Robbie Tickle and Jennifer Ellison sent touching greetings on their wedding anniversary.
The former soap opera star has studied ballet since childhood and in 2004 made her Chicago stage debut in the West End as Roxie Hart, a character made famous by Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger.
She has appeared on various variety shows, including Hell’s Kitchen and the documentary Jennifer Ellison Does Thailand, after making her camera debut on the late 1990s soap opera Brookside.
She later found success on the Chicago stage, and Calendar Girls appeared as guest speakers on Loose Women and took part in the 2012 season of Dancing On Ice. Read on to find out more about the beautiful actress’ personal life.
Quickly facts
| Full name | Jennifer Lesley Ellison |
| Date of birth | May 30, 1983 |
| Age | 39 years old |
| Place of birth | Liverpool, UK |
| profession | actress |
| Marital status | Married |
| Husband | Rob Tickle |
| children | 3 |
| Height | 5′ 7″ (169 cm) |
| nickname | Jen |
| net worth | 2 million dollars |
| Known for | Emily Shadwick at Brookside |
Rob Tickle: Who is he? Meet Jennifer Ellison’s husband
Ellison and boxer Robbie Tickle began dating in May 2008 and in October of that year they became engaged while vacationing in the Maldives. They got married on October 10, 2009 on the beautiful island of Mauritius.
Rob is a co-founder of Jelli Studios Theater Arts College and serves as CEO. Jelli Studios offers professional, intensive dance and musical theater instruction for those looking to pursue a long and successful career in the performing arts.
Jennifer Ellison founded it after a great career as a dancer, singer and actress with the aim of providing the best education in musical theater and dance.
She regularly posts pictures of her husband on Instagram. On their wedding day, she posted a picture of herself and Rob along with the sweet statement: “Happy anniversary to my whole world. The best husband, dad and friend there is!”
We adore you more than anything in the world and can’t wait to create more memories with you. Thank you for making me a better wife, mother and person.
Rob can be found on Instagram as @tickle.rob. He now has more than 3000 supporters there. He regularly posts photos of his wife and children.
Mother of three boys, Jennifer Ellison
Jennifer Ellison has three sons with her husband. On February 4, 2010, at the age of 26, she gave birth to Bobby Tickle. Likewise, on July 9, 2013, when she was 30 years old, she gave birth to her second child, a son named Harry Tickle. On September 26, 2014, at the age of 31, she gave birth to Charlie Tickle, her third child.
Five months after the birth of her son Bobby, she returned to work to take part in a UK tour of Calendar Girls. She was eight months pregnant with their son, Harry, when she retired from appearing in the West End production of Singin’ in the Rain.
Similarly, Ellison began appearing in the pantomime “Snow and the Seven Dwarfs” five months after the birth of her son Harry. She was a month pregnant with her son Charlie when she ended her role in the film.
Three months after the birth of her son Charlie, she began acting in the pantomime “Sleeping Beauty”.
In a recent interview, Ellison claimed that she didn’t even know she was pregnant until four weeks earlier, when she was more than five months old. It completely spooked Ellison, she claimed.
Tobbie Tickle, father of identical twins Sophie and Chloe, gave birth to two stepdaughters.
She regularly posts pictures of her children. They were last photographed when they went to school. People think I’m weird but I HATE kids going back to school. Year 8, Year 5 and Year 3 she wrote. “And just like that, they’re gone.”
Jennifer’s childhood and family
The daughter of Administrator Jane and Taxi Driver Peter, Jennifer Ellison was born on May 30, 1983 in Liverpool, England.
She has been dancing since she was three years old and in the two years (1996 and 1997) that he won the National Ballet and Modern Dance Championships, she even won a number of global titles. She attended the Royal Ballet School until she was sixteen.
Jennifer Ellison’s most notable performance was Emily Shadwick O’Leary in Brookside (1998–2003). Despite skipping most of her classes, Jennifer managed to get 11 O-levels and four A-levels, which is impressive.
In 2012, Ellison took part in Dancing on Ice and reached the semifinals. She and Jennifer Ellison co-hosted Dance Moms, the UK version of the Lifetime television series, in 2014-15.
She decided to pursue a professional dance career and after a successful audition she was admitted to the Royal Ballet Lower School. She quit dancing to focus on acting.
Jennifer Ellison’s career
She had a successful television career
In Spring 2007, Ellison took part in the BBC reality TV show The Verdict, based on a fictional courtroom, alongside Sara Payne and Jeffrey Archer.
That same year, she was a judge on the Living TV Network reality competition Dirty Dancing: Time of Your Life. Ellison began appearing as a guest on the Loose Women panel in December of the same year.
In addition, Ellison has guest-starred on The Commander, The Brief, Hotel Babylon and New Street Law, all British television programmes. In September 2008 she took part in a two-hour program called Ghosthunting with Paul O’Grady & Friends, recorded in Sicily and starring Paul O’Grady, Philip Olivier and Natasha Hamilton, all also from Liverpool.
Acting in film after a stage career
In the 2004 London West End production of the musical Chicago at the Adelphi Theater, Ellison portrayed Roxie Hart, the lead. She reprized the role at the Cambridge Theater from 10 July to 9 August 2006.
She was due to graduate on August 12, but due to a knee problem, he had to leave three days early. She then played in Chicago from September 25, 2006 to May 5, 2007 as part of a UK tour.
On October 1, 2007, she joined the cast of a revival of Boeing Boeing at the Comedy Theater in London. She portrayed Gloria, a Gloria, an American flight attendant employed by TWA.
She took part in the UK tour from July to October 2010 for the stage adaptation of Calendar Girls. In the same year she appeared in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe at the Regent Theater in Stoke-on-Trent. In addition to these other roles, she portrayed Paulette in Legally Blonde The Musicals British touring company.
In 2012, Ellison starred alongside Gemma Hunt, Ace Bhatti and Andrew Agnew in Peter Pan at the Churchill Theater in Bromley. On February 18, 2013 she made her debut in Singin’ in the Rain at the Palace Theater in London.
Ellison performed in panto ‘Snow and the Seven Dwarfs’ at the Theater Royal in Norwich from December 2015 to January 2016. She joined the ensemble to play Lina Lamont, a silent screen siren with a voice never developed for “talkie”.
Jennifer’s first film
Ellison made her international film debut in the film version of the stage musical The Phantom of the Opera in 2004 as Meg Giry, although her lines were dubbed. The story begins with a chorus girl being tutored by an operatic ghost who is terrorizing the cast and staff of the French Opera House.
When the lead soprano finally breaks off, she and her accompanist leave. The soprano returns, although one night the girl gets to sing lead because she doesn’t want the show stolen from her.
She also had a role in the English horror film The Cottage which premiered in the UK on March 14. It tells the story of a tough, seductive woman who is kidnapped and taken to a house in the English countryside for ransom. She has a lot more to worry about than her stepfather, the gang boss, his two Asian killers and two idiots.
modeling and music
After finding success on television and in men’s magazines, Ellison sought a career in pop music. She released two pop-rock singles before giving them up in favor of acting and glamor modeling.
When she began her music career in 2003, both songs reached the top 20 in the UK charts, but she decided against continuing.
Their first single, Baby I Don’t Care, was released in June 2003 and peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart. The soundtrack was first made available by Transvision Vamp in 1989.
Jennifer released her second song, Bye Bye Boy, in July of the year after winning Hell’s Kitchen. The song was originally performed by Nanase Aikawa from Japan and reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart.
Ellison was featured in Maxim magazine’s Girls of Maxim gallery. She often had her pictures published in British “boys’ magazines” such as Nuts, Zoo Weekly and FHM.
Ellison, a Jordanian, has accepted a deal with lingerie company Ultimo for its Young Attitude line. She has consistently made FHM’s annual list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World.
Jennifer Ellison net worth
Jennifer’s estimated net worth is $2 million based on the Celebrity Net Worth. She earns most of her income through singing, acting, and other ventures.
2006 saw the release of Ellison’s West End Workout, a fitness DVD that combined her love of dance with workouts. Her second fitness DVD, Jennifer Ellison’s Fat Blaster Workout, was then released in December 2011.
She won the 1998 Carl Alan Award, presented by the dance community, in the ballet category.
She took part in the 2012 season of the television show Dancing on Ice. In the semifinals, Ellison and his business partner Daniel Whiston were eliminated, finishing fourth overall.
News that Jennifer would be co-hosting a brand new Sunday morning breakfast program with Drivetime host Dave Kelly first broke in May 2013.
Jennifer’s relationships have been unstable in the past
Jennifer Ellison broke down in tears as she opened up about the time her house was “shot at with an AK-47” due to a horrible relationship she was in at the time.
In the latest season of Channel 4’s Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, the actress takes part alongside the likes of Maisie Smith, Ashley Cain, AJ Pritchard and Ferne McCann.
Rudy Reyes, the lead teacher, joined the SAS team earlier this year. Jason “Foxy” Fox, Mark “Billy” Billingham and Remi Adeleke are his directing team and put them through their paces.
After Jennifer struggled with a job earlier in the day and fell behind the other known recruits, the instructors called her in. The 39-year-old actress recalls being fired from the Hollywood production of Phantom of the Opera in 2003 after criminals targeted her home in West Derby, Liverpool.
She said she got “job after job after job,” including a role in a Hollywood movie that was “the best thing that could have happened to me,” but that things went wrong when their relationship went into what she was called “Gangland”.
An AK-47 was used to fire on her house. According to Jennifer, the episodes set off a “negative cycle” that left her feeling “worthless” and “humiliated.”
She was dating mobster Tony Richardson at her home at the time of the shooting. She said he hit her over the course of their seven-year relationship in an interview with the Mirror.