Janet Street-Porter

Janet Street-Porter

Janet Vera Street-Porter CBE is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and media personality. She was the editor and producer of the Network 7 series on Channel Four, which was awarded a BAFTA for its graphics. Since 2011, she has been a regular weekly panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women.

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Summary Janet Street-PorterJanet Vera Street-Porter CBE is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and media personality. She was the editor and producer of the Network 7 series on Channel Four, which was awarded a BAFTA for its graphics. Since 2011, she has been a regular weekly panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women. She has made numerous appearances on television programmes, including Question Time, I’m a Celebrity… and Celebrity MasterChef. She is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and broadcasting. Her final role was as head of independent commission on Britain on Britain in 1994. She left the BBC in 1994 to become joint director with Kelvin MacKenzie of LVE! TV channel. In 2000, she was nominated for the West-Mae Award for the most ill-fated TV personality of the year.

Since 1996, Street-porter has appeared several times on the BBC’s Have I Got News for You, most recently in May 2020. She currently lives in London with her husband Tim and their three children. Her husband Tim is a photographer and photographer, and she is a freelance writer and TV presenter. She also has a son and a daughter, both of whom are in their 20s and 30s, and a son-in-law, who is in his 30s and a step-daughter, who are both in their late 20s. The couple have a son, Jack, who was born in 2008. She had an illegal abortion while studying A-levels in 1964. She passed 8 O-levels and 3 A-Levels in English, History and Art. She then spent two years at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where she met her first husband, photographer Tim Street- Porter. She became fashion editor of the Evening Standard.