ITV's Loose Women were discussing whether or not a limit should be placed on how many marriages one person can have on Tuesday, February 21 and four-times married Janet Street-Porter was not shy to air her thoughts.
Describing the amicable endings and joyous memories of marriages one to three - she first got married at just 20 years old in 1967 - she then went on to explain that her fourth marriage was a "mid-life crisis" and a "cry for help" that she has "airbrushed out".
Telling the panellists - two of whom have been married once and one who has been married twice - 76-year-old Janet explained: "My first marriage was at 20 and I'd already been engaged and dumped someone before that... That was 1967, summer of love.
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"That lasted seven years. We had a great party when we got married that time and the best reason to get married, for me, is getting married, loved getting the dress, getting the outfit, having the party.
"And then when you get divorced you get the dress, you have the party all over again. And quite honestly, my first three mariages ended in very amicable divorces. It was only number four that I've airbrushed out that was a bit of a mid life crisis and a cry for help."
Janet's first marriage was to photographer Tim Street-Porter for seven years in 1967 before her second to Time Out publisher Tony Elliott lasted two years in 1975. Her third to film-maker Frank Cvitanovich was between 1979 and 1981 and her fourth was also for two years to David Sorkin in 1997.
Janet added:" I'm not making a mockery of marriage because I committed to marriage at the time and I committed to it for as long as I could manage it. And I'm a very good wife and I'm a good partner now. I do my best and I mean I've got my faults - I'm not going to reveal them on national television... when I read my teenage diaries, they're full of romance and lust... I am a romantic."
Later in the segment, the ladies discussed a recent quote from Dame Emma Thompson who spoke on the subject of fairytale loves and whoever thinks that 'happy ever after has a place in our lives, forget it'.
Janet soon weighed in on this statement, saying: "By marriage number three, the fairytale idea had gone out the window. You're as compatible as you can be, your work changes, your circumstances change, I had step children along the way. That's the reason why my marriages didn't last or did last. And I honestly gave them the best that I could."
After stating that Janet had never a aired any feelings of regret over her marriages to her, Janet told Ruth said: "Well, I wouldn't dignifty the fourth one by describing him in any... I couldn't describe him on television during daytime."
Having the panel in giggles, Ruth added: "Because then we would be off the air!" For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.
Loose Women airs on weekdays at 12.30pm on ITV.
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