Born in Ashington, Northumberland,[1] her father Dave Elliott was a professional football player at Sunderland and Newcastle United.
[2] At the age of five, her family moved to Wales - she was brought up at Llandegfan near Menai Bridge on Anglesey.
[3] After competing her A Levels, Elliott joined the North Wales Chronicle in Bangor as a trainee reporter.
She then worked on local newspapers in Colwyn Bay and Rhyl, before moving to the Wrexham Evening Leader, where she covered the Hillsborough disaster.
[2][3] On 24 September 2012, she became the host of the station's weekday afternoon show, replacing Roy Noble, but quit just over a year later in order to pursue writing ambitions.