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Loose Women Janet Street-Porter bid a brief farewell to the daytime show as she undergoes surgery. The 78-year-old broadcaster became a regular panellist in 2011, but after 13 years she had to depart from the show briefly to undergo and recover from a hip replacement. Now, she's set to undergo her second knee surgery where she'll be taking a small break from the ITV daytime show as she recovers. At the end of Monday's (October 27) installment of Loose Women, lead panellist Jane Moore announced that Janet will be bidding farewell to the studio for three weeks. Janet shared: "I'm going for a knee replacement, my right knee. I've had my left knee done, oh it must be eight or nine years ago. "Last October, I had my left hip replaced, so the left-hand side of my body is virtually bionic. So, tomorrow it's the right knee, and quite honestly, I can't wait." When asked if she's in a lot of pain, Janet admitted: "I'm in a huge amount of pain, and then I ripped my neck just to put the icing on the cake, so can't move it." She continued: "I'm gonna be off for three weeks, so I'm not off forever, I'm gonna be doing all that physio and I want to say to anyone out there contemplating knee replacement, stick to the exercises. "Get up, move around as much as you can... The last two weeks have been really chronic." The panellist has previously opened up about her "crippling" health anxiety, where she said: "If anything goes wrong with my body, I absolutely catastrophise. A week ago, I was doing my show in Bury St Edmunds and I looked down, and my neck jammed. "Ever since that day, my neck's been like that" as she mimicked stiffness and being unable to twist her head from side to side. Touching on the anxiety it brings, she added: "I do suffer. I'm not anxious in terms of my own life, because my full intention is to live to be 100 and live a very fulfilled life. "So, anything that comes along that might impede that, even in the slightest, it drives me absolutely crazy. I can't cope with it, so I react in a disproportionate way, which is what's happening with my neck." Loose Women airs on weekdays from 12:30pm on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.
