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Strictly Come Dancing fans can’t get over Shirley Ballas’ surprise TV cameo as ‘worlds collide’


Strictly fans all look forward to head judge Shirley Ballas gracing their TV screens every Saturday night – but the ballroom queen previously appeared in a popular TV series

The mother and her daughter, while living in the small town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, have big ambitions they desperately try to achieve: Lorelai wants to own her own inn, while Rory wants to attend Harvard University. Gilmore Girls first aired in 2000In the first episode of season four, titled Ballrooms and Biscotti, Rory attends Friday night dinner at her grandparents' house. A different fan penned: "Of the millions of pop culture references that they make on the Gilmore Girls (sometimes in a single episode) you could never predict that one of them would be about Shirley Ballas .

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