Ellie Henman

The Sun’s Ellie Henman was the first person to report allegations regarding Gregg Wallace’s conduct at the BBC. Her groundbreaking reporting on October 14 led directly to the BBC launching a probe into his behaviour – which The Sun broke exclusively online on November 28 after Ellie received a tip off. Following Ellie’s groundbreaking first front page story, multiple women felt empowered to come forward and speak about their experiences. Despite legal threats from Wallace, Ellie refused to be cowed and spoke to multiple women across the television industry to help tell their stories, including two who raised official complaints about a rape “joke” Gregg made on the show. Another brave whistle-blower also told Ellie of five women and a man who had complained about his “inappropriate” conduct in the workplace. Ellie’s tireless work to give a voice to people who feel they are unable to speak out was also seen this year in her exclusive on Jay Blades being charged for coercive and controlling behaviour and London’s Burning actor John Alford being charged with alleged sex offences against a child.

Ellie has made a name for herself in the industry for securing huge television exclusives. She broke the story of the shock, secret row behind the scenes at Match Of The Day when Mark Chapman refused to take a job share with Kelly Sommers to replace Gary Lineker. Additionally Ellie revealed Holly Willoughby’s career change – when she quit ITV to front Netflix’s The Bear Hunt…before confirming the star-studded line up in The Sun months before the news was made public as well as the BBC axing the Strictly Come Dancing Live tour

The past year’s biggest showbiz stories have been broken in The Sun by Ellie, including Millie Bobby Brown’s top secret first and second weddings – news which went on to make headlines across the globe. From confirming next year’s Glastonbury headliners, The 1975, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young, and revealing the final Oasis reunion line-up exclusively in The Sun, to breaking huge news stories about Alesha Dixon and Harry Styles and Taylor Russell’s love-splits, there is no-one who can compete with Ellie’s track record of breaking exclusives.