Janet Street-Porter
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Janet Street-Porter is a British media personality, journalist and television presenter.
Summary:
Over the past two years Janet has appeared on numerous TV shows on all the major channels. She was most recently seen in 2007 as the Editor on Deadline, a new celebrity series for ITV2 and as a regular contributor with Gordon Ramsay in The F Word for Channel 4. She appeared in Call me a Cabbie on ITV1 and So You Think You Can Nurse for Five as well as Coming Home for BBC Wales. She also completed a pilot based on the second volume of her memoirs, Fallout, published in paperback by Headline.
Biography:
Janet Street-Porter studied architecture at the Architectural Association for two years from 1965-67, then switched to journalism and was a Fleet Street journalist by the age of 21. She wrote about design and architecture for the glossies at the same time: for Architectural Design, Design Magazine, Queen and Vogue.
In 1973 she hosted a daily show on Britain's first commercial radio station, LBC, and switched to television in 1975, to host The London Weekend Show, a young people's current affairs programme for LWT. She presented a range of prime time shows for LWT including her own talk show, became a producer in 1981, and gained a BAFTA nomination with Twentieth Century Box. She worked with graphic designers and avant garde musicians on Paintbox for Channel 4 - and won the BAFTA award for originality for Network 7 in 1998.
Janet joined the BBC and created a host of new formats for young people - Rough Guide to Careers, The A to Z of Belief, Reportage - and produced The Full Wax with Ruby Wax. Her reworking of the German romantic opera The Vampyr won the Prix Italia in 1992. She also received an Emmy nomination for The Vampyr. Within the entertainment group at the BBC she was responsible for about 35 series from This Is Your Life to Fantasy Football League.
In 1994 she joined the Mirror Group and set up L!ve TV, building the UK's first digital television studios.
Since 1996 she has concentrated on writing and presenting, from The Design Awards, Travels with Pevsner and Coast to Coast for BBC2, J'Accuse the Internet for Channel 4. She presented The Midnight Hour, a live political discussion, on BBC2.
Janet is Vice President of the Ramblers Association and lived in a modern house she commissioned from Piers Gough in Clerkenwell from 1986-2001. She judged the Living Bridges exhibition for the Royal Academy in 1996 and judged the Building of the Year for the Royal Fine Art Commission, in 1998.
Her book, Coast to Coast, was published by BBC books. Her series As The Crow Flies, was transmitted in Spring 1999 on BBC2. The book of the series was published by Metro Books in April 1999.
Janet has been a travel writer for The Observer and The Mail on Sunday, as well as a restaurant critic for Vogue. She also wrote a walking column for the Sunday Times and currently writes a quarterly column for The Rambler magazine.
Janet's series Cathedral Calls was shown on BBC2 Autumn 1999. For two years she was the Editor of the Independent on Sunday, a role she relinquished in 2001 to become Editor at Large, contributing features to both the daily and the Sunday paper.
She presents a weekly interview programme for Bloomberg Television, focusing on major media players. It is transmitted in over 30 countries. She has written a book about her childhood in working class London, "Baggage", to be published in May 2004 by Headline Books.
In 2003 she wrote and presented an acclaimed one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival entitled "All The Rage", and will be touring the UK with this show in May 2004. She is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society and the RIBA. She has commissioned a new house in Clerkenwell - the architect is David Adjaye. She is President of the Globetrotters club.
Following her appearance on the fourth series of 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' in November 2004 Janet is available for personal appearances, award hosting and after-dinner speaking engagements.
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