Dawn Porter
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Dawn Porter (born 23 January 1979, Guernsey) is a successful British television presenter and writer.
[edit] Biography
Dawn Porter was raised in Guernsey. Her mother died three days before her seventh birthday, and so was raised by her aunt. Porter studied Acting at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, before graduating in 2001. Porter then became a reporter/presenter for BBC Radio Humberside and then joined BBC Radio 5 Live.
Porter made her TV debut in the Channel 4 comedy show Balls of Steel, which saw her testing the morals of British men. More recently, she attempted to slim down to a size zero by using drastic dieting regimes for the BBC documentary Super Slim Me, highlighting the media and fashion world's obsession with thin models and actresses. Porter also presents the product-testing section of How to Look Good Naked on Channel 4.
Porter has a publishing deal with Virgin Books for her novel Diaries of an Internet Lover - an in-depth journal of her experiences of meeting people on the Internet, which has been published in German, Dutch and Portuguese.
In 2008 she presented a BBC Three series of four documentary films exploring attitudes to nudity, lesbianism, dating and pregnancy & childbirth.[1]
Porter moved from London to Los Angeles in January 2008 to film a new documentary series for Channel 4.[2] The first confirmed titles are:
- Dawn't Feed The Animal, Dawn undergoes extreme dieting in the name of journalism
- Dawn of the Dump, a look at the negative impact of the "Throw-away culture" on the environment
- Dawn Patrol, a first-hand experience of life as a private in the United States Marine Corps
- Dawn in the USA, Dawn attempts to live an extravagant LA lifestyle
- Red Dawn, Dawn investigates the growing number of teenage gangs and their effects on the surrounding communities
- Dawn of the Deaf, Dawn steps into the shoes of a deaf person and discovers how their disability is detrimental to their role in society
