Ellie Taylor Biography – Ellie Taylor Wiki
Ellie Taylor is an English comedian, television personality, actress, and writer. After appearing on Show Me the Funny in 2011, she has appeared in many television shows, including 8 Out of 10 Cats (2011–2017), Fake Reaction (2013–2014), Mock the Week (2015–2019), The Lodge (2016), Stand-Up Central (2017), The Mash Report (2017–2021), and Plebs (2018–2019). She has also presented the shows Snog Marry Avoid? (2012–2013) and Live at the Apollo (2016–2018).
She has written and performed five stand-up comedy shows Elliementary (2015), Infidelliety (2016), This Guy (2017–2018), Cravings (2019), which was also shown on Netflix as part of Comedians of the World, and Don’t Got This (2019–2021). In 2021, she published her debut book, My Child and Other Mistakes, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Taylor is a contestant in the twentieth series of Strictly Come Dancing 2022. She has been partnered with South African dancer Johannes Radebe.
Her career started when she was spotted by a model agency scout while interning for FHM magazine, and signed with ISIS Models She did campaigns for Matalan, Asda, and Pantene. She decided she would rather not be a model, so she started working on corporate events. In her mid-twenties, Taylor started doing stand-up comedy. “When I was younger it was people like Victoria Wood who I loved”— Ellie Taylor.
Taylor has also been a guest on 8 Out of 10 Cats, Pointless Celebrities, Insert Name Here, QI, The Last Leg, Big Brother’s Bit on the Side, and Show Me the Funny. In 2011, she won Company magazine’s Lady HaHa title. In 2012, she replaced Jenny Frost as the host of Snog Marry Avoid? on BBC Three. She was one of the team leaders on the comedy panel show Fake Reaction. In 2013, she was featured in an episode of the HBO mockumentary series Family Tree.
Taylor was discovered on the ITV series Show Me the Funny, an X Factor-style contest for aspiring stand-up comedians. In 2014, she performed her debut show Elliementary at the Laughing Horse as part of the Edinburgh free fringe program. In June 2015, she made her debut in the 14th series of BBC Two’s Mock the Week and appeared in every series until the 18th. In March 2016, she appeared in the third series of CBBC’s panel show The Dog Ate My Homework. She appeared a second time later that month. In September 2016, she had a recurring role in The Lodge as Christina. Taylor also plays Gloria, the next-door business owner to the main characters in ITV2 Ancient Roman comedy series Plebs.
In 2017, she became a regular fill-in for Emma Bunton on London’s Heart Radio breakfast show. Since July 2017, she has been a regular on the BBC2 satirical comedy sketch series The Mash Report, appearing as Susan, a newsreader. A clip of her performance later went viral, after it was posted across social media by musician Madonna. In 2018, Taylor appeared in an advert for Stowford Press cider. On July 5, 2018, it was announced Taylor and Anna Whitehouse would host a new talk show on radio station Heart FM on Sunday nights from 10 pm to 1 am. The show later became available as a podcast, Ellie and Anna Have Issues. Taylor has been a regular on the BBC TV stand-up-comedy program Live at the Apollo, both as a featured act and as a host.
In 2019, her half-hour stand-up special Cravings was released on Netflix as part of Comedians of the World. In 2019, she again became a fill-in presenter on Heart, this time for Amanda Holden, on the national breakfast show alongside regular host Jamie Theakston. In December 2019, it was announced that she would step down from her Heart FM show to focus on her TV commitments. However, her podcast with Anna Whitehouse, Ellie & Anna Have Issues, is still released every Tuesday. In July 2021, she published her debut book My Child and Other Mistakes: How to ruin your life in the best way possible, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. In August 2022, she was revealed as a contestant on the twentieth series of Strictly Come Dancing. She studied English literature at the University of York. Taylor was a member of the University of York Drama Society and “did three or four plays”.
Ellie Taylor Age
Her birth name is Eleanor Jane Taylor. She was born on November 28, 1983, in Basildon, Essex, England, United Kingdom.
Ellie Taylor Husband
Taylor married her husband, reporter Phil Black in London in 2014. Black is an Australian CNN International freelance reporter, based in London. The couple has one daughter.
Ellie Taylor Children
She has one daughter, her first child, named Valentina. She was born on November 28, 2018.
Ellie Taylor Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches (1.8 meters) tall. Additionally, she is statuesque, and a model-like figure.
Ellie Taylor Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @elliejanetaylor.
