QVC queen Lisa Robertson lives in fear after having FOUR stalkers

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Shopping channel star Lisa Robertson told a judge: 'I haven't felt safe in a long time. I check my alarm constantly'
Peter Ferreira has been following the QVC beauty for 12 years, declaring his passion with creepy entreaties like 'So what is it to be, heaven on earth or hell'
The former Miss Tennessee says she watches her rear view mirror all the time and takes different routes if she thinks someone is following her
When middle-aged father of two was arrested for stalking Lisa he had two boxes of wedding and engagement rings strapped to his chest
Another stalker became so menacing, he emailed 'Obviously, you wouldn't profess your love for me on the air if you're a lesbian

By Annette Witheridge In West Chester, Pa.

Published: 13:50 EST, 15 April 2014 | Updated: 17:42 EST, 15 April 2014

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When ex beauty queen Lisa Robertson first joined home-shopping network QVC she joked about how she had to deal with drunken callers during her middle-of-the-night cooking shows.

But the laughter soon turned to terror. Today, the shopping channel's most popular hostess - with 20 millions views on an given week - is constantly looking over her shoulder. In the last 20 years she has had four stalkers what have forced her to become a prisoner of her own fear.

At one point, three men were following her at the same time.

Alluring: Stunning QVC queen Lisa Robertson is watched by an audience of over 200 million viewers. Known for her sensational style, she hosted at a red carpet event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills last year

Pageant princess: Lisa was crowned Miss Tennessee in 1989. She caught the attention of her first stalker soon after she joined QVC in 1995

As QVC’s queen bee, 48-year-old Lisa should be enjoying the fruits of her hard work. Instead, she lives behind high-tech security alarms and jumps at the slightest sound after attracting the attention of the four separate men.

'I haven’t felt safe in a long time,” she confessed, in court papers obtained by MailOnline during a hearing for one of her most persistent followers last year.

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'I lock myself in my house every day. I check my alarm constantly. It’s on when I am home.

'I watch my rear view mirror when I go home at night and take different routes if I think anyone might be following me. If there is a sound at night, I lay awake wondering.”

Begging a judge to stop 50-year-old Peter Ferreira harassing her, she added: 'I need to be able to live without being afraid.”

Stalker terror: Peter Ferreira has been stalking Lisa for 12 years. 'I need to be able to live without being afraid', the popular QVC host begged a judge. Ferreira has been sentenced to seven years probation and warned if he attempts to contact her again he'll go to jail for five years

Unhinged: Court documents show Ferreira sent scores of messages to Lisa on her Facebook page, professing his love for her. Here he writes: 'So what is it to be, heaven on earth, Lisa, (pilaging me for all eternity) or hell"

Ferreira, 50, had been jailed previously for following Lisa around America.

In December, he was sentenced to seven years' probation and warned if he attempted to contact Lisa in any way, even via Facebook, he would be jailed for up to five years.

At the height of Ferreira’s madness, his nephew’s wife called QVC security because she was so concerned about his obsession. She said she was 'grossed out' by the details he knew of Lisa’s travels.

According to legal papers, amongst the seven-inch file of documents relating to the case, the woman told security: 'Peter was following her everywhere. She said he followed her down South for a shoot in Florida and again to the Mall of America.

He tracked down her family and tailed her to the movies near her home in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he bragged he sat so close he could smell the popcorn she was eating.

Jewel: Jewelry, bags and clothes are Lisa's thing. When she first got to QVC she was selling cookware in the wee hours

The Plainfield, Connecticut, loner is convinced that he’s in a 'secret relationship” with Lisa and that 'QVC is standing between them.”

For the past 12 years, his messages became more unhinged, leading Lisa to fear he was going to harm her. And it transpires that three other men have reacted in similar manner after misreading her flirty on-air persona.

The bubbly Miss Tennessee 1989 gained her first ardent admirer not long after she joined QVC in 1995.

One of her cooking segment fans, Philip Young, started showering her with letters, gifts and telegrams. At one stage he even sent her a honeymoon brochure, then flew from his home in Arizona to see her.

QVC quickly sought an injunction – the first of several the company’s lawyers have obtained on Lisa’s behalf over the years – to keep Young away.

The middle-aged father-of-two was sentenced to seven years' probation but broke the terms by flying back to Pennsylvania, where he turned up at another QVC presenter’s home asking for help with an introduction to Lisa.

In the bag: Lisa is arguably the most popular--and most beautiful--host on the shopping channel. She is often teamed up with famed designer Isaac Mizrahi for events that benefit ovarian cancer. Her mother Charlene died of the disease in 2009

When police arrested him, they found two boxes containing wedding and engagement rings strapped to his chest.

By now Lisa had progressed to presenting her own late-night beauty and fashion shows and was often the face of QVC at charity events and design shows.

And as her star rose, her army of stalkers grew. By 2003, she was hiding from Ferreira, Young and Brendon Song, who flew from his home in California on Christmas Eve to Pennsylvania seeking a date.

He spent the holidays in jail after it emerged he’d spent $2,000 on 31 different gifts for Lisa.

Her next stalker Andrew Groton started off posting social media messages declaring his love for Lisa but by 2010 his emails had become menacing, often questioning her sexuality.

'Obviously, you wouldn’t profess your love for me on the air, if you’re a lesbian,” he wrote in one angry missive.

Once again, QVC’s lawyers obtained an order to keep Groton away, saying Lisa was concerned for her safety because his messages demonstrated 'intent to cause substantial emotional distress…and to place her in reasonable fear of bodily injury.”

But he ignored the injunctions and in 2012 was arrested for harassing her. At one stage, two different Pennsylvania courts were dealing with Lisa’s unhinged admirers, as Ferreira was also back on stalking charges.

She's got sole: Lisa attends the QVC FFANY Shoes On Sale at the Waldorf=Astoria to benefit breat cancer

The constant threats have left Lisa a nervous wreck, according to her friends. But others question QVC’s attitude.

Chester County Times managing editor Kathy Brady Shea has covered many of the court hearings and told Mail Online: 'All of these cases involved sad, lonely, alienated men with apparent mental health issues.

'I was taken aback by QVC’s outrage. Yes, Lisa Robertson is a victim and some of these folks are scary but her show is a magnate for these guys.

'She’s on late at night, she comes across as provocative with a come-hither attitude. She’s perky, coiffed, manicured and heavily made up.

'And after the third stalking case I kept thinking that she had to change her show because she was clearly drawing in some pretty unsavory, pathetic characters.

'But QVC just keeps using their legal hammer to come down hard on these people. They still have her on late at night, they really have not learned from this experience'.

Launched in 1986, QVC has expanded rapidly into an eight-billion-dollar-a-year business with 200 million viewers across the world.

The 24-hour network has grown from short segments featuring cheap kitchenware and gadgets into full-blown fashion and beauty shows.

It has certainly been good for Lisa’s career. She now has her own designer clothes label, is a regular at New York Fashion Week and often hosts QVC red carpet events in Hollywood.

She lives alone in a grand, $800,000 four-bedroom house on the outskirts of historic West Chester, enjoys long, exotic holidays in far flung places like India and dines in the finest restaurants.

Yet she remains wary of strangers, is constantly jumpy and rarely socializes outside a small circle of trusted friends, including Jim Barnes the owner of her favorite local restaurants.

Part of her job involves plugging QVC on social media and blogging about her life. She has even invited the QVC cameras into her home to show off the three different Christmas trees she decorates with hundreds or ornaments.

She’s mentioned constantly on fan websites with viewers wanting to know everything from her sexual orientation to her vacation plans. After showing off her home holiday decorations, fans wanted to know why she needed such a big house with 'no husband, kids or pets.”

Millionaire businessman Tom Ciccarone, who became friends with Lisa when they met at a local charity fund- raiser, told MailOnline: 'All she does is work. If it’s not QVC, it’s helping others.

'She is a very gracious, wonderful woman. When she discovered my daughter Meg was going through a hard time because her boyfriend had cheated on her, Lisa turned up with a big bag of beauty products for her.

'Lisa took the time to ask about her life and make her feel special. She’s a real sweetheart.

'I knew Lisa originally because she was a customer at my dry cleaning business but I got to know her properly when we worked on the cancer fundraiser.

'We have a mutual friend Jim Barnes, who owns several restaurants here, and after he lost his mother to cancer he decided to do a wine tasting festival in aid of the local cancer hospital.

'Lisa’s mother had just died of ovarian cancer and I’d lost mine too. So we got together to work on the silent auction.

'I donated my Lamborghini sports car for a weekend and Lisa put up many of her clothes and QVC products'.

Lisa, who hosts ovarian cancer awareness shows on QVC and last summer roped in Kelly Rippa to promote the event in the Hamptons, New York, spends much of her spare time with her dad Charles in Tennessee and younger sister Kimberly in South Carolina.

Gracious: Lisa and her escort Cameron Silver arrive at the 21st Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's Oscar Viewing Party in Los Angeles last year. She's known for her charitable works

'She’s always travelling,” Tom, 59, said. 'She doesn’t have much time to find a significant other. But she does love to flirt.

'She phoned me up about a year-and-a-half ago and invited me out to lunch. I told her I wasn’t interested – I had one wife go crazy on me and that was enough to put me off relationships.

'But she deserves someone to love her. She’s a real class act.”

Lisa’s mother Charlene died of ovarian cancer, aged 76, in 2009. On 50 cent postcards featuring Lisa sold in the QVC studio shop, she says: 'My mother always said I would never get a job shopping and talking on the phone. It was the only thing she was ever wrong about.”

Growing up in tiny Ooltewah, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lisa said: 'Home shopping television didn’t exist. I had no idea this would be a career for me.”

She learned to play the violin and fiddle – skills that helped her win the coveted Miss Tennessee beauty crown –while studying health care administration at university.

During her pageant reign, she sang at the New Jersey Mets Stadium, paraded with the Pride of the South Marching Band and won an outstanding service award from Tennessee’s governor for her work promoting his drug-free program at local schools.

Lisa, who declined an interview request from Mail Online, started her TV career with Knoxville’s Shop At Home network in 1991 and was snapped up by QVC four years later.

During an early promotion, she gushed about her growing army of fans, saying: 'QVC shoppers are like having lots of friends that you run into all the time.”

But after being constantly stalked, it is a probably a comment she regrets making.

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nonyobusiness, Bellvue, United States, 4 hours ago

It has nothing to do with her clothes, its about her notoriety, these men want to be a part of her life because she's famous but still seems down to earth and also might seem attainable since she's not too famous and is also unmarried and without children. I feel bad for her, being stalked is incredibly scary and all consuming.

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samuelsav, Atlanta, United States, 4 hours ago

I suggest she hires a high end body guard.service. It's ridiculous that a successful woman has to out up with this horrible person.

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Oreo, Buffalo, United States, 4 hours ago

This is more than a shame. No one should have to live this way. Penalties and punishment should be increased for nutters that stalk other people, not just celebs. Unfortunately, nothing much is done until someone gets hurt.

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D.Brian, Morgantown, United States, 4 hours ago

She used to be very attractive when she first started on QVC but 5 or 6 years ago she did something to herself, some kind of goofy Hollywood diet or a bad face lift, but my wife and I both think she looks really odd, almost weird now. She should have left well enough alone.

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username, Los Angeles, United States, 4 hours ago

WTH, that's crazy.

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Chi83, New York, United States, 5 hours ago

So it's her fault? Really?

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heidi, charlotte, 5 hours ago

Noone deserves to be stalked, but if you wear tighter, more revealing clothes you will get more attention from males. They cannot help themselves. If she wore looser clothing and didn't show cleavage men would pay less attention and I bet fewer nuts would bother her. Men are simple like that.

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BenjiBoy2014, Yancy, United States, 4 hours ago

"Noone deserves to be stalked, but" ....................... Everything following the "but" in your posting negates its limp preamble. Revolting.

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Lexi, Sherman Oaks, CA., 5 hours ago

She is lovely. But even ugly women have stalkers. Look at Lady GaGa, she has stalkers. It's not about looks, it's mental illness or evilness. It's scary for sure!

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GinGin, Meridian, United States, 5 hours ago

How sad to achieve success in your chosen career and then be constantly harassed and scared. I am so thankful I am an average woman with one amazing man - my hubby - who truly loves me for me. Would not trade places with this woman in a million years! And the whole QVC thing is really creepy. I know two wealthy women who are addicted to QVC. Both have become hoarders and literally filled up their houses with stuff. One lady has just left hundreds of boxes outside in the weather because the stuff won't fit in her 6000 square foot house.