Janet Street-Porter
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Janet Street-Porter CBE |
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Janet Street-Porter in 2005
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Janet Vera Ardern 27 December 1946 Brentford, Middlesex, England |
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| Years active | 1969–present | ||
| Known for | Editor of The Independent on Sunday | ||
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I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Loose Women Celebrity MasterChef A Taste of Britain |
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| Spouse(s) |
Tim Street-Porter (m. 1967–75) Tony Elliott (m. 1975–77) Frank Cvitanovich (m. 1979–81) David Sorkin (m. 1997–99) |
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| Partner(s) | Peter Spanton (1999–present) | ||
| Website | Official website | ||
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Janet Street-Porter, CBE (née Ardern, previously Bull; born 27 December 1946) is an English celebrity, media personality, journalist and broadcaster. She was editor for two years of The Independent on Sunday, but relinquished the job to become editor-at-large in 2002.
She has made numerous television appearances on discussion programmes including Question Time, reality shows including I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and Celebrity MasterChef and on panel games including Have I Got News for You. Since 2011, she has been a regular panellist on the ITV lifestyle and chat show Loose Women.
Street-Porter was born in Brentford, Middlesex, 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. Her mother was still married to her first husband, George Ardern, at the time, and was not to marry Stanley until 1954, hence her name being recorded thus in the birth records. She was later to take her father's surname.
Street-Porter grew up in Fulham, west London and Perivale, Greater London after the family moved there when she was 14 and the family would stay in her mother's home town of Llanfairfechan in North Wales for their holidays. She 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 8 O-levels and 3 A-levels in English, History and Art. She also took an A-level in pure mathematics but did not pass the exam. Whilst studying A-levels, she had an illegal abortion. She then spent two years at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where she met her first husband, photographer Tim Street-Porter.
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