The knowledgeable dancer Amy Dowden will definitely not be continuing with this yr’s interval of Strictly Come Dancing to recoup from a foot harm.
The progress was disclosed on the spin-off program Strictly It Takes Two on BBC Two on Monday and follows a length of lack from this system for Dowden.
Fellow knowledgeable dancer Lauren Oakley will definitely motion in because the dancing companion for star candidate JB Gill, greatest acknowledged for belonging to the boyband JLS.
A Strictly Come Dancing agent acknowledged: “Sadly, Amy Dowden MBE won’t be partaking in the remainder of the competitors this yr.
“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 again to the BBC means reveal this yr, having truly missed out on the earlier assortment after being detected with bust most cancers cells.
She acknowledged in an Instagram article on Tuesday: “My coronary heart is breaking proper now. The previous few months I lastly felt like me once more. Cancer was now not the very first thing I considered after I awoke. It was choreography, music decisions, which dances through which order, what we would have liked to work on. I felt free once more.
“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 in a while fronted a BBC reveal that explored her downside.
She disclosed in 2015 precisely how she was nearly eradicated by blood poisoning whereas going by way of remedy for the most cancers cells. Dowden acknowledged she was “very unlucky” to have truly gotten the an infection.
Dowden has truly likewise recorded her Crohn’s situation in Strictly Amy: Crohn’s And Me, and acknowledged convention others in a docudrama had truly assisted her “accept” her very personal downside for the “first time ever”.
Gill, 37, executed a Bruno Mars- motivated effectivity with Oakley on Saturday’s on-line program. The duo racked up the joint highest potential of this yr’s assortment for the effectivity.
