Ellie Flynn
Acting
Biography
Ellie Flynn is an investigative journalist and broadcaster who has produced and fronted documentaries for BBC and Channel 4. Ellie’s hard-hitting documentaries highlight the most important issues facing young people in the UK today. Her debut BBC3 documentary, ‘Sex For Rent’, exposed landlords who exploit tenants using sex and was ground breaking, resulting in changes to UK law. Ellie went on to present the critically acclaimed Channel 4 Dispatches episode, ‘Undercover: Sexual Harassment – The Truth’, which was highly commended at the British Journalism Awards and nominated for a Rose D’Or. The documentary helped spark nationwide conversations about women’s safety and prompted a direct response from the Home Office. Ellie’s most recent Channel 4 documentaries, ‘Coca Cola’s Dirty Secrets’ and ‘The Truth About Temu’, have also attracted significant media attention and sparked important conversations.
Known For
Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.
Panorama
Journalist and presenter Ellie Flynn brings together a group of 20 young people aged 18-25 for a social experiment, to see if they understand what constitutes coercive control.
Is This Coercive Control?
Journalist Ellie Flynn goes undercover to investigate 'multi-level marketing', an online selling scheme that promises young women the chance to earn big money as 'influencers'.
Secrets of the Multi-Level Millionaires: Ellie Undercover
Ellie Flynn goes undercover, exposing the harsh reality of sexual harassment against women and girls in Britain today, from 'dick pics' to being flashed, groped, spiked and raped
Undercover: Sexual Harassment - The Truth
Documentary which investigates the legal loopholes allowing underage girls in the USA to be married off to much older men. In this film, we meet the child brides at the heart of this dangerous phenomenon.
America's Child Brides
Ellie Flynn investigates people making money from selling their nude photos and videos.
Nudes4Sale
During an arrest in 2017, teenager Anna Chambers was raped by two NYPD cops. who claimed she consented. Anna's story is far from the only one in the USA. Ellie Flynn investigates the increasing number of similar events, explores the true scale of sexual misconduct cases against police officers across the USA, and discovers a loophole in some state laws that may allow officers to avoid getting charged for sexual assault and claim sex acts as consensual.
Abused by the Police?
What's the story behind the runaway success of the addictive Chinese shopping app? With half a billion downloads worldwide, are some of Temu's rock-bottom prices and products too good to be true?
The Truth About Temu
Ellie Flynn goes undercover in Magaluf to expose the predatory underbelly of the party hotspot, after high numbers of reports of rape and sexual assault on young British holidaymakers