Shirley Ballas: The Global Empress of Ballroom Soft Power and Glitter-Flecked Geopolitics
Strictly Come Dancing’s Grande Dame of the Glitterball Guillotine By our man in sequined exile, somewhere over the Black Sea There are moments when the planet’s tectonic plates of culture shift with the subtlety of a rhinestone-studded elbow to the ribs. One such tremor occurred when Shirley Ballas—known in whispered green rooms from Baku to…