The ITV panellist turns 80 this year14:16, 06 Jul 2026Updated 14:17, 06 Jul 2026Loose Women star Janet Street-Porter has been flooded with support from fans as she took to social media and announced her "big news".‌As 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.‌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.‌The 79-year-old broadcaster became a regular panellist in 2011, but after 13 years she had