C.V.


La vie J.S.P.

Janet Street-Porter is a writer, broadcaster and former editor of The Independent on Sunday. She originally studied architecture, before starting her journalistic career iin her early twenties as a columnist and fashion editor, moving into television and radio as a presenter and a senior executive at the BBC.

Janet has won numerous awards including Columnist of the Year, the Prix Italia for arts programming and a BAFTA for originality. She continues to write for the National press on a wide range of subjects including weekly columns for The Mailonline.

She appears regularly across all TV channels including ITV’s Loose Women (for over a decade) and has presented television series on subjects as diverse as contemporary British art, walking, cooking and architecture, as well as reality shows like I’m a Celebrity... and So you Think You can Teach?

She has written two best-selling memoirs, Baggage and Fall Out, and two self-help guides with a difference — Life’s Too F***ing Short, and Don’t Let the B*****ds Get You Down!

She regularly appears on Have I Got News for You and panel games from Weakest Link to Pointless and Tipping Point. She has appeared on Masterchef and hosted many series about food with leading chefs.

She has commissioned two houses by leading architects and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

ON THE LOOSE 2025/26

From a bolshy child with a Welsh-speaking budgie to National Treasure, Janet Street-Porter’s life (and language) has always been colourful.

As a broadcaster, television executive and newspaper editor she was at the forefront of some of Britain’s most enduring cultural moments. Now she finds herself with a senior railcard and 4 ex-husbands. The nation’s favourite pissed-off pensioner brings comedy, tragedy and gossip in equal measure, a tour de force rant against growing old gracefully.

Often imitated but rarely equalled, in the words of her good friend Elton...

“the bitch is back!’


 DATES 
SEPTEMBER 2025
Thu 11 : The Kenton Henley-on-Thames : BOOK NOW
Mon 15 : Greenwich Theatre London : BOOK NOW
Wed 17 : Chequer Mead Theatre East Grinstead : BOOK NOW
Fri 19 : The Pavilion Worthing : BOOK NOW
Wed 24 : Players Theatre Thame : BOOK NOW
Mon 29 : The Apex Bury St Edmunds : BOOK NOW
OCTOBER
Mon 6 : Rose Theatre Rugeley : BOOK NOW
Tue 7 : Huntingdon Hall Worcester : BOOK NOW
Wed 8 : Pound Arts Centre Corsham : BOOK NOW
Mon 20 : Edge Arts Centre Much Wenlock : BOOK NOW
Tue 21 : Crescent Theatre Birmingham : BOOK NOW
Wed 22 : Playhouse Theatre Cheltenham : BOOK NOW
NOVEMBER
Thu 27 : The Astor Deal : BOOK NOW
DECEMBER
Tue 2 : Corn Exchange Stamford : BOOK NOW
Wed 3 : Arts Centre Pocklington : BOOK NOW
JANUARY 2026
Tue 13 : Theatre Royal Winchester : BOOK NOW
Wed 14 : Ropetackle Centre Shoreham : BOOK NOW
Tue 20 : Marine Theatre Lyme Regis : BOOK NOW
Wed 21 : Arts Centre Dorchester : BOOK NOW
Thu 22 : Phoenix Exeter : BOOK NOW
FEBRUARY
Mon 2 : Gatehouse Theatre Stafford : BOOK NOW
Tue 3 : The Brindley Runcorn : BOOK NOW
Thu 5 : Blackfriars Boston : BOOK NOW
Thu 12 : The Point Theatre Southampton : BOOK NOW
MARCH
Tue 31 : East Riding Theatre Beverley : BOOK NOW
APRIL
Wed 1 : Playhouse Halifax : BOOK NOW

FURTHER DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON