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Jennifer Ellison (born May 30, 1983) is an English Actress, glamour model, television personality, dancer and singer. Ellison, who was born in Liverpool, is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside until 2003 and has recently made appearances in many different television shows, and as Meg Giry in the 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera.

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Modelling and magazine appearances

Ellison is currently featured in Maxim magazine's Girls of Maxim gallery. She has appeared regularly in almost all of the mainstream British "lads' magazines" over the last five years, though her first appearance was in 1999 in a sexually suggestive shoot for FHM at the age of just 16, under the heading "Jailbait". Recently, Ellison took over a contract with lingerie giant Ultimo for its "Young Attitude" line from fellow model Jordan barely two months after she had been signed on. Though Ultimo boss Michelle More had chosen Jordan for being "sexy, fun and outgoing," she later changed her mind, stating, "Jordan was just the wrong choice for [us]. 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 Victoria Silvstedt, who came second, and pop superstar Britney Spears, who was voted third. Ellison is also a regular in the yearly FHM "100 Sexiest Women in the World" feature. She first appeared in 2003 at number 50, then at number 40 in 2004, and by 2005 she was at number 23. In FHM's 2006 poll, Ellison was number 21.

 

Dance

Since the age of three years old, Ellison has trained as a dancer. She started off at a dance school in Liverpool, but then moved to a dance school in St.Helens, Elizabeth Hill School Of Dance And Drama. Her achievements in the field included world titles as well as winning the National Ballet and Modern Dance Championships two years running in 1996 and 1997. She also trained with the Royal Ballet School until she was sixteen.

In 2006, Ellison released Jennifer Ellison's West End Workout, a Fitness DVD which combined her love of Dance with Exercise routines.

 

Theatre

Ellison had a run in the London West End theatre version of the musical Chicago in 2004 at the Adelphi Theatre, and returned from 10 July to 9 August 2006 again playing the leading role of "Roxie Hart", this time at the Cambridge Theatre. 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 the UK in Chicago from 25 September 2006 until 5 May 2007, appearing in Birmingham, Manchester, Sunderland (she switched on the Christmas lights there), Nottingham, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent and Liverpool

On 1 October 2007, Ellison joined the cast of a revival of Boeing Boeing at the Comedy Theatre, London, playing the part of Gloria, an American TWA air stewardess.

On December 5th, she featured in a 10th Anniversary Gala performance of Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre alongside a galaxy of stars and on December 16th, she will play "Angel" in Liverpool Nativity, a Contemporary retelling of the Christmas story for BBC3 which will be performed live from the streets of the City.

 

Film

Ellison is best known in the U.S. for appearing as Meg Giry in the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera.

 

Music

Ellison has also flirted with a pop rock sex scene. Her first single was Baby I Don't Care, released in June 2003, which reached number six in the charts. The song was originally released by Transvision Vamp in 1989. The following year in July, after being brought back into the public eye after winning Hell's Kitchen, Ellison released her second single, Bye Bye Boy, which reached number 13 in the UK charts. Her debut album rumoured to be called 'Silent Footsteps' was shelved but a sampler featuring 6 full tracks, 2 snippets and 2 remixes can be found on eBay from time to time.

 

Video clips

In 2003, Ellison appeared in the Travel documentary Jennifer Ellison does Thailand and in 2004 she appeared on the reality television show Hell's Kitchen, which she went on to win. In 2005, she appeared on the celebrity challenge show With a little help from my friends for ITV1.

In spring 2007 Ellison appeared in the BBC reality TV show The Verdict, based on a fictional courtroom, alongside the likes of Jeffrey Archer and Sara Payne.

She currently co-hosts Dirty Dancing - Time of your Life a US based Reality TV show for the Living TV network.

In December 2007 Ellison began appearing as a panellist on the ITV1 daytime show Loose Women.