oh that would absolutely work! ella's really not one for serious commitments either for a lot of reasons, so they're definitely in the same boat there, and a wild little fling would have been right up her alley at that point. she definitely would've been keen on staying friendly after it ended - she spent a couple months in la post-leo so maybe they ended it when she obviously bounced back to london and clearly they weren't serious enough to try and make any kind of distance work? - because it sounds like they'd get on pretty well, she's fairly boisterous and outgoing (though that's totally at odds with the way more refined persona she's got in the media) and would probably find him all around endearing.