Janet Vera Street-Porter CBE is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and media personality.
She began her career as a fashion writer and columnist at the Daily Mail.
Jane was appointed fashion editor of the Evening Standard in 1971 and began co-presenting a mid-morning radio show with Paul Callan on LBC in 1973.
She was the president of the Burley Bridge Association, leading a campaign for a crossing over the River Wharfe linking North and West Yorkshire.
Since 2011, Street-Porter has been a regular panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women.
David Sorkin: Who Is Janet Street-Porter’s Ex-Husband?
David Sorkin was the fourth husband of Janet Street-Porter.
David Sorkin was then an unemployed salesman.
The couple got together after Janet dirty-danced with David at a party thrown by pals The Pet Shop Boys.
Three months later they married in Las Vegas in 1996, when Janet was 50 and he was 28.
Janet describes her fourth marriage as “a big, big mistake”, wedding toyboy David Sorkin in Las Vegas at “3.30 in the morning.
“I thought ‘I don’t know why I’m saying the words ‘I do’ but I’m just saying I do’ then I was back in the hotel and I was like, ‘ugh’.”
The 20-month union ended when he threw salad cream on her during a row.