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I'm Shirley Ballas and I am the new head judge for Strictly Come Dancing.

The opportunity knocks at your door and you have prepared for what you want to do and what you love.

The two really go together and I think that's what happened to me.

I would love my grandson Bankseater dance, of course, so when his parents go out on a night

house I'll be teaching him the char, char, char, chaw.

What's up, guys? My name's Joe. Welcome to the podcast. Today's interview is brought to you by

Fanduel. What did you do with Tom Cruise? Well, Mark was supposed to teach him to dance and he couldn't, so he sent me.

So I spent the whole day teaching him how to dance and he left without paying his fee. So it's become a sanding joke in England that Tom Cruise is the only person who never paid for his dance lessons with me. You need to still send that invoice. What was the project for? I think it was anniversary, something like that. Oh, like a private? Wow. Did he pick it up well? Yeah, he was very good. Very musical, very rhythmical. Great to have him on a show for sure. Oh, he was great. Yeah. When are we getting the movie on your life? Well, there's a six-part series in the mix at the moment that they're supposed to be doing on my books. So we'll see how that takes off.

Would you be involved in playing? I would be involved with choosing, you know,

partly choosing who's going to do it and stuff like that. And would it be the entire,

your entire journey? Yes. Yes. What does that like for you to see it all from your perspective come out like that? Like

writing your book, diving into those memories. Is that something that was hard for you to do?

Both autobiographies were extremely difficult to write for me. But I also found it sort of like

quite nice to go back and sort of put some things to bed that perhaps I was still

storing or holding. So the first one behind the sequence, I wrote that in 2018. And then of course,

now Best Foot Forward has just come out a continuation of the last parts of my life this last six

years, but also stuff I didn't have courage to write in the first

autobiography.

Once the first one came out and did you feel like you needed to put those other parts in?

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