40 Facts About Janet Street-Porter

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

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

Janet Street-Porter grew up in Fulham, West London and Perivale, Middlesex, after the family moved there when she was 14 and the family would stay in her mother's home town of Llanfairfechan in North Wales for their holidays.

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 1996, Janet Street-Porter has appeared several times on the BBC panel show Have I Got News for You, most recently in May 2020.

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

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 called 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.

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 and 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 TV.

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

In 2001, Janet Street-Porter became 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 is in a relationship with restaurateur Peter Spanton.

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 appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and broadcasting.