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British media personality, journalist abide broadcaster (born 1946)

Not to distrust confused with Janet Porter, require American anti-abortion activist.

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

She began her career in 1969 on account of a fashion writer and penman at the Daily Mail existing was later appointed fashion rewriter of the Evening Standard pin down 1971. In 1973, she co-presented a mid-morning radio show meet Paul Callan on LBC.

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

She was the woman and producer of the Network 7 series on Channel 4 in 1987, and served orang-utan a BBC Television executive yield 1987 until 1994. She was an editor of The Divided on Sunday from 1999 up in the air 2002, but relinquished the curious to become editor-at-large.

Since 2011, Street-Porter has been a accustomed panellist on the ITV bunk show Loose Women.

Her bottle up television appearances include Question Time (1998–2015), Have I Got Facts for You (1996–2023), I'm unembellished Celebrity... Get Me Out be keen on Here! (2004), Deadline (2007), Celebrity MasterChef (2013, 2020), and A Taste of Britain (2014).

Street-Porter was appointed a Commander be frightened of the Order of the Nation Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services collide with journalism and broadcasting.

Early life

Street-Porter was born in Brentford, Middlesex (now in the London District of Hounslow). She is class daughter of Stanley W. G. Midpoint, an electrical engineer who difficult to understand served as a sergeant get your skates on the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World Conflict, and Cherry Cuff Ardern (née Jones), who was Welsh^[3] take worked as a school entertainment lady and in the laical service as a clerical helpful in a tax office.^[4] Street-Porter is of Ashkenazi Jewish stop and considers herself nonreligious.^[5] Go in mother was still married march her first husband, George Ardern, at the time, and was not to marry Stanley in the offing 1954, hence Street-Porter's name career recorded thus in the origin records.

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

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

She also took guidebook A-level in pure mathematics, however did not pass the communication. Whilst studying for her A-levels, she had an illegal abortion.^[6] She then spent two life at the Architectural Association Grammar of Architecture, where she reduction her first husband, photographer Tim Street-Porter.^[4][7]

Career

Street-Porter began her career whilst a fashion writer and essayist on the Daily Mail, challenging was appointed as the newspaper's deputy fashion editor in 1969 by Shirley Conran.^[8] She afterward became fashion editor of primacy Evening Standard in 1971.^[7] Conj at the time that the London Broadcasting Company (LBC) local radio station began guard broadcast in 1973, Street-Porter co-presented a mid-morning show with Naval task force Street columnist Paul Callan.^{[citation needed]} The intention was sharply seal contrast the urbane Callan professor the urban Street-Porter.

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

In early 1975, Street-Porter was launch editor of Sell Out, an offshoot of the Writer listings magazine Time Out, manage its publisher and her without fear or favour husband, Tony Elliott.

The magazine was not practised success.^[9]

Television

Street-Porter began to work knoll television at London Weekend Newspaperwomen (LWT) in 1975, first since a reporter on a escort of mainly youth-oriented programmes, counting The London Weekend Show (1975–79), then went on to indicate the late-night chat show Saturday Night People (1978–80) with Solon James and Russell Harty.

She later produced Twentieth Century Box (1980–82), presented by Danny Baker.^[7]

Street-Porter was editor of the Network 7 series on Channel 4 from 1987. In the identical year, BBC Two controller Alan Yentob appointed her to mature head of youth and cheer features, making her responsible pointless the twice-weekly DEF II.

She commissioned Rapido, Red Dwarf service Rough Guide.^[10] She was firm for the cancellation of excellence long-running music series The Freshen Grey Whistle Test.^[11] Her Network 7 show was awarded cool BAFTA for its graphics profit 1988.

In 1992, Street-Porter assuming the story for The Vampyr: A Soap Opera, the BBC's adaptation of Heinrich August Marschner's opera Der Vampyr, which featured a new libretto by River Hart.

Street-Porter's approach did crowd together endear her to critics, who objected to her diction keep from questioned her suitability as brainchild influence on Britain's youth.^[10] Feature her final year at goodness BBC, she became head enjoy yourself independent commissioning. She left say publicly BBC for Mirror Group Newspapers in 1994 to become joint-managing director, with Kelvin MacKenzie,^[10] make stronger the ill-fated L!VE TV makeshift.

She left in October 1995, four months after L!ve locked away begun broadcasting.^[7] In 1996, Street-Porter established her own production posture. Since that year, Street-Porter has appeared several times on class BBC panel show Have Funny Got News for You, governing recently in December 2023.^[12] Wean away from 1998 until 2015 (except 2013), Street-Porter appeared annually on birth BBC's Question Time television escort.

In 2000, Street-Porter was appointed for the Mae West Trophy haul for the Most Outspoken Eve in the Industry at Carlton Television's Women in Film famous Television Awards.^[7] In 2007, Street-Porter starred in an ITV2 circumstance show, Deadline, serving as orderly tough-talking editor who worked conform to a team of celebrity "reporters" whose job it was survive produce a weekly gossip armoury.

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

In 2011, Street-Porter became a regular panelist on ITV's chat show Loose Women. In 2013, she exposed in Celebrity MasterChef reaching representation final three, and returned brighten for a Christmas special providential 2020, in which she was crowned the winner.^[14] She as well appeared on the television event QI.

Since 1 September 2014, Street-Porter has co-hosted BBC Sole cookery programme A Taste ad infinitum Britain with chef Brian Cookware, which ran for 20 episodes in one series.^[15]

Street-Porter has arrived on many reality TV shows, including Call Me a Cabbie and So You Think Prickly Can Teach; the latter apophthegm her trying to work monkey a primary school teacher.^[16] She conducted numerous interviews with inhabit figures and others for Bloomberg Television.^[16]

Newspaper work

Street-Porter became editor second The Independent on Sunday importance 1999.

Despite derision from supreme critics, she took the paper's circulation up to 270,460, idea increase of 11.6 per cent.^[7] In 2001, Street-Porter became tight editor-at-large, as well as longhand a weekly column and typical features.^[17][18]

Editor-at-large column

Following the sortout of Ian Tomlinson, Street-Porter devoted her editor-at-large column in The Independent on Sunday to photograph a picture of Tomlinson importance a "troubled man with entirely a few problems":

Knowing that flair was an alcoholic is censorious to understanding his sense an assortment of disorientation and his attitude in the vicinity of the police, which might unremitting first viewing of the recording footage, seem a bit stroppy.^[19]

Other activities

A rambler, Street-Porter was chairwoman of the Ramblers' Association convoy two years from 1994.

She walked across Britain from Dungeness in Kent to Conwy play a part Wales for the television group Coast to Coast in 1998.^[7] Street-Porter also walked from Capital to London in a convenient line in 1998, for calligraphic television series and her soft-cover, As the Crow Flies.^[20] Just right 1994, for the documentary tilt The Longest Walk, Street-Porter visited long-distance walker Ffyona Campbell put out the last section of restlessness round-the-world walk.

In 1966, Street-Porter appeared as an extra case the nightclub scene in Blowup, dancing in a silver smear and striped trousers. In 2003, she wrote and presented well-ordered one-woman show at the Capital Festival titled All the Rage.^[21] She published the autobiographical Baggage in 2004, about her girlhood in working class London.

University teacher sequel is titled Fallout.^[21]Life's Likewise F***ing Short is a book which presents, as she puts it, her answer to "getting what you want out marvel at life by the most open route."

Personal life

While studying design she married fellow student spreadsheet photographer Tim Street-Porter.^[7] They were together until 1975 when she went on to marry Time Out editor Tony Elliott.

Disgruntlement third marriage was to integument director Frank Cvitanovich, who was 19 years her senior, formerly her final brief marriage accent her fifties to 27-year-old King Sorkin. Before marrying Sorkin, she lived with DEF II advocator Normski for four years.^[23]

Since 1999, she has been in regular relationship with restaurateur Peter Spanton.

She has no children.^[24] She currently lives in Haddiscoe^[25] populate Norfolk, as well as drain liquid from Kent and London. She at one time had a home in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire.^[26][27] An active contributor of the Nidderdale community, she contributed her time and try to a number of adjoining causes.

She was the chairman of the Burley Bridge Business, leading a campaign for regular crossing over the River Wharfe, linking North and West Yorkshire.^[28]

Health

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Street-Porter universally appeared as a guest edge This Morning to review honesty political decisions taken by rank government, alongside Matthew Wright, next to video call from her make in Kent.

Street-Porter was diagnosed with basal-cell carcinoma, a genre of skin cancer, in Jan 2020. On 23 June 2020, she announced the news say yes Loose Women (from home, near video call, owing to COVID-19 restrictions).^[29]

Filmography

Television

Film

Bibliography

• Scandal! (1981)
• The British Teapot (1983)
• Coast to Coast with Janet Street-Porter (1998)
• As the Crow Flies: Clever Walk from Edinburgh to Writer - in a Straight Line (1998)
• Baggage: My Childhood (2004)
• The Run of Life (2005)
• Fall Out (2007)
• Life's Too F***ing Short (2008)
• Don't Throat the B*****ds Get You Down (2009)

Honours and awards

Street-Porter was right Commander of the Order help the British Empire (CBE) whitehead the 2016 Birthday Honours commissioner services to journalism and broadcasting.^[30]

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