Strictly Come Dancing skilled Amy Dowden has introduced she has been pressured to bow out of this 12 months’s sequence early on medical grounds.
Two weeks in the past, Amy was taken to hospital after collapsing behind the scenes of the long-running BBC dance present.
Consequently, she missed final week’s dwell present, along with her celeb accomplice JB Gill performing with Lauren Oakley in her place.
The BBC insisted on the time that they have been hopeful Amy would return to the dance ground this week, but it surely’s now been confirmed this is not going to be doable for the remainder of the sequence resulting from a foot harm she has sustained.
“While Amy focuses on her restoration following a foot harm, Lauren Oakley will step in as JB’s dance accomplice,” the BBC defined.
“The well being and wellbeing of everybody concerned in Strictly are at all times the utmost precedence. The entire Strictly household sends Amy love and nicely needs.”
Amy was pressured to overlook final 12 months’s sequence of Strictly as a result of remedy she had been receiving for breast most cancers.
She was later invited to carry out in a particular dance within the Strictly last, however these plans have been scuppered when she injured herself throughout coaching.
In a extra private assertion shared on her personal Instagram web page on Mondauy night time, Amy instructed her followers: “My coronary heart is breaking proper now. The previous few months I lastly felt like me once more.
“Most cancers was now not the very first thing I considered once I awakened. It was choreography, music selections, which dances during which order, what we would have liked to work on. I felt free once more.
“My aim since listening to these phrases, ‘you might have most cancers’, was to get again on the Strictly dance ground. It’s been such a problem to get again, one I devoted 2024 too.
“With my unimaginable crew we obtained there. One thing I needed to do for myself and family members. There was no feeling prefer it, dancing once more within the ballroom with my Strictly household.
“Then I used to be partnered with the proficient sort, light soul JB. Every single day our coaching room was chilled, hardworking and full of huge smiles, having fun with what we [were] creating along with a blossoming friendship. JB, thanks for being the proper accomplice again.
“We topped the leaderboard week one, and continued to work so onerous, and thanks for being so captivated with understanding the ballroom and Latin fundamentals. For me, that Rumba will at all times be one in every of my [favourites].”
Amy continued: “I’m so unhappy, so upset and asking, ‘why me, why now’, that our journey has been lower quick. My coronary heart proper now’s breaking, having to drag out of the competitors resulting from a foot harm. And I do know solely too nicely, ‘this too shall move’, and I’ll be quickly higher and again dancing. One thing I’ve needed to get used to in my life.
“I’m certain sooner or later we’ll dance once more, JB.”
The JLS singer responded within the feedback: “Heartbreaking information, however our moments shall be ceaselessly in Strictly historical past. Always remember that. Thanks for being one of the best instructor.
“Nothing however love from the entire Gill household.”
Lauren agreed: “This too shall move. We’re nonetheless a crew. Love you.
“You probably did the groundwork, I’ll carry your partnership ahead and hopefully make you proud.”
Strictly Come Dancing continues on Saturday night time at 6.35pm on BBC One.