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Strictly Come Dancing's head judge Shirley Ballas on why this year’s Blackpool special will be sparklier than ever.

Speaking to the Radio Times Podcast, Ballas revealed she went back to dancing just six weeks after giving birth

Strictly Come Dancing judge tells Radio Times Podcast comments were made six weeks after she gave birth

Rippon found herself in the dance-off for the second week in a row

One couple missed out on a chance to dance in the Blackpool Tower Ballroom

Thanks to ‘bullying men at the top’, Shirley Ballas was on the brink of quitting the dance world to become a fitness instructor. Then she was made ‘Strictly’ head judge. She tells Katie Rosseinsky about this year’s star cast, family grief, finding her voice and the unexpected emotional significance of…

Strictly Come Dancing 2023 viewers say this week's show was 'criminal'!

Recapping how the judges marked the ‘Strictly’ couples in the latest episode

In Strictly’s first weekend since Amanda Abbington’s shock exit, the fancy-dressed couples took on Halloween-themed routines. But who would be consigned to the dreaded dance-off? And who would depart the contest?

As Amanda Abbington missed this weekend for medical reasons, Layton Williams topped the scoreboard. But who’d become the fourth couple to depart the dancefloor?

The BBC TV show’s head judge said she receives online messages ‘you couldn’t even repeat to a human being’.