Jennifer Lesley Ellison (born 30 May 1983) is an English actress, glamour model, television personality, dancer and singer. Ellison is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside until 2003, and as Meg Giry in the 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera.

Biography

Ellison's parents, Kevin May and Jane, split in 1986. She has 1 younger half-sister Jemma. She is close to stepfather David. She is estranged from her father Kevin May. She attended Broughton Hall High School, a catholic girls' school.

Ellison and boxer Robbie Tickle started dating in May 2008 and got engaged on holiday in the Maldives in October that year. They married in Mauritius on 10 October 2009. On 4 February 2010, Ellison gave birth to a baby boy named Bobby via caesarean section at Liverpool Women's Hospital.

In March 2013, Ellison announced that she was expecting her second child, saying then: 'I didn't even know I was pregnant until four weeks ago, and I'm almost five months now. I can't believe I'm having another baby in July - it's been a massive shock.' She had previously been told by doctors that cysts on her ovaries meant it was unlikely she would ever have another. Her second son, Harry was born on 9 July 2013.

In July 2014, Ellison announced she was pregnant with her third child. Her third son Charlie was born on 26 September 2014.