Janet Street-Porter reveals 'least favourite' Loose Women panellists
Janet Street-Porter has revealed how viewers can discover which Loose Women panellists she dislikes.
Janet Street-Porter has hinted at which Loose Women panellists she dislikes.
The 78-year-old broadcaster - who joined the ITV lunchtime talk show in 2011 - said viewers can easily work out who she does and does not get on with when they watch the programme.
During a Q+A session during her Off the Leash one-woman show at the Greenwich Theatre, London, on Monday (15.09.25), attended by BANG Showbiz, an audience member asked Janet: "Who's your favourite and least favourite Loose Women?"
The outspoken journalist replied: "Easy to answer!
"Watch that screen carefully, watch it every day, make a chart.
"Who never appears with whom - that's your answer!"
Janet "hobbled" around the stage at the Greenwich Theatre because her right knee is "f****** b*******".
And the star - who temporarily left Loose Women for knee and hip operations in 2018 and 2024, respectively - will be absent from the show in a "few weeks" as she undergoes knee replacement surgery for a second time.
Janet said: "[Left] knee wore out, so that's been replaced. And last year, hip replacement.
"Now, latest update, [right] f****** knee is b*******.
"So, if I hobbled on stage, it's because I'm facing the grim reality that in a few weeks time, I'm going to have to have my right knee replaced."
In July, Janet slammed ITV's handling of its budget cuts - which come into force in January, and will see over 220 jobs axed, Loose Women's airtime slashed to 30 weeks instead of 52 weeks, and the show be broadcast from The H Club Studio in Covent Garden, London.
She told The Guardian newspaper's G2 magazine: "I don't agree with how they've done the cuts."
Fellow Loose Women panellist Nadia Sawalha, 60, spoke out about ITV's "brutal" budget cuts in a video uploaded to her YouTube channel in May, and revealed she and her fellow stars could be "let off" at any moment from the programme due to their self-employed contracts.
It was also reported that ITV is looking to have more influencers on screen to get more viewers watching the broadcaster's daytime offering.
However, Janet is confident she will not lose her job as the axe swings, and that there are "no plans" for ITV to axe older Loose Women panellists for younger stars.
In July, Janet told Bella magazine: "There are no plans to get rid of the older women, despite of what some people have said!
"In fact, the reverse is true. ITV actually put out a statement saying we are the valued members of the show because the audience totally relate to us.
"I think Loose Women has become a programme that's trusted by a lot of women because we talk about the issues that they are concerned about - whether it's female health, domestic violence or how politicians don't really understand working women.
"I think the show has managed to connect to women who wouldn't otherwise have a voice.
"And it's delivered with a lot of laughs because we don't take ourselves too seriously."
