Shirley Ballas looks back: ‘I was crying about a breakup, so Mum smacked me round the face’

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Shirley Ballas looks back: ‘I was crying about a breakup, so Mum smacked me round the face’

The Strictly judge and her mum on Shirley’s love of dance, being a single-parent family, and the joy of living together nowBorn in Wallasey (now Merseyside) in 1960, Shirley Ballas is one of the most decorated ballroom and Latin dancers in the world.

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