A STRICTLY Come Dancing star has been ‘rudely’ rejected from the dating app Raya, after ending her engagement.
The Sun were first to reveal last year that head judge Shirley Ballas, 65, had called time on her six year relationship with actor Danny Taylor, 51.
Now, the single star has opted to give dating app Raya a go, but it didn’t work out.
The popular celebrity dating app didn’t accept her onto the platform.
Shirley, who is back looking for love again, told Daily Mail: “I tried Raya but they wouldn’t accept me, how rude.
“I’m not in an hurry to date, though. I’ve got my son, my grandson and Strictly is about to start.”
The app was launched back in 2015, as an exclusive site for creatives and has since been described as “Illuminati Tinder“.
Raya has attracted a whole host of incredibly talented and desirable singletons, including Magic Mike hottie Channing Tatum, and Oscar winner Ben Affleck.
And it is responsible for some high profile A-list love stories, with Lily Allen reportedly swiping for Stranger Things star and now ex-husband David Harbour on the app, and Simone Biles meeting her NFL star husband through the site.
The Strictly Come Dancing icon said that events on her 64th birthday led to her deciding to call time on her romance with her ex.
Twice-married Shirley said it was on this day that she was contacted by a relative of Danny’s saying he had “vanished”.
The family member told the dancing champ that they couldn’t get hold of him, and that his phone was off at that they were “worried” about him.
Shirley said this panicked her, as her brother had taken his own life when he was just 44 in 2003.
Speaking to The Mirror, she said: “All those memories came flooding back…it triggered all these emotions.”
Shirley and Danny’s family then spent an agonising night trying to find him.
Then at 2am, Shirley said she noticed that her Whatsapp messages to Danny had been read.
However, her relief quickly turned to anger when Danny turned up the next day and she said he “acted as though nothing had happened”.
It was at this moment, that Shirley decided she wanted to end things.
“I will never forget that day until the day I die. I remember looking across in the middle of the night and I saw my mother was just so upset, reliving all of her trauma,” she said
“I just thought ‘this can’t go on’. Not just for my sake, but my mum too.”
Continuing she said: “I still loved him but I thought this is something I can’t continue to be a part of, It’s all very sad.
Talking about the “red flags” she ignored in their rlationship, she added: “There was no question about how much I loved that man.
“And he came into my life at a point when I really, really needed it and he was such a caring person.
“But what’s the nicest way to say this? Along the line, there were red flags that I chose to ignore, but it just got to a point where the relationship was becoming too difficult for me in many ways.”
