Janet Avenue-Porter has insisted that ‘Free Ladies’ is “not going anyplace”.
The 78-year-old broadcast legend has been a panellist on ITV’s lunchtime chat present since 2011 and following its twenty fifth anniversary celebrations, she has claimed that the programme will probably be on air for a few years to come back.
Following her present on the Sands Finish Arts and Group Centre in London on Wednesday (05.02.25), she advised a fan: “Free Ladies’ is nice. It isn’t going anyplace.”
Hypothesis about the way forward for a number of ITV exhibits has been rife because of the channel saying it’s altering it is cleaning soap schedule this week with ‘Emmerdale’ and ‘Coronation Avenue’ successfully shedding an episode every week underneath the brand new “soaps energy hour” scheduling from Monday to Friday, January 2026.
Janet returned to her hometown of Fulham to current ‘An Night with Janet Avenue-Porter, the place she spoke about her life rising up in West London.
All through her diversified profession, Janet has labored as a tv producer, editor and was appointed CBE in 2016 for companies to journalism and broadcasting.
However she insisted that her achievements are all the way down to “onerous work” greater than good luck, and “making a great deal of cash” was by no means an actual motivation for her.
She stated: “Work as onerous as you probably can, as a result of nobody goes to do you a favour. Luck does not come into it. I’ve solely received to the place I received by working actually, actually onerous.
“I ended up enhancing a nationwide newspaper and folks would go ‘How has she achieved that?’ I did not full my diploma, and anyway, my diploma was in structure, not literature. It is as a result of I labored actually, actually onerous.
“Additionally, as a boss, once I was a boss, I used to be able to operating large groups of individuals as a result of I used to be good at delegating and never pondering that I may do all of it, and listening to different individuals’s perspective. If I did not agree, I would not do what they had been suggesting, and I nonetheless do not. I nonetheless do what I would like, as a result of 9 instances out of 10, my manner is the precise manner.
“I used to be very formidable at 10, I wasn’t that completely different than I’m now.
“I used to be fortunate in that I knew what I wished. I used to be by no means excited about making a great deal of cash, I simply wished to have an thought and see it by way of to fruition.”
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