Janet Street-Porter leaves Loose Women open-mouthed as she reveals her little-known role in adult movie before TV fame
The 78-year-old, Charlene White, 45, Katie Piper, 41, and Brenda Edwards, 56, returned to the studio to discuss the latest headlines and newsworthy topics.
The Loose ladies got chatting about their first jobs as most schools have officially broken up for the summer holidays.
Janet confessed that she landed a role as a temporary clinical officer at the tax office to cover for her mum, but it was her next job that was out of the norm.
She said: 'When I was at college, a friend of mine got a job advising, it was the end of the 60s and London had a lot of foreign film directors and wanted to make a lot of saucy movies about swinging London.
'My friend got a job as an art director or something, and he got me a job as an actual actress, non-speaking, extra and I played a receptionist.'
Katie asked: 'An adult movie?'
'Yes,' Janet replied.
'The thing is, I had like a mini white nylon overall, I had hair sprayed silver, I had false eye lashes.
'They took my glasses off me. So don't ask me what the action was!'
Charlene pointed out: 'You couldn't see the extra stuff?'
Janet added: 'I walked through the Turkish bars, I held my clipboard high. '
'Do you know what? The film is available, but unsurprisingly we're not going to show it,' Charlene said.
Meanwhile others opened up about their first jobs.
Katie confessed: 'Before I got my national insurance number, so I guess I must have been 14, me and my sister had a car-washing business.
'Looking back, quality control wasn't high, it was mobile with bucket and sponge, no hose pipe. There was probably quite a lot of soap suds on your car at the end.
'We then also had table top sales at the end of the drive.
'We lived in a village, in my mum's garden there was an apple tree. We would sell all the apples, all our old toys. We weren't paying tax but we were 14...'
Then when she got her NI number she landed herself a job at Tesco.
Katie said: 'I kept that job for the whole of college, I started on the checkouts, then I went to customer service, got promoted to the tobacco kiosk.
'I was at my mum's this weekend, I went back into Tesco and loads of the same people that I worked with are still there now.'
Charlene started working part-time at 16 and then at 18 she worked at the London Trocadero - and she would sometimes dress up as Sonic the Hedgehog handing out flyers.
It comes after Janet's comments to Loose Women co-star Kelle Bryan resulted in her storming out of the studio into the audience last week.
Janet, Kelle, Brenda and Coleen spoke about heartbreak and they all had different opinions.
Kelle said: 'I'm clearly on the wrong panel today... if I get my heart broken it takes me a long time to recover.
'I'll be sad and down, it takes me a long time to let someone in in the first place. To trust somebody.
'It takes me a bit of time to say you're my person, but once I've made that decision, you're my person, you're in my world.
'If they let me down, hurt me, cheat on me, dump me, I'm devastated for a bit!'
Janet piped up and asked: 'But Kelly, aren't you just cross you messed up and made the wrong decision?'
A shocked Kelle said: 'Right. I'm off. I'm going to go and sit in the audience!'
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