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Ellie Simmonds

July 2023

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    TV review
    Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family review – a hugely moving journey into the Paralympian’s past

  • Ellie Simmonds portrait.

    The G2 interview
    Ellie Simmonds on finding her birth mother: ‘During this journey I cried so much’

May 2023

  • Actors and presenters (from left) Munya Chawawa, Joe Lycett, Golda Rosheuvel, Will Sharpe, Sharon Horgan, Ellie Simmods and Louis Theroux sitting at a table covered in a white cloth, having teaStyling womens Melanie Wilkinson
Fashion assistant: Roz Donoghue 
Hair: Miffy at Hari's Hair
Make up: Carla Francesca at Makeup Junkies International using Rare Beauty
L-R: Munya Chawawa, Joe Lycett, Golda Rosheuvel, Will Sharpe, Sharon Horgan, Ellie Simmods, Louis Theroux

    ‘I thought, what would I look like with a Brazilian butt lift?’: Louis Theroux, Sharon Horgan and other stars on their recent TV highlights

    It’s been another banner year on the box. Ahead of the Baftas, stars of our favourite shows – from Bridgerton and Bad Sisters to The White Lotus – share their top telly moments

September 2022

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    Ellie Simmonds on Strictly smashes prejudices about what a dancer can be

    Cathy Reay
    The show’s adaptations of dances for different types of bodies is powerful for those of us who never see ourselves represented, says author Cathy Reay

August 2022

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    Strictly Come Dancing to celebrate BBC centenary with themed week

    BBC show will also return to Blackpool Tower ballroom after two-year break in new series launching next month

June 2022

  • Brian May of Queen performing at Platinum Party at the Palace.

    Queen’s platinum jubilee concert 2022: the Platinum Party at the Palace – as it happened

  • Diana Ross on stage singing

    Diana Ross, Queen and Lin-Manuel Miranda to play Party at the Palace

April 2022

  • Multiple gold medal-winning swimmer Ellie Simmonds.

    TV review
    Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism review – are drugs really the answer?

    The Paralympian investigates new drugs intended to treat achondroplasia, which some view as the future – and others see as an ‘existential threat’

December 2021

  • British Paralympian Ellie Simmonds

    Young Sportswriter of the Year
    Ellie Simmonds: one swimmer, one race, one goal. And my hero

    Our Young Sportswriter competition winner (age 10-12 category) on why the Paralympian has a special place in her heart

September 2021

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    Ellie Simmonds ready to end career in Paralympics after freestyle fifth place

    The five-time gold medallist Ellie Simmonds said she expects Tokyo 2020 to be her final Paralympics while the swimmer Bethany Firth won her fifth career gold

August 2021

  • Maisie Summers-Newton takes gold in the women’s SB6 100m breaststroke final

    Maisie Summers-Newton takes second gold as ParalympicsGB excel in the pool

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    Ellie Simmonds: ‘I’ve found the expectations harder as I’ve got older’

January 2020

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    Ellie Simmonds: ‘Going into Rio, swimming for me had been life or death’

    Having been pushed to the brink of retirement before the last Paralympics, the swimmer took a year out. Now, reunited with her old coach, she cannot wait for Tokyo, she tells Donald McRae

December 2019

  • Mo Farah reacts as he crosses the finishing line to win the men’s 5,000m at the London 2012 Olympics

    The Guardian picture essay
    Olympics, World Cups and more: Tom Jenkins' pictures of the decade

    The Guardian and Observer sport photographer picks his favourite images from the thousands he shot during the past 10 years

January 2017

  • Ellie Simmonds in her swimming costume, putting on her swimming hat, in front of lockers

    This much I know
    Ellie Simmonds: ‘I’ve never been bullied. I’m just small’

    The champion swimmer, 22, on winning two gold medals at 13, finally meeting Michael Phelps and crying happy tears
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    Ellie Simmonds: the focused winner with a smile for everyone

  • Great Britain’s Ellie Simmonds wins the gold and sets a new world record in the SM6 200m medley final

    Paralympic Games 2016: day five – in pictures

  • 2016 Rio Paralympic Games - Day Five<br>Great Britain's Eleanor Simmonds on her way to Gold during the Women's 200m Individual Medley - SM6 final at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium during the fifth day of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday September 12, 2016. Photo credit should read: Adam Davy/PA Wire. EDITORIAL USE ONLY

    Ellie Simmonds takes gold on day five of Rio Paralympics – video highlights

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    Ellie Simmonds steals the show on golden night for British swimmers

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    Kadeena Cox completes historic Paralympic double with time trial gold

    Kadeena Cox became the first Briton to win medals in two different Paralympic sports since 1988 following a nerveless ride to gold in the C4-5 500m time trial at the velodrome
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