Janet Street-Porter has announced another 32-date countrywide tour, this time under the title Still Off the Leash at 80. The move gives her live show a wider footprint just as she says she is 80 this year, even though she is also described as a 79-year-old broadcaster.
“I'm 80 this year, it's a miracle isn't it?” she said in the Instagram video. She added: “Anyway, my agent has decided I better earn him some money before I pop off to that great disco in the sky.”
Instagram and 32 dates
The caption was even more direct: “JSP BIG NEWS (sic) I’m going on tour again!” and “Yep — 32 dates across the country, and I’ll be coming to a theatre near you.” That scale matters because it turns the announcement from a one-off appearance into a proper run, with multiple chances for audiences to catch the show rather than a single local stop.
She also made the pitch plain for ticket buyers: “If you want to hear all the things I can’t say on daytime telly, grab yourself a ticket!” The show starts in September this year, but the exact opening date has not been set out in the announcement.
Still Off the Leash at 80
Street-Porter said the show would be “the biggest one yet.” She also promised material about “indiscriminate sex, husbands, unfortunate engagements, other Loose Women, inner city one way systems that you can't understand because they've redone it all since you were there last year.”
That mix is built for a live format: the subject matter is broad enough to travel, but specific enough to work as a one-woman show rather than a repeat of her television line-up. In industry terms, a 32-date run is the kind of booking that signals demand across more than one city, not just a single nostalgia stop.
Liverpool, Leeds and Lancaster
At the time of writing, Manchester was not on the schedule. Liverpool, Leeds and Lancaster were among the places listed, which gives fans in those cities a clearer target if they want to see the show before it rolls into the rest of the country.
Ruth Langsford’s response kept the message inside Loose Women territory: “I’ll be there….again!!” For anyone planning to go, the practical move is simple — watch for the September start and book early, because the announced run is already wide enough to split demand across the country rather than concentrate it in one place.
