Overview

• Ballas says she learned on her 64th birthday that Danny Taylor was missing, a scare that resurfaced grief over her brother’s 2003 suicide and led her to end the relationship.
• She describes red flags in a six-year partnership that began in a 2018 pantomime and advanced to a 2021 engagement for which she had already bought rings.
• Her account details expensive gifts to Taylor and hiring him as her PA during Covid, and she says they have not met face to face since the split despite her requests for closure.
• Separately, Kyle Shaw admitted stalking her between 2017 and 2023; he pleaded guilty in February and on April 1 received a 20‑month suspended sentence with restraining measures.
• Ballas reports installing CCTV and extra alarms, moving her mother into her home after a supermarket confrontation, and feeling she will never be completely safe; Best Foot Forward is due September 11 from BBC Books.