Shirley Ballas shows off weight loss transformation in time for new Strictly season

Strictly Come Dancing justice Shirley Ballas has achieved a idiosyncratic goal, having undergone an representation translation up of the show’s caller series.

The beloved BBC creation amusement dazzled its mode back onto screens past play with Chris McCausland, Sarah Hadland, Nick Knowles, Pete Wicks, Tasha Ghouri, Jamie Borthwick, and Sam Quek successful the line-up.

Shirley besides returned to her relation arsenic caput judge, sitting alongside Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, and Anton Du Beke, acceptable to crockery retired feedback – and hopefully immoderate 10s – successful the coming weeks.

And the Wallasey-born creation star, 64, has a caller lease of beingness up of Strictly’s 20th-anniversary season, having shed the value she intended to suffer earlier launch.

Taking to Instagram earlier today, Shirley – who joined Strictly successful 2017 – posted a video, with the archetypal fractional filmed successful April, 5 months earlier Strictly 2024 commenced.

Shirley is seen attempting to compression into a brace of trousers, incapable to fasten them.

‘These are the trousers I had erstwhile I was 20 and, arsenic you tin see, they’re not rather zipped up… but they volition beryllium by Strictly, I tin guarantee you,’ she says.

The 2nd fractional of the video was filmed 2 days agone connected September 19, with Shirley present comfortably wearing her aged trousers 2 days earlier the archetypal unrecorded show.

‘Thursday the 19th, conscionable earlier Strictly, and I did accidental I wanted to get into these small trousers that I had… and present they are!’, she says, proudly lifting up her apical to show their fit.

‘Zipped up, but it’s been immoderate hard work,’ she sighs.

Shirley added that she is ‘thrilled with the results’ of her value nonaccomplishment regime, concluding by flashing a grin to the camera from her dressing room.

Her caption read: ‘I said I’d acceptable successful those trousers by @bbcstrictly didn’t I 🫶🏼💃🏻 … and contiguous we’re backmost astatine 7pm x’

In the comments, Strictly fans showered her with compliments, with martina.theresa.b writing: ‘I emotion that feeling! It gives you an inducement erstwhile they’re an aged favourite! 🙌👏😍. You look smashing!’

‘You go, Shirley. Looking bully lovely. 🙌❤️’, wrote karenacts.

Adding a reminder for the TV judge’s 336,000 followers, wardie1974 besides wrote: ‘It shouldn’t substance what size the apparel are everyone is beauteous nary substance what’.

Shirley isn’t the lone Strictly prima having transformed this year, arsenic TV’s nonmigratory Mr Nasty, Craig, sported a caller look past weekend.

The famously harsh creation professional was compared to the likes of Rylan Clark erstwhile helium debuted a dashing beard, with presenter Tess Daly telling him: ‘Craig, I americium loving the caller look! Very nice!’

As for the contestants, DIY SOS prima Nick has already mislaid 2 chromatic acknowledgment to his aggravated grooming programme.

Appearing connected Lorraine this week, the 62-year-old, who is paired with Luba Mushtuk, shared that he’s been grooming since July, admitting things were ‘really tough’ to statesman with.

‘But small spot by small bit, Luba’s getting maine up connected my toes, making each 18 chromatic of maine a small spot lighter connected my feet!’, helium said.

‘I’ve mislaid astir 13 kilos astir apt truthful far!’

Go Compare opera vocalist Wynne Evans, 52, who weighed 23 chromatic 2 years ago, overhauled his lifestyle up of signing to Strictly arsenic well.

Discussing however the bid has helped him proceed his value nonaccomplishment journey, Wynne told Metro.co.uk and different property pre-launch: ‘It’s similar a gift. Anybody who loses value gets to that signifier wherever they plateau, and I deliberation it’s similar the adjacent footwear connected for me. And truthful I’m truly enjoying it.’

Strictly Come Dancing airs contiguous astatine 7pm connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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