Janet Ellis
View on IMDb ↗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
Jigsaw
The Sweeney
The 1970s: Those Were the Days
Ready, Steady, Cook
Doctor Who
Blue Peter
Waking the Dead
Your Kitchen: 60 Years of Fads and Gadgets
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Celebrity GoggleboxFilmography (28)
- 2024
The 1970s: Those Were the DaysSelf - Broadcaster - 2024
Your Kitchen: 60 Years of Fads and GadgetsHerself - 2024
Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' EveningSelf - 2023
Talking Doctor WhoSelf (archive footage) - 2022
Kids' TV: The Surprising Story - 2019
Celebrity Gogglebox - 2017
Richard Osman's House of GamesSelf - 2016
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBCSelf - 2011
Celebrity Antiques Road TripSelf - Participant - 2009
Let's Dance for Comic ReliefSelf - 2009
The Man Behind the MasqueradeNarrator - 2008Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
- 2007The Alan Titchmarsh ShowSelf
- 2006
Celebrity Masterchef - 2005
Come Dine with Me - 2003The Curse of Page 3Narrator
- 2001
Waking the DeadTV Reporter - 1999
Lingerie: The Industry ExposedNarrator - 1998
B.P. ConfidentialSelf - 1994
Ready, Steady, CookSelf - Contestant - 1985
Frederick Douglass: An American LifeJulia Griffith - 1980
Doctor Who: The Horns of NimonTeka - 1979
JigsawJanet - 1979
Blankety Blank - 1975
The SweeneySusie - 1971Blue Peter Flies the World
- 1963
Doctor WhoTeka - 1958
Blue Peter