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 now Born in Wallasey (now Merseyside) in 1960, Shirley Ballas is one of the most decorated ballroom and Latin dancers in the world. She became a three-time winner of the (…)