Ellie Taylor is an English comedian, television personality, actress, and writer. She has appeared in numerous television shows, including 8 Out of 10 Cats, Fake Reaction, Virtually Famous, Mock the Week, The Lodge, Stand Up Central, and The Mash Report. Taylor has also presented television shows such as Snog Marry Avoid? and Live at the Apollo. Since 2018, she has played the role of Gloria in the ITV2 series Plebs.
Taylor was discovered on ITV series Show Me the Funny, an X Factor-style contest for aspiring stand-up comedians. In 2014, she performed her debut show Elliementery at the Laughing Horse as part of the Edinburgh free fringe programme. In June 2015, she made her debut in the 14th series of BBC Two's Mock the Week. She has appeared in every series since. In March 2016, Taylor appeared in the third series of CBBC's panel showThe Dog Ate My Homework. She appeared a second time later that month. In September 2016, Taylor 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, Taylor became a regular fill-in for Emma Bunton on London's Heart Radio breakfast show. Since July 2017, she has been a regular on 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 5 July 2018, It was announced Taylor and Anna Whitehouse would host a new talk show on radio stationHeart FM on Sunday nights from 10pm to 1am. 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 programme 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. 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 presenter of Snog, Marry, Avoid? on BBC Three. She was one of the team leaders on the comedy panel show Fake Reaction. In 2013, she appeared in an episode of the HBO mockumentary series Family Tree. In 2019 she again became a fill in presenter on Heart but now for Amanda Holden on Heart national Breakfast alongside regular host Jamie Theakston. In December 2019, it was announced that Taylor would step down from her Heart FM show in order to focus on her TV commitments. However, her podcast which she shares with Anna Whitehouse called Ellie & Anna Have Issues is still released every Tuesday.
