Dawn Porter
Dawn started her career after studying at LIPA in Liverpool. After college she moved to London and started working behind the camera, until she made the leap to the other side of the camera and started presenting.
She made her transition into television by appearing on the Channel 4 comedy show Balls of Steel, which saw her testing the morals of British men. Following this, she went on to secure a publishing deal with Virgin Books for her novel, 'Diaries of an Internet Lover', which was a journal of her experiences of meeting people on the Internet. The book was very well received and went on to be published in German, Dutch and Portuguese.
Dawn then went on to present a BBC documentary Super Slim Me in which she attempted to slim down to a size zero by using drastic dieting regimes, highlighting the health implications of ‘diet culture'. The documentary enjoyed critical acclaim.
In 2008 she presented a BBC3 series of four documentary films, Dawn..., exploring attitudes to nudity, lesbianism, dating, pregnancy and childbirth. Dawn also presented and produced Seriously Dirty Dancing, a tribute to her favourite film, for Five.
In 2008 she made a four-part series for Channel 4, which saw her explore various different types of marriages and relationships, episodes featured polygamy, ‘free-love', mail-order brides and geishas.
In May 2009 Dawn presented a documentary, entitled My Breasts Could Kill Me which explored the experience of breast cancer, for Sky1.
In 2011 Dawn sang the Blues for charity, on ITV's Born to Shine which raised money for Save the Children. In 2011 she also acted as Derren Brown's trusty stooge in his series The Experiments which aired on Channel 4.
Dawn is currently writing a novel for young adults around the theme of female friendship; whilst also regularly contributing to various national publications such as The Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan, Company Magazine and the Sunday Times.
TELEVISION
2012 Andrex Washlets (Presenter) Ad Campaign
2012 Skins (Receptionist) E4
2011 Derren Brown: The Luck Project (Presenter) Channel 4 *RTS Winner
2011 Dawn's Guides to... (Presenter) Online by Channel Flip
2011 Born to Shine (Contributor) ITV
2010 The One Show (VT Presenter) BBC1
2010 I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here: Now! (Guest Panel) ITV2
2010 All At Sea - (Contributor) ITV
2009 The Wright Stuff - (Guest Panel) Channel 5
2009 My Breast Could Kill Me (Presenter) 2 x 60 -Sky One
2008 Dawn Porter: Polygamist's wife (Presenter)- Channel 4
2008 Dawn Porter: Geisha Girl (Presenter)- Channel 4
2008 Dawn Porter: Mail Order Bride (Presenter)- Channel 4
2008 Dawn Porter: Free Love (Presenter) -Channel 4
2008 Dawn Goes Lesbian (Presenter) -BBC3
2008 Dawn gets a baby (Presenter) -BBC3
2008 Dawn goes Naked (Presenter) -BBC3
2008 Dawn gets her man (Presenter) -BBC3
2007 Seriously dirty dancing (Presenter) -Five
2007 If I ruled the world
2007 Pole position
2007 How to look good naked (VT Presenter) Channel 4
2007 Super Slim Me (Presenter) BBC3
2005 Balls of Steel (Presenter) Channel 4
RADIO
Monthly Show Radio Humberside
Royal Ascot Programme BBC Radio 5 Live
BOOKS
2006 Diaries of an Internet Lover (Virgin Books)
JOURNALISM/WRITING
2011-2 The Huffington Post
2011-2 The Daily Mail
2011 Cosmopolitan
2011 Company
2010-1 The Sunday Times
2009-10 Stylist (regular columnist)
