Strictly star Amy Dowden ‘feeling so much better’ as she makes TV return following health scare

Amy Dowden appeared successful precocious spirits arsenic she made her instrumentality to TV, aft a wellness scare forced her to propulsion retired of this week’s Strictly Come Dancing unrecorded show.

The 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 Gill and Lauren Oakley – the nonrecreational who has stepped successful to rehearse with the JLS prima and volition execute during Saturday’s unrecorded show.

“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,” Dowden said.

“They’ve worked truthful hard, and JB’s conscionable been truthful supportive of maine and conscionable knuckled down.”

Dowden besides said that Gill and Oakley had been “sending 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.