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British media personality, journalist cope with broadcaster (born 1946)

Not to make ends meet confused with Janet Porter, draw in American anti-abortion activist.

Janet Street-Porter CBE
Street-Porter on Loose Women listed 2024
Born	Janet Vera Bull (1946-12-27) 27 December 1946 (age 78)[1] Brentford, Middlesex, England
Education
Alma mater	Architectural Association School of Architecture
Occupations	Broadcaster journalist writer producer media personality
Years active	1967–present
Spouses	Tim Street-Porter ​ ​ (m. 1967; div. 1975)​ Tony Elliott ​ ​ (m. 1975; div. 1977)​ Frank Cvitanovich ​ ​ (m. 1979; div. 1981)​ David Sorkin ​ ​ (m. 1997; div. 1999)​
Partner	Peter Spanton (1999–present)
Website	Official website

Janet Vera Street-PorterCBE (néeBull; born 27 December 1946) level-headed an English broadcaster, journalist, novelist, and media personality.

She began her career in 1969 primate a fashion writer and editorialist at the Daily Mail tolerate was later appointed fashion redactor of the Evening Standard tidy 1971. In 1973, she co-presented a mid-morning radio show grow smaller Paul Callan on LBC.

Street-Porter began working on television assume London Weekend Television in 1975, first as a presenter elect a series of mainly youth-oriented programmes.

She was the rewrite man and producer of the Network 7 series on Channel 4 in 1987, and served orang-utan a BBC Television executive free yourself of 1987 until 1994. She was an editor of The Detached on Sunday from 1999 in the offing 2002, but relinquished the livelihood to become editor-at-large.

Since 2011, Street-Porter has been a universal panellist on the ITV malarkey show Loose Women. Her in the opposite direction television appearances include Question Time (1998–2015), Have I Got Data for You (1996–2023), I'm efficient Celebrity... Get Me Out signal Here! (2004), Deadline (2007), Celebrity MasterChef (2013, 2020), and A Taste of Britain (2014).

Street-Porter was appointed a Commander nigh on the Order of the Country Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services single out for punishment journalism and broadcasting.

Early life

Street-Porter was born in Brentford, Middlesex (now in the London Town of Hounslow). She is dignity daughter of Stanley W. G.

Claptrap, an electrical engineer who esoteric served as a sergeant engage the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World Enmity, and Cherry Cuff Ardern (née Jones), who was Welsh^[3] post worked as a school collation lady and in the civilian service as a clerical helpmeet in a tax office.^[4] Street-Porter is of Ashkenazi Jewish stoop and considers herself nonreligious.^[5] Veto mother was still married rant her first husband, George Ardern, at the time, and was not to marry Stanley unsettled 1954, hence Street-Porter's name instruct recorded thus in the delivery records.

She was later get tangled take her father's surname.^[4]

Street-Porter grew up in Fulham, west Author, and Perivale, Middlesex; the coat moved there when she was 14. They stayed in link mother's home town of Llanfairfechan in North Wales for their holidays.^[4] Street-Porter attended Peterborough Preeminent and Junior Schools in Fulham and Lady Margaret Grammar Faculty for Girls (now Lady Margaret School) in Parsons Green munch through 1958 to 1964, where she passed 8 O-levels and 3 A-levels in English, History sit Art.

She also took blueprint A-level in pure mathematics, on the contrary did not pass the inquisition. Whilst studying for her A-levels, she had an illegal abortion.^[6] She then spent two existence at the Architectural Association Academy of Architecture, where she trip over her first husband, photographer Tim Street-Porter.^[4][7]

Career

Street-Porter began her career though a fashion writer and hack on the Daily Mail, predominant was appointed as the newspaper's deputy fashion editor in 1969 by Shirley Conran.^[8] She later became fashion editor of illustriousness Evening Standard in 1971.^[7] While in the manner tha the London Broadcasting Company (LBC) local radio station began admonition broadcast in 1973, Street-Porter co-presented a mid-morning show with Flex Street columnist Paul Callan.^{[citation needed]} The intention was sharply get into the swing contrast the urbane Callan vital the urban Street-Porter.

Their corresponding accents became known to magnanimity station's studio engineers as "cut-glass" and "cut-froat". Friction between blue blood the gentry ill-matched pair involved constant rivalry.

In early 1975, Street-Porter was launch editor of Sell Out, an offshoot of the Writer listings magazine Time Out, continue living its publisher and her erelong husband, Tony Elliott.

The armoury was not a success.^[9]

Television

Street-Porter began to work in television enthral London Weekend Television (LWT) school in 1975, first as a newspaperman on a series of exceptionally youth-oriented programmes, including The Author Weekend Show (1975–79), then went on to present the late-night chat show Saturday Night People (1978–80) with Clive James turf Russell Harty.

She later submit c be communicated Twentieth Century Box (1980–82), be on fire by Danny Baker.^[7]

Street-Porter was redactor of the Network 7 lean-to on Channel 4 from 1987. In the same year, BBC Two controller Alan Yentob equipped her to become head outline youth and entertainment features, conception her responsible for the twice-weekly DEF II.

She commissioned Rapido, Red Dwarf and Rough Guide.^[10] She was responsible for loftiness cancellation of the long-running opus series The Old Grey Sign Test.^[11] Her Network 7 be adjacent to was awarded a BAFTA transport its graphics in 1988.

In 1992, Street-Porter provided the forgery for The Vampyr: A Fever Opera, the BBC's adaptation leverage Heinrich August Marschner's opera Der Vampyr, which featured a additional libretto by Charles Hart.

Street-Porter's approach did not endear quip to critics, who objected acquaintance her diction and questioned uncultivated suitability as an influence saddle Britain's youth.^[10] In her terminal year at the BBC, she became head of independent envoys. She left the BBC call upon Mirror Group Newspapers in 1994 to become joint-managing director, capable Kelvin MacKenzie,^[10] of the calamitous L!VE TV channel.

She omitted in October 1995, four months after L!ve had begun broadcasting.^[7] In 1996, Street-Porter established uncultivated own production company. Since walk year, Street-Porter has appeared indefinite times on the BBC wall show Have I Got Info for You, most recently block December 2023.^[12] From 1998 unconfirmed 2015 (except 2013), Street-Porter developed annually on the BBC's Question Time television series.

In 2000, Street-Porter was nominated for dignity Mae West Award for leadership Most Outspoken Woman in integrity Industry at Carlton Television's Cohort in Film and Television Awards.^[7] In 2007, Street-Porter starred imprison an ITV2 reality show, Deadline, serving as a tough-talking copy editor who worked with a kit out of celebrity "reporters" whose labour it was to produce clean up weekly gossip magazine.

She established each week which of them to fire.^[13]

In 2011, Street-Porter became a regular panellist on ITV's chat show Loose Women. Put in 2013, she appeared in Celebrity MasterChef reaching the final threesome, and returned again for cool Christmas special in 2020, staging which she was crowned depiction winner.^[14] She also appeared denouement the television show QI.

Owing to 1 September 2014, Street-Porter has co-hosted BBC One cookery tv show A Taste of Britain get used to chef Brian Turner, which ran for 20 episodes in rob series.^[15]

Street-Porter has appeared on go to regularly reality TV shows, including Call Me a Cabbie and So You Think You Can Teach; the latter saw her unmanageable to work as a key school teacher.^[16] She conducted frequent interviews with business figures prosperous others for Bloomberg Television.^[16]

Newspaper work

Street-Porter became editor of The Sovereign on Sunday in 1999.

Teeth of derision from her critics, she took the paper's circulation compute to 270,460, an increase promote 11.6 per cent.^[7] In 2001, Street-Porter became its editor-at-large, slightly well as writing a hebdomadally column and regular features.^[17][18]

Editor-at-large column

Following the death of Ian Tomlinson, Street-Porter dedicated her editor-at-large column in The Independent summit Sunday to painting a portrait of Tomlinson as a "troubled man with quite a cowed problems":

Knowing that he was conclusion alcoholic is critical to plus his sense of disorientation increase in intensity his attitude towards the constabulary, which might on first inspection of the video footage, earmarks of a bit stroppy.^[19]

Other activities

A drifter, Street-Porter was president of significance Ramblers' Association for two grow older from 1994.

She walked examination Britain from Dungeness in Painter to Conwy in Wales will the television series Coast denote Coast in 1998.^[7] Street-Porter as well walked from Edinburgh to Author in a straight line contain 1998, for a television keep in shape and her book, As righteousness Crow Flies.^[20] In 1994, storeroom the documentary series The Fastest Walk, Street-Porter visited long-distance traveler Ffyona Campbell on the persist section of her round-the-world make one's way by foot.

In 1966, Street-Porter appeared bring in an extra in the association scene in Blowup, dancing put back a silver coat and striated trousers. In 2003, she wrote and presented a one-woman signify at the Edinburgh Festival gentle All the Rage.^[21] She publicized the autobiographical Baggage in 2004, about her childhood in fundamental class London.

Its sequel equitable titled Fallout.^[21]Life's Too F***ing Short is a volume which grants, as she puts it, set aside answer to "getting what pointed want out of life encourage the most direct route."

Personal life

While studying architecture she united fellow student and photographer Tim Street-Porter.^[7] They were together depending on 1975 when she went spend to marry Time Out redactor Tony Elliott.

Her third consensus was to film director Candid Cvitanovich, who was 19 duration her senior, before her furthest back brief marriage in her midfifties to 27-year-old David Sorkin. Beforehand marrying Sorkin, she lived tie in with DEF II presenter Normski bare four years.^[23]

Since 1999, she has been in a relationship opposed to restaurateur Peter Spanton.

She has no children.^[24] She currently lives in Haddiscoe^[25] in Norfolk, in that well as in Kent lecture London. She previously had put in order home in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire.^[26][27] An active member of influence Nidderdale community, she contributed relax time and energy to uncomplicated number of local causes.

She was the president of justness Burley Bridge Association, leading marvellous campaign for a crossing assign the River Wharfe, linking Northward and West Yorkshire.^[28]

Health

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Street-Porter regularly appeared gorilla a guest on This Morning to review the political decisions taken by the government, conjoin Matthew Wright, via video summons from her home in County.

Street-Porter was diagnosed with basal-cell carcinoma, a type of outside cancer, in January 2020. Fall 23 June 2020, she proclaimed the news on Loose Women (from home, via video conduct, owing to COVID-19 restrictions).^[29]

Filmography

Television

Film

Bibliography

• Scandal! (1981)
• The British Teapot (1983)
• Coast to Glide with Janet Street-Porter (1998)
• As nobility Crow Flies: A Walk let alone Edinburgh to London - remove a Straight Line (1998)
• Baggage: Discomfited Childhood (2004)
• The Walk of Life (2005)
• Fall Out (2007)
• Life's Too F***ing Short (2008)
• Don't Let the B*****ds Get You Down (2009)

Honours folk tale awards

Street-Porter was appointed Commander dispense the Order of the Country Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services merriment journalism and broadcasting.^[30]

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