Strictly's Amy Dowden shares incredible Movie Week photos a year apart with powerful message

Professional dancer Amy Dowden, 34, shared a station connected Instagram with 2 photos of herself - 1 taken past nighttime and 1 a twelvemonth agone - and said she is gladsome to beryllium backmost connected Strictly

Strictly Come Dancing prima Amy Dowden has shared immoderate unthinkable photos of herself taken during the show's Movie Week 1 twelvemonth apart, adding a almighty connection to her societal media post.

The 34-year-old nonrecreational dancer, who didn't vie past twelvemonth arsenic she was undergoing attraction for cancer, returned to the amusement during Movie Week 2023 to enactment her co-stars and work the presumption and conditions. It was the archetypal clip that Amy made the brave determination to spell successful nationalist without her wig aft sharing her hairsbreadth disconnected during her chemotherapy.

She wore a stunning glittering achromatic formal and spoke of her excitement astatine being backmost connected the show, contempt not competing that year. But the dancer, who was diagnosed with signifier 3 bosom crab successful May past year, was yet welcomed backmost to Strictly with unfastened arms this twelvemonth aft being fixed the each wide successful February.

Amy's affectional instrumentality has seen fans cheering connected her all-clear and her partner, vocalist and tv presenter JB Gill, 37. Last night, the brace danced an American Smooth to Pure Imagination from past year's Wonka movie, scoring a full of 32 points retired of 40.

And this afternoon, Amy took to Instagram to stock an affectional station - a photograph of herself connected Saturday nighttime and different taken 1 twelvemonth ago. In the caption, she reflected connected her feelings erstwhile she concisely returned to Strictly during Movie Week past twelvemonth and admitted to breaking down successful tears aft the amusement arsenic she felt "overwhelmed" and missed dancing.

She said dancing past nighttime was "a axenic dream" and praised her creation partner, describing him arsenic "the eventual gentleman, caring, calm, hardworking, ace talented." Amy wrote connected her post: "Movie week a twelvemonth apart. A twelvemonth agone was my archetypal quality connected strictly 2023 during my crab attraction wherever I did presumption and conditions for movie week and the archetypal clip braving it going bald to the nation.

"I retrieve that time truthful well, truthful excited to beryllium determination yet truthful acold distant from that creation floor. A twelvemonth agone it was a axenic imaginativeness to beryllium dancing. I retrieve the amusement finishing and breaking down successful tears due to the fact that I was truthful overwhelmed and truthful missing that feeling connected the floor.

"Last nighttime was a axenic imagination dancing and watching everyone with their superb movie week routines. But besides sharing the acquisition with @jbgill who is conscionable the eventual gentleman, caring, calm, hardworking, ace talented and truthful knowing knowing however each week is specified a peculiar milestone for maine this year. Thank you partner. Tune successful contiguous to spot who’s through."

Her chap Strictly pro dancer Vito Coppola, who won Strictly alongside his spouse Ellie Leach past twelvemonth and is paired with Sarah Hadland this year, praised Amy successful the remark conception and told her she is beautiful, adding that the full formed is blessed to person her backmost connected the show. Vito said: "I ever telephone you beauteous Amy due to the fact that you are and you person ever been beautiful. We emotion you and we are blessed to person you backmost with america successful the Family. In this pic each I spot it's however beauteous you are. Keep shining."

Strictly contestant Montell Douglas, who is paired with nonrecreational dancer Johannes Radebe, added: "All I spot is that beauteous smile." Tasha Ghouri added: "You're truthful astonishing Amy!!"

Many fans praised Amy for doing truthful good and ever putting her grin connected contempt going done a pugnacious time. One wrote: "What an inspiring woman. I've conscionable finished your publication and you are truthful so strong." Another added: "So arrogant of you Amy aft everything you've been through. I privation you good and thing but success."

During an quality connected The Mirror's Invite Only podcast this week, Amy admitted the road backmost to fitness has not been an casual one, and said she has had to larn to not comparison herself to the idiosyncratic she was before. Amy, who was awarded an MBE successful June, said: "It has been truthful beauteous to beryllium back. I'm making the astir of each week of rehearsals, each camera block, each formal run. I'm the 1 connected signifier shouting out: 'Happy formal tally everyone' connected a Friday. It's the champion feeling, I americium ace grateful to beryllium backmost and what a beauteous spouse to beryllium backmost with."

Asked astir her recovery, she went on: "I worked truly really hard connected my rehab, it was a batch harder than I imagined not gonna lie. The past respective months of getting my assemblage back... I'm inactive connected that road, I guess. But I'm grateful for my assemblage getting done it, and I effort not to comparison myself to Amy before, due to the fact that I'm a caller Amy now."

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