Shirley Ballas cheated on an ex-boyfriend by kissing a woman at a wild birthday party.
Shirley Ballas cheated on an ex-boyfriend by kissing a woman at a wild birthday party
The 63-year-old presenter, best known as the head judge on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, admitted she was unfaithful to her former partner after drunkenly snogging a fellow partygoer.
She told Mel Giedroyc’s ‘Unforgivable’ show: “I was part of something, and that was a 40th birthday party where this wonderful young lady had too much to drink and so had I.
“We had this great big snog – she was engaged, and I had a boyfriend, so you could say it was a really strong and loveable embrace with somebody else’s girlfriend.”
Looking back at other embarrassing moments, the former ballroom dancer – who is now dating her fiancé Danny Taylor, admitted her most humiliating situation came during her interview for ‘Strictly’.
She said an ice pack, which she was using to cope with sciatica – an agonising condition that affects the body’s nerves – had leaked, which led to her completing her bid for the BBC show without wearing any underwear.
When the Metro newspaper’s Sixty Seconds column asked what her most embarrassing moment was, she said: “I had one of my interviews for ‘Strictly’. I’d flown in from the United States and I had bad sciatica. I was in terrible pain.
“I had to go straight to the BBC studios and I had those big girl knickers on. They decided to give me ice, so they got an ice pack, put it round my hip, bandaged it up, and I got my knickers on and my lovely long dress.
“Then the water started to leak – it leaked all the way over my pants… I didn’t have a spare pair, so I sat and did my interview knickerless!”
Shirley also revealed her ‘Strictly’ co-star Anton Du Beke had been a “naughty boy” once he exposed her “big girl panties” to the programme’s audience.
She recounted: “On the tour, he came up to my room and said, ‘You read, our Shirl?’
“I said, ‘I'm just popping my hair up, I'll be out in a moment.’ I'd just bought these big girl panties. They were massive – they go right underneath your boobs.
“He stole a pair and put them in the top pocket of his tuxedo – (he) never told me.
“Then we went out on stage, I'm looking all glamorous, and he's saying to the public, ‘Doesn't she look lovely?’ They're clapping and he goes, ‘I just want you to know that she wears these kind of kickers', and he pulled them out.
“That's Anton! He can be a bit of a naughty boy.”
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