I'm A Celebrity: Janet Street-Porter factfile
I'm A Celebrity: Janet Street-Porter factfile
, 12 Jan Updated , 18 Jan
Janet Street-Porter factfile
Age : 57
Celebrity supporters : Sir Elton John
Fears and phobias : Mosquitoes (she has an allergic reaction to them)
Special skills : Walking, cooking, she can build a fire
Janet Street-Porter trained as an architect but was a Fleet Street name by the age of
In the s she switched from print to broadcasting on LBC Radio, followed by executive stints on London Weekend Television and heading BBC's youth and entertainment features.
She has divorced four husbands including one, 22 years her junior, who she married in Las Vegas only to leave him 14 months later.
Following a post as managing director of the cable station Live TV she moved back to the print media to edit the Independent on Sunday.
Today, the flamboyant journalist is a columnist and editor-at-large of the Sunday newspaper.
The broadcaster recently said she believed she had mellowed, but she is still known for her colourful language.
Sir Elton even tried to talk his friend out of going into the jungle - b
Janet Street-Porter - Early Life
Early Life
Janet Street-Porter was born Janet Vera Ardern in Brentford, Middlesex, a daughter of Stanley W G Bull, an electrician and Cherry Cuff Ardern (née Jones) a Welsh school dinner lady. Her mother was still married to her first husband, George Ardern, at the time, and was not to marry Stanley until , hence her name being recorded thus in the birth records. She was later to take her father's surname. She grew up in Fulham and Perivale, West London. Her family, she says, were poor. She went to Lady Margaret School in Parsons Green from to and then spent two years at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where she met her first husband, photographer Tim Street-Porter. She claims to have been molested as a child by a male hairdresser.
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Janet Street-Porter facts for kids
Not to be confused with Janet Porter, an American anti activist.
Quick facts for kids Janet Street-Porter CBE | |
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Street-Porter on Loose Women in | |
| Born | Janet Vera Bull () 27 December (age 78) Brentford, Middlesex, England |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Architectural Association School of Architecture |
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| Years active | –present |
| Spouse(s) | Tim Street-Porter (m. ; div. )Frank Cvitanovich (m. ; div. )David Sorkin (m. ; div. ) |
| Partner(s) | Peter Spanton (–present) |
Janet Vera Street-PorterCBE (néeBull; born 27 December ) is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and media personality. She began her career in as a fashion writer and columnist at the Daily Mail and was later appointed fashion editor of the Evening Standard in In , she co-presented a mid-morning radio show with Paul Callan on LBC.
Street-Porter began working on television at London Weekend Television in , first as a presenter of a series of mainly youth-oriented programmes. She was the editor and producer of the Network 7 series on
The pioneer of a broadcasting genre - Youth Television - Janet Street-Porter brought to the first multimedia generation a greater sense of intimacy and accessibility. Her programmes were characterised by the unconventional television techniques of mixing current affairs and lifestyle features, supplemented with information running ticker-tape fashion at the bottom of the screen or footage running alongside the presenter in vision.
The affect this sense of informality had in the more conventional area of news presentation could be seen by the success of Channel 5 News ( ): Kirsty Young striding around the newsroom while facts roll off the graphic display.
Born Janet Bull in Fulham, London, to an electrical engineer father and a school dinner lady mother, she married student Tim Street-Porter while they were at The Architectural Association.
After leaving architecture school in the mids, Street-Porter worked as a freelance journalist and, in , was offered a job as editorial assistant on Petticoat magazine, writing about design. Within nine months she was poached by the Daily Mail, where she became a columnist (billed as the 'Voice of Youth') writing about fashion.
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