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Former contestant Sara made the admittance portion appearing connected Loose Women today
- Callum Wells, Showbiz Reporter
- Published: 13:33, 5 Nov 2024
- Updated: 13:33, 5 Nov 2024
AMY Dowden is 'unreachable' aft pulling retired of Strictly Come Dancing, with Sara Davies revealing she's "tried to get successful interaction with her".
Former contestant Sara, 40, who competed successful the BBC amusement successful 2021, made the admittance portion appearing connected Loose Women today.
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It was revealed contiguous that Amy, 34, would no longer beryllium taking portion successful the programme, owing to a caller aesculapian emergency.
She missed past weekend's amusement and was replaced by Lauren Oakley, 33, successful her concern with JLS prima JB Gill, 37,
Now the alteration has been made imperishable arsenic she recovers from a ft injury.
Her spokesperson has stated that, though Amy is understandably upset astir having to withdraw, she is anticipated to return earlier the extremity of the existent series.
They told The Mirror: “Amy is hoping to beryllium capable to creation again on Strictly before the extremity of the series.
"It is simply a antithetic wounded to the 1 she had a twelvemonth ago. It’s the aforesaid ft but a antithetic bone. It’s conscionable terribly atrocious luck.
“She did it during training, it was 1 of those things, nobody’s fault, but it got worse implicit the adjacent fewer days."
Today, it was confirmed that the aesculapian exigency had forced Amy retired of the contention for good.
Amy, who has Crohn's Disease and has been battling cancer, missed the results programme past week aft she was rushed to hospital.
Breaking her soundlessness earlier this evening, Amy said: "My bosom is breaking close now. The past fewer months I yet felt similar maine again.
"Cancer was nary longer the archetypal happening I thought of erstwhile I woke up. It was choreography, euphony choices, which dances successful which order, what we needed to enactment on. I felt escaped again.
Amy Dowden OUT of Strictly Come Dancing for the bid aft aesculapian emergency
"My extremity since proceeding those words you person crab was to get backmost connected the Strictly creation floor. It's been specified a situation to get back, 1 I devoted 2024 too."
She went connected to add: "My bosom close present is breaking having to propulsion retired of the contention owed to a ft wounded and I cognize lone excessively good 'this excessively shall pass' and I'll beryllium soon amended and backmost dancing.
Amy Dowden's connection successful full
"My bosom is breaking close now. The past fewer months I yet felt similar maine again. Cancer was nary longer the archetypal happening I thought of erstwhile I woke up. It was choreography, euphony choices, which dances successful which order, what we needed to enactment on. I felt escaped again.
"My extremity since proceeding those words you person crab was to get backmost connected the strictly creation floor. It's been specified a situation to get back, 1 I devoted 2024 too. Which with my unthinkable squad we got there. Something I wanted to bash for myself and loved ones.
"There was nary feeling similar it dancing again successful the ballroom with my strictly family. Then I was partnered with the talented,kind, gentle psyche JB. Every time our grooming country was chilled, hardworking and afloat of large smiles enjoying what we was creating unneurotic with a blossoming friendship.
"JB convey you for being the cleanable spouse back. We topped the person committee week 1 and continued to enactment truthful hard and convey you for being truthful passionate astir knowing the ballroom and Latin fundamentals.
"For maine that rumba volition ever beryllium 1 of my favs. I'm truthful sad, truthful upset and asking wherefore me, wherefore present that our travel has been chopped short. My bosom close present is breaking having to propulsion retired of the contention owed to a ft wounded and I cognize lone excessively good 'this excessively shall pass' and I'll beryllium soon amended and backmost dancing.
"Something I've had to get utilized to successful my life. I'm definite astatine immoderate constituent we volition creation again JB To each the fans, to my loved ones, my strictly household convey you.
"JB I cognize you and Lauren volition proceed to ace that creation level I'll everlastingly beryllium your biggest cheerleader."
"Something I've had to get utilized to successful my life. I'm definite astatine immoderate constituent we volition creation again JB."
Her astir caller ft wounded comes aft her fractured ft past November, which occurred whilst rehearsing a creation astatine home, 3 days aft she finished crab treatment.
It came aft 2 gruelling rounds of chemotherapy, during which she contracted life-threatening sepsis.
Over the weekend, fans were near successful tears arsenic they watched Amy cheer connected JB from the clauditorium.
Amy sobbed arsenic Lauren and JB scooped a hugely awesome 39 retired of 40 for their routine.
One instrumentality was speedy to instrumentality to the Strictly forum and wrote: "Amy's putting connected a brave look but she looks crushed. It's making maine cry."
Strictly Amy's crab 'nightmare'
The Sun's Jamie Downham takes a look astatine the beloved Strictly star's ups and downs...
AS Strictly Come Dancing viewers know, you'll conflict to drawback Amy Dowden without a immense grin connected her face.
But precocious the Welsh prima - 1 the best-rated Ballroom and Latin American nonrecreational dancers the UK has ever produced - has suffered a drawstring of "nightmare" blows to her health.
She was diagnosed with stage 3 bosom cancer successful May past twelvemonth and underwent a afloat mastectomy, earlier having chemotherapy towards the extremity of 2023.
However, she aboriginal reported docs had recovered a clot connected her lung, telling fans sadly: "Unfortunately I've had different nightmare this week."
Nonetheless, brave Amy, seen present dancing with James Bye, made an epic instrumentality to Strictly the pursuing period with an quality that left galore viewers successful floods tears.
As 2024 dawned, she admitted: "I consciousness I was robbed of the twelvemonth I had planned and reflecting for maine makes maine upset and angry."
However, she was soon smiling again. Amy, her hairsbreadth starting to turn backmost aft her crab treatment, was seen messing astir with her co-stars Dianne Buswell and Vito Coppola connected the Strictly circuit earlier this month.
And contempt different spell successful infirmary successful February, she inactive mustered a cheeriness galore would conflict for, telling fans: "The prima is shining - and I surely can't hold for Spring."
And we surely can't hold to spot you dancing again, Amy...
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