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Strictly Come Dancing’s Shirley Ballas reveals she’d love a role in Coronation Street
STRICTLY Come Dancing's head judge Shirley Ballas would love to waltz her way onto Coronation Street.
Shirley, 60, is a fan of the long-running soap and is eyeing up a role as Weatherfield's resident dance teacher.
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But there will be no niceties, as Shirley is keen to play a very "strict" teacher.
Speaking on The Gaby Roslin Podcast, Shirley admitted: "I would love to have a part in Coronation Street.
"I’d like to be the dance teacher that’s very strict at the end of the street - where everyone sends their children and the adults. I want to put Tracey through her paces."
Proving that she has given much thought to it, Shirley went on: "I see this whole storyline about this real strict dance teacher, not the woman you perceive on Strictly, but really strict.
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"People come in and this one falls in love with that one doing the Cha-Cha-Cha, and that one goes off with this one because his wife didn’t want to dance, so he dances with the woman down the road and they form a relationship. And all those things that go on in my industry.
"I’d like to bring all of it to a part on Coronation Street. I’d like to play that teacher."
Mentioning the so-called 'Strictly curse', which has seen relationships between contestants and dancers hit the skids over the years, Shirley added: "It is a little bit like what goes on every day in my industry, or the Strictly curse or what people talk about.
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"It could be the curse of the [street]."
Shirley joined Strictly Come Dancing as head judge in September 2017.
The professional dancer, teacher and adjudicator, was brought in to replace Len Goodman.
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