Shirley Ballas has confirmed "no cancer is present" after she underwent breast biopsies following a scare. The BBC Strictly Come Dancing judge spoke out on Tuesday in an update for her fanbase via her social media channels and pages.

Shirley typed: "Thank you to you all for your well wishes following my two mammograms, one ultrasound and three biopsies last week. I am feeling blessed to share that my results have come back all clear - there is no cancer present. X."

A fan replied: "Wonderful news Shirley. Today marks 10 years cancer free for me. I’m beyond happy and feeling blessed." A second typed: "Have just been telling my friend you were waiting for the results. I can now message her with your good news.

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"As you say, don't put off a mammogram, that's how mine was discovered 12 years ago now." Speaking to the Sun newspaper last week, Shirley revealed her biggest fear is dying before her mum Audrey, 87.

She admitted: “I’m worried I’ve worked myself to death. It’s been terrifying, to have the needle go in your body to numb it before the biopsy. I feel very emotional. I’m not the same at work at the moment, so I’m teaching, but it’s constantly on my mind.

“Every time the phone rings, I think, ‘Oh, maybe they are my results’.” She said: “My dear student and friend Amy said to me, ‘You must never miss a mammogram’. So when this particular invite came in I could have put it off until the summer when it is a bit quieter. But I’m glad I didn’t.

“I did it at a mobile NHS unit in a Sainsbury’s car park, and three days later they called me back to go into King’s College Hospital in Camberwell. I was shocked as I do self checks, and I’d had a self check with another nurse a few weeks before for something else and she didn’t feel anything. But the mammogram scanners can pick up small abnormalities.

“So I went to the hospital and the doctor said, ‘I don’t want to alarm you but we found something and we’re not sure what it is. We need to do a 3D mammogram, which is a more advanced machine’. After that they still weren’t happy after finding lumpy tissue and asked me to come back and do a biopsy.

“But I asked to do it straightaway because a woman’s mind can work overtime.”