Truls Svendsen (born 27 September 1972) is a Norwegian

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and

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. Svendsen grew up in

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, but moved to

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in 1993. While attending the

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he met

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. The two started the event firm Plan B, and Svendsen eventually made his television debut as sidekick in Rønneberg and

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's '' Senkveld''. Svendsen soon presented shows for the

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, including ''Kroppen'' and ''E6 - en reise i nordmenns hverdag''. He returned to TV 2 for ''Svendsen om Hansen og Jensen'', ''Kvelden er din'', ''Truls - oppdrag Hurtigruten'' and ''Tjukken og Lillemor''. For the latter show, an arctic exploration with

Cecilie Skog Cecilie Skog (born August 9, 1974) is a Norwegian adventurer who was the first Norwegian woman to summit K2 mountain in 2008 and in 2010 she made the first unassisted trek across Antarctica. Life Skog studied and worked as a nurse, but since su ...

, he won ''

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'''s TV Personality of the Year award. He earlier won a

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award for TV moment of the year in 2009. He also featured in two seasons of the drama ''Meglerne'' (2014 and 2016). Like the programme with explorer Cecilie Skog, Svendsen followed up with another show where he followed an expert, this time chef

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in ''Truls à la Hellstrøm''. In 2019 he toured with the stage show ''Fra Æ til Å'', a combined standup, musical and slapstick show. In 2021, Svendsen appeared on the first season of the singing competition series '' Norges nye megahit'' and sang the song "Når julefreden senker seg" with his girlfriend Charlotte Smith, which won and subsequently reached number one on the Norwegian singles chart.

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