[3] After making an unsuccessful bid to join the presentation team of the BBC children's show Blue Peter,[4] she had a minor role in one episode of the BBC medical drama series Cardiac Arrest before going on to present family-friendly and children's programmes.

They include Children's BBC Scotland, T.I.G.S, Around Scotland, MegaMag, Up For It!, Sticky, Disney's Great Cartoon Chase, How 2, Scratchy & Co, It's a Mystery, Children in Need, Fully Booked, The Movie Chart Show, Top of the Pops, Live & Kicking, and programmes such as The Big Breakfast and Gail Porter's Big 90s for VH1.

A nude photograph of Porter was projected on the Houses of Parliament in 1999 as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign, and accompanied it with a message to vote for her in the FHM Sexiest Women Poll.

[8] In 2001, Porter took part in the reality television show Celebrity Blind Man's Bluff and on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.

In August 2010, she began the Two Way Street campaign for solicitors Russell Jones & Walker, an initiative to develop the relationship between HGV drivers and cyclists, keeping them safer.

[citation needed] In 2017 she became the brand ambassador for the insolvency practitioner Creditfix, meeting with the public and speaking openly about her struggles with debt in several corporate videos.

[22][23] On Richard & Judy on 15 February 2006 she showed her hair, eyebrows and eyelashes were beginning to grow back.

Her autobiographical standup show Hung Drawn and Portered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival mixed laughter and her personal hardships.

[31] Porter married Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave in August 2001[1] and gave birth to their daughter Honey on 3 September 2002.

[35][36] On 8 September 2011, Porter told BBC Radio 5 Live's presenter Phil Williams that she had been detained under the Mental Health Act of 2007[37] for 17 days of treatment against her will.

[33] She stated that the signature on the documents to have her involuntarily committed to psychiatric treatment was that of her then-boyfriend, after texting him to say she felt suicidal.