Strictly Come Dancing fans can’t get over Shirley Ballas’ surprise TV cameo as ‘worlds collide’

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Strictly Come Dancing fans have been floored to uncover one star's unlikely television cameo from the noughties. Head judge and ballroom queen Shirley Ballas previously appeared on Gilmore Girls, with one of the characters branding her "so talented." The much-loved series, which was acquired by Netflix for a limited-series reboot in 2016, follows the lives of a 32 year old single mother, Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her intellectual teenage daughter Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) whom she had at the age of 16.The mother and her daughter, while living in the small town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, have big ambitions they desperately try to achieve: Lorelai wants to own her own inn, while Rory wants to attend Harvard University.They also deal with Lorelai's appearance-obsessive upper class parents, Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop) and Richard Gilmore (Edward Herrmann).

In the first episode of season four, titled Ballrooms and Biscotti, Rory attends Friday night dinner at her grandparents' house.

Following their meal, Emily sits bored teenager Rory down to watch some of her favourite ballroom dances. As Shirley appears on screen, Emily points her out to her granddaughter, saying: "Oh look, the couple in the purple feathers.That's Corky and Shirley Ballas.

I love them.They are so talented. Corky's actually writing a musical based on their life as ballroom champions, and their son, Corky Jr, is going to play him as a young man." "Wow.Two Corkys in one show.