Janet Ellis (born 16 September 1955) is a television presenter and former actress, who appeared on BBC children's television during the 1980s. She is perhaps best remembered as a presenter on Blue Peter, a role she won after hosting the award-winning children's programme Jigsaw. She has three children, the singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor (born 1979), Jackson Ellis Leach (born 1987) and Martha-Rose Ellis Read more...

When Ellis left Blue Peter on 20 June 1987 to have her second child, Jackson, there were rumours that she had been sacked because she wasn't married to the father:

The programme's producer Biddy Baxter has also denied that Ellis left the programme because she was unmarried.

On 31 August 2007, Ellis was a special guest in an episode of the live television programme Doctor, Doctor broadcast Read more...