Daniel Welsh is a London-based entertainment journalist at HuffPost UK. His areas of expertise are film, TV and music. He particularly enjoys reality TV, Madonna and getting compliments about his hair.
Shirley’s new book, Murder On The Dance Floor, is heavily inspired by her experiences in the hyper-competitive ballroom dancing industry, and centres around coach Lily Richmond , who is left to solve a murder with the help of one of her own students after a mysterious death in the middle of a competition.The idea for the novel came about when Shirley was putting together her autobiography, and realised that some of the anecdotes from her ballroom days were probably not suitable to be included.
it’s quite true to life. It’s saucy, it’s sensual, there’s lots of love going on there – and hate! And backstabbing!”, an award-winning writer with more than 20 books for the famed romance publisher Mills And Boon under her belt – and even she was stunned by some of the Strictly star’s tales. People will be intrigued to think, ‘did Shirley take part in that? Did she witness it? Or is it fiction?’. You’re going to have to guess.”
“People still have sex – people don’t want to talk about it, they think that’s only for the young, but what a load of rubbish. You know, you’re more experienced, you’ve been through more things, so I think that your account of life is much stronger than someone who is in their 20s. So I think it’s a load of rubbish, personally.”
“Strictly has given me a voice for all my charity work – and that’s as important to me as doing the job. And I think, also, it’s given me better body confidence, and helped me to realise that all women are different shapes and sizes, and that everyone is beautiful – whereas maybe before I just lived in this dance industry, where everybody tells you you’ve got to be as thin as a rail.
“I love debate,” she adds. “If you want to have a debate with me about dancing, I’m happy to do that. As long as we respect each other. I guess it comes down to respect, at the end of the day.t’s when it turns nasty that it’s not so good – but it’s been really good this year, so I’m doing a lot better.
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