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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Roisin O'Connor

Shirley Ballas ‘thought it was the end’ after scary choking incident before Strictly’s Blackpool episode

Shirley Ballas suffered a scary incident where her assistant had to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on her after she choked on a fishbone.

The Strictly Come Dancing judge, 65, said she thought it was “the end” when the bone got lodged in her throat half an hour before Saturday’s show in Blackpool.

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