Strictly’s Amy Dowden says injury ‘nothing to do with previous health scares’

Strictly Come Dancing nonrecreational Amy Dowden has said the wounded that caused her to propulsion retired of the contention was “nothing to bash with immoderate erstwhile wellness scares”.

Dowden, 34, returned to competing successful the BBC amusement for its 20th day bid aft missing retired past twelvemonth portion undergoing crab treatment.

On Wednesday, Dowden told Strictly spin-off amusement It Takes Two: “This wounded could person happened to anybody.

“I privation to stress, it’s thing to bash with immoderate erstwhile wellness scares.”

The Welsh dancer, who was partnered with JLS vocalist JB Gill, besides expressed a tendency to instrumentality to this year’s bid “in immoderate capacity”.

“Hopefully I’ll beryllium backmost dancing successful immoderate capacity, possibly successful a radical number, by the extremity of the series,” she said.

Dowden described her wounded arsenic “an insufficiency accent fracture” connected her shin.

Gill is present partnered with Lauren Oakley, who stepped successful to regenerate Dowden connected past weekend’s show.

Dowden announced successful 2023 that she was undergoing attraction for signifier 3 bosom crab including having a mastectomy and chemotherapy.

In February, she revealed that tests showed she had “no grounds of disease”.

The Caerphilly dancer has documented some her crab travel and surviving with Crohn’s illness connected a fig of BBC shows.