Following the comments, Shirley said that the jibe about her breast implants had “brought up a lot of things from her past”.
Writing in her book Behind The Sequins, which was released in October 2020, she revealed: “It was awful and very, very painful. It brought up a lot of things from my past that I thought I’d dealt with.
“Once again, I was propelled back to my toughest days with [ex-husband] Corky, when he would make comments about my appearance: my crooked teeth, my nose, my a**e that was too big.
“All those insults just came flying back as I read what Craig had said, apparently in jest.