Janet Street-Porter is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and media personality.
Street-Porter was born in Brentford, Middlesex (now in the London Borough of Hounslow).
Street-Porter is the daughter of Stanley W. G. Bull, an electrical engineer who had served as a sergeant in the Royal Corps of Signals in World War II and Cherry Cuff Ardern (née Jones) who was Welsh and worked as a school dinner lady and in the civil service as a clerical assistant in a tax office.
Street-Porter has a sister, Patricia Balsom who died in November 2006.
Street-Porter began her career as a fashion writer and columnist at the Daily Mail and 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.
Street-Porter was the editor and producer of the Network 7 series on Channel 4 in 1987.
Street-Porter 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 panelist on the ITV talk show Loose Women.
Street-Porter’s other television appearances include Question Time (1988–2015), Have I Got News for You (1996–2018), I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! (2004), Deadline (2007), Celebrity MasterChef (2013, 2020), and A Taste of Britain (2014–present).
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.