Janet Street-Porter

Janet Vera Street-Porter (néeBull; born 27 December 1946) is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer and media personality. She began her career in 1969 as a fashion writer and columnist at the Daily Mail and was appointed fashion editor of the Evening Standard in 1971. In 1973, she co-presented a mid-morning radio show with Paul Callan on LBC.

Street-Porter began working on television at London Weekend Television in 1975, first as a presenter of a series of mainly youth-oriented programmes. She was the editor and producer of the Network 7 series on Channel 4 in 1987, and served as a BBC Television executive from 1987 until 1994. She was an editor of The Independent on Sunday from 1999 until 2002, but relinquished the job to become editor-at-large.

Since 2011, Street-Porter has been a regular panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women. Her other television appearances include Question Time (1998–2015), Have I Got News for You (1996–2025), I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (2004), Deadline (2007), Celebrity MasterChef (2013) and A Taste of Britain (2014). Street-Porter was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and broadcasting.

Street-Porter was born in Brentford, Middlesex (now in the London Borough of Hounslow). She is the daughter of Stanley W. G. Bull, an electrical engineer who had served as a sergeant in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World War, and Cherry Cuff Ardern (née Jones), who was Welsh^[3] and worked as a school dinner lady and in the civil service as a clerical assistant in a tax office.^[4] Her mother was still married to her first husband, George Ardern, at the time, and was not to marry Stanley Bull until 1954, hence Street-Porter's name being recorded as Ardern in the birth records. She was later to take her father's surname.^[4]

Street-Porter grew up in Fulham, west London, and Perivale, Middlesex; the family moved there when she was 14. They stayed in her mother's home town of Llanfairfechan in North Wales for their holidays.^[4] Street-Porter attended Peterborough Primary and Junior Schools in Fulham and Lady Margaret Grammar School for Girls (now Lady Margaret School) in Parsons Green from 1958 to 1964, where she passed eight O-levels and three A-levels in English, History and Art. She also took an A-level in pure mathematics, but did not pass the exam. Whilst studying for her A-levels, she had an illegal abortion.^[5] She then spent two years at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where she met her first husband, photographer Tim Street-Porter.^[4][6]

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.^[7] She became fashion editor of the Evening Standard in 1971.^[6] When the London Broadcasting Company (LBC) local radio station began to broadcast in 1973, Street-Porter co-presented a mid-morning show with Fleet Street columnist Paul Callan.^[8] The intention was sharply to contrast the urbane Callan and the urban Street-Porter. Their respective accents became known to the station's studio engineers as "cut-glass" and "cut-froat". Friction between the ill-matched pair involved constant one-upmanship.

In early 1975, 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. The magazine was not a success.^[9]

Television

ストリート＝ポーターは1975年にロンドン・ウィークエンド・テレビジョン（LWT）でテレビの仕事を始め、最初は主に若者向けの番組シリーズ（『ザ・ロンドン・ウィークエンド・ショー』 （1975～79年）など）のレポーターを務め、その後、クライヴ・ジェームズとラッセル・ハーティと共に深夜トーク番組『サタデー・ナイト・ピープル』（1978～80年）の司会を務めた。彼女は後にダニー・ベイカーが司会を務める『トゥエンティース・センチュリー・ボックス』（1980～82年）をプロデュースした。^{[ 6 ]}

ストリート＝ポーターは1987年からチャンネル4のNetwork 7シリーズの編集者を務め、翌年にはグラフィックでBAFTA賞を受賞した。また1987年には、 BBC2のコントローラーであるアラン・イェントブが彼女を青少年およびエンターテイメント特集の責任者に任命し、週2回放送のDEF IIを担当させた。彼女はRapidoとRed Dwarfを企画し^{[ 10 ]}、長寿音楽番組The Old Grey Whistle Testを打ち切った^{[ 11 ]}。

1992年、ストリート＝ポーターは、BBCがハインリヒ・アウグスト・マルシュナーのオペラ『吸血鬼』を翻案した『吸血鬼：ソープオペラ』のストーリーを提供した。この作品はチャールズ・ハートによる新しい台本が特徴だった。ストリート＝ポーターのアプローチは批評家に好まれず、批評家たちは彼女の言葉遣いに異議を唱え、イギリスの若者に影響を与える人物として彼女が適切かどうか疑問視した。^{[ 10 ]} BBCでの最後の年には、独立委託部門の責任者になった。1994年にBBCを離れ、ミラー・グループ・ニュースペーパーズに移り、ケルビン・マッケンジーと共に不運なL!VE TVチャンネルの共同マネージングディレクターになった。 ^{[ 10 ]}彼女はL!VEが放送を開始してから4か月後の1995年10月に退社した。^{[ 6 ]} 1996年、ストリート＝ポーターは自身の制作会社を設立した。その年以来、ストリート＝ポーターはBBCのパネル番組「Have I Got News for You」や時事問題討論番組「Question Time」に何度か出演している。

In 2000, 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.^[6] In 2007, Street-Porter starred in an ITV2 reality show, 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. She decided each week which of them to fire.^[12]

In 2011, Street-Porter became a regular panellist on ITV's chat show Loose Women. In 2013, she appeared in Celebrity MasterChef reaching the final three, and returned again for a Christmas special in 2020, in which she was crowned the winner.^[13] She also appeared on the television show QI. Street-Porter co-hosted BBC One cookery programme A Taste of Britain with chef Brian Turner, which ran for 20 episodes in 2014.^[14]

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.^[15] She conducted numerous interviews with business figures and others for Bloomberg Television.^[15]

Street-Porter has been married five times. While studying architecture she married fellow student and photographer Tim Street-Porter,^[6] with whom she stayed until 1975 when she went on to marry Time Out editor Tony Elliott. Her third marriage was to film director Frank Cvitanovich, who was 19 years her senior, before a brief marriage in her fifties to 27-year-old David Sorkin. Before marrying Sorkin, she lived with DEF II presenter Normski for four years.^[22] In 1999, she began a long-term relationship with restaurateur Peter Spanton, who became her fifth husband on 31 January 2026. She has no children but has spoken frankly about having two abortions in the 1960s.^[23]

She currently lives in Haddiscoe^[24] in Norfolk, as well as in Kent and London. She previously had a home in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire.^[22] An active member of the Nidderdale community, she contributed her time and energy to a number of local causes. She was the president of the Burley Bridge Association, leading a campaign for a crossing over the River Wharfe, linking North and West Yorkshire.^[25]

• Scandal! (1981)
• The British Teapot (1983)
• Coast to Coast with Janet Street-Porter (1998)
• As the Crow Flies: A Walk from Edinburgh to London – in a Straight Line (1998)
• Baggage: My Childhood (2004)
• The Walk of Life (2005)
• Fall Out (2007)
• Life's Too F***ing Short (2008)
• Don't Let the B*****ds Get You Down (2009)

Street-Porter was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and broadcasting.^[27]

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• BBCラジオ4の番組「デザート・アイランド・ディスクス」のエピソード、2008年11月放送
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