Ellis Ward
"I am so happy to be part of the world's best shopping television family!"
Ellis is well-known to Ideal World viewers for presenting health and beauty, fashion and, she says, "being the manic housewife!"
Viewers remember Ellis as co-presenter on the highly successful LWT show You Bet, first with Bruce Forsythe, then with Matthew Kelly.
Ellis started her career when she became one of the youngest dancers ever to grace the Moulin Rouge, Paris, in the early 1980s. Ellis left in 1984 to join the original cast of the hit musical 42nd Street in the West End.
After five years in You Bet, Ellis joined Watch, the BBC children's educational series, which went on to win an award from the Royal Society of Television.
After a career break to marry Robert and raise her family, Amelia and twins Clara and Jedd, Ellis leaped at the opportunity to join Ideal World when it was launched in April 2000.
Ellis is enjoying the challenges that live television brings, and is happy to be part of the world's best shopping television family!
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Q & A:
- What did you do before IW?
- Started out at the Moulin Rouge in Paris aged 16, played Diane Lorrimar in “42nd Street”, was on You Bet for five years, was on Watch for BBC for five years
- Most embarrassing on-screen moment?
- Snorting Loudly during a show.
- Tell us a secret
- It wouldn’t be a secret if I told you!
- What’s your idea of the perfect Sunday (when you’re not working)?
- Staying in jimmyjams, watching TV with my family – ooh, and eating lots of chocolate!
- Which living person do you most admire and why?
- My husband. He’s the bravest person I know.
- What is the trait you most deplore in yourself / others?
- In myself, patience, in others, lies and backstabbing.
- Aside from property, what’s the most expensive thing you've bought?
- My car.
- What is your guiltiest pleasure?
- My son’s cakes.
- What keeps you awake at night?
- Worrying about everything and everyone.
- What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
- Patience.
- Favourite IW/CC product?
- So many – I just couldn’t single one out.
- Which phrase do you overuse?
- "Fabulous", and "vooshti"
- If you could travel back in time, which period would you visit?
- Ancient Egypt or the Tudor times.
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