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Gail Porter

August 2011

  • Deborah Orr

    Gail Porter's experience shows mental health care needs to improve

    Deborah Orr

    I found her description of the ward she was on, with drugs but little or no therapy, to be incredibly upsetting and painful

June 2011

  • Daily Star

    Daily Star warned after flouting PCC photo guidance

    Lawyers acting for Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave warn paper after it published picture of his eight-year-old daughter. By Josh Halliday

February 2011

  • Gail Porter

    My family values
    Gail Porter: My family values

    The TV presenter talks about her childhood in Edinburgh, her relationship with her parents and brother, and her mother's death

December 2010

  • Bike Blog: Gail Porter of 2 Way Street campaign

    Bike blog
    Gail and Honey Porter's cycling safety tips – the 2 Way Street campaign

    I love cycling my tandem with my daughter Honey – and I'm determined to improve safety for her and all other road-users

September 2010

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    Observer New Review Q&A
    Gail Porter: 'What's so brave about going bald?'

    TV presenter Gail Porter talks to Phil Hogan about dealing with hairy legs again, standup comedy and her new documentary on prostitution

August 2008

  • Gail Porter

    'Babies look at me and stop crying. It's like I'm one of them'

    Gail Porter had a thriving TV career. And then her hair fell out. Louise Carpenter on a story of anorexia, self-destruction, divorce and, finally, survival

September 2007

  • Gail Porter

    She was the breezy, blonde TV presenter who lit up Parliament, but she was also a desperate self-harmer, dogged by binges and breakdowns, sleeping pills and Prozac. Still, this no-nonsense Edinburgh lass wouldn't dream of therapy. And then there's the baldness. Phil Hogan tries to fathom her.

November 2006

  • Question time
    Question time

    Hannah Pool

    Hannah Pool: Gail Porter talks about life after alopecia, depression, anorexia, divorce.

October 2006

  • What I see in the mirror
    What I see in the mirror

    Gail Porter: What I see in the mirror is a very tired single mother with no hair.

March 2006

  • This much I know
    This much I know

    Gail Porter, TV presenter, 34, London.

November 2005

  • Emma Brockes

    Q: Aren't you too brainy to be a TV presenter? A: Too brainy? That's why all my hair fell out

    Emma Brockes

    Gail Porter talks to Emma Brockes about dealing with hair-loss.

May 2004

  • My first boss

    Gail Porter, TV presenter

June 2001

  • Q & A

    Gail Porter

February 2001

  • College Days

    Gail Porter

August 1999

  • Me and my motor: Gail Porter

    What are you driving?

July 1999

  • Child's play

    It used to be that children's television presenters toiled away for a few years talking to puppets or hurling themselves off mountains with barely a safety harness, before slowly graduating to Talking Telephone Numbers or Wish You Were Here.

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