Amy Dowden says she is getting used to new normal on Strictly return

Amy Dowden says she is getting utilized to the “new normal” arsenic she continues to marque her Strictly Come Dancing instrumentality aft going done crab treatment.

The Welsh nonrecreational dancer, 34, is partnered with JLS prima JB Gill connected this play of BBC One’s personage contention show, and had her archetypal unrecorded creation of the bid astatine the weekend.

When asked if she felt similar herself again, Dowden told ITV’s Lorraine connected Wednesday: “It’s a caller normal, and I’ve got a caller precocious assemblage due to the fact that I person a hormone-fed cancer, I’ve been enactment into menopause.

“And it’s conscionable similar accepting, I enactment value on, understandably, due to the fact that I broke my foot, arsenic you remember, determination was the (chemotherapy), I enactment 2 chromatic on, but I’ve mislaid a bit.

“But you cognize what? It’s conscionable my body, it got maine done it. I’m proud. I’m arrogant of my body.”

Dowden recovered a lump the time earlier her honeymoon successful 2023 with her husband, the nonrecreational dancer Ben Jones.

She subsequently underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy for her bosom crab diagnosis, and skipped past year’s bid of the amusement arsenic a competitor.

The BBC documentary, Strictly Amy: Cancer And Me, saw the dancer speaking astir undergoing an ovum retrieval to springiness her and her hubby the accidental to effort for a babe astatine immoderate constituent successful the future.

A wellness cheque showed “no grounds of disease” earlier this year, and during the 20th day bid motorboat show, the professionals performed an affectional creation that signalled Dowden’s instrumentality to the show.

Dowden besides told Lorraine that she would beryllium doing a “quite sexy” cha cha cha connected Saturday, which she says the amusement has not seen from her before.

Gill said: “Amy’s not letting maine spell disconnected easy. She’s similar the judges are going to expect a lot.”

They topped the judges’ leaderboard with a waltz to When I Need You by vocalist Leo Sayer.

Strictly continues connected Saturday connected BBC One.