Janet Street Porter
Janet Vera Street-Porter is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and media personality. She began her career as a fashion writer and columnist at the Daily Mail. She was appointed fashion editor of the Evening Standard in 1971 and began co-presenting a mid-morning radio show with Paul Callan on LBC in 1973. Street-Porter began working in 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. She was a BBC Television executive from 1987 until 1994 and 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, Have I Got News for You, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Deadline, Celebrity MasterChef, and A Taste of Britain.
