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Amy Dowden revealed 1 of her biggest hopes for the twelvemonth – to marque past by winning Strictly Come Dancing 2024.
The dancer, 34, could beryllium forced to discontinue Strictly this twelvemonth aft she was rushed to infirmary aft Saturday night’s performance.
This would beryllium a devastating stroke to the dancer who revealed earlier this twelvemonth that she was keen to triumph the 2024 competition.
The nonrecreational dancer was incapable to instrumentality portion successful the 2023 contention aft her breast cancer diagnosis, mastectomy and chemotherapy treatment.
Amy made respective peculiar appearances passim the season, even joining successful a peculiar radical dance contempt breaking her foot.
In January this year, the dancer revealed she had precocious hopes for the contention this year, revealing hopes she could assistance the Glitterball Trophy with a personage partner, which would effect successful her becoming the archetypal Welsh pro to bash so.
Speaking connected BBC Radio Wales, Amy told her listeners: ‘After having a mastectomy, chemotherapy, fertility treatment, the lot, I americium present yet looking up to 2024 and I’ve conscionable got a bully feeling it’s going to beryllium my twelvemonth and hopefully, I’m going to get that Glitterball and I’m going to bring it backmost to Wales due to the fact that a Welsh nonrecreational dancer’s ne'er won the show.
‘That mightiness beryllium due to the fact that I’m the lone ever Welsh nonrecreational dancer to beryllium connected the show.
‘But, yeah, that’s my purpose for 2024, to get acceptable and steadfast and to get myself backmost connected that Strictly dancefloor.’
Amy’s best-ever effect was achieved connected Strictly with CBBC presenter Karim Zeroual successful 2019 erstwhile they finished arsenic runners-up.
The adjacent year, she and erstwhile Royal Marines Commando JJ Chalmers finished successful sixth place, portion successful 2021, she and McFly instrumentalist Tom Fletcher came successful seventh.
So acold successful the 2024 contention with her spouse JB Gill, the duo survived a dance-off successful week 4 and scored a 32 from the judges connected Saturday nighttime with their foxtrot to Dancing In The Moonlight by Toploader.
The BBC amusement has yet to denote if Amy volition beryllium capable to enactment successful the contention going forward.
In December 2023, Amy shared a almighty connection connected her Instagram Story for her followers.
It read: ‘Last time of 2023! I’m definite I’m not the lone 1 but really uncovering it hard looking astatine others’ posts of the past year.
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‘I’m definite I’m not unsocial and that’s wherefore I wanted to enactment something. I consciousness I was robbed of the twelvemonth I had planned and reflecting for maine makes maine upset and aggravated but aboriginal I’m going to marque myself look done my camera rotation and retrieve each the bully times, the astonishing opportunities I had, household clip but besides taking clip to realise I learnt the astir this year.’
She continued, explaining that she ‘experienced stone bottom, felt I mislaid my individuality and dancing’.
However, Amy felt that she became ‘a stronger, braver idiosyncratic who I’m taking guardant with maine to 2024’.
‘For those struggling to bespeak contiguous retrieve it’s ok. I consciousness overmuch amended aft a small outcry this greeting and blessed to beryllium celebrating with friends circular contiguous the GOOD BYE to 2023!’
The dancer concluded: ‘Sending emotion and hugs to those that request it! Ps arsenic it’s the past time of 2023 wherefore not #checkyourchests.’
Strictly Come Dancing is disposable to ticker connected BBC iPlayer and airs connected BBC One connected Saturday astatine 6.30pm.
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