Ellie Simmonds wants to make more documentaries.
Ellie Simmonds wants to make more documentaries
The Paralympian swimmer has been nominated for a TV Bafta for her ITV documentary, 'Finding My Secret Family' and Ellie, 29, has plans for even more TV work.
She told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: "Documentaries is what I want to do.
"I love working in sport and TV and interviewing people but to do documentaries is my focus.
"It is something that we are working on now. For me disability is close to my heart so I’d like to do another one focusing on that."
Ellie previously revealed she only actively started looking for her birth mother after retiring from swimming in 2021.
She told The Guardian: "“I’ve always thought about them, growing up. I have photos of her when she had me, and with my birth sister. I never had the time, or the mental capacity. The amount of pressure that gets put on your shoulders when you’re an athlete – looking for my birth parents would have been an added pressure, an added emotional factor. I wasn’t ready to have those feelings as well.
"I put myself in her shoes. From the records, she was going through a lot mentally – I know more now – and she was on her own."
Speaking about being adopted, she added: "There were no moments that I was upset or angry. I’d been very, in a way, blase about it. Intrigued, but that’s me in general. I always like to ask loads of questions.
"Looking back, I could have had another life. I could have been someone so different, someone else. If I didn’t have my parents, I wouldn’t be the swimmer or the person that I am today. They gave me that opportunity and they put me on that journey.”
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