Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas has bravely opened up about her past insecurities. The star told how, upon joining the show's judging line-up in 2017, she soon started comparing her own appearance to that of Darcey Bussell.
The 60-year-old dancer hadn't, at that time, worked in TV and was relatively unknown, not wanting viewers getting to know her to think she was a "fuddy duddy." "It was in my own head," she told, "I was going on with this most beautiful woman who I always admired, Darcey Bussell, and she was so slender and tall and so graceful. "She just seemed, in my own mind, everything I wasn't. "So, I just took those extra steps to make sure the dress was hanging right and the make up was right and the hair was right." Shi
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