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Rose Ayling-Ellis
November 2023
‘Any embarrassment is in your head!’: How hearing aids boost your health and happiness
There is still a stigma around hearing tests and hearing loss – even though excellent help is now at hand. It could just change your life
July 2023
The best original photographs from the Observer
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The best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in June 2023
June 2023
TV review
Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change review – proof that the hearing world is as prejudiced as ever
Rose Ayling-Ellis: ‘I felt free to be me’
December 2022
The week in theatre: As You Like It; Mandela; Kerry Jackson – review
As You Like It review – Josie Rourke leads us into the liberating delight of Arden
August 2022
Rose Ayling-Ellis: ‘I’m done with being token deaf character on TV’
Strictly winner tells Edinburgh TV festival she had to break through ‘countless barriers’ to succeed
June 2022
Prince Charles and Camilla appear in special jubilee episode of EastEnders
The royal couple played cameo roles as guests of honour at a street party in the BBC soap’s Albert Square
May 2022
Turn us on: a Bafta TV special
Rose Ayling-Ellis’s year in TV: ‘After Strictly, people told me they wouldn’t be upset if they had a deaf child’
Rose Ayling-Ellis to read CBeebies bedtime story in British Sign Language
January 2022
British Sign Language to become recognised language in the UK
Strictly: sign language interpreter to be projected on to big screens at live shows
December 2021
Guardian readers nominate their person of the year
From the frontline of Covid to inspirational sports personalities, our worldwide audience name their choices
Rose Ayling-Ellis’s Strictly Come Dancing win gives deaf children huge confidence boost
It is hoped that the EastEnders actor’s victory in the dance contest will give the public a better understanding of deafness
The G2 interview
Strictly exclusive! Winner Rose Ayling-Ellis on the glitterball, Giovanni and the joy of being deaf
The EastEnders actor talks about the triumph and tears of the final, the secrets of her show-stopping routines – and why victory means so much
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