|
Janet Street-Porter (born December 27, 1946) is an outspoken media personality in the United Kingdom. She has been a journalist, presenter, producer and currently works as editor-at-large of the Independent newspapers. December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
She was born Janet Bull in southern London, the outcome of a doubly adulterous affair, the daughter of an electrician and a Welsh mother. Growing up in Fulham and Perivale, her relations with her parents were extremely poor. She studied at Lady Margaret School in Parsons Green from 1958-64 and then spent two years at the Architectural Association. She dropped out and immediately moved into media work, after a brief stint at a girls magazine she joined the Daily Mail in 1969 She moved to the Evening Standard in 1971 as fashion editor, and she also did some work for LBC in the 1970s. Fulham is a district in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham located 3. ...
Perivale is a place in west London in the London Borough of Ealing. ...
Parsons Green is an area in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. ...
The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, first published in 1896. ...
Headlines of the Evening standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo station The Evening Standard is a newspaper published in London. ...
She broke into television with LWT in 1975, working as a reporter on a series of, often youth-oriented, programmes. She advanced into production work especially after joining Channel 4 in 1986. She was editor of the genre-forging Network 7 from 1987, writing its five rules; she won a Bafta in 1988. In 1988 she was enticed to BBC 2 by Alan Yentob to become Head of Youth and Entertainment Features and she directed the wildly varying output of the twice-weekly DEF II and also commissioned Rapido, Red Dwarf and Rough Guide. Finding her advancement halted she left the BBC for Mirror Group Newspapers in 1994 and was MD with Kelvin MacKenzie in the disaster of the L!VE TV channel in 1995, leaving after four months. In 1996 she set-up an independent production company. London Weekend Television logo, 1978-1996 London Weekend Television Limited (LWT) is the ITV contractor for London, Friday 5:15pm to Monday, 5:59am. ...
Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and...
Alan Yentob (born March 11, 1947) is a British television executive. ...
Trinity Mirror is a large United Kingdom newspaper and magazine publisher. ...
Kelvin MacKenzie (born October 22, 1946) is a media figure in the United Kingdom. ...
L!VE TV is a British television station that was operated by MGN on cable television from 1994-1999 and revived by BSKyB for Sky Digital in 2003. ...
In 1999 she was the surprise appointment as editor of the Independent on Sunday. Challenging her reputation for excessive innovation she was solid and steady in the two years she held the position. In 2002 she moved to a created role as editor-at-large and undertook other media work. The Independents old (pre-compact) masthead. ...
She has been married four times: She has also had a number of high profile 'flings', often overlapping the ends of her marriages. This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ...
The distinctive Time Out logo, seen on all its publications This article is about the Time Out publishing company. ...
...
The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
A heavily autobiographical novel about her childhood, Baggage, was published in 2004. She was president of the Ramblers' Association from 1994 to 1996 and has also been vice-president. The Ramblers Association is the largest organisation in the British Isles to look after the interests of walkers (or ramblers) in Britain. ...
Most recently, Janet took part in the series four of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! on ITV in the UK. Finishing fourth, she was the last female to be voted off, with comedian Joe Pasquale eventually being crowned King of the Jungle. Im a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! is a reality television show in which minor celebrities live in jungle conditions with few creature comforts. ...
Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ...
Joe Pasquale (b. ...
|