Outspoken and irreverent columnist, presenter and broadcaster Janet Street Porter will be touring the UK with a live show guaranteed to be warm, outrageous and funny.
From a bolshy child with a Welsh-speaking budgie to a 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, in 2025 she finds herself with a senior railcard and four 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.
She says: “Hold on to your hats! This show will be pretty cathartic for me- a deep dive into the subjects that can be hard to chat about truthfully on live television – from my tormented relationship with my mum to what really happens when a relationship runs out of steam. I’ll be brutally honest about the highs and lows of a helter-skelter life well lived. And it’s not over yet!”
Janet Street-Porter is a writer, broadcaster and former editor of The Independent on Sunday. She originally studied architecture, before starting her journalistic career in her early twenties as a columnist and fashion editor, moving into television and radio as a presenter and a senior executive at the BBC.
Street-Porter 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.
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 Fing 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 twice 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.
The tour begins on September 11 in Henley on Thames, and continues until April at towns around the UK.
For dates, booking and tickets :
http://www.janetstreetporter.com/tour
