I stand by calling Dad 'deadbeat'

Shirley Ballas' judgment of father landed her icy looks at his funeral

- BY TOM BRYANT Associate Editor (Showbiz)

SHIRLEY Ballas got “disdainful stares” from her estranged dad's family at his funeral after she described him as a deadbeat.

In her memoir, Best Foot Forward, she writes: “I was waiting to feel something, to have any sort of reaction to his passing despite everything that had gone before, but none came.

“I went to his funeral where I felt certain people were looking at me... there were definite disdainful stares in my direction, probably because it was shortly after my autobiography had been released where I'd described him as a deadbeat dad.