A MAN has pleaded guilty to stalking Strictly judge Shirley Ballas in a terrifying six-year ordeal. Kyle Shaw, 37, bombarded 64-year-old Shirley with messages from 2017 to 2023. Shaw today pleaded guilty to stalking Shirley at Liverpool Crown Court. The charge stated that at an address in Birkenhead, Shaw ‘‘pursued a course of conduct, namely sending messages online, which amounted to stalking causing Shirley Ballas serious alarm or distress”.
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It added this “had a substantial adverse effect on her usual day-to-day activities”. The case comes five months after Shirley said she called in police after a man took photos of her house and car,. He also "lunged" at her on one occasion - although it is not known whether that case is connected to Shaw's.
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She said: "I like to be kind of like a free bird, but we’re coming into times now where you have to be more vigilant of yourself. “You’re upping your level of alarms. And I always tell my mum, ‘I’m here, I’ve arrived’. I wouldn’t bother normally but it’s become a thing that we do.
‘‘I always like to say, ‘I’m safe, I’m in the right place, I’m where I should be.’. “Thankfully the BBC’s duty of care towards me has been one thousand per cent. They have been fantastic. “So, in some of these instances, when it was difficult — this stalker came from the North of England — I had somebody walking me from the hotel. They checked in on me to make sure that I was OK. I just felt very well protected.”.
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