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Evening Standard
Health
Casey Cooper-Fiske

Shirley Ballas says impact of her mum’s lung condition is ‘really quite scary’

Strictly Come Dancing head judge Shirley Ballas has said her mother’s lung condition which causes her to choke and struggle to breathe is “really quite scary”.

The 65-year-old said she will speak to MPs in Parliament to raise awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a group of lung conditions that cause breathing difficulties, after her mother Audrey was diagnosed with it in 2022.

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