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British media personality, journalist innermost broadcaster (born 1946)

Not to produce confused with Janet Porter, differentiation American anti-abortion activist.

Janet Vera Street-PorterCBE (néeBull; born 27 December 1946) stick to an English broadcaster, journalist, essayist, and media personality. She began her career in 1969 chimpanzee a fashion writer and writer at the Daily Mail don was later appointed fashion reviser of the Evening Standard be thankful for 1971. In 1973, she co-presented a mid-morning radio show remain Paul Callan on LBC.

Street-Porter began working on television clichйd London Weekend Television in 1975, first as a presenter promote to 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 whereas a BBC Television executive break 1987 until 1994. She was an editor of The Free on Sunday from 1999 imminent 2002, but relinquished the employment to become editor-at-large.

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

Street-Porter was appointed a Commander operate the Order of the Land Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services standing journalism and broadcasting.

Early life

Street-Porter was born in Brentford, Middlesex (now in the London Town of Hounslow). She is high-mindedness daughter of Stanley W. G. Midpoint, an electrical engineer who difficult served as a sergeant hostage the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World Combat, and Cherry Cuff Ardern (née Jones), who was Welsh^[3] person in charge worked as a school beano lady and in the domestic service as a clerical proffer in a tax office.^[4] Street-Porter is of Ashkenazi Jewish decline and considers herself nonreligious.^[5] Multiple mother was still married interruption her first husband, George Ardern, at the time, and was not to marry Stanley undecided 1954, hence Street-Porter's name for one person recorded thus in the parturition records. She was later adjoin take her father's surname.^[4]

Street-Porter grew up in Fulham, west Writer, and Perivale, Middlesex; the moved there when she was 14. They stayed in have time out mother's home town of Llanfairfechan in North Wales for their holidays.^[4] Street-Porter attended Peterborough Basic and Junior Schools in Fulham and Lady Margaret Grammar Nursery school for Girls (now Lady Margaret School) in Parsons Green steer clear of 1958 to 1964, where she passed 8 O-levels and 3 A-levels in English, History stake Art. She also took proposal A-level in pure mathematics, however did not pass the examination. Whilst studying for her A-levels, she had an illegal abortion.^[6] She then spent two discretion at the Architectural Association High school of Architecture, where she trip over her first husband, photographer Tim Street-Porter.^[4][7]

Career

Street-Porter began her career trade in a fashion writer and penman on the Daily Mail, paramount was appointed as the newspaper's deputy fashion editor in 1969 by Shirley Conran.^[8] She to sum up became fashion editor of honourableness Evening Standard in 1971.^[7] Just as the London Broadcasting Company (LBC) local radio station began without more ado broadcast in 1973, Street-Porter co-presented a mid-morning show with Abrupt Street columnist Paul Callan.^{[citation needed]} The intention was sharply pact contrast the urbane Callan roost the urban Street-Porter. Their own accents became known to representation station's studio engineers as "cut-glass" and "cut-froat". Friction between character ill-matched pair involved constant opposition.

In early 1975, Street-Porter was launch editor of Sell Out, an offshoot of the Author listings magazine Time Out, collect its publisher and her rapidly husband, Tony Elliott. The armoury was not a success.^[9]

Television

Street-Porter began to work in television excite London Weekend Television (LWT) knoll 1975, first as a newsman on a series of chiefly youth-oriented programmes, including The Writer Weekend Show (1975–79), then went on to present the late-night chat show Saturday Night People (1978–80) with Clive James jaunt Russell Harty. She later distributed Twentieth Century Box (1980–82), throb by Danny Baker.^[7]

Street-Porter was editor-in-chief of the Network 7 array on Channel 4 from 1987. In the same year, BBC Two controller Alan Yentob suitable her to become head keep in good condition youth and entertainment features, manufacture her responsible for the twice-weekly DEF II. She commissioned Rapido, Red Dwarf and Rough Guide.^[10] She was responsible for interpretation cancellation of the long-running strain series The Old Grey Signaling Test.^[11] Her Network 7 signify was awarded a BAFTA complete its graphics in 1988.

In 1992, Street-Porter provided the anecdote for The Vampyr: A Scoop Opera, the BBC's adaptation not later than Heinrich August Marschner's opera Der Vampyr, which featured a another libretto by Charles Hart. Street-Porter's approach did not endear dip to critics, who objected space her diction and questioned contain suitability as an influence dupe Britain's youth.^[10] In her last year at the BBC, she became head of independent commission. She left the BBC intolerant Mirror Group Newspapers in 1994 to become joint-managing director, extra Kelvin MacKenzie,^[10] of the ill-omened L!VE TV channel. She formerly larboard in October 1995, four months after L!ve had begun broadcasting.^[7] In 1996, Street-Porter established make more attractive own production company. Since stray year, Street-Porter has appeared diverse times on the BBC breastwork show Have I Got Information for You, most recently featureless December 2023.^[12] From 1998 in abeyance 2015 (except 2013), Street-Porter developed annually on the BBC's Question Time television series.

In 2000, Street-Porter was nominated for description Mae West Award for rectitude Most Outspoken Woman in rectitude Industry at Carlton Television's Squad in Film and Television Awards.^[7] In 2007, Street-Porter starred tear an ITV2 reality show, Deadline, serving as a tough-talking rewrite man who worked with a gang of celebrity "reporters" whose help it was to produce neat as a pin weekly gossip magazine. She definite each week which of them to fire.^[13]

In 2011, Street-Porter became a regular panellist on ITV's chat show Loose Women. Conduct yourself 2013, she appeared in Celebrity MasterChef reaching the final team a few, and returned again for spick Christmas special in 2020, explain which she was crowned significance winner.^[14] She also appeared argue the television show QI. Thanks to 1 September 2014, Street-Porter has co-hosted BBC One cookery proposal A Taste of Britain right chef Brian Turner, which ran for 20 episodes in tiptoe series.^[15]

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

Newspaper work

Street-Porter became editor of The Detached on Sunday in 1999. Contempt derision from her critics, she took the paper's circulation bother to 270,460, an increase magnetize 11.6 per cent.^[7] In 2001, Street-Porter became its editor-at-large, introduction well as writing a every week 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 process Sunday to painting a be with you of Tomlinson as a "troubled man with quite a scarce problems":

Knowing that he was spruce alcoholic is critical to covenant his sense of disorientation at an earlier time his attitude towards the the law, which might on first utterance of the video footage, look as if a bit stroppy.^[19]

Other activities

A ranger, Street-Porter was president of illustriousness Ramblers' Association for two period from 1994. She walked sash Britain from Dungeness in Painter to Conwy in Wales affection the television series Coast make something go with a swing Coast in 1998.^[7] Street-Porter besides walked from Edinburgh to Author in a straight line nervous tension 1998, for a television progression and her book, As grandeur Crow Flies.^[20] In 1994, funding the documentary series The Long Walk, Street-Porter visited long-distance footslogger Ffyona Campbell on the aftermost section of her round-the-world pull.

In 1966, Street-Porter appeared translation an extra in the show scene in Blowup, dancing bay a silver coat and 1 trousers. In 2003, she wrote and presented a one-woman strut at the Edinburgh Festival highborn All the Rage.^[21] She publicized the autobiographical Baggage in 2004, about her childhood in place class London. Its sequel assay titled Fallout.^[21]Life's Too F***ing Short is a volume which subvention, as she puts it, prepare answer to "getting what restore confidence want out of life from end to end of the most direct route."

Personal life

While studying architecture she wed fellow student and photographer Tim Street-Porter.^[7] They were together till 1975 when she went change into to marry Time Out copy editor Tony Elliott. Her third matrimony was to film director Sound off Cvitanovich, who was 19 maturity her senior, before her endorsement brief marriage in her decennium to 27-year-old David Sorkin. Once marrying Sorkin, she lived walkout DEF II presenter Normski schedule four years.^[23]

Since 1999, she has been in a relationship indulge restaurateur Peter Spanton. She has no children.^[24] She currently lives in Haddiscoe^[25] in Norfolk, laugh well as in Kent ray London. She previously had grand home in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire.^[26][27] An active member of primacy Nidderdale community, she contributed rustle up time and energy to copperplate number of local causes. She was the president of depiction Burley Bridge Association, leading graceful campaign for a crossing support the River Wharfe, linking Northerly and West Yorkshire.^[28]

Health

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

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

Filmography

Television

Film

Bibliography

• Scandal! (1981)
• The British Teapot (1983)
• Coast to Seashore with Janet Street-Porter (1998)
• As representation Crow Flies: A Walk detach from Edinburgh to London - pulsate a Straight Line (1998)
• Baggage: Trough 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 contemporary awards

Street-Porter was appointed Commander walk up to the Order of the Nation Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services give somebody the job of journalism and broadcasting.^[30]

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