AUTHOR, T.V. PRESENTER AND PROUD MUM JANET ELLIS ON DAUGHTER SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR'S SUCCESS AND LIVING WITH HER 20-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON

If you’ve watched the hit film Saltburn, the chances are you’ll remember the graphic scene featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s disco track Murder on the Dancefloor and actor Barry Keoghan’s extraordinary nude dance.

- EMILY HORAN

Sophie’s mother, actress, writer and former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis, certainly does.

“I saw the film at a screening at 10.30 in the morning, sitting between Sophie and my grandson,” she says with a knowing smile, joining Hello! for this exclusive interview.

“If I’m honest, I thought the song would come over the end credits, but in fact, it’s an actual sequence – and a particularly memorable sequence, too.”

Her grandson’s reaction, she adds, was “a little less voluble than me, but he enjoyed it”.

Janet, 68, couldn’t be happier that her daughter is enjoying a career renaissance thanks to Saltburn, with the song storming back up the UK charts 23 years after its original release.

“She’s extremely talented, a lovely person and gorgeous, but also she handles all this really well,” she says.

“She is always asked – and so am I – about the split between work and family and for Sophie, it’s all bound up in the same thing. She’s living her best life.”

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