A Strictly Come Dancing star has revealed a ‘terrifying’ ordeal which left her fearing for her life.

The glitz and glamour of the BBC’s Latin and ballroom show rolled into the iconic Blackpool Tower Ballroom over the weekend, but one of the competition’s most recognisable faces almost didn’t make it.

Strictly bosses were already scrambling this week after La Voix was forced to drop out of the competition due to injury.

Now, head judge Shirley Ballas has said she ‘almost died’ after choking on a fish bone just moments before she was due to take her place on the panel.

She struggled to breathe for ’20 minutes’ backstage at the seaside town’s venue on Saturday night, and her makeup artist Jane Burstow saved the day.

Jane managed to dislodge the fish bone by performing the Heimlic

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