The five-time Paralympic swimming gold medallist retired after the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in 2021, and she admitted to missing that "adrenaline rush" of representing Great Britain on the world's stage.

Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz at the FEVO Sport Industry Awards 2025 at Evolution London on May 15, Ellie, 30, said: "You wake up being an athlete, and you've got purpose; you've got purpose of the training, and I think what competing does, is it gives you that camaraderie, it gives you travelling, it gives you representing your country.

"Like, I feel nerves, yes, I feel nerves when I come to events like this, I feel nerves for going and presenting or interviewing, but there's nothing quite like it when you've done all that training for that one moment, and it relies on you and your body pushing yourself to its limits.

"I think that's what I miss; the adrenaline rush, but I get my adrenaline rush from so many other things; whether it's riding a bike for 100 miles a couple of weekends ago for charity, whether it's presenting. So many different things now."

Ellie has now become a broadcaster, co-fronting the likes of the dog show Crufts and the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games for Channel 4.

She has also made a series of documentaries that raise awareness of her dwarfism, such as 'Should I Have Children?' for ITV, which sees Ellie question if she should have children, and how if Ellie does, her baby could share the Paralympic legend's disability.

And the London 2012 Paralympic Games star's platform with the media in raising awareness of subjects close to her heart is what fuels her success.

Ellie said: "The platform I've got and the opportunities with the media, and I'm now doing stuff close to my heart; whether it's talking about adoption, whether the next documentary talking about children and disability, and being a woman and having a baby and all that type of stuff, it's using that platform now. That's what motivates me."