Icon Gail Porter thinks that TV isn’t what is was back then when it was ‘chaotic’ and ‘one big fun fest’ as the presenter feels ‘really lucky’ that she was part of the TV landscape in the 90s
Gail Porter reckons TV has lost the fun factor. The presenter thinks it’s sad that shows aren’t as chaotic these days. She said: “Things have changed. Now it seems a bit structured and you know what’s happening.
“You don’t have shows like Top of the Pops and The Big Breakfast now.” Gail shot to fame in the 90s when there were plenty of rowdy presenters and bonkers shows on the box. Being part of that era of TV was a dream for her.
She said: “We had great fun. We used to laugh all the time. It was chaotic and I enjoyed that. It was one big fun fest. I was really lucky.
“People say, ‘Was it really bad? Was it awful? Was there sexism?’ But for me it wasn’t bad. I had nothing to complain about. I had an absolute riot.”
These days Gail is carving out a career in stand-up comedy. She said: “I joke about all sorts of stuff.”
Previously, the TV legend said she’d rather sit at home with her pet cat than go out on a date.
The 54-year-old said she ‘preferred’ the company of animals to people, and would rather sit at home in her vest and watch horror movies than go on a romantic date.
Gail, who lost her hair to alopecia when she was 34, said that animals never needed to ‘talk’ and that she could rant and rave and they would still love her.
The former Celebrity Big Brother star said she currently has a cat called Ziggy – after dog Missy and cat Pickles – and that she’s ‘too fat’ to get in her in her cat box.
The TV star – whose 60ft-high naked image was beamed onto the Houses of Parliament in 1999 by lads’ mag FHM – said: “I prefer animals to people.
“If someone said to me ‘Do you want to go on a date?’, I’d say ‘Actually I’d rather stay at home with my cat, who wouldn’t care if I’m wandering around in only a vest watching some shit horror film’.”
Speaking about Ziggy, Gail said she was similar to her – in that she ‘didn’t like people’ either. She said: “She (Ziggy) doesn’t like people much, which suits me.
“She doesn’t leave my side and eats loads. Marmite particularly. She loves it. She’s too fat to get in her box now.”
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