42 Facts About Janet Street-Porter

Janet Vera Street-Porter is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and media personality.

Janet Street-Porter began her career in 1969 as a fashion writer and columnist at the Daily Mail and was later appointed fashion editor of the Evening Standard in 1971.

Janet Street-Porter was the editor and producer of the Network 7 series on Channel 4 in 1987, and served as a BBC Television executive from 1987 until 1994.

Janet Street-Porter was an editor of The Independent on Sunday from 1999 until 2002, but relinquished the job to become editor-at-large.

Since 2011, Janet Street-Porter has been a regular panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women.

Janet Street-Porter was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and broadcasting.

Janet Street-Porter was born in Brentford, Middlesex.

Janet Street-Porter is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent and considers herself nonreligious.

Janet Street-Porter's mother was still married to her first husband, George Ardern, at the time, and was not to marry Stanley until 1954, hence Street-Porter's name being recorded thus in the birth records.

Janet Street-Porter grew up in Fulham, West London, and Perivale, Middlesex; the family moved there when she was 14.

Janet Street-Porter attended Peterborough Primary and Junior Schools in Fulham and Lady Margaret Grammar School for Girls in Parsons Green from 1958 to 1964, where she passed 8 O-levels and 3 A-levels in English, History and Art.

Janet Street-Porter took an A-level in pure mathematics, but did not pass the exam.

Janet Street-Porter then spent two years at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where she met her first husband, photographer Tim Street-Porter.

Janet Street-Porter began her career as a fashion writer and columnist on the Daily Mail, and was appointed as the newspaper's deputy fashion editor in 1969 by Shirley Conran.

Janet Street-Porter subsequently became fashion editor of the Evening Standard in 1971.

In early 1975, Janet Street-Porter was launch editor of Sell Out, an offshoot of the London listings magazine Time Out, with its publisher and her second husband, Tony Elliott.

Janet Street-Porter began to work in television at London Weekend Television in 1975, first as a reporter on a series of mainly youth-oriented programmes, including The London Weekend Show, then went on to present the late-night chat show Saturday Night People with Clive James and Russell Harty.

Janet Street-Porter later produced Twentieth Century Box, presented by Danny Baker.

Janet Street-Porter was editor of the Network 7 series on Channel 4 from 1987.

Janet Street-Porter was responsible for the cancellation of the long-running music series The Old Grey Whistle Test.

In 1992, Janet Street-Porter provided 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 Charles Hart.

Janet Street-Porter's approach did not endear her to critics, who objected to her diction and questioned her suitability as an influence on Britain's youth.

Since that year, Janet Street-Porter has appeared several times on the BBC panel show Have I Got News for You, most recently in December 2023.

From 1998 until 2015, Janet Street-Porter appeared annually on the BBC's Question Time television series.

In 2000, Janet Street-Porter was nominated for the Mae West Award for the Most Outspoken Woman in the Industry at Carlton Television's Women in Film and Television Awards.

In 2007, Janet Street-Porter starred in an ITV2 reality show, Deadline, serving as a tough-talking editor who worked with a team of celebrity "reporters" whose job it was to produce a weekly gossip magazine.

Janet Street-Porter decided each week which of them to fire.

In 2011, Janet Street-Porter became a regular panellist on ITV's chat show Loose Women.

Since 1 September 2014, Janet Street-Porter has co-hosted BBC One cookery programme A Taste of Britain with chef Brian Turner, which ran for 20 episodes in one series.

Janet Street-Porter has appeared on many reality TV shows, including Call Me a Cabbie and So You Think You Can Teach; the latter saw her trying to work as a primary school teacher.

Janet Street-Porter conducted numerous interviews with business figures and others for Bloomberg Television.

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

In 2001, Janet Street-Porter became its editor-at-large, as well as writing a weekly column and regular features.

Janet Street-Porter walked across Britain from Dungeness in Kent to Conwy in Wales for the television series Coast to Coast in 1998.

Janet Street-Porter walked from Edinburgh to London in a straight line in 1998, for a television series and her book, As the Crow Flies.

In 1994, for the documentary series The Longest Walk, Janet Street-Porter visited long-distance walker Ffyona Campbell on the last section of her round-the-world walk.

In 1966, Janet Street-Porter appeared as an extra in the nightclub scene in Blowup, dancing in a silver coat and striped trousers.

Janet Street-Porter published the autobiographical Baggage in 2004, about her childhood in working class London.

Janet Street-Porter previously had a home in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire.

Janet Street-Porter was the president of the Burley Bridge Association, leading a campaign for a crossing over the River Wharfe, linking North and West Yorkshire.

Janet Street-Porter was diagnosed with basal-cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, in January 2020.

Janet Street-Porter was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and broadcasting.