A detailed good friend of the household, Sæmund Fiskvik, confirms to VG that Westvik fell asleep peacefully on Wednesday, together with his daughter by his aspect.
Westvik had most cancers and after a really brief sickness she died immediately, he says.
The 71-year-old was, amongst different issues, a journalist and political advisor for the Labor Occasion.
She is maybe finest recognized for her work at NRK.
She directed one episode after one other in prime time within the Eighties, comparable to “Lørdagskirkuset” and “På hengende håret”.
In 1985, she was a presenter on Melodi Grand Prix. She was additionally the primary channel supervisor for NRK P3.
ABOUT: Rita Westvik was one in every of NRK’s hottest presenters within the 80s. Pictured right here in connection along with her being accountable for the Spellemannprisen in 1988. Photograph: Jens O. Kvale / NTB
Westvik acquired distinctive consideration, each for his ability and his wild creations, writing VG in a column from 2017.
– I acquired to know plenty of attention-grabbing issues once I was working at NRK, and I acquired many nice challenges. And I nonetheless have a number of the attire from that point, Westvik mentioned on the time.
TV-stjerne: Westvik ledet Amandautdelingen i 1986. Her i midten med bl.a. Diana Ross (t.h.) og hennes daværende ektemann Arne Næss Jr. (t.v.), som omkom i en klatreulykke i Sør-Afrika i 2004. Foto: Trond Solberg / VG"],"device":[0],"imageAsset":[0,{"id":[0,"039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7"],"size":[0,{"width":[0,4884],"height":[0,3219]}],"urls":[1,[[0,{"height":[0,26],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=40&s=9c6a77ddff25d06b1270864033a3113823069fde"],"width":[0,40]}],[0,{"height":[0,53],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=80&s=725a72c91d4c3a0fe5a76cf99c973807a289a824"],"width":[0,80]}],[0,{"height":[0,66],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=100&s=7f9f9146e9044a9e6ea6ccb1887428cc9513b166"],"width":[0,100]}],[0,{"height":[0,132],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=200&s=6d2ebb2a4dd01a2a851832c05d505b5fbd781e44"],"width":[0,200]}],[0,{"height":[0,158],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=240&s=01b6330142683f1751319ea4227ccd3bf1fd790f"],"width":[0,240]}],[0,{"height":[0,316],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=480&s=be4966bae38ad45ded78e34c91604dabfbb00843"],"width":[0,480]}],[0,{"height":[0,382],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=580&s=6f718ef165e69cd30f7f91de6c8567aa693818bd"],"width":[0,580]}],[0,{"height":[0,475],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=720&s=0e67d66304857d687143042fc3eb0aa36404cecc"],"width":[0,720]}],[0,{"height":[0,712],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=1080&s=3dd3b5e659191965d548be166d1baae84cd91f77"],"width":[0,1080]}],[0,{"height":[0,949],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=1440&s=1f23eb994926b105c439adfc4c4a629414181e20"],"width":[0,1440]}],[0,{"height":[0,1424],"url":[0,"https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/039a2e94-ff8a-4fad-a3e7-49f5b1815af7?format=auto&w=2160&s=8fb9799231cd48436e733b2d20b1857aa6cc0c25"],"width":[0,2160]}]]]}],"layout":[0],"marginBottom":[0],"padded":[0],"type":[0,"news"]}" ssr="" client="visible" opts="{"name":"Image","value":true}" await-children="">
TV star: Westvik directed the discharge of Amanda in 1986. Right here within the center with, amongst others, Diana Ross (th) and her husband Arne Næss Jr. (television), who died in a climbing accident in South Africa in 2004. Photograph: Trond Solberg / VG
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– Rita was a divine stage expertise, says the veteran within the Norwegian music business, Fiskvik, to VG.
The 2 developed a detailed relationship by means of politics, and after they had been collectively main the band “Isenkram” within the 70’s in Trondheim.
– We had a bitter battle. She was a lifelong good friend.
Fiskvik believes that Westvik turned the entire degree of Norwegian Saturday leisure on TV the other way up when she went to Oslo. Every little thing turned increasingly more attention-grabbing on the similar time, he says.
– Due to her friendliness, she acquired nice icons comparable to George Harrison and Joni Mitchell to open up in a manner that no different interviewer may.
THAT TIME: Turid Øversveen and Rita Westvik led the “Saturday Circus” – the 12 months was 1984. Photograph: Hans Olav Forsang / VG
– Forward of the time
Kari Kiil acquired to know Westvik within the early 80’s, when she heard Westvik play with Karl Johan’s feminine band “Gatejentene”.
Kiil was instantly caught, jumped off the tram, and requested him to go there.
– Rita was at all times forward of her time. She was very imaginative, artistic and superb at connecting individuals collectively, she tells VG.
As a latest regulation pupil, Kiil was elected to the board of Aksyon Kvinnekultursenter (AKKS), the place Westvik was very central. Amongst different issues, she began the primary girls’s radio station on the planet “radiOrakel” in 1982.
– We turned shut associates after that. Rita was at all times enjoyable to be with. We had plenty of dialogue and plenty of humor.
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TALENT: The TV program “Lørdagsirkuset” with Rita Westvik (th) and Turid Øversveen. Photograph: Erik Poppe / VG
Kiil says that for a few years, Westvik continued to create totally different types of girls’s networks – and different networks – which have meant loads to many individuals.
– Necessary discussions had been held right here on numerous matters and social points.
The shut good friend says Westvik was very glad in life.
– She was the godmother to my first little one and I’ll miss her very a lot. Rita was utterly distinctive.
1996: Rita Westvik was a political adviser to the Labor Occasion within the Ministry of Social Affairs and Well being from 1993 to 1994 and within the Ministry of International Affairs from 1994 to 1996. Photograph: Aleksander Nordahl / NTB
In 1989, Westvik withdrew from the limelight and entered politics within the early 90s.
– The eye will be demanding – and typically shining. Life typically chooses for us. I by no means adopted a predetermined plan, however adopted my very own ardour and life alternatives, she mentioned in a single VG interview in 2018.
She was a political adviser to Labor within the Ministry of Social Affairs and Well being in 1993, and within the Ministry of International Affairs from 1994 to 1996.
After that, she labored as a senior advisor at SINTEF for ten years, and sat within the driver’s seat as president of the Polytechnic affiliation from 2005 to 2007.
2017: Westvik pictured in reference to VG column “What are you doing now?”. Photograph: Krister Sørbø / VG
In 2015, she based the corporate “UrbanFeed”, which labored to develop sensible and sustainable options for large-scale manufacturing of fish and greens.
– It’s our civic obligation and social duty to be concerned. The world is urbanising, there’s a scarcity of arable land and unused sources within the sea will be the answer to a number of of the principle challenges of our time, she mentioned in a VG interview in 2017.
