Career
Besides Idols, she has hosted the children"s quiz show Suuri kupla ("Big Bubble"), as well as her own traveling show, Ellen Express. 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 television 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 ("The Midsummer Festivals of Rauma") in 2007 – where Anderson was a Very Important Person performer – caused a stir in Finnish tabloids. Suuri kupla
Ellen Express
Idols (Finland)
Very Important Person Seikkailu
Eurovision Song Contest 2007, Finnish commentator.