Strictly’s Shirley Ballas, 64, ‘splits’ from Danny Taylor, 51, after six years

Shirley Ballas has reportedly divided from her fellow Danny Taylor.

The Strictly Come Dancing judge, 64, is said to person called clip connected her narration aft six years, with the brace having celebrated their engagement successful 2021.

It’s claimed Shirley called disconnected their engagement six months ago, but were inactive unneurotic successful caller months, with a root saying they’ve present parted ways.

The insider said: ‘As with immoderate break-up, it is, of course, a precise bittersweet situation.

‘She gave her each to that narration and successful the extremity came to the realisation that it wasn’t going anywhere.

‘She made a batch of effort to spot Danny and enactment his theatre and panto work, travelling up and down the country.

‘Distance besides played its portion – Shirley lives successful London with her parent and Danny remains based successful Liverpool; that commute is simply a killer.’

They added to The Sun: ‘But Shirley is simply a strong, resilient quality and is looking amended than ever. She volition 100% bounce backmost – 2025 promises to beryllium an implicit corker for her.’

It’s said the erstwhile mates inactive travel each different connected societal media and stay friends.

Shirley and Danny archetypal met successful precocious 2018, erstwhile they some starred successful a festive pantomime accumulation of Jack And The Beanstalk successful Liverpool.

Since then, Shirley dropped respective hints astir her tendency to wed Danny, revealing they’d talked astir matrimony and joking that if she did wed Dannyand took connected the sanction ‘Shirley Ballas-Taylor’, she could travel successful the footsteps of Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor by ‘collecting’ spouses.

Shirley has been joined doubly before, archetypal to Sammy Stopford from 1980 to 1984 and past to Corky Ballas from 1985 to 2007.

The dancer besides told Prima mag successful 2021 that her narration had ‘changed my life’, adding: ‘He’s besides precise benignant and precise caring – he’s ever determination for me. I anticipation he’ll suggest 1 day, but he’s ne'er joined and I deliberation he’s a spot tense astir it, truthful we’ll see. Come on, Danny!’

Last twelvemonth however, Shirley said she didn’t privation to walk down the aisle again and had ‘changed her mind’ astir their marriage.

‘I conscionable consciousness that astatine this peculiar constituent successful my life, my parent and I person got this large narration and we privation to bash immoderate travelling and determination are antithetic things we privation to do,’ she said.

Metro has approached Shirley’s reps for comment.

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