Strictly Come Dancing’s Shirley Ballas opens up on ‘terrifying’ cancer scare | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV [Video]

Strictly Come Dancing star Shirley Ballas has opened up about a health scare which left her “terrified.” The BBC judge has urged other women to get checked for cancer after her health ordeal.

The 63-year-old dancer revealed that she had been tested for cancer and has had three biopsies. She also said that her “biggest fear” is that she will die before her mother, Audrey, who is 87 years old.

She admitted that she found the waiting process “agonising” and opened up about having a tissue sample taken from her. There is also a history of cancer that runs in Shirley’s family, after her mother was diagnosed in 2018 with colon cancer.

She told The Mirror: “It’s been terrifying, to have the needle go in your body to numb it before the biopsy. Every time the phone rings, I think, ‘Oh, maybe they are my results’.”

Shirley also added that fellow Strictly contestant Amy Dowden…