As a popular Channel 4 and BBC 3 presenter, Porter has taken millions of people to the heart of modern 
issues with her ground breaking documentaries. Her four part series in 2008 tackled issues from free love communes in Germany to Ukrainian mail order brides. Now living in LA this TV presenter/author/writer has taken time out to answer Vision’s 20 most important questions.
1) Can you describe yourself in 5 words?
Tall, brave, inquisitive, naughty, hungry.
2) What’s your favourite quote?
‘I never knew a time I wasn’t special’
From the book Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.
3) Who would you least like to be stuck in a lift with?
Someone with terrible gas.
4) Who are your heroes?
My aunty and my sister.
5) What would you like to achieve in the next five years?
I would like to make enough money so that I am not always worried about it and I would like to feel really settled. Whatever that means.
6) And before you die?
I wouldn’t like to die before I get rid of the feeling that I have loads of things to do. I always feel like that.
7) Who would play you in a movie of your life?
Someone who comes across as average and normal (although if they are getting a part in a movie they probably wouldn’t be average and normal). I dunno, it would be way too weird, but maybe Billie Piper. I wouldn’t want anyone crazy famous.
8) How has your TV work changed your life?
Not hugely. It has given me the chance to have a big voice that gets heard and I have been on some wild adventures, but in my personal life I feel exactly the same as I always have. I imagine if I am ever very rich then the answer to this question will be very different. I mean, I live in LA because I worked out here once and liked it, but I don’t really do any TV here so life feels pretty normal.
9) If you were a world leader, what would be the first thing you’d do?
All the obvious stuff, I would want to save the world, but I have no idea where I would start, there is so much that needs saving. If I was the prime minister I would close down the tabloid press or at least ban them from writing about celebrities. I think it is evil.
10) What’s your guilty pleasure?
Steak.
11) When were you happiest?
When I am in the arms of the man I love.
12) What are you most proud of?
The film I made about Breast Cancer this year. My Breasts Could Kill Me…I am not so much proud of the film, as I am of the people who spoke to me about what they had been through. I was proud of all of them.
13) What are you scared of?
Wasps. Hate them.
14) What was the last album you listened to?
Florence and the Machine.
15) And the last film you watched?
Oh God…Conair. It is so cheesy but I
LOVE IT.
16) What’s the worst job you’ve ever done?
Packing chocolates into boxes in a cellar for two months. Don’t like chocolate anymore and that is a sad thing.
17) What’s your most treasured possession?
My cat, Lilu.
18) Favourite food?
Steak and chips.
19) What is your most unappealing habit?
I don’t have one. I am a lady.
20) What do you do to relax?
Cuddle my boyfriend.