Although Shirley Ballas is best known for playing the lead judge on Strictly Come Dancing, she took a touching moment to leave the show and shared a heartfelt tribute from her mother.
Shirley described how her 88-year-old mother, who is typically a woman of few words, had written a letter for the audio edition of her memoir that she found challenging to read aloud.
She admitted that she hadn’t read the letter until the audiobook was in progress, stating that, “I think when she wrote that letter at the end, which totally caught me off guard because I hadn’t seen that letter, it was just suddenly there at the end.”
She continued, “I believe they intended for it to resemble the genuine emotion of reading that kind of letter.”
She said, “She really goes in quite deep, and for my mother, those things that she wrote in there I’d never heard before,” when she pondered why her mother’s heartfelt letter was so difficult to read.
Shirley returned to our TV screens last month as the latest series of Strictly Come Dancing got off to a start.
Following a remarkable 12-year run, Len Goodman’s departure made her debut on the show in 2017. In 2017, she took the lead judge position.
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Karen Carney and her dance partner Carlos Gu won the show’s opener by dancing to “One Way or Another” and receiving an impressive 31 points from the judges in the previous week’s episode.
Shirley, Motsi Mabuse, and Anton Du Beke each scored three eights, while Craig Revel Horwood gave the duo a seven for their performance.
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