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Full Janet Ellis Biography
Her first television appearance was a bit part in The Sweeney. Her big break came in 1979, when she played Teka in the Doctor Who story The Horns of Nimon.
Ellis joined Blue Peter on April 28, 1983, and during her four-year stint, co-presented with Simon Groom, Sarah Greene, Peter Duncan, Michael Sundin, Mark Curry and Caron Keating. She immediately become a hit with the teen and pre-teen viewership.
During her tenure on Jigsaw and Blue Peter, Ellis was particularly popular with male viewers, She is regularly cited by viewers as the most attractive children's TV presenter of her era. Comedian Richard Herring sums up his thoughts on her popularity amongst the (now older) teen male demographic:
Funnily enough, as a young man, I was a big fan of Sophie's mum, Janet Ellis. I particularly liked her in the show Jigsaw and have especially fond memories of when they were doing a show based on the letter 'O' and Janet was playing Nell Gwyne ('o' for oranges, you see). Many men of my age have very similar memories of the awakening of their sexual desire thanks to the rather low cut dress that Janet Ellis was wearing. For us the 'o' stood for 'oh my God'.
When Ellis left Blue Peter on June 20, 1987 to have her second child, there were rumours she had been sacked because she wasn't married to the father:
Nobody was thinking it was a scandal that I hadn’t married. In fact I announced my pregnancy in January and carried on presenting Blue Peter — with an ever-widening girth — until June. The bump was clear for everyone to see. It’s just a shame that the myth has been perpetuated for so long. The Sunday Times (November 2004)
The programme's producer Biddy Baxter has also denied that Ellis left the programme because she was unmarried .
Also, contrary to popular public belief, the child in question was not her pop singer daughter Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who was born eight years earlier and had appeared with her mother on the show.
On 31 August 2007, Ellis was a special guest in an episode of the live television programme Doctor, Doctor broadcast on channel Five, in which she talked about her hypothyroidism with the presenter and general practitioner, Mark Porter. On live television Ellis explained that she suffered loss of energy and was not feeling right, and that she eventually had medical tests because she had several miscarriages whilst trying for a fourth child. She reported that the tests unexpectedly diagnosed hypothyroidism and so she was started on thyroxine tablets, which made her feel a lot better after a few days. Ellis said that it was not until she was well that she realised retrospectively how ill she had been.
In a 2007 interview her daughter Sophie Ellis-Bextor revealed that Ellis has had a total of 10 miscarriages.
Ellis went on to present Open Air for the BBC, and has since presented a huge range of programmes on topics such as gardens, cars, holidays, cookery and childcare. She is a frequent contributor to children's charity Scene & Heard.
She is the author of How To Get Married Without Divorcing Your Family with Caron Keating, and presented the 2005 series of The Great Garden Challenge for Channel 4. She is also a regular panelist on five's The Wright Stuff.
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