Loose Women star Janet Street-Porter, 79, took viewers well and truly by surprise today, announcing that she is married.
This marks the famously outspoken broadcaster’s fifth marriage, having tied the knot with Peter Spanton in Great Yarmouth last Saturday.
‘I finally did it,’ she joked. ‘I saved the best til last.’
Janet and former restaurateur and entrepreneur Peter have known one another for 27 years, but they largely keep their romance out of the public eye.
Nevertheless, her ITV co-stars were thrilled, with Brenda Edwards particularly overjoyed for the couple after they submitted a video message to confirm their news during Monday’s episode, standing alongside their dog Badger.
‘Congratulations, Janet!’, she squealed while clapping, admitting: ‘That’s got me quite emotional. I love that.’
She then urged Kaye Adams to ‘stop counting the numbers’, referring to Janet’s previous four husbands, as her ‘happiness’ is what matters.
Janet’s first husband was Tim Street-Porter, to whom she was married from 1968 to 1975. In 1975, she wed Tony Elliott, and they remained married until 1977.
Then, in 1979, she married Frank Cvitanovich, but they divorced in 1981; her fourth husband was David Sorkin, whose marriage to her lasted from 1997 to 1999.
Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV1 and ITVX.
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