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Jennifer Lesley Ellison (born 30 May 1983) is an English actress, former
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, television personality, dancer and singer. Ellison is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera ''
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'' until 2003, and as Meg Giry in the 2004 film adaptation of ''
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''. Ellison also starred on the
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show ''
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'', the UK version of the American show ''
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''.


Career


Dance

Ellison studied dance from the age of three, first at a dance school in Liverpool, then later at the Elizabeth Hill School of Dancing in St Helens. She has achieved examination passes with the
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and appeared on instructional videos for the academy. She has also taken examinations with the
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(IDTA) and won Ballet and Modern Dance titles at the IDTA Theatre Dance Championships in 1996 and 1997, and in addition was awarded the
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for ballet in 1998. Choosing to pursue a professional career in dance, she successfully auditioned for the Royal Ballet Lower School. She left dance to pursue acting. In 2012, Ellison was a contestant on ''
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'' and made it to the semi-final stages. She hosted the UK version of ''
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'' on Lifetime, ''
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'' in 2014–15.


Television

From 1998 to 2003, Ellison played Emily Shadwick in the soap opera ''
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''. Her character was 'killed off' when she fell from a window during a robbery. In 2003, Ellison appeared in the travel documentary ''Jennifer Ellison does Thailand'' and in 2004, she appeared on the
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show ''
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'', which she then went on to win. In 2005, she appeared on the celebrity challenge show ''With a Little Help From My Friends''. In spring 2007, Ellison appeared in the
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reality TV show ''
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'', based on a fictional courtroom, alongside the likes of
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and
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. That same year, she appeared as a judge on ''
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– Time of your Life'' a United States-based reality television show for the
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network. By December of that year, Ellison began appearing as a guest panellist on the ITV daytime show ''
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''. Additionally, Ellison has also acted in episodes of the British television series ''The Brief'', '' Hotel Babylon'', ''
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'' and '' The Commander''. In September 2008, she appeared in a 2-hour long show, called ''Ghosthunting with Paul O'Grady & Friends'', filmed in Sicily, with fellow Liverpudlians
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,
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and
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.


Music

After success in television and men's magazines, Ellison pursued a pop music career. She released two
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before giving this venture up for acting and glamour modelling. Her first single was "
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", released in June 2003, which reached No. 6 in the
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. The song was originally released by
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in 1989. The following year in July, after being brought back into the public eye after winning ''
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'', Ellison released her second single, " Bye Bye Boy" – originally recorded by the Japanese singer
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– which reached No. 13 in the UK chart.


Single discography


Theatre

In 2004, Ellison had a run in the London West End theatre version of the musical ''
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'' at the
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playing the leading role of
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and reprised the role from 10 July to 9 August 2006, this time at the
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. Ellison was actually supposed to finish on 12 August, but was forced to pull out three days early due to a knee injury. Ellison subsequently toured Britain in ''Chicago'' from 25 September 2006 until 5 May 2007. On 1 October 2007, Ellison joined the cast of a revival of '' Boeing Boeing'' at the
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, London, playing the part of Gloria, an American air stewardess working for the airline
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. On 5 December 2007, she featured in a 10th Anniversary
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performance of ''Chicago'' at the
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alongside a galaxy of stars and on 16 December 2007, she played "Angel" in ''Liverpool Nativity'', a contemporary retelling of the Christmas story for
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which was performed live from the streets of the city. Ellison featured in the
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's
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version of ''
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'' for 2008, opposite
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and
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. She also played Beth in ''
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'' at major arenas of the UK in June 2009. Ellison appeared in the July – October 2010 UK tour of the stage adaption of the film ''
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''. The same year she appeared at the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, in its pantomime ''Robinson Crusoe''. As well as these, she was on the UK tour company of ''
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'', playing the role of 'Paulette'. In 2012 Ellison appeared in ''Peter Pan'' at the Churchill Theatre Bromley alongside
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,
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and Andrew Agnew. From 18 February 2013 she joined ''Singin’ in the Rain'' at the
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. Ellison joined the cast to play silent movie screen siren and owner of a voice never meant for the ‘talkies’, Lina Lamont. Ellison was cast in the pantomime of ''
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and the Seven Dwarfs'', at the
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throughout December 2015 to January 2016.


Film

Ellison made her international film debut as Meg Giry in the 2004 film version of the stage musical ''
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'', although her lines were dubbed over. She also starred in the English horror film '' The Cottage'', which was released in the UK on 14 March 2008.


Modelling and magazine appearances

Ellison was featured in ''
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'' magazine's "Girls of Maxim" gallery. Her photos appeared regularly in British "
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" including '' Nuts'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. Ellison took over, from
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, a contract with lingerie giant Ultimo for its "Young Attitude" line. Though Ultimo boss Michelle Mone had chosen Jordan for being "sexy, fun and outgoing," she later changed her mind, stating, "Jordan was just the wrong choice for s Jennifer is a far better option and far classier." In 2005, Ellison was voted ''world's sexiest blonde'' by readers of the UK magazine ''Nuts'', beating model
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, who came second, and pop superstar
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. Ellison was also a regular in the yearly ''FHM'' "
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" feature.


Other ventures

In 2006, Ellison released ''Jennifer Ellison's West End
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'', a fitness DVD which combined her love of dance with exercise routines.. In December 2011, she then released a second fitness DVD ''Jennifer Ellison's Fat Blaster Workout''. She is a winner of the
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in the ballet category for 1998, an industry award voted for by dance professionals. She took part in the 2012 TV series ''
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''. Ellison and professional partner
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ended up in fourth place after being voted out in the semi-final. In May 2013 it was announced that Jennifer Ellison would join Liverpool's
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to co-present a new Sunday morning Breakfast show alongside Drivetime Presenter Dave Kelly, for an initial five-week period until she was due to give birth.


Personal life

Ellison attended
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, a Catholic school for girls. She then attended
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for Sixth Form. She has two younger half-sisters. Her parents, Kevin May and Jane, separated in 1986. Her mother remarried. She is close to her mother and stepfather David. Ellison and boxer Robbie Tickle began dating in May 2008, and were engaged in October of that year while on holiday in the
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. The following year they were married, with the ceremony being performed in
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on 10 October 2009. Ellison has three children. On 4 February 2010 she gave birth to her first son. Her second pregnancy came to her as a surprise. Ellison said: "I didn't even know I was pregnant until four weeks ago, and I'm almost five months gone now. I can't believe I'm having another baby in July. It's been a massive shock." On 9 July 2013 she gave birth to her second son. On 26 September 2014, she gave birth to her third son. In May 2018 Ellison was paid an undisclosed sum by Mirror Group Newspapers as settlement for phone-hacking.


References


External links

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Jennifer Ellison Photoshoots
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