Person
Janet Ellis
Acting · Born 1955-09-16 · Chatham, Kent, England, UK
Biography
Janet Michell Ellis, MBE is an English television presenter, actress and writer, who is best known for presenting the children's television programmes Blue Peter and Jigsaw between 1979 and 1987. She has published two novels, The Butcher's Hook and How It Was.
Known for
Doctor Who
Teka
Blue Peter
1958
Ready, Steady, Cook
Self - Contestant
Come Dine with Me
2005
Waking the Dead
TV Reporter
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
The Sweeney
Susie
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
Celebrity Masterchef
2006
Filmography
- 2024Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' EveningSelf
- 2024Your Kitchen: 60 Years of Fads and GadgetsHerself
- 2024The 1970s: Those Were the DaysSelf - Broadcaster
- 2023Talking Doctor WhoSelf (archive footage)
- 2022Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
- 2019Celebrity Gogglebox
- 2017Richard Osman's House of GamesSelf
- 2016Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBCSelf
- 2011Celebrity Antiques Road TripSelf - Participant
- 2009The Man Behind the MasqueradeNarrator
- 2009Let's Dance for Comic ReliefSelf
- 2008Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
- 2007The Alan Titchmarsh ShowSelf
- 2006Celebrity Masterchef
- 2005Come Dine with Me
- 2003The Curse of Page 3Narrator
- 2001Waking the DeadTV Reporter
- 1999Lingerie: The Industry ExposedNarrator
- 1998B.P. ConfidentialSelf
- 1994Ready, Steady, CookSelf - Contestant
- 1985Frederick Douglass: An American LifeJulia Griffith
- 1980Doctor Who: The Horns of NimonTeka
- 1979JigsawJanet
- 1979Blankety Blank
- 1975The SweeneySusie
- 1971Blue Peter Flies the World
- 1963Doctor WhoTeka
- 1958Blue Peter
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