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Rose Ayling-Ellis

November 2023

  • Have a word … hearing loss can lead to all sorts of health problems, including depression and anxiety, and is linked with dementia.

    ‘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

  • Mark Rylance photographed at Mountview drama school in Peckham, London.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    The best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in June 2023

June 2023

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    TV review
    Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change review – proof that the hearing world is as prejudiced as ever

  • Rose Ayling-Ellis wears top by zimmermann.com and earrings by mejuri.com.

    Rose Ayling-Ellis: ‘I felt free to be me’

December 2022

  • Leah Harvey, left, as Rosalind and Rose Ayling-Ellis as Celia in As You Like It.

    The week in theatre: As You Like It; Mandela; Kerry Jackson – review

  • Freshness and gravity … Martha Plimpton as Jaques, centre, in As You Like It @sohoplace.

    As You Like It review – Josie Rourke leads us into the liberating delight of Arden

August 2022

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    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

  • The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall filmed the scenes in March when they visited the new Elstree set and met the Eastenders cast and crew.

    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

  • Rose Ayling-Ellis crouched down wearing mint-green platform sandals and a mini dress with a pink and white swirl pattern

    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 reads the CBeebies bedtime story

    Rose Ayling-Ellis to read CBeebies bedtime story in British Sign Language

January 2022

  • BSL interpreter Sherrie Eugene-Hart rehearsing for the show Period Drama, in Bristol.

    British Sign Language to become recognised language in the UK

  • Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice

    Strictly: sign language interpreter to be projected on to big screens at live shows

December 2021

  • Guardian Person of the year awards.

    Guardian readers nominate their person of the year

    From the frontline of Covid to inspirational sports personalities, our worldwide audience name their choices
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    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
  • Rose Ayling-Ellis: ‘I don’t want to be normal – that’s boring.’

    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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