Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments.

Guys, how you doing? I hope you're well. Welcome back to another great moments. Now, today's

great moment is with Strictly Legend Shirley Ballas. Okay, she's an icon. We can all put her hands

up and say Shirley is an icon.

And when she came on Great Company, it was kind of a really special conversation. That's why we wanted to bring this little moment back. Now, I love speaking to people about where they came from. It tells you so much about what's made them the person they are today. And Shirley, I mean, she shared so much about her childhood, what it was like growing up without a dad and being raised by a strong mother who taught her so much.

Now, we talk about trust, independence, I mean, she shared so much about her childhood, what it was like growing up without a dad, and being raised by a strong mother who taught her so much.

Now, we talk about trust, independence, and how important it is to open up and let people see the real you.

So here it is.

It's our great moments with Shirley Ballas. Bye-ah-ya-e- up in a place called Wallacee, which is just across the

river from Liverpool, so the north of England, and on a housing estate with a single mom and a brother.

And times were very, very tough when we were little.

You know, my mother is my, she's my queen.

She is the true queen.

She lives with me, you know.

And I just love it to bits.

What an amazing, amazing woman she is.

How tough was it growing up?

Well, I think when you don't have a father influence in your life, at the time, you don't realize so much, but the other kids used to make fun of you.

So you were the two kids that were getting the free school dinners, and the other children had stand at the gate and say, you don't have a dad, you're on welfare. And they, you know, really quite mean to us. But I always took things, even my mom said from a young child, I'd be thinking, oh, I'm getting a free hot lunch here. It was awful for my brother. He struggled with it. You know, he didn't want to go for the free dinners and I would say the kids were generally a little bit mean. Some of them were nice,

but there was always that stigma attached to the

fact that you were, you know, with a single mother and no father. That's a strange thing for kids

to attack. I think kids get what they hear at home, you know, and I think most of them were,

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