Janet studied architecture before starting her journalistic career in her early twenties as a fashion editor and columnist for the Daily Mail. She moved into radio (hosting a daily show on LBC) and then television as a presenter and creative producer of ground-breaking shows for LWT. Legendary productions included Saturday Night People and Twentieth Century Box. In 1987 she moved to Channel 4 as editor of the hugely influential Network 7, a programme that later paved the way for such anarchic youth-skewing shows as The Word and The Big Breakfast. She joined BBC television to devise programmes for young people, overseeing the DEF II strand that showcased some of the most innovative and beloved programming of the era, from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to Rapido. Within the BBC she was later promoted to a senior role in charge of Independent Production, Entertainment.
Awards include Newspaper Columnist of the Year, the Prix Italia for arts programming (Opera for BBC2) and a BAFTA for originality (Channel 4 – Network 7). Columns include the Independent, the MailOnline and the i newspaper. She’s presented factual series for major television channels on a wide range of subjects including contemporary British art, the royal family, walking and architecture.
Over the last decade, she’s presented over 1,000 episodes of ITV’s award-winning daily show Loose Women, interviewing everyone from soap stars to Prime Ministers and has even dressed up as a hot dog. Her take-down of Rishi Sunak (“you don’t like pensioners, do you?”) made all the news bulletins before the last election.
Janet remains an enthusiastic competitor on many panel games and reality shows. She has appeared regularly on Have I Got News For You, lived in the jungle for I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, and holds the unique distinction of having competed in Celebrity Masterchef twice.
Janet has authored eight books including two best-selling memoirs, Baggage and Fall Out, and has kept censors busy with self-help books Life’s Too F***ing Short and Don’t Let the B******s Get You Down and devised a one-woman show, All The Rage, for the Edinburgh Festival.
She has commissioned two houses by leading architects and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. With a passion for the outdoors and and the British countryside, Janet has fronted many walking television programmes and is a former President of the Ramblers Association.
Janet Street-Porter remains at the forefront of the national conversation and is a hugely popular speaker and host. She has delivered hundreds of speeches about her career and the media. You will be unsurprised to read that she is as outspoken and forthright as ever.
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