Janet Street-Porter

Janet Street-Porter

Janet Street-Porter

  • Profession: Journalist and Editor
  • Place/Date of Birth: London, 27 December 2020

JSP on TV - Jan 05
Jungle Janet lands own TV show. Janet Street Porter, who kick started her career on the small screen all those years ago has been asked to go back to her roots, presenting a show for Talkback and Channel 4. Boom! Will be a live daytime show with a mixture of guests, entertainment and current affairs aimed at Janet’s own generation of baby boomers. However, we could be waiting for some time to see the show - Channel 4 have confirmed that it is in the very early planning stages at the moment.

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Biography

Born on the 27th December 1946, media girl Janet was educated at the Lady Margaret Girl’s School and also the Architectural Association. Her first job was as a writer for Petticoat Magazine and from there she moved on to The Daily Mail, then a short hop over to the London Evening Standard.

In the 1970’s she did some broadcasting on LBC Radio and from there progressed to presenting, devising and producing shows for London Weekend Television (including the Six O’clock Show). Janet was BBC Head of Youth and Entertainment Features from 1988-1994, was the MD of cable channel Live TV for a year and co-founded Screaming Productions in 1996. She currently works as editor of the Independent on Sunday.A little known fact is that comedienne Caroline Aherne used to be Janet’s secretary!

An award winning broadcaster, she was winner of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for originality in 1988, and the Prix Italia for her production of opera The Vampyr in 1993. She has also been nominated for the Carlton TV Mae West Award for the most outspoken woman in the industry - go Janet!

She has been caricatured many times for her infamously large teeth and her strong accent - but this worked well in her favour when her pronunciation of the word ’youth’ while at the BBC lead to the national phrase ’yoof TV’.

She has been married three times; Street Porter is the surname of her first husband - Tim. She is also a keen walker and is the vice-president of the Rambler’s Association. Although she has homes elsewhere - she rents a two bedroom pad near Barbican.
March 2007

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