Career
After graduating with a degree in Retail Marketing from Manchester Metropolitan University, Porter worked as a marketing manager for Marks & Spencer and a brand manager for Playtex. She then worked as a professional relocator for a company based in Knightsbridge.
While on a team building exercise, her colleagues suggested she ought to consider a career in television. Porter put a show reel together and CV, and got her first break in 2002 on Granada TV's Men and Motors. Porter then moved to the BBC, presenting a number of shows including Put Your Money Where Your House Is and Get a New Life. Porter has written on property for the Mail on Sunday and Yahoo.
In 2008 Porter filmed two new series: Escape to the Country and Countryfile: The Summer Diaries; and presented new segments on travel, relocation and buying property for Barclaycard on GMTV. She also presents Live the Dream: As Seen on TV with Nick Barratt
Together with Charlie Smurfit she was the co-founder of property design and renovation company Porter & Smurfit. She has renovated and sold several homes and sold her former Wandsworth house without using an estate agent. In 2009 Porter joined Uber Interiors, a bespoke property design services & resource centre.
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