All The Rage, as the show is titled, was an angry diatribe against everything Janet Street Porter hates - and that's a long list.

The show was 90-minutes of bitching and back-stabbing by the legendary TV presenter and columnist, with her late mother and matrimony (she has wracked up seven failed relationships, including four divorces) as the main targets.

Her warts-and-all rant revealed everything, even her spare tyre as she whipped off a sequinned frock to don rambling gear - shorts and a T-shirt which read "If you think I'm a bitch, you should meet my mother."

There is no denying her successes but she did not let us forget them, projecting her CV on to a screen and revelling in her awards.

Yet she was also not afraid to poke fun at her "flat-chested, gawky, duck-footed, lanky haired" self.

When she stopped moaning about how she cannot get a job, her mother or how she always pays for everything in her relationships, she was very funny but that is what the cathartic rant is all about.

If it had been a scripted monologue on the midlife crisis of a once-successful career woman, it would have been absolutely spot on.