Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden shared dream of winning show before latest health issue

Amy Dowden made her instrumentality to Strictly earlier this twelvemonth aft missing retired connected the 2023 play arsenic she battled bosom cancer. On Saturday nighttime she was rushed to infirmary aft collapsing.

Strictly Come Dancing nonrecreational Amy Dowden shared her imagination of winning the BBC amusement earlier she collapsed connected the acceptable of the creation contention astatine the weekend.

The 33-year-old nonrecreational dancer missed retired connected the 2023 play of the long-running show arsenic she battled bosom cancer. After enduring gruelling attraction for months, the prima was yet told by doctors that they could not find immoderate grounds of the illness by February this year.

She past rejoined the deed BBC amusement and was paired with JB Gill for the 2024 contention - which is the 22nd play successful the 20 twelvemonth past of the series. Amy - who was rushed to infirmary aft collapsing backstage astatine the amusement connected Saturday - had antecedently shared her imagination of winning the bid this year.

She told BBC Radio Wales earlier this year: "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."

She added: "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."

Following her illness connected Saturday, a spokesperson for Amy told The Mirror: "Amy was feeling unwell and truthful an ambulance was called arsenic a precaution. She is feeling overmuch amended and would similar to convey the Strictly household for their emotion and concern. We petition Amy's privateness successful matters of wellness is kindly respected." On Monday morning, erstwhile Strictly contestant Ranvir Singh gave an update connected the prima portion hosting ITV's Lorraine.

She told viewers: “It has since been revealed that she is feeling overmuch amended and of people she is 1 of our household here. We privation her a speedy recovery, my love. Lots of emotion to Amy if she is watching this morning.”

In August this year, Amy revealed that abnormalities had been discovered connected her breasts during a regular cheque up, sparking a caller wellness scare. She revealed her worrying update connected peculiar BBC documentary Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me, which followed her travel from archetypal diagnosis to her Strictly instrumentality this autumn. The prima said: "It was a scare, specified a worrying time. I'll ne'er hide them calling maine to accidental we're atrocious but we've seen thing we don't similar the look of. I was successful disbelief, I thought I can't spell backmost done this again, I can't miss Strictly again. My full household were heartbroken." After further tests proved the abnormalities were benign, Amy admitted she was "so relieved it was unreal".

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