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An Evening With Shirley Ballas – Tour

• 1st Jan 2021

Enjoy an evening being enthralled with stories from Shirley Ballas’ facinating career as a latin dancer and judge on Strictly Comes Dancing

Tickets On Sale – 10am Monday 1st March 2021 – Here

This event will be in socially distanced seated format.

Saturday 29th May 2021 at Grand Central Hall Liverpool

Friday 4th June 2021 at Forum Birmingham

Sunday 6th June 2021 at Clapham Grand London

Shirley Ballas is a champion ballroom dancer, world-renowned dance teacher and adjudicator, and the head judge of BBC1’s flagship show Strictly Come Dancing. 

Originally from Wallasey, Shirley has been dancing since the age of seven. She is three-time British Open to the World Latin American champion, ten-time United States Latin American champion, and multiple-time British National champion. By 21, Shirley had won nearly every major title she competed in worldwide. She is the only person to have ever won the British Open to the World Latin American Championships in Blackpool with two different partners, and reached the finals an impressive 17 times. She still remains the youngest ever female to reach the British Open to the World Dance Championship finals. Shirley has been the recipient of three Carl Alan Awards (the Oscars of the world of dance), Teacher of the Year Award and has been inducted into both the United States and Great Britain Dance Hall of Fame.

In addition to her role on Strictly, Shirley has been seen giving masterclasses and commentating on the American series Dancing with the Stars, is a frequent panellist on Loose Women, and was the subject of BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are? She presented two series of the popular This Morning featureMatchmaker Mountain for ITV and fronted the CBBC series Our School Summer Camp. Shirley’s numerous other appearances include The Jonathan Ross Show,Britain’s Got More Talent, Through the Keyhole,Family Fortunes, Crystal Maze, Catchphrase, The One Show, Tipping Point: Lucky Stars, The Graham Norton Show and Celebrity Juice, amongst others. Further to this, Shirley was asked to lend her voice to the Puss in Boots story for the CBeebies channel in collaboration with Northern Ballet, and presented aFriday Night Is Music Night special for BBC Radio 2. 

In 2019, Shirley was one of nine celebrities selected for BBC1’s Kilimanjaro: The Return, where they climbed the 5,895 metre mountain to raise funds for Comic Relief supported projects in the UK and internationally.

Whilst Shirley continues in her role as head judge on the biggest show on British television, she has also recently fronted her own podcast, co-hosted BBC1’sMorning Live, presented on BBC Radio 2, appeared onCelebrity Sewing Bee, and released her sensational autobiography Behind the Sequins.