The expert dancer Amy Dowden will certainly not be proceeding with this year’s period of Strictly Come Dancing to recoup from a foot injury.
The growth was disclosed on the spin-off program Strictly It Takes Two on BBC Two on Monday and follows a duration of lack from the program for Dowden.
Fellow expert dancer Lauren Oakley will certainly action in as the dancing companion for star candidate JB Gill, best recognized for belonging to the boyband JLS.
A Strictly Come Dancing agent stated: “Sadly, Amy Dowden MBE will not be partaking in the rest of the competition this year.
“While Amy focuses on her recovery following a foot injury, fellow professional dancer Lauren Oakley will step in as JB’s dance partner. The health and wellbeing of everyone involved in Strictly are always the utmost priority. The whole Strictly family sends Amy love and well wishes.”
Dowden went back to the BBC ability reveal this year, having actually missed out on the previous collection after being detected with bust cancer cells.
She stated in an Instagram article on Tuesday: “My heart is breaking right now. The past few months I finally felt like me again. Cancer was no longer the first thing I thought of when I woke up. It was choreography, music choices, which dances in which order, what we needed to work on. I felt free again.
“My goal since hearing those words, ‘You have cancer’ was to get back on the Strictly dancefloor. It’s been such a challenge to get back, one I devoted 2024 to which, with my incredible team, we got there. Something I wanted to do for myself and loved ones.”
In February, she disclosed that examinations revealed she had “no evidence of disease”, and later on fronted a BBC reveal that explored her problem.
She disclosed in 2015 exactly how she was virtually eliminated by blood poisoning while going through therapy for the cancer cells. Dowden stated she was “very unlucky” to have actually gotten the infection.
Dowden has actually likewise recorded her Crohn’s condition in Strictly Amy: Crohn’s And Me, and stated conference others in a docudrama had actually assisted her “accept” her very own problem for the “first time ever”.
Gill, 37, executed a Bruno Mars- motivated efficiency with Oakley on Saturday’s online program. The duo racked up the joint highest possible of this year’s collection for the efficiency.
