A STRICTLY Come Dancing judge has revealed a surprise new career path.
The BBC show’s head judge Shirley Ballas, 62, has penned her first sexy story Murder on the Dance Floor – set to be published soon.
Ballroom queen Shirley – who has the deciding vote on the Strictly panel – has told how her tome has “great sex” and is a “real page turner.”
She told The Mirror her book will be the first of many, and gushed: “It’s a great sex, lies and intrigue murder mystery and a real page turner.
“My mum read it in six hours. She’s an avid reader of Mills & Boon and it got her hot and bothered. I asked her afterwards if it was good and she said she couldn’t put it down.”
Talking of her “vivid imagination” behind her books, she added: “I like to write and I have a vivid imagination.
“If Jackie Collins and Richard Osman’s books had a lovechild, this book would be it. It’s everything that goes on behind the scenes at places like Blackpool.
“You will read it and think, ‘That can’t possibly happen…’ Believe me, it does.
“When I wrote my autobiography, there was a lot I couldn’t include, so I thought, ‘I’ll go into this genre’.”
Shirley’s autobiography Behind The Sequins was released in 2020.
In it, she candidly opened up on punching her love rival after she was told “I f**ked your husband.”
Shirley explained that the showdown took place at a dance contest and the feisty judge saw red after her love rival drunkenly admitted the revelation.
The TV personality explained in her auto-biography: “The woman in question sidled up to me, clearly the worse for a drink or two, and said, ‘You and I need to talk.’
“Suddenly, it seemed as if everything went into slow motion as I turned round to face her, just as she said, “You need to get used to the fact that I f****d your husband.
“There was a little white angel on one of my shoulders and a little red angel on the other one.
“The white angel told me, ‘keep walking’, while the red angel said, ‘sock her in the gob’. So that’s what I did.
“I punched her and she rolled away. I’m not proud.”
