Strictly's Amy Dowden issues message to JB Gill hours before he performs without her

Amy Dowden is forced to retreat from tonight's Strictly Come Dancing pursuing wellness issues aft collapsing backstage aft Halloween week

Amy Dowden has issued a connection of enactment to her Strictly Come Dancing spouse JB Gill hours earlier tonight's show.

"Wishing these 2 the implicit champion of luck tonight! I’m going to beryllium your biggest cheerleader!," wrote Amy.

Talking straight to her creation spouse JB Gill, Amy said: "JB it says everything however you’ve been capable to accommodate to a caller professional, nutrient specified a large fig ( truthful excited for everyone to see) whilst supporting me! I’m truthful lucky! You’re a STAR! I cognize what contiguous means to you! Thank you!"

And to Lauren Oakley who is lasting successful for her tonight, Amy said: "Thank you, I knew Jay would beryllium successful harmless hands and person a fabulous clip with you! You cognize I’ve ever adored your dancing since I ran up to you successful Blackpool operation astatine 8 years aged to archer you! Thank you darling!"

She went to acknowledgment to the Strictly choreographers for "such a superb routine! LOVE IT! Thank you! Also a large convey you for each the emotion and enactment I’ve received this past week. So grateful and surely helped! Now tune into the archetypal ever ICONS week connected strictly!"

The connection came hours aft Amy made a astonishment quality connected It Takes Two connected Friday nighttime to sermon her caller wellness scare.

The much-loved nonrecreational dancer missed Sunday’s results programme aft being taken to Barnet Hospital from the BBC One show’s accumulation centre, Elstree Studios, arsenic a “precaution” aft the prima began “feeling unwell”.

On Friday, Dowden appeared connected BBC spin-off bid It Takes Two alongside her personage spouse JB and Lauren Oakley/ “I’m feeling truthful overmuch amended and I’d conscionable similar to convey everyone for each the emotion and enactment I’ve received and to my Strictly household – feeling overmuch better,” the dancer told big BBC Two Janette Manrara.

Gill and Oakley volition beryllium performing a couple’s prime during a Bruno Mars-themed show connected Saturday.

“I’m conscionable truthful arrogant and truthful grateful for Lauren,” Amy said. “They’ve worked truthful hard, and JB’s conscionable been truthful supportive of maine and conscionable knuckled down.”

Amy besides said the brace had been sending her "videos and messages” each week with updates connected his advancement successful a WhatsApp chat they titled “Team”, alongside a prima emoji.

Host Manrara said it was bully to spot Dowden “looking well”. A BBC spokesperson antecedently said: “We are each hopeful that Amy volition beryllium backmost to creation with JB adjacent week.”

Dowden returned to the contention this twelvemonth aft undergoing attraction for bosom cancer, including having a mastectomy and chemotherapy.

It came aft the dancer recovered a lump successful her bosom portion connected her honeymoon successful the Maldives with chap nonrecreational dancer Ben Jones. She was diagnosed with signifier 3 bosom crab and, aft treatment, successful February announced that tests showed she has “no grounds of disease”.

Dowden documented her acquisition aft seeing the interaction connected others of her documentary discussing her Crohn’s disease, and however it had helped her “accept” her ain information for the “first clip ever”.

She fronted the BBC programme Strictly Amy: Crohn’s And Me, successful which she spoke astir her information and met different radical with Crohn’s to perceive astir their experiences. The lifelong condition, successful which parts of the digestive strategy go inflamed, tin origin tummy aches and cramps, fatigue and diarrhoea, among different symptoms, according to the NHS website.

During the Strictly unrecorded circuit successful 2022, Dowden was admitted to infirmary successful Manchester aft a Crohn’s flare-up.