Louise Elliott

Louise Elliott (born 1969, in Ashington) is a Welsh broadcaster and journalist.

Biography Born in Ashington, Northumberland, her father Dave Elliott was a professional football player at Sunderland and Newcastle United. At the age of five, her family moved to Wales - she was brought up at Llandegfan near Menai Bridge on Anglesey.

She then moved to BBC Wales' Bangor newsroom as a North Wales reporter, before relocating to Cardiff to become education correspondent. As part of her BBC training, she also reported for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live and later the BBC News Channel, as both a regional and special UK correspondent. She later became the presenter of BBC Wales' flagship current affairs series Week In, Week Out and the consumer affairs programme X-ray. 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.

She returned to BBC Radio Wales in February 2015 as the new main presenter of the flagship breakfast news programme, Good Morning Wales, alongside Oliver Hides. Elliott left the programme ten months later.