![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/gail-porter-on-comedy-has-anyone-here-been-sectioned/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/130962684_gettyimages-1040080128.jpg&description=Image source, Joe Maher/Getty Images "Has anyone here been sectioned?" TV presenter Gail Porter jokily asks her audience. Famed for her vibrancy as well as mental health struggles, she has turned to comedy to take control of her own story. Comedy is a new venture for Gail. She has just concluded a run of her one-woman show Hung, Drawn and Portered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show documents her life experiences and appears to be liberating. "If I've got a problem, I like to share it - whether it's homelessness or losing my hair," she tells the BBC Access All podcast . "I've been in a psychiatric unit and I just think 'you know what? I'll just tell you. What's the worst that could happen?'" She got the taste for comedy last year after she teamed up with stand-ups John Bishop and Tony Pitts for their Fringe show, Three Little Words. "We just did not stop laughing," she says. The duo made a throwaway comment that she should write her own show - so she did. "It wasn't until it was all organized that I realized how much work goes into these things and how much money it costs and how much money you don't make." Money is a bone of contention for Gail. Having risen to prominence as a lively 25-year-old in the 1990s she hosted TV programmes including Fully Booked, Top Of The Pops and Wish You Were Here. But her pathway began to change tack in 1999 when she posed naked for FHM magazine. She was assured the image wouldn't go anywhere, but instead it was projected onto the Houses of Parliament, standing 18m (60ft) high. The first she knew of it was when she heard her name mentioned on the news. LISTEN : You can hear the full interview with Gail Porter on the BBC Access All podcast . Gail has previously spoken about what a devastating moment that was, and it preceded several mental health challenges and periods of homelessness that have been well-documented. In 2005 she also developed alopecia and her TV career practically ended overnight. "It was so quick," she says. "){kind=link}
“Has anyone here been sectioned?” TV presenter Gail Porter jokily asks her audience. Famed for her vibrancy as well as mental health struggles, she has turned to comedy to take control of her own story.
Comedy is a new venture for Gail. She has just concluded a run of her one-woman show Hung, Drawn and Portered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The show documents her life experiences and appears to be liberating.
“If I’ve got a problem, I like to share it – whether it’s homelessness or losing my hair,” she tells the BBC Access All podcast. “I’ve been in a psychiatric unit and I just think ‘you know what? I’ll just tell you. What’s the worst that could happen?'”
She got the taste for comedy last year after she teamed up with stand-ups John Bishop and Tony Pitts for their Fringe show, Three Little Words.