Strictly's Amy Dowden's battle with Chron's disease and living with Tom Fletcher

Strictly nonrecreational dancer Amy Dowden has been unfastened astir however she lives with Chrohn's illness - an incurable autoimmune upset that affects the digestive strategy and causes symptom and inflammation

Amy Dowden is owed to miss tonight's Strictly Come Dancing, aft she was rushed to infirmary past Saturday aft opening to consciousness "unwell" pursuing the unrecorded show.

The nonrecreational dancer, 34, was taken to Barnet Hospital from the BBC accumulation centre Elstree Studios and arsenic a effect of her wellness emergency, volition miss tonight's episode.

Hopefully Amy volition marque a speedy recovery, but it's not the archetypal clip her wellness information has caused her to miss Strictly. The Welsh dancer was looked aft by chap Strictly stars Tom Fletcher and his woman Giovanna aft a terrible Crohn's flare up near her hospitalised successful 2021. Amy was besides treated for bosom crab recently, truthful her flare-up successful November 2021 was different scary wellness scare to woody with - but luckily, the benignant Fletchers and their kids were connected manus to attraction for her.

Explaining wherefore she would beryllium missing from the BBC creation amusement the pursuing week, Amy took to Instagram to stock an update astir her health.

Amy wrote astatine the time: "Thanks for each messages implicit the weekend. Unfortunately, I was missing from the amusement arsenic I had an unexpected Crohn's flare-up and infirmary admittance successful which I received unbelievable care. I'm recovering precise good and surely being good looked aft and look guardant to returning to the creation floor.

"Big acknowledgment to beauteous @saradaviescc and @tomfletcher for taking attraction of maine (of each the days to beryllium poorly, Ben was successful Blackpool with the creation school). To the Fletchers who made definite I had everything and much astatine the hospital, person brought maine backmost to theirs wherever the full household are giving maine each the love, care, burnt toast (Tom), unlimited proviso of @mrsgifletcher apparel on with @tomfletcher sock prime you could perchance need, tons of drawings and unreal injections from my caller doctors Buzz, Buddy and Max. Thank you, they truly were sent to me."

She shared a bid of photos of her with the Fletchers, including immoderate successful hospital, and immoderate with the Fletchers' children, Buzz, Buddy and Max. Taking to his ain Instagram, Tom shared the photos and added: "Let it beryllium known that @amy_dowden is 1 of the strongest radical I've EVER met! Having watched her documentary astir surviving with Crohn's earlier we were partnered together, I had an penetration into what she has to unrecorded with but, without going into detail, being with her during a Crohn's flare-up this play was a beauteous scary experience, to accidental the least!" He added: "Rest assured; the Fletchers are taking attraction of her. X"

Amy was diagnosed with Chrohn's erstwhile she was conscionable 11 years old, and has since admitted she was seen arsenic "a risk" due to the fact that of the incurable illness. Speaking connected the BBC Access All podcast, she said successful 2023: "I'd spell for a try-out and past arsenic soon arsenic my creation teacher would accidental 'you request to archer them astir your Crohn's,' I wouldn't perceive backmost from them," she says. "I had truthful galore rejections due to the fact that of my Crohn's. If a shaper wants to instrumentality you connected tour, [they question] what happens to them and their security erstwhile I'm poorly? You're seen arsenic a risk."

Amy is unfastened astir her Chrohn's disease, aft her documentary Strictly Amy: Crohn’s And Me helped others to "accept" their condition. She fronted the BBC documentary, 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.

She's an advocator and ambassador for the foundation Crohn’s & Colitis UK, and adjacent accepted an MBE connected behalf of each Chrohn's sufferers. Today, Amy has issued a connection of enactment to her Strictly Come Dancing spouse JB Gill hours earlier helium performs with stand-in Lauren Oakley successful tonight's show.

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

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