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Published: 00:26, 30 August 2025 | Updated: 00:46, 30 August 2025
Shirley Ballas reveals the moment she knew ‘it couldn’t go on’ with her former toy boy fiancé Danny Taylor after he vanished on her birthday.
The Strictly Come Dancing head judge, 64, announced she had split from her long-term partner Danny in November after six years together.
She has now revealed how his disappearance confirmed the end of their relationship as it brought back thoughts of her brother David who had died by suicide in 2003.
Shirley explained that she was with her mother Audrey, 87, on her 64th birthday when she got a call to say her then-fiancé Danny was missing.
She told The Mirror: ‘All those memories came flooding back… it triggered all these emotions.’
She spent the next few hours trying to track Danny down, calling around all his friends and family.
Shirley Ballas reveals the moment she knew ‘it couldn’t go on’ with her former toy boy fiancé Danny Taylor after he vanished on her birthday
The Strictly Come Dancing head judge, 64, announced she had split from her long-term partner Danny in November after six years together (pictured together in 2022)
She has now revealed how his disappearance confirmed the end of their relationship as it brought back thoughts of her brother David (pictured) who had died by suicide in 2003
By 2am in the early hours of the following morning she could see that he had read her worried messages concerning his whereabouts.
But Shirley was left infuriated after Danny reappeared the next day and carried on as if nothing had happened.
This was the moment she realised that she could no longer have someone in her life who could cause her such agony.
‘I will never forget that day until the day I die. I remember looking across in the middle of the night and I saw my mother was just so upset, reliving all of her trauma,’ she said.
‘I just thought “this can’t go on”. Not just for my sake, but my mum too.’
Her interview comes after she confessed her love life is a ‘disaster’, after splitting from Danny.
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