Strictly's Shirley Ballas issues worrying health update after horror fall

Strictly Come Dancing's head judge Shirley Ballas, 65, has shared an update with her fans after falling backwards and hitting her head on a glass table. The BBC star was rushed to hospital on Friday and spent the day there undergoing checks and scans as she feared she'd crack her skull. Shirley updated her Instagram followers today (Sunday, January 18) with a health update, revealing that "everything hurts" after the horrific fall. On her way to an appointment with a physiotherapist, she shared on her Stories: “So just on my way to the physio now to see John after this neck head thing that happened.

“The spine the back the lower back the knee the ankle everything hurts. So I’m going to go, and he’s gonna check all my spine and make sure it’s good, and then I’ll go home and have another day of rest. Can you believe it?”

She added: “Just trying to get everything sorted and grateful for the nurses the doctors and my friends who helped me with everything, so feeling in my head much better today and grateful and I need to rest.

“All those things that perhaps one doesn’t do because we’re always running around and never sit on a stool with a cushion.

“So I’m gonna send a little demonstration of what exactly happened. We need to be careful. There was a little cushion on there and I slipped off it. Anyway, take care. Love you.”

She also said a doctor said she was very lucky after falling on a glass table in her dressing room and hurting her head.

Shirley added: “I need to take it easy for 72 hours and hopefully should be as right as rain. And the knee and the ankle and the rest of the spine is due to the way I twisted when I fell.

“So he’s had a look at that, and I should feel like a new woman within 72 hours – can you imagine? A new woman!”

Shirley's "scary fall" has come ahead of the star embarking on the Strictly Come Dancing tour around the UK with last year's contestants.