Getting the job on Strictly at the age of 56.
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Shirley Ballas
English ballroom dancer
United Kingdom · b. 1960
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Born in Wallasey, Shirley Ballas, 57, became one of the most decorated ballroom and Latin dancers in the world. She is a three-time winner of the British Open to the World Latin American Championships, retired from competitive dancing in 1996 and became a coach and adjudicator. In 2017, she replaced Len Goodman as head judge on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, which returns for a 16th series later this year. She divides her time between LA and London.
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We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.
When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
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