From dance routines to bedtime routines, Rose Ayling-Ellis is a champion, as she showed to mark Deaf Awareness Week.
The EastEnders star, who lifted the 2021 Strictly Come Dancing Glitterball trophy, last week became the first celebrity to read in British Sign Language (BSL) for the CBeebies’ show Bedtime Stories (right).
Her book was Can Bears Ski?, by Raymond Antrobus, about a young deaf bear and his father.
“I am super excited,” said Rose, 27, who has been deaf since birth. “It’s even more wonderful to read a story written by a deaf writer.
“I hope deaf children enjoy the story and it inspires hearing children to want to learn BSL more.”
She also told fans on Instagram: “The story made me cry because I can relate to it a…