, Lancashire/Greater Manchester. After a 6-year adult-modelling career, she worked in television as a freelance editor and producer. Debbie met her future husband Hans Rosenstein, a television distributor, in 1985 during a visit to a television buyers' market in Cannes. They married soon after and moved to Montreal, Canada.
After redecorating her old Victorian house using paint effects, Debbie formed a small decorating business which quickly grew to include commissions from large department stores, auditoriums, theatres, and grand reception halls. Her work attracted media attention, and Debbie opened a small studio and hired a partner to teach workshops to both professional decorators and homeowners. Debbie later produced an instructional video entitled Decorative Paint Finishes Made Easy, and later produced three additional, more advanced instructional videos, available in both French and English.
Debbie Travis and Hans Rosenstein are partners in the production company Whalley-Abbey Media which has produced all the Debbie Travis-branded television shows. She is also a partner and executive producer along with Kit Redmond and Hans Rosenstein for RTR Media in Toronto.
She continues to Executive Produce all of Whalley-Abbey and RTR Media productions, including Buy Me, Property Shop, Income Property & Maxed Out. There are numerous other series in varying stages of development at both television production companies. She also recently begun a show called "All for One with Debbie Travis" which is hosted every Sunday at 9 p.m on CBC Television.
In March 2010, CBC Television announced that a new and different venture for Debbie would premier in the fall season. This show is a celebration of community local heroes hosted by Debbie.
This December, Debbie Travis is host to a show searching for the secret to Canada's love of Coronation Street, as the longest-running drama on television celebrates its 50th anniversary. Corrie Crazy: Canada Loves Coronation Street airs December 9, 2010 at 8pm on CBC Television.
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