Choosing to pursue a professional career in dance, she successfully auditioned for the Royal Ballet Lower School.

In spring 2007, Ellison appeared in the BBC reality TV show The Verdict, based on a fictional courtroom, alongside the likes of Jeffrey Archer and Sara Payne.

That same year, she appeared as a judge on Dirty Dancing – Time of your Life a United States–based reality television show for the Living TV network.

By December of that year, Ellison began appearing as a guest panellist on the ITV daytime show Loose Women.

[3] Additionally, Ellison has also acted in episodes of the British television series The Brief, Hotel Babylon, New Street Law and The Commander.

[8] Ellison was actually supposed to finish on 12 August, but was forced to pull out three days early due to a knee injury.

[citation needed] On 5 December 2007, she featured in a 10th Anniversary Gala performance of Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre alongside a galaxy of stars[citation needed] and on 16 December 2007, she played "Angel" in Liverpool Nativity, a contemporary retelling of the Christmas story for BBC Three which was performed live from the streets of the city.

[9][10] Ellison featured in the Liverpool Empire Theatre's pantomime version of Cinderella for 2008, opposite Cilla Black and Les Dennis.

[11] She also played Beth in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds at major arenas of the UK in June 2009.

In 2012 Ellison appeared in Peter Pan at the Churchill Theatre Bromley alongside Gemma Hunt, Ace Bhatti and Andrew Agnew.

Ellison joined the cast to play silent movie screen siren and owner of a voice never meant for the ‘talkies’, Lina Lamont.

[15] Ellison was cast in the pantomime of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,[16] at the Theatre Royal, Norwich throughout December 2015 to January 2016.

Her photos appeared regularly in British "lads' mags" including Nuts, Zoo Weekly and FHM.

"[20] In 2005, Ellison was voted world's sexiest blonde by readers of the UK magazine Nuts, beating model Victoria Silvstedt, who came second, and pop superstar Britney Spears.

[23] In May 2013 it was announced that Jennifer Ellison would join Liverpool's Radio City 96.7 to co-present a new Sunday morning Breakfast show alongside Drivetime Presenter Dave Kelly, for an initial five-week period until she was due to give birth.