Strictly’s Amy Dowden ‘feeling better’ after being taken to hospital

Strictly Come Dancing prima Amy Dowden was taken to infirmary aft “feeling unwell” pursuing the unrecorded amusement connected Saturday.

An ambulance was called to Elstree Studios successful Borehamwood arsenic a “precaution” but the Welsh dancer is “feeling overmuch better”, her typical said.

Dowden, 34, could not vie successful the BBC creation contention past twelvemonth due to the fact that she was undergoing attraction for bosom crab including having a mastectomy and chemotherapy.

A spokesperson for Dowden said: “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.”

Before she was taken to infirmary connected Saturday, Dowden and her personage partner, JLS vocalist JB Gill, glided their mode to a people of 32 with their foxtrot to Dancing In The Moonlight by Toploader.

An East of England Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called conscionable aft 9pm connected Saturday to be a aesculapian exigency astatine Elstree Studios successful Borehamwood.

“An ambulance was sent to the scene. One patient, an big female, was transported to Barnet Hospital for further care.”

Dowden archetypal recovered a lump successful her bosom the time earlier going to the Maldives connected her honeymoon with chap nonrecreational dancer Ben Jones, and was subsequently diagnosed with signifier 3 bosom cancer.

In February, she announced tests showed she has “no grounds of disease” and it was aboriginal confirmed she would instrumentality to Strictly Come Dancing for its 20th day series.

In 2019, Dowden revealed she suffered from Crohn’s illness and fronted the BBC programme Strictly Amy: Crohn’s And Me, successful which she spoke astir her conflict with the information and met different radical with Crohn’s to perceive astir their experiences.

In January 2022, she was admitted to infirmary successful Manchester pursuing a Crohn’s flare-up portion connected the Strictly unrecorded tour.

Crohn’s is described by the NHS arsenic a lifelong information successful which parts of the digestive strategy go inflamed.

People with the illness commonly acquisition phases of tummy aches and cramps, fatigue and diarrhoea, among different symptoms, according to the NHS website.

Dowden has antecedently said she was diagnosed with the information erstwhile she was a child, but did not uncover she had it erstwhile she joined Strictly, due to the fact that she “didn’t privation to beryllium known arsenic ‘Amy with Crohn’s’”.

A erstwhile British nationalist Latin creation champion, Dowden joined Strictly successful 2017, and successful 2019 she was a finalist with TV presenter Karim Zeroual.

Dowden documented her travel undergoing crab attraction aft seeing the interaction connected others of her documentary discussing her Crohn’s illness and however it had helped her “accept” her ain information for the “first clip ever”.