Janet Street-Porter Biography
Janet Street-Porter CBE is an English media personality, presenter, journalist, and writer. She began her career as a fashion writer and columnist for the Daily Mail before becoming the Evening Standard’s fashion editor in 1971. She co-hosted a mid-morning radio show on LBC with Paul Callan in 1973.
How old is Janet Street-Porter? – Age
She is 76 years old as of 27 December 2022. She was born in 1946 in Brentford, United Kingdom. Her real name is Janet Vera Street-Porter.
Janet Street-Porter Family – Education
She is the daughter of Stanley W. G. Bull, an electrical engineer who served as a sergeant in the Royal Corps of Signals during WWII, and Cherry Cuff Ardern (née Jones), a Welshwoman who worked as a school dinner lady and as a clerical assistant in a tax office in the civil service. Her mother was still married to her first husband, George Ardern, at the time, and would not marry Stanley until 1954, therefore her name was entered in the birth documents as such.
She would later adopt her father’s surname. From 1958 until 1964, she attended Peterborough Primary and Junior Schools in Fulham and Lady Margaret Grammar School for Girls in Parsons Green, where she earned 8 O-levels and three A-levels in English, History, and Art. She also attempted but failed an A-level in pure mathematics. After that, she attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture for two years, where she met her first husband, photographer Tim Street-Porter.
Who is Janet Street Porter married to? – Husband – Children
She married fellow student and photographer Tim Street-Porter while studying architecture. They were married until 1975 when she married Time Out editor Tony Elliot. Her third marriage was to film director Frank Cvitanovich, who was 19 years her older, before her final brief marriage to 27-year-old David Sorkin in her fifties. She lived with DEF II host Normski for four years before marrying Sorkin. She does not have any children.
Janet Street-Porter Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Janet Street-Porter House
A whimsical and “ostentatious” postmodern townhouse in Clerkenwell built in the 1980s for Janet has been listed for £3.75 million. The TV personality’s old Farringdon home, described as a “creative tour-de-force” when it was designated at Grade II in 2018, was designed as a “abstract portrait” of Street-Porter herself.
Piers Gough of CZWG designed the four-story house, which has a blue tiled roof, diamond-paned windows, and external brickwork in four different hues, giving the impression that a shadow has fallen on the structure. A semi-circular balcony protrudes into the street below. The house was one of six CZWG properties listed in 2018 as part of Historic England’s bid to “stem losses of this important style of architecture.”
The building’s outside also includes a massive steel lattice, giving it a “spiky” and fortress-like appearance — a deliberate choice by Street-Porter to discourage unwelcome guests. She commissioned Gough to design the house and paid for it by selling her old property in Limehouse, a barge repair workshop.
Janet Street-Porter Loose Women
Street-Porter joined the ITV chat show Loose Women as a regular panelist in 2011. Loose Women (formerly Live Chat from 2000 to 2001) is a British chat program that airs weekdays from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on ITV. The show has a panel of four female hosts who interview celebrities, discuss elements of their lives, and debate topics ranging from politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip and entertainment news. On May 15, 2018, the 3,000th episode of Loose Women aired. It began in Norwich, then moved to Manchester, and then to London.
Janet Street-Porter Blowup
Street-Porter made an appearance as an extra Dancing Girl in Club in the nightclub sequence of Blowup in 1966, dressed in a silver coat and striped trousers. The plot is set in 1960s Swinging London’s mod subculture and follows a fashion photographer (Hemmings) who believes he has unintentionally captured a murder on film. Antonioni and Tonino Guerra wrote the screenplay, and British dramatist Edward Bond provided the English language. Carlo di Palma directed the film. Herbie Hancock, a jazz pianist, composed the film’s non-diegetic soundtrack, and the Yardbirds also appear.
Janet Street-Porter Daily Mail
Street-Porter began her career as a fashion journalist and columnist for the Daily Mail, and Shirley Conran selected her as the paper’s deputy fashion editor in 1969. In 1971, she was appointed fashion editor of the Evening Standard. Street-Porter co-hosted a mid-morning show with Fleet Street journalist Paul Callan when the London Broadcasting Company (LBC) local radio station first launched in 1973. Street-Porter was the founding editor of Sell Out, an outgrowth of the London listings magazine Time Out, with its owner and her second husband, Tony Elliott, in early 1975. The magazine was a failure.
