Gail Porter says she earned nothing from infamous FHM shoot projected on Parliament
Porter reveals she was unaware the 1999 stunt would be projected onto the Houses of Parliament and says she received no payment from FHM’s publicity surge.
Gail Porter, the 54-year-old television presenter who rose to fame in the 1990s, says she did not earn a penny from her infamous FHM nude shoot, which was later projected onto the Houses of Parliament in 1999 as part of the magazine’s Sexiest Woman feature. The publicity stunt helped FHM push sales, with the issue reportedly moving more than one million copies within two months. Porter detailed the financial and personal fallout in a recent appearance on the Skin, Unfiltered podcast, saying she had no idea the image would be projected on the historic building and that she received no payment for it. "FHM pocketed all the cash and they made a fortune. I saw it on the news, same as you. And I didn’t get paid," she recalled. The stunt drew widespread attention and controversy, drawing criticism from feminists and attracting unwanted attention from stalkers and men outside her home, Porter said, describing a period that left her questioning how to move forward. "It was the biggest FHM, obviously, with all the publicity and the controversy, and then they just did one and left me to pick up the pieces," she added. "So people thought I was involved, people thought I knew about it, people thought I made loads of money off of it. So I had feminists on my case, I had stalkers, I had men outside the house - it was just horrific." She concluded: "I was like, 'I saw it on the news, same as you.' That was it, and I didn’t get paid."