As the pair get ready to welcome their 'rainbow baby' in just a few weeks, the 63-year-old has spoken of her plans to fly out to the US as soon as she is needed.
Strictly Come Dancing's Shirley Ballas has shared the heartache she suffered during last year's show as she looks forward to the arrival of her grandchild. Shirley, who is head judge on the BBC show, struggled to continue filming the show last year after her son Mark and his wife BC Jean suffered a miscarriage.
She said: “We’re calling this baby Rainbow, because my daughter-in-law lost a baby last year. I was on Strictly and couldn’t fly over to them, which was devastating. I found it difficult to get through the show. “Mark was on Dancing with the Stars and having to turn up for work, crushed. “I knew how crushed he was but I couldn’t tell anyone.”Mark and his wife BC tied the knot in 2016 a year after the paid formed the rock duo Alexander Jean together. Shirley, whose brother David took his own life in 2003, said of the miscarriage: “I haven’t heard my mother sob like that since her own son died – I think it brought those feelings back. It was tough – there were lots of tears.
“But Mark and BC wrote the most incredible song, Rainbow, about their loss. I’m so excited about this baby and I think I’m going to be the best Grandma – or Glamma – in the world. I’m definitely going to spoil them.” With the baby due at the end of the month, Shirley said she is ready to drop everything to jet to the US, reports the Mirror. But she said: “I want to give them their space, so I’m waiting until they’re ready to ask. I want to let them get their family together and experience this newborn. “Of course if Mark rang and asked me tomorrow, I’d go. I’m just hoping they don’t wait till Rainbow is 18.”
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