STRICTLY Come Dancing's Shirley Ballas left fans in tears with her emotional tribute to her mum as she revealed her rags-to-riches story.
Her fans flocked to Twitter to comment on the head judge's epic life journey which she told on Strictly spin-off show It Takes Two.
Shirley stunned fans as she told how she grew up in a council estate just outside of Liverpool with her mum and brother. She said their life was so tough they had no fridge and her mother had to juggle several jobs to make ends meet.
She stumbled across a dance class one day as a child, and the rest was history. She said: "I travelled from Liverpool to Lands End dancing," before meeting her first husband Sammy Stopford on the circuit and becoming world champions.
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