Ellen Jokikunnas

Who is Ellen Jokikunnas?

Ellen Jokikunnas is a Finnish model, PR manager, and television presenter. She is best known for hosting all four seasons of Idols, but her first fame came from competing in the Miss Finland pageant in 1998. Besides Idols, she has hosted the children's quiz show Suuri kupla, as well as her own traveling show, Ellen Express.

Jokikunnas has three brothers and sisters: Emil, Anton and Ida. She has lived in Turku, but moved later to Helsinki, and has recently bought an old railway station from Nurmijärvi, which she is renovating as her new home. The renovation is documented on TV on Joka kodin asuntomarkkinat. She is also known as an active traveler, who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in Sri Lanka.

Jokikunnas experienced some questionable publicity when her insinuations about Pamela Anderson's breasts and hepatitis C while hosting Raumanmeren juhannus in 2007 – where Anderson was a VIP performer – caused a stir in Finnish tabloids.