Janet Street-Porter is in Glasgow promoting her stage show, and the Loose Women regular says it will come to Scotland this autumn. At 79, she is still working the public circuit while talking openly about age, travel and what comes next.
“I’ve become a pensioner,” she said in Glasgow, adding: “I never thought I’d say those words. I thought I was somehow exempt from that.” It is a blunt line from someone who has spent years making a career out of speaking plainly, and it fits a public figure now moving between TV, live performance and regional dates.
Glasgow and Scotland
“I come to Scotland every year anyway. I come up to Glasgow to see friends. I love going to restaurants,” she said. That makes the autumn run feel less like a one-off visit and more like a return to an audience she already knows how to reach.
Street-Porter previously walked from Edinburgh to London, a detail that sits neatly beside her claim that she has become a pensioner. She has five knee replacements and says that years of walking long distances have finally caught up with her, yet she still sounds intent on keeping her schedule active rather than retreating from it.
Loose Women at 79
Best known now for Loose Women, she also once edited The Independent on Sunday and has carried that newsroom directness into television. That background helps explain why her stage work lands as more than celebrity padding: it is part personal history, part performance, and part continuing media career.
She also said, “I’d love to do a series of Hotel Inspector.” That is the practical next step hanging over this Glasgow visit: the stage show is headed to Scotland this autumn, while she keeps floating fresh TV ideas in public.
Hotel Inspector idea
The unresolved piece is the title of the stage show itself. For readers in Scotland, the useful takeaway is simpler: Street-Porter is still selling live dates, still talking up TV work, and still treating Glasgow as a regular stop rather than a rare appearance.
