Shirley Ballas is set to jump out of a plane.
The Strictly judge has signed up to do the daredevil challenge in August to help mental health charity Calm.
She told Daily Star: “I am scared of heights, so doing this is terrifying. I don’t know how I’ll do it, but I will because it’s for a great cause.”
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Calm – the Campaign Against Living Miserably – helps people battling mental health issues.
Shirley added: “I have just lost someone to suicide, so this is a cause that is close to my heart. I want to raise £200,000.”
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Last year, the dancer fought back tears as she discussed her brother David’s suicide on ITV’s This Morning.
David died aged 44 in 2003 after suffering from depression, leaving Shirley and her family heartbroken.
Shirley was seen wiping away tears as she touched on David’s photo being among many which features in an exhibition Campaign Against Living Miserably (Calm) at London’s Southbank, which shows the smiling faces of 50 people shortly before they took their own lives.
Shirley said at the time: “‘Seeing my brother there in display in Southbank brought everything back, if I knew now what I knew then I could’ve helped.
“Everybody loved him. He was a big brother. He was like a father. He was everything to me.
‘”e talked every day at four o’clock. He was really the last person that I would ever think would take his own life.”
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Two decades after her losing her beloved brother, Shirley urged others to be more ‘astute’ when they notice a change in someone’s behaviour.
She explained: “We have to be astute. Our lives are so packed as mine was back then with people saying ‘you’ll be fine’.
“I’ve had people say that to me in some of the darkest times in my life, they don’t know what’s going on inside. And even when my brother past people said “It’ll be fine” and if you haven’t been through this it won’t be fine.
“You learn to live with it, but it never goes away. It’s hard to ever let go.”
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